1777 – Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit.
1789 – Mrs. Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington.
1865 – President Andrew Johnson proclaims reconstruction of confederate states.
1866 – US House of Representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil Rights)
1888 – US Congress creates Department of Labor.
1910 – Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Philadelphia.
1920 – Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post.
1930 – 1st Nudist Colony opens.
1942 – FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head.
1948 – Babe Ruth’s final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies August 16th.
1957 – Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth, Mass.
1960 – “Alley-Oop by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59.
1966 – Supreme Court’s Miranda decision; suspects must be informed of rights.
1980 – Billy Joel’s “Glass Houses” hits #1.
1989 – Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1990 – Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya.
1997 – Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death.
2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
2012 – San Francisco Giants’ Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise’s history against the Houston Astros.