1908 – Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
1922 – St Louis Brown “Baby Doll” Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0
1926 – National Broadcasting Company created by Radio Corporation of America
1954 – Earthquake strikes Orleansville, Algeria: 1,400 killed
1960 – Denver Broncos beat Boston Patriots, 13-10 in the American Football League’s first game before 21,597 fans at Nickerson Field in Boston
1973 – US Open Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian John Newcombe wins his second US singles title; beats Jan Kodeš 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki and urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
2007 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Switzerland’s Roger Federer wins 4th consecutive US title; beats Novak Đoković of Serbia 7-6, 7-6, 6-4
2017 – Egyptian archaeologists announce the discovery of a 3,500-year-old tomb of a goldsmith and his family in Draa Abul-Naga, Egypt
2018 – CBS chief Les Moonves departs the company after six more women make allegations of sexual abuse in “The New Yorker”