1799 – Andrew Ellicott makes the first known record of a meteor shower observation in the US, from a ship of the coast of Florida Keys.
1892 – Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1915 – Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry.
1920 – Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner.
1926 – The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers.
1927 – 1st underground tunnel, Holland Tunnel, connecting NY to NJ opens.
1936 – Oakland Bay Bridge opens.
1941 – Alma Heflin, the first American female test pilot for commercial aircraft, made her first test flight for the Piper Aircraft Corporation, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.
1946 – Walt Disney’s “Song of South” released.
1953 – US District Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games.
1968 – US Supreme Court: Epperson v. Arkansas, court declares unconstitutional Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools.
1972 – 22nd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Richard Petty wins.
1979 – US President Carter announces a halt to Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets.
1986 – Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously.
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1992 – NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time.
1997 – Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004.
2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, and Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
2008 – 42nd Country Music Association Award: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley wins.
2015 – Out Magazine names Barack Obama ‘Ally of the Year’, Obama becomes 1st sitting US President to pose for cover of a gay magazine.
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