1751 – Pennsylvania Hospital founded by Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin.
1850 – Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco.
1900 – James J. Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 23 for heavyweight boxing title.
1904 – Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace.
1928 – 63rd British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Royal St George’s.
1940 – NY World’s Fair reopens.
1942 – William Faulkner’s collections of short stories, “Go Down, Moses”, is published.
1945 – US Marines conquer Awatsha Draw, Okinawa.
1947 – BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron Ohio)
1951 – American engineer Jay Forrester applies for patent for computer core memory.
1959 – “Kookie, Kookie Lend Me your Comb” by Byrnes & Connie Stevens hits #4.
1963 – “Puff (The Magic Dragon)” by Peter, Paul & Mary hits #2.
1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.
1976 – Last broadcast of “Marcus Welby, MD” on ABC-TV.
1980 – Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third, & home in one inning for Phillies.
1987 – 1st heart-lung transplant take place in Baltimore.
1993 – 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, and Mary Chapin Carpenter win.
1996 – ValuJet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die.
2009 – An American soldier in Iraq opened fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, leaving 5 others US soldiers dead and 3 soldiers wounded.
2015 – Record price for a work of art at auction: Picasso’s The Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) sells for US$179.3 million at Christies in New York.
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