1826 – USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe.
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.
1917 – Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader.
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson set out on a tour of the USA to rouse public opinion behind the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations.
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 300mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell powers Bluebird to 301.129 mph at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.
1940 – US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease.
1954 – Espionage & Sabotage Act of 1954 signed in the US, prompted by the cold war.
1964 – US Attorney General Robert G. Kennedy resigns.
1964 – Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1967 – Final episode of “What’s My Line?” hosted by John Charles Daly on CBS TV.
1971 – Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg’s doctor’s office.
1974 – US & German Democratic Republic establish diplomatic relations.
1979 – Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000.
1990 – Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego)
1995 – eBay (Electronic Bay) founded by Pierre Omidyar.
2013 – Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 billion.
2015 – Kentucky clerk in Rowan County jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses 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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