1752 – Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
1799 – Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
1862 – Federal tax levied on tobacco.
1897 – The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1902 – Tinker, Evers & Chance appear together for 1st time.
1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1916 – US Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1932 – NYC Mayor James J. “Gentleman Jimmy” Walker resigns (graft charges)
1939 – General George Marshall sworn in as the United States Army Chief of Staff.
1939 – In the “scoop of the century,” Telegraph journalist Clare Hollingworth becomes the first to report the outbreak of World War II.
1945 – V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan.
1949 – 1st network detective series – Private Eyes- premieres.
1954 – Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island and New England, kills 68.
1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
1976 – Wayne L. Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray)
1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1995 – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
2012 – US drone strike kills 5 people in North Waristan, Pakistan.
2015 – Google changes its logo, biggest redesign since 1999.
2018 – Memorial service for Senator John McCain at Washington National Cathedral with his daughter Meghan McCain, Barack Obama and George W. Bush speaking.
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