1860 – Champion of England Tom Sayers and American John Heenan fight out brutal 2 hour, 27 minute draw near Farnborough, England, police had to stop acknowledged as first world title bout.
1964 – Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina.
1907 – Ellis Island, New York records 11,745 immigrants.
1912 – 1st unofficial gold record (Al Jolson’s “Ragging The Baby To Sleep”)
1933 – Chicago Bears win their 1st NFL game beating NY Giants, 23-21.
1941 – US Office of Price Administration forms (handled rationing)
1961 – 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
1961 – 33rd Academy Awards: “Apartment” wins best film, Burt Lancaster & Elizabeth Taylor win best actor, actress.
1964 – Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2,368 base)
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating US Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1970 – Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help.
1976 – NL greatest comeback: trailing 12-1, Philadelphia Phillies beat Chicago Cubs, 18-16 in 10 innings at Wrigley Field: Mike Schmidt hit 4 consecutive HRs.
1978 – 63,500,000 shares traded on NY stock exchange (record).
1987 – Julius Erving becomes 3rd NBA (and ABA) player to score 30,000 points.
1993 – Two Los Angeles police officers convicted in federal court of violating Rodney King’s civil rights and sentenced to prison, while two others are acquitted.
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-and gas-rich seabed in the Gulf of Mexico.
2013 – 15 people killed and 100 are injured after a fertilizer plant explodes in West, Texas.
2018 – Former FBI director James Comey publishes his political autobiography “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership.”
2020 – WHO warns Africa could be next epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, with over 300,000 deaths, pushing 30 million into poverty as it records nearly 1,000 deaths and 19,000 cases to date.
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