1882 – 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC.
1901 – National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, better known as Minor League Baseball is formed at the Leland Hotel in Chicago.
1910 – Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings.
1925 – 112 degrees F, Centerville, Alabama (state record)
1939 – FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe.
1949 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beats fellow American Ted Schroeder 16-18, 2-6,6-1, 6-2, 6-4; longest singles final match by games (67), before tiebreaker introduction.
1953 – 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh, NC.
1958 – “Doctor Zhivago” novel by Boris Pasternak published in US.
1960 – A.J. Foyt wins the first of 67 Indy car victories at Du Quoin, Illinois, State Fairgrounds.
1961 – US President JFK signs law against hijacking (death penalty)
1975 – First assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme in Sacramento, California.
1977 – NASA launches Voyager 1 on a mission to initially just fly-by Jupiter and Saturn, later Uranus and Neptune also (2012 becomes the first human-made object to leave the solar system.
1982 – US Men’s Amateur Golf Championship, The Country Club: Jay Sigel wins 8 & 7 over David Tolley.
1986 – 3rd MTV Video Music Awards: Whitney Houston wins.
1989 – Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show.
1995 – Cal Ripken Jr. ties Gehrig’s record of playing in 2,130 straight games.
2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
2017 – Hurricane Irma becomes the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin region with winds of 185mph.
2018 – Anonymous senior White House official opinion piece “I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration” published by the New York Times.
2021 – Tour Championship, Men’s Golf, East Lake GC; Patrick Cantlay claims richest prize in golf ($15m) with 1 stroke win over Jon Rahm; runner-up Rahm pockets $5m.
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