1969 – The Woodstock festival opens in Bethel, New York
1983 – Hurricane Alicia pounds Texas coast
1914 – Panama Canal open to traffic
1989 – President George Bush issued a proclamation commemorating the bicentennial anniversary of the 1st patent and copyright laws
1896 – Gold discovered in the Yukon
1948 – Babe Ruth dies
1977 – Elvis Presley dies
1949 – Patent #2,478,967 was granted to Leonard Greene of Mineola, NY for an “airplane stall warning device”
1978 – Balloon crosses the Atlantic
1998 – Clinton testifies before grand jury
1903 – Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America
1915 – Charles Kettering receives patent for electric self-starter
1993 – Patent #5,236,208 was issued to Thomas Welsh for a platform steerable skateboard.
1227 – Genghis Khan dies
1920 – Woman suffrage amendment ratified
1963 – Meredith graduates from Ole Miss
1949 – Plant Patent #1 was issued to Henry Bosenberg of New Brunswick, NJ, for a climbing rose
1692 – Five women are hanged in Salem, Massachusetts after being convicted of the crime of witchcraft
1909 – First race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
1964 – The Beatles kick off first U.S. tour
2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends
1919 – HOSTESS was trademark registered by William B. Ward
