1919 – Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap.
1927 – Henry Ford announces that he is ending production of the Model T Ford.
1932 – Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in ‘Mickey’s Revue’ by Walt Disney.
1935 – Track and field athlete Jesse Owens equals or breaks 4 world records in 45 minutes at a Big Ten meet at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Remembered as “the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport”.
1941 – Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for 1st time in 1941.
1947 – Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co’s Mine #5 killing 11.
1961 – JFK announces US goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade.
1962 – Isley Brothers release “Twist & Shout”
1964 – 16th Emmy Awards: “The Dick Van Dyke Show”, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore win.
1965 – Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for heavyweight boxing title rematch.
1973 – US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weltz.
1977 – “Brady Bunch Hour” last airs on ABC-TV.
1979 – American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago killing 272 including 2 on the ground.
1986 – 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida.
1986 – Hands Across America – 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY.
1992 – Jay Leno becomes permanent host of “The Tonight Show”
2008 – Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Oak HIll, CC: Jay Haas wins his second title in the event by 1 stroke from Germany’s Bernhard Langer.
2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
2012 – A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station.
2017 – Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg receives an honorary degree from Harvard University, after dropping out in 2004.
2018 – Harvey Weinstein turns himself in to New York police to face charges of rape, a criminal sex act, sex abuse and sexual misconduct.
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