1620 – Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast.
1805 – Lewis & Clark expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross the west.
1861 – Julia Ward Howe committed “Battle Hymn of the Republic” to paper.
1863 – US President Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; “Four score & seven years ago…”
1895 – American inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patents the pencil.
1911 – NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy.
1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).
1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1952 – North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH.
1959 – “Rocky & His Friends” debuts on ABC.
1959 – Ford Motors cancels its poorly received Edsel model.
1965 – Kellogg’s Pop Tart pastries created.
1971 – Disney World’s Fort Wilderness opens.
1975 – “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” based on book by Ken Kesey, directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher is released (Best Picture 1976).
1980 – CBS TV bans Calvin Klein’s jean ad featuring Brooke Shields.
1985 – In the largest civil verdict in US history, Pennzoil wins $10.53 billion judgement against Texaco.
1990 – Greyhound files reorganization plan so they can be traded publically.
1997 – In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive. They would go on to become the first set of septuplets to survive infancy, with all seven alive in 2007.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
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