1907 – A derailment outside Lompoc, California, kills 32 Shriners when their chartered train jumps off the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot.
1919 – Washington Senators future Baseball Hall of Fame ace Walter Johnson pitches 12 scoreless innings in a famous 0-0 duel with Jack Quinn of the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds.
1924 – Pulitzer Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Frost for “New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.”
1928 – General Electric opens first TV station in Schenectady, New York. Its first regularly scheduled TV broadcasts three nights per week.
1940 – New York World’s Fair reopens.
1945 – US Marines conquer Wana Draw, Okinawa.
1947 – BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire in Akron, Ohio.
1951 – American engineer Jay Forrester applies for patent for computer core memory.
1953 – Tornado kills 114 and causes $139 million in damages in Waco, Texas.
1956 – Elvis Presley’s first entry on United Kingdom musical charts with “Heartbreak Hotel.”
1963 – “Puff (The Magic Dragon)” single by Peter, Paul and Mary hits #2. Peter Yarrow adapted a poem that college classmate Lenny Lipton had left behind after borrowing Yarrow’s typewriter.
1967 – 100 millionth phone connected in the United States.
1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the “Pentagon Papers” to the New York Times dismissed.
1980 – Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third and home in one inning for the Philadelphia Phillies.
1987 – First heart-lung transplant takes place in Baltimore.
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 other US soldiers dead and 3 soldiers wounded.
2018 – Most popular names in the United States for 2017 revealed as Emma for girls, Liam for boys.
2021 – China census figures show country’s population of 1.41 billion people, which is its slowest growth rate since 1960s (+0.53 down from +0.57).
2021 – First major US offshore wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts approved by the Biden administration.
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