1758 – George Washington elected to Virginia House of Burgesses representing Fredrick County.
1824 – Harrisburg Pennsylvania newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll, with a clear lead for Andrew Jackson.
1847 – Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah.
1893 – For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard, Men’s double championship in Chicago.
1929 – US President Herbert Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war.
1936 – 121 degrees (F), near Alton, Kansas (state record)
1942 – Irving Berlin’s musical “This is the Army” premieres in NYC.
1952 – “High Noon”, American Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gary Cooper and Thomas Mitchell, is released.
1958 – Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans, again.
1959 – US Vice President Richard Nixon argues with Nikita Khrushchev, known as “Kitchen Debate”
1961 – Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show.
1965 – Bob Dylan release “Like a Rolling Stone”
1968 – Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game.
1974 – Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes.
1979 – US President Jimmy Carter names Paul Volcker as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
1990 – US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops nears it border with Kuwait.
1994 – 49th US Women’s Golf Open Championship won by Patty Sheehan.
1998 – Russell Eugene Weston, Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2012 – Danielle Steel’s novel “Friends Forever: A Novel” is published.
2015 – US President Barack Obama begins an historic 2 day visit to Kenya.
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