1775 – 1st military hospital approved.
1861 – U.S. Congress authorizes paper money.
1922 – Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year.
1935 – “Variety” publishes famous headline “Sticks Nix Hick Pix”
1938 – Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan leaves NY flying for LA, winds up in Ireland supposedly by mistake.
1944 – 2 ammunition ships explode at Port Chicago, California, killing 322.
1954 – Construction of Disneyland commences.
1956 – MGM releases film “High Society”, a musical re-working of “The Philadelphia Story” set in Newport, Rhode Island; starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra, with songs by Cole Porter.
1959 – River Canyon, extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
1961 – John Chancellor becomes news anchor of “Today Show”
1966 – “It’s a Bird…..It’s Superman” closes at Alvin NYC after 129 performances.
1972 – 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico.
1978 – NY Yankee manager Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson fight in dugout after Jackson refuses to bunt, causing Martin to suspend him.
1983 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: Defending champion Tom Watson wins his 5th Open Championship, 1 stroke clear of Andy Bean and Hale Irwin; Watson’s 2nd consecutive Open win and 3rd in 4 years.
1984 – US passes National Minimum Drinking Age Act, prohibiting under 21’s from buying or possessing alcohol as a condition of receiving State highway funds.
1994 – Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win the WCW wrestling championship.
1995 – Forbes Magazine announces Bill Gates is the richest man in the world with a net worth of $12.9 billion dollars.
2013 – 21st ESPY Awards: LeBron James, Serena Williams win.
2018 – Bloomberg estimates NFL made $14 billion in revenue in 2017, distributing a record $8,1 billion to the league’s 32 teams, $255m each.
2019 – Streaming service Netflix reaches 150 million subscribers worldwide, but with slower growth than forecast.
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