1821 – 1st edition of American magazine “The Saturday Evening Post”
1862 – US government collects its 1st income tax.
1914 – WWI: Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany.
1914 – US declares neutrality on the outbreak of WWI.
1934 – Giants outfielder Mel Ott becomes first player in MLB history to score 6 runs in a game as NY beats Phillies, 21-4.
1936 – American athlete Jesse Owens wins his 2nd gold medal at the Berlin Olympics; beats German Luz Long in the long jump final with an Olympic record.
1945 – American golfer Byron Nelson wins Canadian Open at Uplands & Thornhill CC for a record 11th consecutive PGA victory, on way to record season tally of 18.
1948 – 5 day Southern States filibuster succeeds in maintaining America’s poll tax.
1955 – President Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters.
1964 – North Vietnam torpedoes US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1971 – US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft.
1977 – US President Carter establishes Department of Energy.
1984 – American athlete Carl Lewis wins the 100m in 9.9 seconds in Los Angeles, first of 9 Olympic gold medals over 3 games.
1994 – Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on NY parkway.
1996 – XXVI Summer Olympic Games close in Atlanta, Georgia.
1997 – 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.
2007 – NASA’s Phoenix spaceship is launched.
2009 – Kim Jong-II meets former president Bill Clinton. He pardons and releases captured American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling who were found guilty of entering the country illegally.
2012 – US takes the 4 x100m medley relay double at the London Olympics with Michael Phelps collecting his 18th Olympic gold medal: women’s team set world record 3:52.05.
2015 – Muppets Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog announce the end to their relationship on Twitter.
2020 – Covid-19 infection spike forces a return to lockdown in Manilla and surrounding provinces in the Philippines, affecting 27 million people as cases pass 100,000.
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