1776 – George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers.
1894 – London taxi driver George Smith is the first to be fined for drunk driving.
1910 – Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber.
1918 – Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs players threaten to boycott the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers.
1919 – NYC welcomes home General John J. Pershing and 25,000 WWI soldiers.
1932 – Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC.
1950 – Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HRs in a game at Griffith Stadium.
1953 – Swanson sells its 1st “TV dinner”
1960 – NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643′ HR over right field roof in Detroit.
1964 – Rod Stewart records his 1st single “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl”
1965 – WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting.
1972 – An American double in the inaugural Olympic archery competition in Munich; John Williams wins the men’s individual gold medal; Doreen Wilber takes the women’s gold.
1979 – 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill President Truman are freed.
1984 – First episode of daily syndicated version of Jeopardy! with Alex Trebek as host.
1993 – 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo planes produced.
1998 – 15th MTV Video Music Awards: Madonna & Will Smith win.
2012 – 16 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
2017 – Hurricane Irma makes landfall in the Florida Keys in the US as a category 3 hurricane.
2018 – South Carolina issues mandatory evacuation order affecting one million people ahead of Hurricane Florence.
2019 – US President Donald Trump fires his third national security advisor John Bolton.
2020 – California’s August Complex wildfire becomes largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)
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