1869 – Harper’s Weekly publishes first picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers.
1891 – First great train robbery by the Dalton Gang: Southern Pacific #17 near Alila (now Earlimart), California.
1921 – Charlie Chaplin releases his first full-length feature — “The Kid” — a silent film starring Chaplin and 6-year old Jackie Coogan.
1926 – NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates.
1935 – “Monopoly” board game goes on sale for first time.
1943 – Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio’s “Your Hit Parade.”
1945 – World War II: US 8th Air Force bombs oil facilities in Magdeburg and Chemnitz, Germany.
1951 – Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne National Laboratory, a nuclear test site located 20 miles west of Chicago, Illinois.
1953 – United States controls on wages and some consumer goods lifted.
1958 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Ted Williams becomes highest paid player in Major League Baseball when he re-signs with Boston Red Sox for $135,000.
1965 – Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost The Lovin’ Feelin” hits #1.
1971 – American astronaut Alan Shepherd is first to hit a golf ball on the moon.
1974 – US House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
1980 – John Wayne Gacy goes on trial for the murder of 33 young men in Cook County, Illinois.
1992 – “Late Night’s 10th Anniversary Show at Radio City Music Hall” on NBC.
1998 – Mary Kay Letourneau, 36, a former teacher who violated probation by seeing the 14-year-old father of her baby, is sentenced to seven years in prison.
2009 – President Barack Obama announces the Economic Recovery Advisory Board with Paul Volcker as Chairman and Austan Goolsbee as Staff Director and Chief Economist.
2018 – Elon Musk’s company SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, world’s most powerful rocket.
2020 – US astronaut Christina Koch completes the longest continuous spaceflight by a female astronaut after 328 days on the International Space Station, landing in Kazakhstan.
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