1789 – US Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service.
1820 – 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii.
1909 – US issues 1st Lincoln penny.
1915 – Dario Resta, driving a Peugeot, wins the first Chicago Car race ever to average over 100-mile race in Chicago: average speed 101.8 mph.
1929 – NY Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games for the second time in 13-1 win v Philadelphia A’s.
1939 – Millionaire Howard Hughes is presented with a Congressional Gold Medal.
1942 – 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW II, Guadalcanal, Solomon Island.
1953 – Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet.
1957 – Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
1959 – The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the “sheaves of wheat” design.
1961 – Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US.
1963 – Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st US First Lady to give birth (Patrick Kennedy) since Mrs. Cleveland.
1971 – Apollo 15 returns to Earth.
1977 – “Shenandoah” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 1,050 performances.
1981 – “The Washington Star” ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
1992 – The Orlando Magic signs NBA No. 1 draft pick Shaquille O’Neal.
2000 – Los Angeles Lakers announce retirement of former star player and Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations Jerry West; name Mitch Kupchak to succeed him.
2007 – San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to break Hank Aaron’s long-standing MLB record.
2015 – US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump says in a CNN interview that news anchor Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”
2016 – Jim Furyk fires 12-under-par 58 in final round of the Travelers Championship at TPC at River Highlands, Cromwell, Connecticut, becoming 1st player to shoot 58 in a PGA Tour event and 1st PGA Tour pro to card 2 sub-60 rounds.
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