1829 – President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses.
1908 – Allen Winter wins US 1st $50,000 trotting race.
1910 – Yellow Cab is founded.
1912 – 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin.
1916 – US Department of Interior forms National Park Service.
1921 – US signs peace treaty with Germany.
1932 – Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight.
1936 – Odorless cornstarch is patented in the US by Ralph W Kerr.
1943 – US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II.
1950 – US President Harry Truman orders army to take control of railroad to avert a strike.
1956 – To make room for Enos Slaughter, NY Yanks release Phil Rizzuto.
1981 – Voyager 2’s closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles)
1983 – US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact.
1987 – Dow Jones industrial stock average reaches record 2722.42.
1989 – After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune & its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps.
1990 – UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq.
1991 – Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new operating system.
2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft, becomes the 1st spacecraft to enter interstellar space (launched in 1977)
2017 – President Donald Trump grants presidential pardon to Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of contempt of court for racial profiling.
2017 – Category 4 Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas northeast of Corpus Christi with 130 mph winds.
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