George Steinbrenner(businessman, former owner of the New York Yankees)–
Shannen Doherty(actress)–
Richard Simmons (fitness guru)–
Events
The American Continental Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance, establishing the procedure for the creation of new states –
Current U.S. patent numbering system began –
The first official cat show took place, in London –
Theodore Roosevelt laid the corner stone for a new county courthouse in Mineola, New York, and spoke of the need for honesty in government. While he was talking, one man had his pockets picked of $140 and another man lost $103 –
Women competed in modern Olympics for the first time –
Gold discovered near Cochrane, Ontario –
Stratford Festival’s first production, Ontario –
Blackout strikes NYC at 9:34 P.M. and lasts until the next day. The sweltering evening turn into a night of near total chaos. Police arrest some 3,200 looters –
Montreal hosted the first baseball All-Star Game outside the U.S. –
Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, won his 30th straight game on Jeopardy! which brought his earnings to $1,004,960. He was the first contestant to pass the $1 million mark. –
A Maine fisherman caught a half-brown, half-orange lobster. The odds of catching this kind of lobster are 1 in 50 million –
Weather
112 degrees F in Mio, Michigan –
Dover, Delaware, received 8.5 inches of rain, over a 24-hour period –
A lightning strike on a power line in Westchester County in New York triggered a 24-hour power blackout in New York City –
The temperature reached 106 degrees F in Chicago, Illinois –
