1882 – Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration.
1900 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company founded.
1909 – Major League Baseball umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting in the face of Philadelphia Athletics 2nd baseman Eddie Collins who had questioned a call; 2 weeks later Hurst was banned for life.
1921 – 1st aerial crop dusting in Troy, Ohio, to kill caterpillars.
1932 – Official automatic timing & photo-finish camera for track events is used for the 1st time at Los Angeles Olympics, instrumental in changing 110-meter hurdles final, review gives Donald Finley bronze ahead of American Jack Keller.
1941 – Gas (petroleum) sales limited in the US.
1948 – President Franklin Roosevelt adviser Alger Hiss accused of being a “communist”
1955 – Hurricane Connie begins pounding the United States for 11 days, making landfall in North Carolina, and traveling to the Great Lakes.
1958 – USS Nautilus reaches North Pole, 1st submarine to achieve submarine transit of North Pole.
1960 – Lee Petty and his sons, Richard and Maurice, raced against each other for the first and only time at Dixie Speedway in Birmingham, Alabama. Richard 2nd, Lee 3rd.
1963 – Warner Bros Records releases single of Allan Sherman’s novelty song “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A letter from Camp)”, set to music of Amilicare Ponchielli’s, “Dance of the Hours” from his 1876 opera “La Gioconda”
1970 – The second ever NFL work stoppage ends with the NFL and Players’ Association agreeing to a 4-year, $191 million deal.
1977 – Radio Shack introduces the TRS-80 personal computer, within weeks thousands were ordered.
1979 – Sam Snead, at 67 years, 2 months and 7 days, sets the record for the oldest player to make the cut in a major – PGA Championship at Oakland Hills CC.
1987 – Minnesota Twins pitcher Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound in 11-3 win against the California Angels, ejected and suspended 10 games.
1996 – General William F. Garrison accepts responsibility for the outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and retires from military service.
2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2012 – American super swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 100-meter butterfly in London to take his all-time Olympic gold medal tally to a record 17.
2020 – Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in the United States as a Category 1 hurricane near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina.
2022 – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the first speaker to visit Taiwan in 25 years, prompting condemnation from the Chinese Communist Party.
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