1890 – President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products.
1901 – English engineer Hubert Cecil Booth patents the powered vacuum cleaner.
1912 – St. Louis Browns Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1.
1927 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Wills Moody beats England’s Betty Nuthall Shoemaker 6-1, 6-4 for her 4th of 7 US singles titles.
1939 – 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
1951 – United States and Philippines sign mutual defense pact.
1958 – United States performs nuclear test at South Atlantic Ocean.
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.
1966 – American medical drama series “Dr. Kildare”, starring Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey, ends a five season run on NBC-TV.
1969 – 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by American Steve Melnyk.
1976 – Tom Brokaw starts as news anchor of NBC’s “The Today Show”
1981 – Bill Shoemaker becomes the first jockey to win a $1 million thoroughbred horse race when John Henry takes the inaugural Arlington Million by a nose over The Bart.
1984 – 12th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41D); Discovery 1 launches for a 60-day excursion.
1987 – Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 home runs in Minnesota’s 10-6 win over Milwaukee.
1995 – Cable News Network joins the internet.
2006 – Greg Maddux wins his 330th career game.
2017 – Hurricane Irma forms near Cape Verde Islands. The storm will go on to become a category 5 hurricane and kills at least 102.
2018 – Argentina’s central bank raises interest rates to 60% in an attempt to stabilize the peso.
2020 – Global cases of COVID-19 pass 25 million with death toll at 843,000.
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