1733 – Betty Washington Lewis, American sister of George Washington (d. 1797) is born.
1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
1942 – Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Beach Boys and California Music) is born.
1943 – The Detroit race riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
1948 – Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
1972 – Howard Deering Johnson, American businessman, founded Howard Johnson's (b. 1897) dies.
1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
1975 – The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters".
1979 – ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
2001 – Andrea Yates, in an attempt to save her young children from Satan, drowns all five of them in a bathtub in Houston, Texas.
2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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