1790 – 1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1876 – US Coast Guard officers’ training school established (New Bedford, Massachusetts)
1928 – In the first women’s Olympic track event, American sprinter Elizabeth Robinson equals her own record 12.2s to win 100m gold medal in Amsterdam….Canadians Franny Rosenfield & Ethel Smith dead-heat (12,3s)
1932 – Cleveland Indians christen their new home, Municipal Stadium before more than 76,000 fans, lose opener, 1-0 to the Philadelphia A’s.
1936 – IOC awards Tokyo, Japan 1940 Summer Olympic Games (later cancelled, Second Sino-Japanese War)
1944 – US troops occupy Sansapor, New Guinea.
1948 – US President Harry Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (now Kennedy Airport), NY.
1961 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Olympia Fields CC: Jerry Barber wins his only major title in a Monday 18-hole playoff with Don January (67-68)
1964 – Al Parker glides 644 miles without a motor.
1970 – Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends “Huntley-Brinkley Report”
1971 – Apollo 15 astronauts take 6 1/2 hour electric car ride on Moon.
1973 – Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 5 months later.
1978 – Cincinnati infielder Pete Rose singles off Phil Neikro to extend his hitting streak to 44 games as Reds edge Atlanta Braves, 3-2; ties Willie Keeler’s 81-year-old NL record.
1980 – Hurricane Allen forms in the Atlantic Ocean, will go on to become the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atkabtuc Basin with winds of 190 mph.
1988 – Last Playboy Club closes in Lansing, Michigan.
1995 – Walt Disney announces the acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC for $19 billion; network of properties now consist of Disney, ABC Sports, ESPN and ESPN2.
2006 – Fidel Castro temporarily hands over power to brother Raul Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequena Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated.
2012 – Michael Phelps becomes the greatest medals winner in Olympic history as part of the winning American 4 x 200m freestyles relay team in London: Phelps’s 19th career Olympic medal and 15th overall gold.
2017 – Anthony Scaramucci removed as White House Communications Director after less than 2 weeks.
2018 – Facebook discloses and removes Russian-linked network of sites attempting to interfere in American politics.