1847 – First ring doughnut supposedly created by Hanson Gregory.
1870 – US Congress creates Department of Justice.
1932 – Congress approves “Lindbergh Act” making kidnapping a federal offense (amended 1934)
1934 – John Dillinger is informally named America’s first Public Enemy Number One.
1942 – Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon.
1944 – US President Franklin Roosevelt signs “GI Bill of Rights” (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act)
1949 – Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for National Boxing Association world heavyweight title.
1959 – “Along Came Jones” by Coasters peaks at #9.
1962 – 1st test flight of a Hovercraft.
1970 – President Richard Nixon signs extension of the 1965 Voting Right Act that requires voting age at 18 in all federal, state, and local elections.
1970 – Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional.
1973 – Skylab 2’s astronauts land.
1979 – Little Richard quits rock & roll for religious pursuit.
1982 – Pete Rose get his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place.
1983 – 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle.
1984 – Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic Airways commences operations with flight from Gatwick to Newark.
1990 – Florida passes a law which prohibits wearing a thong bathing suit.
1994 – Ken Griffey, Jr. breaks Ruth’s record for most HRs by end of June (31).
2011 – After hiding for 16 years, Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is arrested outside an apartment in Santa Monica, California.
2015 – South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley calls for removal of the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds in wake of killings in a Charleston church.
2016 – NHL owners meeting unanimously approve the Las Vegas expansion bid to start play in the 2017-18 season.
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