1739 – Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, New Jersey.
1879 – Staten Island ferry “Westfield” burns, killing 100.
1928 – George Eastman shows first amateur color motion pictures to guests at his New York house including Thomas Edison.
1930 – 1st broadcast of “Death Valley Days” on NBC-radio.
1935 – 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution.
1945 – After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine 1058. 880 of the crew died, many after being attacked by sharks, the inspiration for the movie “Jaws”
1948 – Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time TV (DuMont)
1951 – Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players.
1956 – US motto “In God We Trust” authorized.
1964 – US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam.
1965 – LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966.
1970 – Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida and Texas.
1974 – House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of “high crimes & misdemeanors” to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up.
1982 – Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats.
1990 – The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
2002 – The accounting law referred to as “The Sarbanes Oxley Act” signed into law by President George W. Bush.
2003 – The last ‘old style’ Volkswagon Beatle rolls off the assembly line in Mexico.
2013 – Wikileaks discloser Bradley {later Chelsea} Manning convicted of 17 espionage charges.
2017 – Russian President Vladimir Putin announces American diplomats in Russia cut by 755 in response to American sanctions.
2020 – Barack Obama gives the eulogy at the funeral of congressman John Lewis, with former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
2020 – The US economy posts the largest quarterly fall on record with GDP down 9.5% for the 3 months to June 30.
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