1833 – New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
1891 – Cotton pickers organize union & stage strikes in Texas.
1918 – US President Woodrow Wilson signs Adamson Act, providing an 8 hour day on interstate railroads, preventing a national railroad strike.
1926 – 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 Kennedy resigns.
1966 Houston Oilers hold Denver Broncos to no 1st downs in their NFL season opening 45-7 win at Rice Stadium.
1972 – Atlanta Braves slugger Hank Aaron earns his 6,135th total base to break Stan Musial’s MLB record in an 8-0 home defeat to the Philadelphia Phillies.
1974 – Future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame guard Oscar Robertson retires; leaves NBA with 26,710 points, 9,887 assists & 7,804 rebounds in 1,040 games.
1979 – Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000.
1989 – American tennis star Chris Evert beats 15-year-old Monica Seles 6-0, 6-2 in a 4th round match for her 101st and last US Open singles victory.
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.
2006 – Andre Agassi loses to 112th ranked Benjamin Becker of Germany 7-5, 6-7. 6-4, 7-5 in the 3rd round at the US Open in his final career match; 8-time Grand Slam winner finishes with record of 870-274.
2015 – Kentucky clerk in Rowan County jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
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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