1785 – Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the “dollar” and adopts decimal coinage.
1858 – Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine.
1903 – George Wyman arrives in New York City by motorcycle 51 days out of San Francisco.
1919 – British R-34 lands in New York, 1st airship to cross the Atlantic (108 hrs.)
1928 – Largest recorded hailstone at the time 1.5 lbs. (7 inches in diameter) falls in Potter, Nebraska.
1933 – “Nertsery Rhymes” short film starring Ted Healy and His Stooges, premieres, one of the first film appearances of The Three Stooges.
1941 – New York Yankees team unveils a monument to former captain Lou Gehrig in center field at Yankee Stadium; the future Hall of Famer died the previous month.
1945 – Abbott and Costello’s film “The Naughty Nineties” released; features the longest version of their “Who’s on First?” routine.
1957 – Harry S. Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri.
1960 – Dr. Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from Los Angeles to New York City.
1968 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Judy Tegart 9-7,7-5 to earn first ever prize money offered at Wimbledon.
1971 – White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks.
1983 – Supreme Court rules retirement plans can’t pay women less.
1994 – “Forrest Gump”, directed by Robert Zemackis and starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1995)
1998 – US Open Women’s Golf, Blackwolf Run: Se Ri Pak of South Korea wins a 20-hole playoff over American amateur Jenny Chuasirporn.
2013 – 3 people are killed and 181 injured after a Boeing 777 crash lands at San Francisco Airport.
2016 – African American Philando Castile is shot by police in St. Paul, Minnesota after being pulled over for a broken rear light, killing is filmed.
2017 – Illinois State Senate votes to override Governor Bruce Rauner’s veto to approve 1st budget in more than two years, longest-lasting such dispute of any state.
2020 – Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes agrees to the largest contract for an athlete in sports history, inking a 12-year deal that could end up being worth $503 million.
2022 – First ever joint appearance by MI5 head Ken McCallum and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, warning China is the “biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security”
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