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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.