1764 – James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation.
1829 – American William Austin patents “typographer” (typewriter).
1852 – 1st interment in US National Cemetery at Presidio.
1904 – Ice cream cone created during St. Louis World Fair – the 1st cone reputedly by Charles E. Menches.
1931 – France announces it can’t afford to send a team to 1932 to 1932 LA Olympics.
1944 – US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II.
1948 – Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President.
1956 – Joe Cronin & Hank Greenberg inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame.
1960 – 15th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls.
1965 – Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park.
1967 – First successful liver transplant, on 19 month old Julie Rodriguez by Dr. Starzi at the University of Colorado.
1973 – Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St. Louis-36 die.
1973 – US President Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation.
1980 – Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya.
1982 – FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo.
1984 – Vanessa Williams, 1st African American Miss America, resigns due to posing nude.
1989 – FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America’s Most Wanted).
1995 – 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St. Andrews, Scotland.
2006 – 135th British Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 270 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club.
2015 – Supreme Court rejects Bill Cosby’s petition against a civil case of sexual charges related to 15-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1974.
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