1891 – Cotton pickers organize union and stage strike in Texas.
1916 – 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.
1932 – Philadelphia A’s first baseman Jimmie Foxx smashes his 50th & 51st home runs to become only 3rd player to reach 50 in a Major League Baseball season; joins Babe Ruth and Hack Wilson.
1938 – 1940 Olympics site was changed from Tokyo, Japan to Helsinki, Finland because of the Sino Japanese War. WWII caused eventual cancellation.
1940 – United States 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 a National League record for a left-hander with 41st shutout, beats Cubs, 8-0.
1967 – Final episode of “What’s My Line?” hosted by John Charles Daly on CBS-TV.
1970 – Bill Haley and his Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia.
1979 – Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm, kills over 1,000 people.
1985 – 20th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-1): Discovery 6 returns to Earth.
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.
2007 – Panama Canal’s “Third Set of Locks” expansion project begins with a huge initial explosion under Paraiso Hill that is watched by thousands of people.
2013 – Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 billion.
2017 – California Governor Jerry Brown issues a state of emergency due to the La Tuna brush fire near Los Angeles.
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.
2020 – Actor Robert Pattison tests positive for COVID-19, shutting down production of the Batman film he is shooting.
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