1774 – Twelve of the thirteen American colonies adopt a trade embargo with Britain at the first Continental Congress at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1795 – USA and Algiers sign peace treaty.
1834 – Sam Houston elected President of the Republic of Texas.
1862 – General Lee crosses Potomac & enters Maryland.
1863 – Bread revolt in Mobile, Alabama.
1885 – 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)
1905 – The Treaty of Portsmouth is signed concluding the Russo-Japanese War; US President Theodore Roosevelt will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as mediator.
1914 – US President Woodrow Wilson orders US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications-even to German diplomats sending coded messages; leads to interception of the Zimmerman telegram, helping bring the US into the war.
1925 – 112 degrees (F), Centerville, Alabama (state record)
1939 – FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe.
1942 – British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen.
1953 – 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh, NC.
1958 – “Doctor Zhivago” novel by Boris Pasternak published in US.
1958 – “The Huckleberry Hound Show” by Hanna-Barbera featuring Yogi Bear premieres on US TV.
1961 – US President JFK signs law against hijacking (death penalty)
1975 – First Assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Lynette Fromme in Sacramento.
1978 – Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter begin Egypt-Israel peace conference at Camp David.
1989 – Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show.
2015 – US health officials confirm a salmonella outbreak liked to cucumbers from Mexico is responsible for 1 death and for making hundreds sick.
2017 – Hurricane Irma becomes the most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history with winds of 185 mph.
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