1864 – President Abraham Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service.
1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld’s “Follies of 1907” premieres in New York City.
1914 – US Army Air Service 1st comes into being, in the Signal Corps.
1921 – Babe Ruth achieves 139 home runs, with a Major League Baseball record 575-foot hit, to become the all-time home run leader in Major League Baseball, taking the title from Roger Conner.
1931 – 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched.
1938 – Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan arrives in Ireland after a 28 hour flight, supposedly leaving New York flying for California.
1941 – Arne Andersson runs world record 1-mile (4:01.6)
1947 – President Harry Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act.
1955 – 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially.
1960 – Baseball’s National League votes to add Houston and New York franchises.
1966 – Gemini 10 launches John Young & Michael Collins.
1968 – The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California.
1976 – Nadia Comaneci (14) becomes the first gymnast in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 score (scoring it 7 times) at Montreal Games.
1986 – Videotapes released showing Titanic’s sunken remains.
1994 – Court upholds National Basketball Association salary cap and draft rights.
1999 – New York Yankees’ David Cone becomes 15th pitcher to throw a perfect game (6-0 vs Montreal)
2012 – Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshall in the Korean People’s Army.
2013 – Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy, becoming the largest US municipal bankruptcy ever at $18.5 billion.
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 European Union for abusing its power in the mobile phone market.
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