1776 – New Jersey gives the right to vote to all adults who could show a net worth of 50 pounds.
1843 – An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina.
1881 – US President James Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker; Garfield dies 79 days later.
1901 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner, Montana.
1911 – Detroit Tigers legend Ty Cobb hits his 40th straight game in 14-6 rout of Cleveland. Streak ends next game.
1921 – In boxing’s first million dollar gate ($1.7m), world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey KOs Frenchman Georges Carpenter in round 4 of his 3rd title defense; crowd 91,000 at Boyle’s Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey.
1926 – US Army Air Corps created; Distinguished Flying Cross authorized, to award “heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight”
1932 – American Golfer Walter Hagan wins his 5th and last Western Open in Cleveland, 16 years after he won his first.
1937 – Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear flying over the Pacific Ocean en route to Howland Island. Noonan declared the following year, and Earhart is declared the year after (1939)
1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits a 3-run homer off Boston’s Dick Newsome to pass Willie Keeler’s MLB record 44 game hitting streak.
1951 – Bill Veeck buys St Louis Browns from Bill & Charlie DeWitt; after 1953 season sells franchise to Clarence Miles, team moves to Baltimore (Orioles)
1956 – Elvis Presley records “Hound Dog” and “Don’t Be Cruel”
1962 – Sam Walton opens his first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law.
1979 – Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman.
1986 – US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings.
1991 – Donald Trump proposes to Marla Maples and gives her a 7.5 carat diamond ring.
1994 – US Air DC-9 crashes in North Carolina, 37 killed.
2001 – Bush Administration announce that it will seek to let oil companies drill on about 1,500,000 acres of the Gulf of Mexico.
2012 – GlaxoSmithKline settles the largest healthcare fraud case in history for US$3 Billion.
2017 – US President Donald Trump tweets edited wrestling video of himself attacking news network ‘CNN’
About Author
