1898 – First United States troops land and occupy Puerto Rico at Guanica Bay.
1913 – Pittsburgh Pirates future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Max Carey scores five runs without a hit, reaching first base on an error and 4 walks, as the Bucs beat the Philadelphia Phillies 12-2.
1922 – AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY, later on WEAF, WNBC, WRCA and WFAN.
1936 – 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx, New York.
1941 – President Franklin Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan.
1944 – Operation Cobra: United States forces begin major offensive in Normandy with air bombardment.
1946 – Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team at the 500 Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1952 – Puerto Rico, on Constitution Day, becomes a self-governing United States commonwealth.
1956 – Pittsburgh Pirates’ Roberto Clemente hits Major League Baseball’s first, and only, walk-off inside-the-park grand slam for a 9-8 win over the visiting Chicago Cubs at Forbes Field.
1961 – In a speech, President John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
1966 – The Supremes release single “You Can’t Hurry Love.”
1972 – United States health officials concede African Americans were used as guinea pigs in a 40-year syphilis experiment.
1975 – Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban’s musical “A Chorus Line” opens at the Shubert Theater in New York City for a record setting longest-running Broadway show run of 6,137 performances and 10 Tony Award wins.
1983 – Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted on $2.25 billion in bonds.
1992 – 25th Olympic Games open in Barcelona, Spain.
1997 – Quarterback Brett Favre re-signs with the Green Bay Packers for $50 million over seven years.
2001 – Faced with declining oil prices, OPEC ministers agree to cut crude oil production quotas by about 4%, or 1 million barrels per day.
2014 – Both Israel and Hamas review United States Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire and meetings in Cairo.
2016 – Verizon announces a $4.83 billion purchase of Yahoo.
2019 – Justice Department announces resumption of the death penalty, scheduling five executions.
2023 – Scientists say crucial Atlantic ocean current near collapse. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could reach its tipping point in the middle of this century.
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