1873 – Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for voting for US President.
1898 – 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1912 – The Chicago National Republican Convention splits between President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt; after Taft is nominated, Roosevelt and progressive elements of the Party form the Progressive Party (also known as the ‘Bull Moose Party’)
1928 – American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean landing at Burry Port, Wales.
1934 – US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized.
1941 – Joe Louis KOs Billy Cohn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title.
1942 – Bernard W. Robinson, becomes 1st African American ensign in US Navy.
1948 – American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights.
1953 – USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen.
1959 – 1st telecast transmitted from England to US.
1959 – Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital’s director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.
1960 – US Open Men’s Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Arnold Palmer stages greatest comeback in tournament history; erases a 7-stroke final round deficit to win his only US Open title by 2 strokes ahead of Jack Nicklaus.
1961 – CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke.
1968 – Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing.
1977 – Space Shuttle test model “Enterprise” carries a crew aloft for 1st time, it was fixed to a modified Boeing 747.
1981 – Kimberley Ann Smith, 17, of North Carolina, crowned America’s Junior Miss.
1991 – San Francisco pitcher Dave Dravecky’s cancerous left arm is amputated.
1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
2003 – Google launches AdSense, a program that enables website publishers to serve ads targeted to the specific content of their individual web pages of which On This Day (then HistoryOrb.com) go on to start their own publishing businesses.
2018 – President Trump orders US military to set up sixth branch of the military – a space force.
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