1914 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth makes his Major League Baseball debut as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and earns a 4-3 win against the Cleveland Naps at Fenway Park.
1916 – Congress passes the Federal Road Act.
1934 – Franklin Roosevelt became the first United States president to travel through the Panama Canal.
1943 – US 45th Division occupies the airport in Comiso, Sicily during World War II.
1944 – President Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term.
1955 – Congress authorizes all currency to say “In God We Trust.”
1960 – “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is first published by J.B. Lippincott & Co.
1962 – First transatlantic television transmission via Telstar satellite.
1962 – Brothers Hank and Tommie Aaron each hit a home run in the ninth inning to help the Milwaukee Braves beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-6..
1967 – “The Newlywed Game” premieres on ABC-TV.
1971 – Chilean parliament nationalizes American copper mines.
1977 – Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
1981 – Neva Rockefeller is the first woman ordered to pay her husband alimony.
1984 – Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989.
1988 – Boxer Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor.
1992 – Presidential candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls attendees “you people.”
2007 – “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” the fifth film based on the books by J.K. Rowling, is released.
2012 – 20th ESPY Awards: LeBron James, Brittney Griner win.
2019 – Last models of Volkswagen’s Beetle car are produced in Pueblo, Mexico, ending production worldwide after 80 years.
2021 – Billionaire Richard Branson flies to the edge of space on his Virgin Galactic rocket plane in a space tourism test.
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