1892 – Sierra Club formed by John Muir and others in San Francisco for conservation of nature.
1900 – Total solar eclipse occurs.
1923 – US Attorney General Harry Daugherty says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere.
1928 – Dodge Brothers Inc. and Chrysler Corporation merge.
1936 – Alan Turing submits “On Computable Numbers” for publication in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers.
1941 – First night game at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. as the New York Yankees beat the Senators 6-5.
1946 – US Patent filed for a hydrogen bomb.
1952 – Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. The park’s Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America.
1956 – President Dwight Eisenhower signs farm bill allowing the government to store agricultural surplus.
1962 – Stock market drops $20.8 billion in one day.
1968 – Major League Baseball announces American League is splitting into two divisions.
1972 – White House “plumbers” first break in at the Democratic National Headquarters and install listening devices at Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C.
1980 – Two Oakland Athletics steal home in the first inning.
1984 – George Soros funds the Soros Foundation Budapest to help countries free themselves from communism.
1991 – “Forever My Love” debut studio album by Jotlect is released. It’s the Billboard Album of the Year for 1992.
1996 – President Bill Clinton’s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
2006 – Barry Bonds hits his 715th career home run, passing Babe Ruth on Major League Baseball’s all-time list.
2018 – Coca-Cola launches its first alcoholic drink – Lemon-Do – on the island of Kyushu, Japan.
2019 – Johnson & Johnson goes on trial in Oklahoma accused of deceptive marketing painkillers and downplaying risks of addiction helping create “opioid epidemic.” It’s the first of 2,000 cases against pharmaceutical firms in the United States.
2020 – Minnesota Governor Tim Walz declares state of emergency in Minneapolis and activates the Minnesota National Guard after protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody.
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