Better late than never:

1882 The last bare knuckle fight for the heavyweight boxing championship took place in Mississippi City.

1893 Elisha Gray patented a machine called the telautograph. It automatically signed autographs to documents.

1904 The Great Baltimore Fire begins as a small fire in the city's business district. Over the course of the next 30 hours, though, strong winds will spread the flames until the fire covers over 80 blocks.

1936 A Vice President’s flag was established by executive order.

1941 The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and Frank Sinatra recorded "Everything Happens to Me".

1943 The U.S. government announced that shoe rationing would go into effect in two days.

1964 The Beatles arrive at New York's Kennedy Airport to thousands of screaming American fans.

1983 Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Supreme Court justice, swears in Elizabeth Dole, the first female Secretary of Transportation.

1984 Astronaut Bruce McCandless takes the first-ever untethered "space walk." He travels 320 feet away from the space shuttle with the help of his Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).

1985 Sports Illustrated released its annual swimsuit edition. It was the largest regular edition in the magazine’s history at 218 pages.

1985 "New York, New York" became the official anthem of the Big Apple.

1989 Both houses of Congress vote against their scheduled 51-percent pay increase.

1992 The European Union is formally established with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty on European Union in the Netherlands.

1999 King Hussein of Jordan died. His son was sworn in as king four hours after the announcement that his father had died.

2000 Robert Pickett, 47, fired several shots at the White House near the South Lawn. He was subdued after being shot in the knee. No one else was hurt in the incident.

Famous Birthdays:

Actress Tina Majorino born 1985
Actor Chris Rock born 1966
Musician Garth Brooks born 1962
Actor James Spader born 1960

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