1846 – Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine.
1897 – Lattimer Massacre – a sheriff’s posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
1910 – Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber.
1913 – Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway.
1919 – NYC welcomes home General John J. Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers.
1924 – Leopold and Loeb found guilty of the murder of Robert Franks in Chicago in the “the crime of the century”
1932 – Independent City owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC.
1933 – 1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park)
1945 – Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.
1953 – Swanson sells its 1st “TV dinner”
1967 – Joel Horlen revives Chicago’s pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win.
1980 – Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18.
1984 – Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Oklahoma.
1984 – Sean O’Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
1984 – First episode of daily syndicated version of Jeopardy! with Alex Trebek as host.
1990 – Hard Rock Café opens in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1992 – Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents.
1993 – 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo planes produced.
1997 – Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million.
2017 – Hurricane Irma makes landfall in the Florida Keys in the US as a category 3 hurricane.
2018 – South Carolina issues mandatory evacuation affecting one million people ahead of Hurricane Florence.
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