1798 – US Sedition Act prohibits “false, scandalous & malicious” writing against government.
1850 – 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration by Florida physician John Gorrie.
1870 – The United States Congress grants Mary Todd Lincoln a life pension in the amount of $3,000 a year.
1914 – American engineer Robert Goddard is granted the first patent for liquid-fueled rocket design.
1927 – 1st commercial airplane flight to Hawaii.
1940 – Due to beanball wars, Spaulding advertises batting helmet with earflaps.
1946 – Dr. Benjamin Spock’s “Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care” published.
1950 – R.E. Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea.
1951 – 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS horse race)
1959 – USS Long Beach, first nuclear powered cruiser launched at Quincy, Massachusetts.
1966 – Richard Speck rapes and kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory.
1969 – The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills officially withdrawn from circulation.
1976 – Democratic Convention in NYC nominates former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter for president and US Senator Walter Mondale, from Minnesota, for vice president.
1983 – Mario Bros. is first released by Nintendo in Japan as an arcade game about an Italian-American plumber.
1986 – Richard Miller becomes the 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage.
1992 – All Star MVP; Ken Griffey Jr. (Seattle Mariners)
2002 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, TPC of Michigan: Australian Stewart Ginn wins his lone career major title by 1 stroke from American Hubert Green, Mike McCullough & Jim Thorpe.
2010 – 19th ESPY Awards: Drew Brees, Lindsey Vonn win.
2015 – Harper Lee’s 2nd novel “Go Set A Watchman”, an early 1957 version of “To Kill a Mocking Bird” goes on sale in 70 countries.
2018 – US President Donald Trump calls the EU a “trade foe” in interview with CBS ahead of meeting with Russian President Putin.
2019 – US President Donald Trump ignites racial controversy by tweeting four Democrat women of color “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
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