1850 – Millard Fillmore sworn in as President of US (replacing Taylor)
1866 – Indelible pencil patented by Edson P. Clark, Northampton, Massachusetts.
1892 – 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
1914 – Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles.
1926 – 30th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto CC in Ohio.
1929 – US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency.
1938 – “Yankee Clipper” completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic.
1938 – Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours.
1949 – 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced in Toledo, Ohio.
1950 – “Your Hit Parade” premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV.
1962 – Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia.
1964 – Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game.
1964 – The Beatles release “A Hard Day’s Night”, their 3rd studio album.
1967 – Bobbie Gentry records “Ode to Billie Joe” – single goes on to win 4 Grammys.
1978 – World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
1985 – Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke.
1997 – RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads.
2001 – Amerada Hess agrees to acquire Triton Energy for $2.7 billion in cash.
2012 – The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages.
2015 – The Confederate flag is taken down for the last time from South Carolina Capitol grounds 1 day after the state legislature ordered it removed.
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