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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
First Successful Trial Run of a Steamboat (1787)
John Fitch was a man plagued by misfortune. His first foundry was a failure and his second was destroyed in the American Revolution. During a short-lived career as a surveyor in the early 1780s, he was captured by Native Americans. His luck finally seemed to turn around in 1786, when he built the first steamboat in the US, and in 1787, when he demonstrated his aptly named Perseverance on the Delaware River for an audience from the Constitutional Convention.

Birthdays
1939 Carl Yastrzemski
1941 Bill Parcells
1956 Paul Molitor

Events
565 Saint Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness

1762 Ann Franklin publishes the Newport Mercury, becoming the first American female editor and publisher and the first woman inducted into the University of Rhode Island's Journalism Hall of Fame

1775 King of Great Britain and Ireland, George III, proclaims the American colonies to be in open rebellion and orders his officials to suppress them. Those teasonous bastards

1788 Sierra Leone is settled by British as a haven for former slaves

1826 Colonies led by Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake, Utah

1849 Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice in the first aerial bombing in history

1851 The 100 Guineas Cup yacht race is held around the Isle of Wight, the first race of the oldest international sporting competition now known as the America's Cup. In the race, US schooner "America" beats the British cutter "Aurora" by 24 minutes, prompting spectator Queen Victoria to ask who was in second place and the famous reply, "Your majesty, there is no second."

1877 800 Nez Perce Native Americans, fleeing the US Army and attempting to reach Canada, retreat into Yellowstone National Park. As leader, Chief Joseph initially sought to peacefully resolve tensions following the treaty disputes. In 1873, he negotiated with the U.S. government to remain on their ancestral land but was coerced by General Oliver O. Howard to leave in 1877. The subsequent Nez Perce War, a prolonged and strategic retreat of over 1,170 miles, demonstrated the military acumen of the Nez Perce under Joseph's leadership.

1901 Cadillac Motor Company is founded

1902 US President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first US president to ride in an electric car

1906 The first Victor Victrola is manufactured by the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey

1921 J. Edgar Hoover appointed Assistant Director of the Bureau of Investigation

1950 First patent for controlling vehicle speed (cruise control) is granted to American inventor Ralph Teetor

1956 US President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco

1964 The Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go" reaches #1

1984 Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush

1989 MLB Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter, Oakland A's outfielder Rickey Henderson

1994 DNA testing links O.J. Simpson to the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman

2004 "The Scream" (1910 painted version) and "Madonna", two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway

2024 The largest diamond in more than a century, at 2,492 carats, is found in a mine in Botswana and is displayed by the country's President Mokgweetsi Masisi

2024 Vice President Kamala Harris accepts the Democratic nomination for U.S. President on the last day of the party's national conference in Chicago

Good on him I'm reading Armageddon,The Battle for Germany,1944-45 by Max Hastings for the 2nd time. Unbelievable that when the Soviets liberated PoW camps the depths of depravity of how the NKVD treated their own soldiers some taken prisoner in 1941. Guilty of being taken prisoners when forced to charge enemy positions with out guns or ammo sometimes with shovels/pitchforks. Some GIs who crash landed in Soviet controlled areas were never heard from again. The cossacks if they made it back after service in the Red Army were marched off in to slave labor. Forced to perform brutal underground labor in coal or iron ore mines.Weird to say though harrowing he's very fortunate to have made it back. And we are fortunate to have men like that stand in harm's way

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Gossamer Condor Wins First Kremer Prize (1977)
British industrialist Henry Kremer set up the Kremer Prize in 1959, offering £50,000 to the first group that could fly a human-powered aircraft over a 1-mile (1.6-km) figure-eight course. The aircraft also had to clear a 10-foot (3-m) pole at the start and finish line. Early attempts with heavy aircraft failed, so engineer Paul MacCready took a radically different approach in designing the Gossamer Condor, and his team won the first Kremer Prize in 1977.

