1914 – Babe Ruth’s first professional game as a pitcher is a 6-hit, 6-0 win for the Baltimore Orioles over the Buffalo Bisons.
1930 – United States, Britain & Japan sign the London Naval Treaty.
1934 – US Division of Investigation, later the FBI, under Melvin Purvis botched an operation to capture the John Dillinger Gang at Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, with two dead and four injured.
1940 – Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before the US Senate Naval Committee that war with Japan is inevitable.
1952 – First atomic explosion in Nob, Nevada is shown on network television.
1954 – National Basketball Association adopts 24-second shot clock and six personal foul rules.
1959 – New York Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford strikes out 15, beating Washington Senators 1-0 in 14 innings.
1964 – World’s Fair at Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, New York opens.
1971 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 10 launched.
1972 – NASA Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke ride the Lunar Rover on the moon.
1972 – Barbara Walters becomes the first female nightly network news anchor in the United States on ABC News.
1978 – Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony.
1981 – More than $3.3 million is stolen from First National Bank of Arizona in Tucson in the largest bank robbery in United States history.
1990 – NFL Draft: University of Illinois quarterback Jeff George first pick by Indianapolis Colts.
1998 – Disney’s Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida.
2003 – Goaltender Patrick Roy plays his final career National Hockey League game.
2012 – TV political comedy “Veep,” created by Armando Lannucci, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Anna Chlumsky, premieres on HBO.
2018 – Gunman opens fire at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee, killing four before James Shaw Jr. wrestles the rifle from the gunman’s hands.
2021 – President Joe Biden pledges to cut carbon emissions in the United States by 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030 at a virtual climate summit.
2023 – Record outbreak of dengue fever in northwest Argentina kills over 40 people and infects more than 60,000.
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