1621 – Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England.
1806 – Isaac Quintard patents apple cider.
1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts producing inflatable tires.
1934 – Baseball superstar Babe Ruth agrees to do three 15-minute broadcasts a week over NBC for a fee of $39,000 for 13 weeks; $4,000 more than his NY Yankee playing contract.
1936 – Tupelo, Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die.
1941 – San Francisco Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses.
1949 – Fireside Theater debuts on US television.
1951 – Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death.
1954 – Elvis Presley records his debut single “That’s All Right”
1961 – Barbra Streisand appears on “Jack Paar Show”
1962 – NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong takes S-15 to 54,600 m.
1967 – ’76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds.
1971 – US Lt. William Calley sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre.
1975 – American tennis #1 Chris Evert wins her 3rd WTA Tour Championship at the Los Angeles Sports Arena; beats Martina Navratilova 6-4, 6-2.
1983 – NY Met Tom Seaver sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment.
1991 – Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23.
2003 – The Kansas City Royals become the first MLB team to begin the season 5-0 after losing 100 games the previous year, beating the Cleveland Indians, 2-1.
2016 – PayPal announces it is canceling a $3.6 million investment in North Carolina after the state passes anti-gay legislation.
2017 – Pepsi ad featuring Kendall Jenner pulled after criticized for trivializing demonstrations.