1862 – Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas.
1875 – Palace Hotel on Market Street opens in San Francisco.
1892 – Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup.
1905 – Orville and Wilbur Wright’s “Flyer III” flight 38.5 km in 38.3″
1924 – 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News.
1925 – WSM-AM in Nashville, Tenn begins radio transmissions.
1943 – US air raid on Wake, Japanese execute 98 US prisoners in retaliation.
1945 – “Meet the Press” premieres on radio.
1953 – Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of US.
1953 – The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1960 – Eastern Al Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
1963 – Little Richard joins Everly Brothers Tour.
1985 – Grambling’s Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game.
1990 – Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obscenity (Mappelthorpe photos)
1992 – 1st overturn of a George H.W. Bush veto (cable bill)
1992 – NY senator Alphonse D’Amato filibusters for 15 hours, 20 minutes.
2001 – Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2005 – Vampire novel “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer is first published by Little Brown.
2015 – Floods in South Carolina a “1,000-year storm” results in 12 deaths and 9 dams to fail.
2015 – Governor Jerry Brown of California signs a bill giving terminally ill patients the “right to die”
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