1805 – Lewis and Clark expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, reaches the Pacific Ocean, first European American to cross the west.
1861 – American poet and abolitionist Julie Ward commits lyrics of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” to paper.
1895 – American inventor Fredrick E. Blaisdell patents the pencil.
1911 – New York receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy.
1923 – The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures.
1932 – Joe Kershaila scores 71 points in a college football game.
1944 – World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1951 – Roy Campanella named National League Most Valuable Player on his 30th birthday.
1953 – Supreme Court rules 7-2 that baseball is a sport and not a business.
1959 – Ford Motors cancels its poorly received Edsel model.
1965 – Kellogg’s Pop Tarts pastries created.
1971 – Disney World’s Fort Wilderness opens.
1973 – New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years.
1978 – 28th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Cale Yarborough wins.
1984 – New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named National League Rookie of Year.
1996 – Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21) is launched into space.
2006 – Innovative video game console the Nintendo Wii is released in North America by Nintendo President Satoru Iwata.
2010 – “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow – Part 1,” the 7th film based on the books by J.K. Rowling, is released worldwide.
2018 – Ivanka Trump sent “hundreds” of emails from her personal account about government business, according to a Washington Post report.
2021 – Rare original copy of the U.S. Constitution sold to Ken Griffin, head of hedge fund Citadel, for $43.2 million – world record price for a book, historical document or manuscript.
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