1603 – English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1800 – Congress holds its 1st session in Washington, D.C. in an incomplete Capitol Building.
1853 – Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections.
1863 – Abraham Lincoln begins 1st draft of his Gettysburg Address.
1904 – George Cohan’s musical “Little Johnny Jones” premieres in NYC.
1913 – The first ship sails through the Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
1928 – Notre Dame finally loses a football game at home after 23 years.
1936 – Edgar Berger & Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio.
1940 – Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane.
1959 – Giants slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of the Year.
1962 – US President JFK dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Washington, DC.
1967 – Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon.
1970 – Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
1973 – US President Richard Nixon tells AP…”people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook”
1985 – 35th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Darrell Waltrip wins.
1989 – Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year KC Royal contract.
1991 – Detroit Lion Mike Utley is paralyzed in a game vs LA Rams.
1993 – US House of Representatives approve Nafta.
2003 – Brittney Spears, at 21 years old, becomes the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2004 – Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
2015 – Actor Charlie Sheen confirms that he is HIV-positive.
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