1664 – 1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston).
1774 – 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia).
1818 – 1st steam vessel to sail Great Lakes launched.
1889 – Edouard and Andre Michelin incorporate the Michelin tyre company.
1923 – Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere.
1923 – US unemployment has nearly ended.
1929 – 1st all color talking picture “On With The Show” exhibited (NYC).
1940 – Irving Berlin’s musical “Louisiana Purchase” premieres in NYC.
1955 – Indianapolis 500: Bob Sweikert wins.
1956 – President Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus.
1962 – US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day.
1968 – American League baseball announces it is splitting into 2 divisions.
1968 – National League baseball grants San Diego Padres a franchise.
1972 – White House “plumbers” break into the Democratic National Headquarters in Washington, DC.
1974 – “Magic Show” opens at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances.
1989 – Indianapolis 500: Emerson Fittipaldi wins.
1996 – US President Bill Clinton’s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougald and Susan McDougald, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1997 – Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mt. Everest for 3rd time.
2003 – Patrick Roy officially announces his retirement from the NHL.
2006 – Barry Bonds hits his 715th career home run, passing Babe Ruth on the all-time list.
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