1607 – 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va.
1787 – Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution.
1804 – Meriwether Lewis & William Clark’s expedition commissioned by Thomas Jefferson sets out from St. Louis for Pacific Coast.
1853 – Gail Borden, land surveyor, newspaper publisher, and inventor, patents his process for condensed milk.
1878 – Vaseline is granted a patent (US Patent 127,568).
1908 – 1st passenger flight in an airplane.
1918 – Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington, DC.
1927 – “Ain’t She Sweet?” hits #1 on the singles chart by Ben Bernie.
1942 – US Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms.
1945 – Kamikaze Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise.
1949 – US President Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral.
1957 – “New Girl in Town” opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 432 performances.
1961 – Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama.
1969 – Last Chevrolet Corvair built.
1973 – Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In last airs on NBC-TV.
1984 – 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, Lee Greenwood and Janie Fricke win.
1990 – Dow Jones average hits a record 2,821.53.
1998 – Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds).
2005 – Former USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the US Navy, deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. Largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.
2013 – Dan Brown’s fourth novel starring Robert Langdon (“The Da Vinci Code”), titled “Inferno”, is released and instantly becomes a bestseller.
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