1787 – Inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
1846 – Gen. Stephen W. Kearny proclaimed all of New Mexico a territory of the United States.
1851 – The schooner America outraced more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that came to be known as the America’s Cup.
1902 – President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first president to ride in a car.
1921 – J. Edgar Hoover became assistant director of the FBI.
1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black to compete on the U.S. Tennis tour.
1956 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon were nominated for second terms in office by the
Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
1968 – Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to South America.
