1885 – Boston Pops Orchestra forms.
1904 – Ice cream cone makes its debut at St. Louis World’s Fair invented by Ernest A. Hamwi. (Independently of other claimant Italo Marchiony in NY.)
1921 – American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron.
1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity.
1939 – New York World’s Fair opens.
1945 – “Arthur Godfrey Time” begins a 27 year run on CBS radio.
1947 – Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover.
1952 – Mr Potatoe Head is 1st toy advertised on television.
1953 – Little Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League.
1955 – Perez Prado’s “Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White” goes #1 for 10 weeks.
1961 – 1st shuttle flights between Washington, D.C., Boston & NYC begin (Eastern)
1974 – US President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings.
1982 – Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season.
1986 – Bill Elliott sets all-time NASCAR qualifying record, winning pole for the Winston 500 at Talladega Superspeedway; 212.809 mph.
1989 – World Wide Web (WWW) is first launched in the public domain by CERN scientist Tim Berners-Lee.
1996 – US President Clinton approves the sale of $227 million oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; US gas prices are at their highest levels in 5 years.
2001 – The Mitchell Report on the Arab-Israeli conflict is published.
2009 – Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2012 – The unfinished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State Building to become the tallest building in New York.
2013 – Apple offers the largest bond offering from a private company of 17 billion.
2020 – US President Donald Trump claims COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, while the Office of the Director of National Intelligence saying the virus is nor manmade.
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