1865 – One-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine Booth found the East London Christian Mission, now known as the Salvation Army.
1901 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid rob a train of $40,000 at Wagner, Montana.
1911 – Detroit Tigers baseball legend Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game in a 14-6 rout of Cleveland. His streak ends in the next game.
1921 – Warren G. Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring the official end of war with Germany.
1926 – US Army Air Corps created and the Distinguished Flying Cross authorized to award “heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight.”
1932 – Golfer Walter Hagan wins his fifth and last Western Open in Cleveland 16 years after he won his first.
1937 – Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear flying over the Pacific Ocean en route to Howland Island. Noonan is declared dead the following year and Earhardt is declared the year after in 1939.
1949 – “Red Barber’s Clubhouse” sports show premieres on CBS-TV and later moves to NBC.
1955 – “Lawrence Welk Show” premieres on ABC.
1956 – Elvis Presley records “Hound Dog” and “Don’t Be Cruel” at RCA studio in New York City.
1962 – Sam Walton opens his first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law.
1972 – Pole vaulter Bob Seagren breaks the world record for the fourth and final time with a 5.63 meter (18 feet, 5 inches) vault in Eugene, Oregon.
1978 – Major League Baseball pitcher Ron Guidry beats Detroit 3-2 for a New York Yankees record 13-0 start to the season.
1986 – Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in two rulings.
1994 – US Air DC-9 crash in Charlotte, North Carolina kills 37 people.
2001 – Bush Administration announces that it will seek to let oil companies drill on about 1.5 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico.
2008 – A settlement is reached allowing the National Basketball Association’s Seattle SuperSonics to move to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with new owner Clay Bennett agreeing to pay the City of Seattle $45 million to wriggle out of last two years of Key Arena lease.
2015 – BP agrees to compensate the United States government and gulf states $18.7 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
2020 – Texas Governor Greg Abbott makes wearing face mask mandatory as cases of coronavirus soar in the state.
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