1892 – Dalton gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup.
1905 – Orville and Wilbur Wright’s “Flyer III” flight 36.5 km in 38.3″
1914 – World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill.
1915 – Detroit Tigers speedster Ty Cobb steals his 96th base of the season in 5-0 loss to Cleveland Indians; stands as MLB record until 1962 (Maury Wills, 104)
1921 – First baseball World Series radio broadcast; all-NY contest, Yanks beat Giants, 3-0 at Polo Grounds; sportswriter Grantland Rice is the caller.
1924 – 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News.
1943 – US air raid on Wake, Japanese execute 98 US prisoners in retaliation.
1945 – “Meet the Press” premieres on radio.
1947 – Harry Truman makes the 1st Presidential address televised from the White House.
1949 – Sportswriter Robert Ruark first reports golfing great Bobby Jones’s rare spinal disease (syringomyelia) which prevent him from playing any form of golf again.
1956 – “The Ten Commandments”, directed by Cecil B. Demille, starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner opens in the US.
1962 – The Beatles release their first record, “Love Me Do”
1978 – Over 30 major nations ratify the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits weather warfare that has widespread, long-lasting or severe effects.
1992 – 1st overturn of a George H.W. Bush veto (cable bill)
1997 – STS 86 (Atlantis 20) lands.
2001 – Tom Ridge resigns as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President George W. Bush’s Homeland Security Advisor.
2005 – NHL great Wayne Gretzky makes his coaching debut for the Phoenix Coyotes in 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena.
2007 – After years of angry denials, triple gold medal winning American sprinter Marion Jones admits she used steroids 2000-01; pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators; announces retirement in tearful apology; medals returned to USOC.
2015 – Floods in South Carolina “1,000-year storm” results in 12 deaths and 9 dams to fail.
2017 – “The New York Times” publishes investigation into sexual harassment behavior by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
2018 – US unemployment figures hit lowest level since 1969 – 3.7% according to Department of Labor.