1840 – Samuel Morse patents his telegraph.
1864 – Battle of Kinston, NC and Battle of Abingdon, Va.
1909 – 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)
1921 – 11.5″ of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
1936 – Jesse Owens of US sets 100 meter record at 10.2.
1941 – German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship, Texas.
1944 – Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency.
1947 – US President Harry Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act.
1960 – 12th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack & Jane Wyatt win.
1963 – US & USSR agree to set up “Hot Line”
1970 – “Ray Stevens Show” debuts on NBC-TV.
1976 – US Open Men’s Golf, Atlanta AC: Tour rookie Jerry Pate wins his only major title, 2 strokes ahead of runners-up Al Geiberger and Tom Weiskopf.
1982 – Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz)
1994 – Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
1999 – US Open Men’s Golf, Pinehurst CC: Payne Stewart wins his 2nd Open title by 1 stroke from Phil Mickelson.
2017 – US toymaker Mattel releases 15 new body types for their Ken doll, including one with a man bun.
2018 – US President Donald Trump signs Executive Order ending family separation at the border for illegal immigrants.
2019 – Oregon Governor Kate Brown authorizes police to round up 11 Republican state senators who have gone into hiding to stop vote on cap-and-trade proposal emissions bill.
2019 – NBA Draft: Duke power forward Zion Williamson first pick by New Orleans Pelicans.
2020 – Donald Trump controversially holds his first re-election rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, only 6,200 people attend despite the campaign stating 1 million had registered. Social media campaign organized by teens on TicTok, K-Pop fans and others, claims responsibility for wildly inflating the expected attendance.
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