1879 – Frank Winfield Woolworth opens his first successful “Woolworth’s Great Five Cent Store” on North Queen Street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1907 – E.W. Scripps founded the United Press Association.
1916 – Boston Red Sox pitcher Rube Foster no-hits the New York Yankees 2-0 at Fenway Park.
1933 – First Great Lake to Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed in New Orleans.
1942 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrive at Hyde Park for the hastily convened Second Washington Conference.
1946 – Bill Veeck buys Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians for $2.2 million.
1951 – LPGA Western Open Women’s Golf, Whitemarsh Valley Country Club: Patty Berg defeats Pat O’Sullivan 2-up in the final.
1955 – Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song “Cry! Cry! Cry!”
1964 – Byron De La Beckwith arrested for the murder of civil rights activist Medger Evers and is found guilty 30 years later.
1966 – “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” film directorial debut of Mike Nichols, based on Edward Albee’s 1962 play of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released. Taylor wins Academy Award for Best Actress in 1967.
1971 – Ken Harrelson of the Cleveland Indians retires from playing Major League Baseball to play professional golf.
1977 – Former White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman enters prison after being found guilty of trying to cover up President Richard Nixon’s administrations’ involvement in the Watergate scandal.
1982 – John Hinckley Jr. found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan by reason of insanity.
1986 – 1985 Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson signs a 3-year contract to play Major League Baseball with the Kansas City Royals.
1994 – German tennis superstar Steffi Graf becomes first defending champion to lose in the first round of a major tournament, beaten by American Lori McNeil at Wimbledon.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight.
2012 – Moody’s downgrades 15 major banks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Europe.
2017 – Michael Bay directs “Transformers: The Last Knight,” which grosses $605 million worldwide.
2022 – Los Angeles jury finds Bill Cosby liable for sexual assault of a 16-year-old in 1975 at the Playbory mansion and awards the victim $500,000.
2023 – United States approves chicken made from animal cells, which is the country’s first lab-grown meat and is aimed at reducing harm to animals and the environment.
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