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1860 – First railroad reaches Kansas.

1880 – San Francisco Public Library starts lending books.

1910 – Cleveland Indian baseball pitcher Cy Young registers 500th career victory against Washington 5-4 in 11 innings.

1913 – Billboard publishes earliest known “Last Week’s 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs.” Malinda’s Wedding Day is #1.

1923 – WRC-AM in Washington, D.C. begins radio transmissions.

1930 – Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team return to the United States following their first exploration of the Interior of Antarctica.

1939 – Dr. Roy P. Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures.

1941 – 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee, Alabama)

1944 – 500 15th US Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity.

1950 – NY Yanks obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard and Frank Barnes.

1961 – 1st in-flight movie shown on TWA.

1964 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Columbus CC: Bobby Nichols wins his only major title by 3 strokes from ‘Big-2’ Jack Nicklaus & Arnold Palmer; leads wire-to-wire.

1969 – Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit.

1975 – New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson’s 1st inning single & RBI are nullified because tar on his bat handle exceeds 18″ limit; Minnesota Twins win, 2-1.

1980 – 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow, US and others boycott.

1984 – Christa McAuliffe chosen as 1st school teacher to fly aboard the space shuttle.

1990 – Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentenced to 5 months for tax evasion.

2015 – World Health Organization puts world’s Ebola death toll at 11,284.

2017 – US Senator John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer.

2019 – Heat wave begins across the heart of America affecting 100 million people and killing 6, with New York City declaring a state of emergency.

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