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1846 – Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine.

1910 – Great Idaho fire destroys 3 million acres of timber.

1913 – Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway across the United States.

1937 – Cleveland Rams play their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0.

1943 – Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London.

1950 – Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 home runs in a game at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C.

1953 – Swanson sells its 1st “TV dinner.”

1955 – “Gunsmoke” premieres on CBS-TV starring James Arness.

1960 – Future Hall of Famer Jerry Lucas scores 23 points as the United States wins its 5th straight men’s basketball Olympic gold medal with a 90-63 drubbing of Brazil at the Rome Games.

1960 – New York Yankees’ Mickey Mantle hits 643-foot home run over right field roof in Detroit.

1965 – WUND-TV channel 2 in Columbia, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting.

1974 – Controversial TV drama “Born Innocent” premieres on NBC-TV, starring Linda Blair as an abused teen in a juvenile detention home.

1979 – 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill President Harry Truman are freed.

1984 – First episode of daily syndicated TV game show “Jeopardy!” with Alex Trebek as host.

1989 – Five days after hitting a home run for the New York Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Seattle Mariners, Major League Baseball and National Football League player Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown, his first.

1997 – Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million.

2006 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Roger Federer wins 3rd straight title; beats home favorite Andy Roddick 6-3, 4-6, 6-1.

2017 – Hurricane Irma makes landfall in the Florida Keys as a category 3 hurricane.

2019 – President Donald Trump fires his third national security advisor John Bolton.

2020 – Wildfires in Oregon cause 500,000 people to evacuate, 10% of the population, with an unprecedented 900,000 acres burnt.