1682 – William Penn founds Philadelphia, US.
1812 – War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain.
1879 – W.H. Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children’s carriage.
1898 – 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ.
1928 – American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean landing at Burry Port, Wales.
1934 – US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized.
1949 – “Along Fifth Avenue” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 performances.
1959 – 1st telecast transmitted from England to US.
1959 – Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital’s director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.
1960 – 60 US Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver.
1961 – CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke.
1968 – Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing.
1973 – NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participates.
1977 – Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation.
1981 – Kimberly Ann Smith, of NC, crowned America’s Junior Miss.
1982 – Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote.
1983 – 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launches Sally Ride as 1st US woman in space.
1991 – San Francisco pitcher Dave Dravecky’s cancerous left arm is amputated.
1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
2003 – Google launches AdSense, a program that enables website publishers to serve ads targeted to the specific content of their individual web pages, many of which like HistoryOrb.com go on to start their own publishing businesses.
2014 – Ian McKellen is awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University, becoming a Doctor of Letters.
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