1853 – US Marine Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco forms.
1864 – Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina.
1905 – US Supreme Court judges maximum work day unconstitutional in Lochner v. New York by declaring the “right to free contract” implicit in the due process of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
1912 – 1st official gold record (Al Jolson’s “Ragging The Baby To Sleep”)
1924 – Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures & Louis B Meyer Co merged to form Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)
1930 – DuPont scientist Elmer K. Bolton invents neoprene using Julius Nieuwland’s divinyl acetylene.
1934 – New Fenway Park opens, Washington Senators beat Red Sox 6-5.
1941 – US Office of Price Administration forms (handled rationing)
1951 – NY Yankee Mickey Mantle’s 1st game, he goes 1 for 4.
1961 – 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
1964 – Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2,368 base)
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating US Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1976 – NL greatest comeback; trailing 12-1, Philadelphia Phillies beat Chicago Cubs, 18-16 in 10 innings at Wrigley Field; Mike Schmidt hits 4 consecutive HRs.
1983 – Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter.
1991 – Dow Jones closes above 3,000 for 1st time (3004.46)
1993 – Two Los Angeles police officers convicted in federal court of violating Rodney King’s civil rights.
2001 – A letter between Gale Norton and Jeb Bush is released, stating that the Bush administration has decided to go ahead with plans to auction 6 million acres of potentially oil-and-gas-rich seabed in the Gulf of Mexico.
2018 – Former FBI director, James Comey, publishes his political autobiography “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership”
2019 – 10 babies with “bubble boy disease” cured using a gene therapy made with HIV at St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis.
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