1858 – Abraham Lincoln says “A house divided against itself cannot stand” in accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the Senate.
1902 – “The Wizard of Oz” musical first opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1909 – First airplane sold commercially in the United States by Glen Curtiss for $5,000.
1909 – Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for the Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Railroaders with 4-2 win that eventually caused him to forfeit his Olympic gold medals.
1922 – Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to the Bureau of Aeronautics.
1929 – Otto E. Funk, 62, ends marathon walk from New York to San Francisco that covered 4,165 miles in 183 days.
1941 – First federally owned airport opened in Washington, D.C.
1953 – Despite Johnny Mize’s 2,000th hit, the New York Yankees lose, ending an 18 game winning streak and also ending the St. Louis Browns’ 14 game losing streak.
1960 – “Psycho,” psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, and Vera Miles, opens in New York City.
1966 – Dan Rowan and Dick Martin host “The Dean Martin Show” Summer Series on NBC-TV.
1969 – Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. from House of Representatives violated Article 1 of the Constitution by citing reasons beyond the exclusion list of qualifications in the article.
1975 – National Basketball Association’s Milwaukee Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Walt Wesley to the Los Angeles Lakers for four players.
1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1984 – Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race.
1991 – Otis Nixon of Evergreen, North Carolina, steals a National League record six bases in one game.
1995 – Salt Lake City is awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002.
2012 – Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar for the first time in 60 years.
2015 – TV personality and real estate mogul Donald Trump launches his campaign for the Republican nomination for president at Trump Towers in New York City.
2019 – US Open Men’s Golf, Pebble Beach Golf Club: Gary Woodland claims his first major title with a 3-stroke victory over defending champion Brooks Koepka.
2022 – 90-year-old cosmetics company Revlon files bankruptcy, blaming supply issues and rising costs.
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