1849 – NY Herald reports gold discovery in California.
1909 – Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home of automobile race Indianapolis 500, opens in Speedway, Indiana.
1914 – In a message to the Senate, US President Woodrow Wilson urges the American people to be ‘neutral in fact as well as name’
1917 – Sunday benefit baseball game at NYC’s Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson’s arrest for violating Blue laws.
1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1944 – US 15th Army Corps occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris.
1951 – Bill Veeck (St. Louis Browns) send Eddie Gaedel, a 3’7″ person, to pinch hit, he walked on four pitches.
1955 – Hurricane Diane kills 200 people, becomes 1st billion $ storm (N.E. US)
1960 – Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
1964 – Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched.
1967 – The Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” single goes #1.
1976 – President Gerald Ford wins Republican presidential nomination at KC convention.
1980 – George Brett ends hitting streak at 30.
1984 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Shoal Creek: Lee Trevino wins his 2nd PGA Championship by 4 shots from Gary Player and Lanny Watkins.
1991 – Hurricane Bob hits U.S.
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 – NASA satellites take photos showing that the eastern basin of the Aral Sea had for the first time completely dried up.
2018 – Rudy Giuliani, US President Donald Trump’s lawyer claims in interview with NBC Chuck Todd that “truth isn’t truth”
2020 – Apple becomes the 1st US company to be valued at $2 trillion, just 2 years after it reached $1 trillion valuation.
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