1792 – Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented.
1890 – Louisiana legalized prize fighting.
1908 – Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield.
1932 – Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey.
1934 – “Cocktails For Two” by Duke Ellington hits #1.
1959 – “Nervous Set” opens at Henry Miller’s Theater NYC for 23 performances.
1960 – Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special.
1963 – Bob Dylan walks out of the “Ed Sullivan Show”
1968 – “March of Poor” under Rev Abernathy reach Washington, D.C.
1970 – Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run.
1975 – US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces.
1978 – US Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female.
1979 – Chris Evert’s 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end.
1989 – “Entertainment Tonight” makes 2,000th TV performance.
1990 – Comic Relief USA ’90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million.
1991 – A new cancer drug is announced which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest.
1993 – Last broadcasting of “Knots Landing” on CBS.
1995 – Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)
2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United Sates, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro’s 1959 revolution.
2003 – Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.
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