1901 – Benjamin Adams arrested in New York for playing golf on Sunday.
1913 – First strike settlement by US Department of Labor with railroad clerks.
1919 – Pulitzer Prize for Poetry awarded to Carl Sandburg for “Cornhuskers.”
1930 – In Cincinnati, Sarah Dickson becomes first woman Presbyterian elder in the United States.
1933 – President Franklin Roosevelt authorizes first swimming pool built inside the White House.
1942 – Boston Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a US Navy aviator.
1952 – 650,000 metal workers go on strike in the United States.
1957 – First television interview in the United States of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
1962 – Ray Charles’ cover of Don Gibson’s “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” from his influential crossover album “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music” hits #1 on Billboard.
1969 – Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne slices destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half in South Vietnam, killing 74 people.
1977 – New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City.
1981 – Barbara Walters famously asks Katherine Hepburn “If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?”
1985 – RJ Reynolds Company proposes a merger with Nabisco.
1987 – Seattle Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr. #1 in Major League Baseball draft.
1994 – 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling “antediluvian.”
1997 – Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74 game winning streak on the syndicated television game show “Jeopardy!”
2015 – Congress passes new legislation to reform National Security Agency procedures, restricting gathering of phone records.
2017 – “Wonder Woman,” directed by Patty Jenkins, released. The movie earned over $100 million in North America in its opening weekend which was a domestic record for a female director.
2023 – US Army renames Fort Bragg in North Carolina as Fort Liberty as part of effort to remove Confederate names from military bases. Its namesake Braxton Bragg served in the US Army (1837-56) and the Confederate Army (1861-65).
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