1909 – Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first woman to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
1926 – “Don Juan,” starring John Barrymore, is released by Warner Bros, the 1st feature-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects.
1934 – US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915.
1937 – United States and USSR sign trade treaty.
1939 – 1st broadcast of “Dinah Shore Show” on NBC radio.
1943 – US 1st infantry division occupies Troina, Sicily.
1945 – Atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay”
1949 – Future Hall of Famer Luke Appling appears in a Major League Baseball record 2,154th (en route to 2,218) game at shortstop for the Chicago White Sox.
1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American national broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
1960 – Chubby Checker performs his version of Hank Ballard’s “The Twist” on “The Dick Clark Show”, starting a worldwide dance craze.
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities.
1966 – US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam.
1972 – Hank Aaron hits 660th & 661st home runs for the Atlanta Braves, breaking Babe Ruth’s Major League Baseball record of home runs for one organization.
1985 – 19th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-G): Challenger 8 lands at Edwards AFB.
1990 – Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York.
1997 – Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc.
2006 – Tiger Woods (30) becomes the youngest player to compile 50 PGA Tour wins with a 3-stroke victory over Jim Furyk in the Buick Open at Grand Blanc, Michigan.
2015 – Republican presidential nomination race begins with debate between 7 lesser ranked candidates in Cleveland, Ohio.
2019 – Barneys New York files for bankruptcy, amid figures 7,567 retail stores have closed so far in 2019 compared to 5,804 in 2018.
2020 – US COVID-19 death toll could reach 300,000 by December 1, about 70,000 lives saved if masks worn consistently, according to University of Washington study.
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