1909 – Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees which President William Howard Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1914 – US President Woodrow Wilson issues “Proclamation of Neutrality”
1922 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Oakmont CC: 20-year old US Open champion Gene Sarazen defeats Emmet French, 4 & 3 in the final.
1926 – Weather map televised for 1st time.
1930 – Eastern Airlines begins passenger service.
1936 – 106.5 F – Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa.
1944 – Chartres freed by US Army forces during WWII led by General George S. Patton.
1949 – Ralph Flanagan & his orchestra records “You’re Breaking My Heart”
1955 – Hurricane Diane kills 400 in the US.
1958 – TV game show scandal investigation starts.
1963 – James Meredith becomes the 1st black graduate from University of MIssissippi.
1977 – Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his NL record tying 5th one-hitter.
1982 – NYSE tops 100m shares traded for the 1st time, sets a new record of 132.69m shares traded.
1986 – Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)
1991 – Hurricane Bob hits North Carolina with 115 MPH wind.
1996 – British Open Women’s Golf, Woburn, Duke’s Course: emilee Klein wins by 7 strokes ahead of fellow American Amy Alcott and Penny Hammel.
2004 – US women’s 4 X 200m freestyle relay team of Natalie Coughin, Carly Piper, Dana Vollmer & Kaitlin Sandeno smash long standing world record set by GDR in 1987 to win gold at the Athens Olympics (7:53.42)
2005 – Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) serial killings in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
2017 – White House chief of strategist Stephen Bannon is fired by US President Donald Trump.
2022 – New way to break down “forever chemicals” PFAS compounds responsible for cancer, low birth weights and lowered immunity published by scientists in Journal “Science”.
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