1603 – English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1800 – Congress hold its 1st session in Washington, DC in incompleted Capitol building.
1853 – Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections.
1883 – 23rd British Golf Open: Willie Fernie shoots at 158 at Musselburgh Links.
1889 – Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland & San Francisco.
1904 – George Cohan’s musical “Little Johnny Jones” premieres in NYC.
1927 – Tornado hits Washington, DC.
1928 – Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years.
1933 – United States recognizes Soviet Union, opens trade.
1940 – Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane.
1947 – The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
1962 – US President JFK dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Washington, DC.
1970 – Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
1973 – US President Richard Nixon tells AP “…people got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m no a crook”
1982 – Dale Murphy wins NL MVP.
1988 – Neil Simon’s “Rumors” premieres in NYC.
1989 – Pitcher Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year Kansas City Royal contract.
1992 – Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test.
2003 – Britney Spears, at 21 years old, becomes the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2004 – Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holding Corporation.
2015 – Actor Charlie Sheen confirms that he is HIV-positive.
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