1864 – US mints 2 cent coin (1st appearance of “In God We Trust”)
1898 – Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Calvary.
1906 – New rule puts umpire in sole charge of all baseball game balls.
1915 – NY Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time.
1930 – US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty.
1934 – US Division of Investigation (later the FBI) under Melvin Purvis botch an operation to capture the John Dillinger Gang at Little Bohemia Lodge, Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, with 2 dead and 2 injured.
1947 – 1st Basketball Association of American Finals: Philadelphia Warriors beat Chicago Stags, 83-80 to take inaugural series, 4 games to 2.
1951 – Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in NYC.
1954 – US Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings begin.
1962 – Pittsburgh Pirates tie then record of 10 straight wins to start baseball season.
1964 – World’s Fair at Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY, opens.
1969 – 1st human eye transplant performed.
1972 – Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on Moon.
1976 – Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor.
1981 – More than $3.3 million is stolen from the First National Bank of Arizona in Tucson in the then largest US bank robbery in history.
1991 – Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from “The Tonight Show”
1998 – Disney’s Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
2016 – Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2 C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 C.
2018 – Gunman opens fire at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee, killing four before James Shaw, Jr. wrestled the rifle from the gunman’s hands.
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