1877 – General strike brings railroads in the United States to a standstill.
1914 – American engineer Robert Goddard is granted the first patent for liquid-fueled rocket design.
1916 – A then-state record 13.2 inches rainfall at Effingham, South Carolina.
1927 – First commercial airplane flight in Hawaii.
1934 – The New York Times erroneously declared Babe Ruth’s 714 home run record to stand for all time.
1940 – Due to beanball wars in baseball Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps.
1945 – Battleship USS South Dakota is the first American ship to bombard Japan.
1946 – Dr. Benjamin Spock’s “Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care” published.
1951 – First color telecast of a sporting event is a horse race on CBS.
1959 – USS Long Beach, the first nuclear powered cruiser, launched at Quincy, Massachusetts.
1965 – US Mariner IV, the first Mars probe, passes within 6,100 miles of the planet.
1972 – Plate umpire and catcher in a Major League Baseball game are brothers, Bill Haller is the umpire and Tom Haller is the Detroit Tigers catcher in a 1-0 win by the Kansas City Royals.
1977 – United States House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
1983 – Mario Bros. is first released by Nintendo in Japan as an arcade game about an Italian-American plumber.
1987 – Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million.
1993 – Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and New York.
1996 – New York Yankees sweep season series in Baltimore for the first time.
2007 – Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
2015 – Harper Lee’s 2nd novel, “Go Set A Watchman,” an early 1957 version of “To Kill A Mockingbird,” goes on sale in 70 countries.
2018 – President Donald Trump calls the European Union a “trade foe” in an interview with CBS ahead of meeting with Russian President Putin.
2023 – Actor’s union SAG-AFTRA leadership goes on strike with picket lines in Los Angeles and New York.
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