1904 – Mounted police 1st used in NYC.
1908 – Orville Wright makes 1st-1 hour airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va.
1926 – National Broadcasting Company (NBC) created by Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
1932 – Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River (71 killed)
1942 – 1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes.
1943 – US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche)
1950 – “Texas, Li’l Darlin” closes at Mark Hellinger, NYC after 293 performances.
1954 – Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season.
1956 – Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show for the 1st time.
1957 – US President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction.
1961 – Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America, 1962.
1966 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1975 – Viking 2 Mars probe launched.
1983 – Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)
1987 – Gary Hart admits on “Nightline” to cheating on his wife.
2000 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Venus Williams her first US title; beats fellow American Lindsay 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 victory from 17+ points deficit at 3/4 time (20-3).
2020 – President Donald Trump purposely downplayed the pandemic in early 2020 to avoid panic according to Bob Woodward’s new book “Rage”.
2020 – San Francisco Bay area blanketed by dark orange skies and smoke due to California wildfires.
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