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.