1858 – Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Brooklyn)
1858 – 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes.
1907 – A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more.
1917 – WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn.
1921 – Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to provide over the floor of US House of Representatives.
1926 – A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
1940 – Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart (#1 is I’ll Never Smile Again” by Tommy Dorsey)
1944 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attacks.
1950 – “Arthur Murray Party” premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)
1956 – Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs.
1964 – 1st surfin’ record to go #1 – Jan & Dean’s “Surf City”
1969 – Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later; Michael Collins remains in orbit in the lunar module.
1976 – Hank Aaron hits 755th and last home run off Angels Dick Drago.
1984 – Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America.
1989 – 93 degrees F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix, Arizona.
1994 – Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife’s killer.
2000 – The leaders of Salt Lake City’s bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering.
2006 – During an appearance on “The Tonight Show”, Colin Farrell is confronted by telephone sex worker Dessarae Bradford, who has been stalking the actor.
2014 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Rory Mcllroy of Northern Ireland wins wire-to-wire by 2 from Sergio Garcia & Ricky Fowler.
2017 – Elon Musk tweets he has “verbal government approval” to build 29 minute Hyperloop between New York and Washington, D.C.
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