Birthdays
1902 Carlo Gambino
1929 Yasser Arafat
1951 Danny Joe Brown, singer Molly Hatchet
1952 Mike Shanahan
1960 Cal Ripken Jr
1973 Dave Chappelle


Events
410 Rome is overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire

1215 Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid

1456 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed

1516 Battle of Marj Dabiq: Ottoman forces decisively defeat the Mamluk Sultanate near Aleppo, ending Egyptian control in the Middle East

1682 Duke of York, James II, awards the "Three Lower Counties" that form modern-day Delaware to William Penn, ensuring ocean access for his colony of Pennsylvania

1814 British forces capture Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812 and destroy many landmarks

1853 First potato chips are prepared by chef George Crum at Moon's Lake House near Saratoga Springs, New York (popular legend says he invents them, though earlier recipes exist)

1858 Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 Black individuals arrested for learning - can't make that shit up

1869 American inventor Cornelius Swarthout patents a stovetop waffle iron

1891 Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera

1893 Tornado destroys the coast of Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina; about 1,000 people die

1909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal

1912 Ticker-tape parade held in NYC for Jim Thorpe and victorious US Olympians

1919 Having pitched into the 9th inning, Cleveland's Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning and goes on to record the final out for the Indians' 2-1 win over the Philadelphia A's well just maybe it missed him

1921 British airship R-38 crashes into the River Humber, killing 44 people

1932 Amelia Earhart begins the first transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman in Los Angeles, California

1939 Germany and the USSR sign a 10-year non-aggression pact - Good Job fellas (it lasted a week shy of 10 months) smashing work

1945 MLB Cleveland Indians ace Bob Feller returns from serving in the US Navy and strikes out 12 batters

1956 First non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrives in Washington, D.C. - pretty impressive

1960 -127°F (-88°C) recorded in Vostok, Antarctica; world record low temperature at the time, surpassed in 1983

1968 France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific(the more the merrier,huh?)

1970 Bomb kills one at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison

1989 Pete Rose is suspended from Major League Baseball for life due to gambling

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the USSR Communist Party

1992 Screw magazine superimposes a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flynt

2001 Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean due to a fuel leak and makes a successful emergency landing in the Azores, saving all 306 people on board

2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing become the most-watched event on TV ever, with nearly 5 billion viewers, 70% of the world's population

2012 A US jury in California finds Samsung guilty of patent infringement and awards over US$1 billion in damages to Apple, while in a South Korean court, both are found guilty of patent infringement - hey man it's the American way

2015 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that for the first time, 1 billion people log into Facebook

2017 Largest-ever lottery jackpot win in the US: $758.7 million won by Mavis Wanczyk of Massachusetts in the US Powerball Jackpot

2019 NASA investigates the first possible crime in space as astronaut Anne McClain allegedly illegally accesses a bank account from space

2021 Kathy Hochul becomes the first female Governor of New York, replacing Andrew Cuomo after his resignation

2022 British-Belgian teen Mack Rutherford (17) becomes the youngest person to fly solo around the world, landing in Sofia, Bulgaria, after a five-month journey across 52 countries

2023 Former US President Donald Trump surrenders at Fulton County Jail to be arrested on charges stemming from his attempts to alter the 2020 Georgia election and gets a mugshot

On May 17, 1973, the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities opened its public hearings into what had begun the previous year as a seemingly bizarre burglary at Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington’s Watergate complex.
By then, it was becoming clear that the burglary was only one piece of a much larger story.
The hearings were televised live, and for weeks Americans watched senators question former White House aides, campaign officials and others about political espionage, secret payments and efforts to conceal what had happened. The proceedings became something of a national daytime drama, with an estimated tens of millions of Americans tuning in at various times.
Then came the revelation that changed everything.
On July 16, former White House aide Alexander Butterfield casually confirmed during testimony that President Richard Nixon had installed a secret recording system in the White House.
There were tapes.
From that moment forward, the question was no longer simply what Nixon knew about Watergate — but what the recordings might prove.
The battle over those tapes would continue for another year, eventually reaching the Supreme Court. In July 1974, the Court unanimously ordered Nixon to surrender recordings sought by investigators. One of them, the so-called “smoking gun” tape, revealed that Nixon had participated in an effort to impede the FBI investigation only days after the burglary.
Facing almost certain impeachment and removal from office, Richard Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974 — the only American president ever to do so.
But much of the drama that brought his presidency down unfolded publicly in 1973.
Watergate changed more than one administration. It helped reshape the relationship between the presidency, Congress and the press; produced a new generation of campaign-finance and government-ethics reforms; and contributed to a profound decline in Americans’ trust in their federal government.