1833 – New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
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.
1925 – The airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) crashes in a storm near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14, 29 survive.
1929 – Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches all-time high of 381.17, to be shortly followed by the Crash of 1929.
1936 – For the first and only time in the history of the Walker Cup golf event, there is a shutout; the United States routs Great Britain, 9-0 at Pine Valley GC in New Jersey.
1940 – US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease.
1951 – TV soap opera “Search for Tomorrow” debuts on CBS.
1957 – Milwaukee Braves pitcher Warren Spahn sets an NL record for a left-hander with 41st shut-out; beats Cubs, 8-0.
1964 – US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy resigns.
1964 – Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1966 – Future Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr signs his first NHL contract with the Boston Bruins; 2 year deal paying a then record $70,000 plus signing bonus.
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.
1979 – Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000.
1990 – Jerry Lewis’ 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186.
1995 – Carolina Panthers lose their debut NFL game in overtime 23-20 to the Atlanta Falcons in front of 58,808 fans at the Georgia Dome.
2008 – The new Oklahoma City NBA franchise announces the team will be named the ‘Thunder’; reference to powerful storms in the area.
2013 – Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 billion.
2019 – Walmart says it will stop selling handguns and some ammunition and ask customers not to openly carry firearms in response to El Paso shootings.
2019 – Hurricane Dorian finally moves off Grand Bahama after stalling for more than a day bringing catastrophic devastation, killing at least 50 with over 2,000 people missing.
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