1910 – Yellow Cab was founded.
1916 – US Department of Interior forms National Park Service.
1922 – Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring Major League Baseball game.
1932 – Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental non-stop flight, the first by a woman, landing in Newark, New Jersey.
1943 – US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WWII.
1946 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Portland CC: Ben Hogan beats Ed Oliver 6&4 for first of his 9 major titles.
1950 – President Harry Truman orders the army to take control of the railroad to avert a strike.
1956 – To make room for Enos Slaughter, New York Yankees release Phil Rizzuto.
1968 – Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles tennis championship.
1975 – Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen’s landmark third album “Born to Run.”
1981 – Voyager 2’s closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles)
1983 – United States and Soviet Union sign $10 billion grain pact.
1985 – New York Mets’ Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20 years, 9 months, 9 days)
1991 – Linux is born when Linus Torvaids sends off an email announcing his project to create a new computer operating system.
1996 – 96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods.
2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft becomes the 1st spacecraft to enter interstellar space (launched in 1977)
2013 – 30th MTV Video Music Awards: Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift & Bruno Mars win.
2017 – Category 4 Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas northeast of Corpus Christi with 130 mph winds.
2019 – Tour Championship, Men’s Golf, East Lake GC: Rory McIlory of Northern Ireland wins by 4 strokes from Xander Schauffele, biggest winner’s prize in golf, $15 million.
2022 – California votes to ban the sale of all new gasoline powered cars by 2035.
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