1881 – Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die.
1894 – Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court.
1910 – Using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park.
1913 – Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken applies to patent all-purpose zippers.
1918 – Spanish flu arrives in Boston, beginning of the second wave and deadliest wave in the United States.
1927 – Parks College, America’s oldest aviation school, opens.
1937 – Brooklyn Dodgers’ Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cincinnati 5-0 in 7 2/3 innings game.
1945 – US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender.
1955 – “Guinness Book of World Records” 1st published.
1961 – Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on “What’s My Line”
1964 – Walt Disney’s musical film “Mary Poppins” directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, with songs by Richard and Robert Sherman, premieres at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California; wins 5 Academy Awards.
1972 – Operation Lion’s Den: US Navy bombards Haiphong Harbor, North Vietnam from the sea, firing over 700 rounds in 33 minutes.
1978 – New York Yankees’ Catfish Hunter’s 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 record in August.
1985 – 20th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-1): Discovery 6 launches.
1985 – Mary Joe Fernandez, at 14 years, 8 days old, becomes youngest player to win at the US Tennis Open; beats England’s Sara Gomer 6-1, 6-4 in a 1st round match.
1995 – Worst fire in New York in 80 years ends after 4 days.
2004 – Craig Kilbourn’s final appearance as host of “The Late Late Show” on CBS after 1,190 episodes.
2008 – Senator Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for president of the United States.
2020 – Hurricane Laura makes landfall in Louisiana near the Texas border as a category 4 storm with 150 mph winds, killing at least 16.
2020 – Mike Pence accepts nomination for vice president at the Republican convention, calling for “law and order” after the shooting of Jacob Blake.
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