1876 – Thomas Edison is granted the patent for autographic printing (US Patent No. 180,857).
1910 – The Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army’s Wright Flyer.
1918 – World War I: The Allies launch the Hundred Days Offensive, beginning with the Battle of Amiens where 500 tanks and 10 Allied divisions attacked German lines.
1930 – The St. Louis Cardinals are 12 games back in the National League, but won 39 of their final 49 games to claim the pennant by two games over the Chicago Cubs.
1937 – Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River begins producing power.
1942 – Six convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in the United States are executed in Washington, D.C.
1945 – President Harry Truman signs the United Nations Charter.
1946 – The Dreyfuss family, owners of Major League Baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells the club to Frank McKinney and John Galbreath for $28 million.
1953 – Soviet Premier Georgy Malenkov reports announces his country has developed a hydrogen bomb.
1960 – “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” hits #1 on the music charts.
1968 – Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Richard Nixon for president.
1973 – Vice President Spiro Agnew says reports he took kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland are “damned lies.” He vowed not to resign, but did, shortly after.
1983 – Jury in Kansas City, Missouri, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV. The decision later was overturned.
1988 – Secretary of State George P. Shultz narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in Bolivia.
1991 – With two months left, the Chicago White Sox set a new home attendance of 2,150,951 spectators.
1996 – American jazz artist Mel Torme’, age 70, suffers a stroke, ending his 65-year singing career.
2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
2008 – XXIX Summer Olympic Games open in Beijing, China.
2017 – The Walt Disney Company announces plans to create its own streaming service, cancelling ties with Netflix.
2022 – FBI conducts a search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Largo, over his handling of classified government documents.
2023 – Colombian drug dealer Dairo Antonio Usuga (Otoniel), who is named “the most dangerous drug trafficker in the world,” is sentenced to 45 years in prison in the United States.
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