1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first state of the Union.
1904 – Mounted police 1st used in NYC.
1908 – Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hour airplane flight, Fort Meyer, Va.
1926 – National Broadcasting Company (NBC) created by Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
1932 – Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River (71 killed)
1936 – Yankees sweep Indians, NY clinches pennant on earliest date in history.
1942 – 1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes.
1945 – Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies.
1951 – 1st broadcast of “Love of Life” on CBS-TV.
1956 – Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show for the 1st time.
1957 – “Diana” by Paul Anka reaches #1.
1957 – US President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction.
1961 – Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss American 1962.
1963 – Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools.
1971 – NHL great Gordie Howe retires.
1983 – Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco 2)
1990 – US Open Men’s Tennis: 19 year old Pete Sampras wins his first Grand Slam title; beats fellow American Andre Agassi 6-4, 6-3, 6-2; Sampras youngest male US Open winner.
2000 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Venus Williams wins her first US title; beats fellow American Lindsey Davenport 6-4, 7-5.
2015 – Apple unveils the iPad Pro and iPhone 65 in San Francisco.
2018 – CBS chief Les Moonves departs the company after six more women make allegations of sexual abuse in “The New Yorker”
2018 – Green Bay Packers start 100th season with historic 24-23 comeback win over Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field; first ever Packer recovery from 17+ points deficit at 3/4 time (20-3)
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