1777 – Flag of the United States flown in battle for the 1st time at Cooch’s Bridge, Delaware, a skirmish during American Revolutionary War.
1833 – New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
1865 – American commander in SC orders Freedmen’s Bureau to stop seizing land.
1891 – Cotton pickers organize union & stage strike in Texas.
1916 – US President Woodrow Wilson signs Adamson Act, providing an 8-hour day on interstate railroads, preventing a national railroad strike.
1929 – Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches all time high of 381.17, to be shortly followed by the Crash of 1929.
1935 – First automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell powers Bluebird to 301.129 mph at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.
1964 – US attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns.
1964 – Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1970 – After playing a NL record 1,117 consecutive MLB games, Chicago Cubs outfielder Billy Williams asks to sit out.
1970 – Bill Halley & Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia.
1971 – John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return.
1971 – Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg’s doctor’s office.
1978 – Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29.
1984 – St. Louis Cardinals closer Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th in 7-3 win v NY Mets.
1990 – Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego)
1995 – eBay (Electronic Buy) founded by Pierre Omidyar.
2013 – Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 billion.
2015 – Kentucky clerk in Rowan County jailed for refusing to issue marriage license to gay couples.
2017 – California governor Jerry Brown issues state of emergency due to La Tuna brush fire near Los Angeles.
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