1900 – “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” is first published by L. Frank Baum with illustrations by Wallace Denslow in Chicago.
1915 – Chicago Cubs’ George “Zip” Zabel relieves with 2 outs in first inning and ends up with a 4-3 19-inning win over the Brooklyn Dodgers in the longest relief appearance in the history of Major League Baseball.
1921 – President Warren D. Harding opens, via telephone, the first Valencia Orange Show in Anaheim, California.
1932 – Congress changes name “Porto Rico” to “Puerto Rico.”
1939 – First televised baseball game is broadcast on NBC with Princeton University defeating Columbia University 2-1.
1944 – Chinese and United States armed forces take Myitkyina Airport in Burma during World War II.
1954 – Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education which reverses the 1896 “separate but equal” Plessy v Ferguson decision ruling racial segregation in public schools is illegal.
1959 – Sam Snead sets Professional Golf Association record for 36 holes by shooting 122.
1961 – Cuban leader Fidel Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers.
1970 – Atlanta’s Hank Aaron becomes the ninth player in Major League Baseball history to get 3,000 hits.
1973 – Stevie Wonder releases the music single “You Are The Sunshine Of My Life,” which goes to #1 and wins a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
1981 – New York Islanders score five power play goals against the Philadelphia Flyers in a National Hockey League playoff game.
1986 – “Chicken Song” by Spitting Image hits #1 on the United Kingdom pop chart.
1993 – Intel’s new Pentium processor is unveiled.
1998 – New York Yankees pitcher David Wells tosses a perfect game in a 4-0 win against the Minnesota Twins at Yankee Stadium.
2001 – President George W. Bush calls for reduced regulations to encourage more oil, gas, and nuclear production.
2008 – Dale Jarrett’s final race, the All-Star race, before joining ESPN’s NASCAR coverage full-time.
2015 – Gun fight between rival biker gangs and police in Waco, Texas leaves nine people dead and 18 injured. 170 people later arrested for organized crime.
2023 – Montana is the first state to ban TikTok with Governor Greg Gianforte signing legislation to ban the Chinese-owned social media network to protect against alleged intelligence gathering.
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