1864 – President Abraham Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service.
1914 – US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps.
1915 – Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs.
1921 – Babe Ruth achieves 139 home runs and becomes the all-time home run leader in Major League Baseball, taking the title from Roger Conner.
1931 – 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched.
1936 – Charles “Lucky” Luciano is sentenced to 30 to 50 years in state prison.
1940 – Democratic Convention nominates FDR for a 3rd term.
1947 – US President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act.
1951 – Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight boxing championship.
1959 – “The Nun’s Story” based on the novel by Kathryn Hulme, starring Audrey Hepburn premieres in Los Angeles.
1961 – Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth’s record of 60 HRs in 154-game schedule in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games.
1968 – The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California.
1970 – Willie Mays becomes 10th baseball player to get 3,000 hits.
1979 – Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London.
1982 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Troon: American Tom Watson wins his 4th Open Championship, 1 stroke better clear of Peter Oosterhuis and Nick Price.
1986 – Videotapes released showing Titanic’s sunken remains.
1994 – Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons.
2013 – Detroit, Michigan files for bankruptcy, becoming the largest US municipal bankruptcy ever at $18.5 million.
2015 – PayPal is spun off from eBay as a separate publicly traded company on the NASDAQ.
2018 – Google fined record $5.1 billion by the EU for abusing its power in mobile phone market.
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