1829 – President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses.
1904 – Champion James J. Jeffries scores a 2nd round TKO win over Jack Munroe in San Francisco; Jeffries retires after his 7th heavyweight boxing title defense.
1910 – Yellow Cab is founded.
1915 – Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage.
1921 – US signs peace treaty with Germany.
1932 – Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight.
1943 – German occupiers impose 72-hour work week.
1950 – US President Harry Truman orders army to take control of railroad to avert a strike.
1952 – Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth.
1960 – AFL begins placing players name on back of their jerseys.
1967 – Minnesota Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month, beats Cleveland, 2-1.
1968 – Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship.
1975 – Bruce Springsteen’s landmark third album “Born to Run” released.
1981 – Voyager 2’s closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles)
1987 – Dow Jones industrial stock average reaches record 2722.42.
1991 – Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new operating system.
1996 – 96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods.
2014 – 60th Primetime Emmy Awards hosted by Seth Meyers broadcast on NBC.
2019 – NASA investigates possibly the 1st crime in space over astronaut Anne McClain illegally accessing bank accounts from space.
2019 – Double Dave, a rare two-headed timber rattlesnake found in Pine Barrens forest, New Jersey.
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