1850 – Territories of New Mexico and Utah created, 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 Myer, Va.
1919 – Boston’s police force strikes.
1926 – National Broadcasting Company created by Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
1940 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Donald McNeill beats fellow American Bobby Riggs 4-6, 6-8, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 for his second major singles title.
1942 – 1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes.
1951 – 1st broadcast of “Love of Life” on CBS-TV.
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.
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 – John Lennon releases his “Imagine” album.
1983 – Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)
1987 – MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter.
1994 – Space shuttle STS 64 (Discovery 20) launches into orbit.
2002 – Pitcher Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record.
2012 – US Open Women’s Tennis Serena Williams wins her 4th US title, beats Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 5-2, 2-6, 7-5.
2015 – Apple unveils the iPad Pro and iPhone 65 in San Francisco.
2020 – Donald Trump purposely downplayed the pandemic in early 2000 to avoid panic according to Bob Woodard’s new book “Rage”
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