1789 – US Treasury Department established by Congress.
1859 – A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
1897 – “McCal” magazine first published.
1898 – Machine gun 1st used in battle.
1901 – Theodore Roosevelt advises “Speak softly & carry a big stick”
1914 – The US Treasury Department establishes the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to provide up to $5 million worth of insurance for merchant ships and their crews.
1929 – Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros.
1930 – 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
1935 – A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423.
1940 – Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated.
1944 – Future US President George H.W. Bush bails from a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific.
1945 – V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (Japanese date, 1st September in US)
1952 – Dr. Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery.
1963 – Alabama Governor George Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee High School.
1974 – US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
1987 – Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan.
1991 – US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania.
1996 – Soyuz TM-24, lands.
2015 – Earth’s trees number just over 3 trillion according to study in “Nature” by Thomas Crowther of Yale University.
2015 – US President Barack Obama becomes the first president to visit the Arctic Circle at Kotzebue, Alaska.