1792 – Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented.
1908 – Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield.
1915 – Franklin K Mathews presents idea of “Book Week”
1921 – National Hospital Day 1st observed in the United States.
1932 – Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey.
1934 – “Cocktails For Two” by Duke Ellington hits #1.
1942 – Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River.
1944 – 900+ 8th US Air Force bombers attach Zwidau, Bohlen & Brux.
1955 – Chicago Cubs Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0)
1960 – Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special.
1963 – Bob Dylan walks out of the “Ed Sullivan Show”
1970 – Cub’s Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run.
1978 – US Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female.
1982 – US Football League forms.
1989 – “Entertainment Tonight” makes 2,000th TV performance.
1991 – A new cancer drug is announced which can only be found in bark on a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest.
1995 – Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)
2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro’s 1959 revolution.
2003 – Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.
2019 – Cuba announces more rationing of products such as rice and beans due to US trade embargo and hoarding.
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