1899 – Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels.
1908 – Chicago’s White Sox Park — later Comiskey Park — opens with the St. Louis Browns beating the White Sox 2-0.
1916 – Coca-Cola brings the current coke formula to the market.
1919 – First class postage drops from 3 cents to 2 cents.
1929 – Immigration law of 1924 in effect in the United States.
1934 – Brookfield Zoo opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1941 – New York Yankees outfielder Joe DiMaggio, on his way to a record 56 game hitting streak, ties Willie Keeler’s 44 game Major League Baseball hit streak in a 9-2 win over the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium.
1947 – Basketball Association of America (BAA), which later became the National Basketball Association (NBA), holds its inaugural college player draft.
1956 – Elvis Presley, wearing a tuxedo, appears on the Steve Allen Show.
1963 – The Beatles record “She Loves You” and “I’ll Get You.”
1966 – National health insurance program Medicare goes into effect.
1971 – North Carolina becomes the 38th state to approve lowering the voting age to 18, thus ratifying the 26th amendment.
1978 – Former President Richard Nixon makes his first public speech since resigning in 1974 because of the Watergate scandal.
1987 – New York City radio station WFAN-AM commences first 24-hour all sports radio format.
1993 – STS-57 (Endeavour) lands.
1997 – Nevada Athletic Commission suspends Mike Tyson indefinitely and withholds his $20 million purse for biting Evander Holyfield’s ear during their heavyweight title fight on June 28.
2005 – Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers is suspended for 20 games and fined $50,000 for shoving a cameraman. The sentence later is overturned.
2011 – NBA owners begin the second player lockout in 12 years, shortening the season by 16 games before a salary agreement was reached.
2018 – State on New York charges The Trump Organization and its chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg with tax fraud and grand larceny.
2023 – Euclid telescope launched into space on board a Falcon-9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on a mission to create a 3D map of the cosmos and search for dark matter and dark energy.
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