1849 – NY Herald reports gold discovery in California.
1897 – 1st electric taxis drive in London.
1909 – Indianapolis 500 track opens.
1914 – In a message to the Senate, US President Woodrow Wilson urges the American people to be ‘neutral in fact as well as name’
1921 – Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits.
1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1941 – Baseball umpire Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout.
1944 – US 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois, Normandy.
1950 – ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch)
1951 – Bill Veeck (Cleveland Indians) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3’7″ little person, to pinch-hit.
1955 – US raises import duty on bicycles 50%.
1960 – Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
1967 – Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” single goes #1.
1981 – 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22.
1984 – Republican convention in Dallas, Texas nominates incumbent Ronald Reagan for President.
1991 – Hurricane Bob hits US.
1993 – Mattel & Fisher Price toy companies merge.
2001 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf, Angus Glen GC: Annika Sorenstam wins by 2 from Kelly Robbins.
2014 – The 24 hour ceasefire extension renewal between Israel and Palestine is violated as Hamas fire rockets; Israeli Air Force respond, killing 9 Gazans.
2018 – Rudy Giuliani, US President Donald Trump’s lawyer claims in interview with NBC Chuck Todd that “truth isn’t truth”