1758 – George Washington elected to Virginia House of Burgesses representing Frederick County.
1824 – Harrisburg Pennsylvanian 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.
1901 – Writer O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1915 – Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die.
1936 – 121 degrees F, near Alton, Kansas (state record)
1941 – FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China.
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.
1959 – US Vice President Richard Nixon argues with Nikita Khrushchev, known as “Kitchen Debate”
1961 – Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba.
1968 – Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game.
1977 – US Open Women’s Golf, Hazeltine National GC: Hollis Stacy wins wire-to-wire by 2 strokes from Nancy Lopez.
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 near its border with Kuwait.
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.
2002 – James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
2015 – US President Barack Obama begins an historic 2 day visit to Kenya.
2017 – Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner says he did not collude with Russia after meeting with Senate investigators.
2019 – Special counsel Robert Mueller reports to the US Senate that President Trump was not exonerated of obstruction of justice and that Russia interfered in US election to benefit Trump.
2019 – Facebook agrees to pay $5 billion fine, largest ever for violating consumer privacy, to the US Federal Trade Commission.
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