1682 – William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World.
1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
1862 – Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia ends with a Confederate victory over Union forces.
1890 – President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products.
1901 – Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner.
1930 – Warren Buffett, American business magnate (world’s wealthiest person in 2008), born in Omaha, Nebraska.
1945 – General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan.
1951 – US & Philippines sign mutual defense pact.
1954 – Hurricane Carol kills 68 on the US East Coast.
1961 – James Benton Parsons is confirmed as 1st African American judge of a US District Court.
1963 – Hotline communications link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Kremlin in Moscow installed. Often known as the “red telephone” no phones were ever used, relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machines and most recently secure email.
1967 – US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice.
1979 – US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia.
1983 – 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
1991 – Dan O’Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points.
1995 – Cable News Network joins the internet.
1995 – Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker & Alan Trammell play in 1,914th game together tying AL record.
2006 – Billionaire Warren Buffett (76) weds longtime companion Astrid Menks (60) in Omaha.
2017 – Late author Terry Pratchett’ unfinished works destroyed by steamroller as per his instructions.
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