1565 – 1st permanent European settlement in the US founded at St. Augustine, Florida.
1858 – Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech “You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time”
1892 – 1st appearance of “Pledge of Allegiance” (Youth’s Companion)
1900 – 6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas.
1916 – US President Woodrow Wilson signs the Emergency Revenue Act, doubling the rate of income tax and adding inheritance and munitions profits tax.
1920 – US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF)
1930 – 1st appearance of comic strip “Blondie”
1930 – Richard Drew creates Scotch tape.
1939 – FDR declares “limited national emergency” due to war in Europe.
1939 – Indians Bob Feller, 20, is youngest pitcher to win 20 games.
1946 – Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minors record 456.
1952 – Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Old Man & the Sea” published.
1960 – Nationwide release (US) of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh.
1967 – Surveyor 5 launched; making soft landing on Moon September 10.
1974 – US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes.
1985 – “USA Weekend’s” 1st edition, appears in 255 newspapers.
1986 – “The Oprah Winfrey Show” is first broadcast nationally.
1994 – 11th MTV Video Music Awards: Aerosmith wins with newlyweds Michael Jackson & Lisa Marie Presley opening the show.
2004 – The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachutes fails to open.
2015 – Comedian Stephen Colbert debuts as the new host of CBS’s “The Late Show”
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