1776 – Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (from the United Colonies)
1861 – Nurse Sally Tompkins is officially commissioned as an officer (and its only woman officer) by the Confederate US Army.
1904 – Mounted police 1st used in NYC.
1908 – Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hour airplane flight, Fort Meyer, Va.
1919 – Boston’s police forces strikes.
1926 – National Broadcasting Company created by Radio Corporation of America.
1942 – 1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes.
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.
1961 – Maria Beal Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962.
1963 – NBC expands “The Huntley-Brinkley Report”, their evening television news program, from 15 to 30 minutes.
1970 – Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun.
1977 – Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker & Allan Trammell debut together & will play together for 19 years.
1983 – Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)
1989 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Steffi Graf retains her title; beats Martina Navratilova 3-6, 7-5, 6-1.
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.
2015 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain’s longest-serving monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.
2020 – Donald Trump purposely downplayed the pandemic in early 2020 to avoid panic according to Bob Woodward’s new book “Rage”
2021 – Tom Brady becomes first player in NFL history to start 300 regular season games as he guides Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an opening day 31-29 win at home to Dallas Cowboys
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