1898 – Steel pier, 1st amusement pier, opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1912 – The Chicago National Republican Convention splits between President Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt; after Taft is nominated, Roosevelt and progressive elements of the Party form the Progressive Party (also known as the ‘Bull Moose Party’)
1928 – American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, landing at Burry Port, Wales.
1934 – US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized.
1942 – Bernard W. Robinson becomes 1st African American ensign in US Navy.
1947 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves 6-0 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati.
1949 – “Along Fifth Avenue” closes at Broadhurst Theater in New York City after 180 performances.
1953 – USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen.
1959 – 1st telecast transmitted from England to the United States.
1960 – US Open Men’s Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Arnold Palmer stages greatest comeback in tournament history; erases 7-stroke final round deficit to win his only US Open title by 2 strokes ahead of Jack Nicklaus.
1968 – Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing.
1973 – NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants.
1977 – Space Shuttle test model “Enterprise” carries a crew aloft for the 1st time, it was fixed to a modified Boeing 747.
1986 – California Angels’ Don Sutton becomes 19th Major League Baseball pitcher to win 300 games.
1991 – “(Everything I Do), I Do it for You” single released by Bryan Adams (Billboard Song of the Year, 1991)
1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
2003 – Google launches AdSense, a program that enables website publishers to serve ads targeted to the specific content of their individual web pages, many of which like On This Day (then HistoryOrb.com) go on to start their own publishing businesses.
2017 – US Open Men’s Golf, Erin Hills GC: Brooks Koepka wins his first major title by 4 strokes from Brian Harman and Hideki Matsuyama.
2019 – President Donald Trump announces his campaign for re-election.
2021 – Record 82 million people now forcibly displaced, or over 1% of world’s population, according to the UN refugee agency.
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