August 4

1693: Champagne was invented by Dom Perignon. 1790: The U. S. Coast Guard was established. 1921: The first radio broadcast of a tennis match occurred in Pittsburgh, PA. 1900: Etienne Lenoir, who developed the first commercially successful internal combustion engine, died. 1922: Every telephone in the U.S. and Canada went dead as Bell System shut down all its switchboards and switching stations for 1 minute, from from 6:25 to 6:26 PM, in memory of Alexander Graham Bell, who died two days earlier. 1954: Britain's first supersonic fighter plane, the P-1 English Electric Lightning, made its maiden flight. 1954 : The uranium rush began in Saskatchewan, Canada. 1971: The U.S. launched the first satellite (subsatellite) into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft as part of the Apollo 15 mission. 1977: U.S. Department of Energy was created. 1987: The FCC voted 4-0 to rescind the [un]Fairness Doctrine for broadcasters. 1998: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunged 299.43 points, the 3rd-biggest point drop up to that time.