1846 – Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine.
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 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.
1943 – Lieutenant General Omar Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London.
1950 – Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HRs in a game at Griffith Stadium.
1953 – Swanson sells its 1st “TV dinner”
1960 – Future Hall of Famer Jerry Lucas scores 23 points as the US wins its 5th straight men’s basketball Olympic gold medal with a 90-63 drubbing of Brazil at the Rome Games.
1966 – Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title.
1974 – Controversial TV drama “Born Innocent” premieres on NBC TV, starring Linda Blair as an abused teen in a juvenile detention home.
1983 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert Lloyd 6-1, 6-3 for her first US singles title.
1984 – First episode of daily syndicated version of Jeopardy with Alex Trebek as host.
1989 – Five days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners, MLB and NFL player Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown, his first.
1997 – Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million.
2011 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Samantha Stosur becomes first Australian to win a Grand Slam title since 1980; upsets Serena Williams 6-2, 6-3.
2017 – Hurricane Irma makes landfall in the Florida Keys in the US as a category 3 hurricane.
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 sq miles)
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