1901 – Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday in New York.
1913 – 1st strike settlement mediated by US Department of Labor – railroad clerks.
1924 – President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act (also known as Snyder Act), declaring all Native Americans to be American citizens.
1932- Fisherman George W. Perry catches the world record largemouth bass, weighing in at 22 pounds, 4 ounces, at Lake Montgomery, Georgia.
1935 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth announces his retirement as a player at 40 years of age.
1953 – 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US.
1962 – Ray Charles’ cover of Don Gibson’s “I Can’t Stop Loving You”, from his influential crossover album, “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music” hits #1 on Billboard.
1973 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Margaret Court of Australia beats American teenager Chris Evert 6-7, 7-8, 6-4 for her 5th French singles crown.
1977 – New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City.
1979 – NASA launches space vehicle S-198.
1985 – RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco.
1987 – Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr. #1.
1990 – Seattle’s Randy Johnson no-hits Tigers, 2-0.
1996 – 9th Children’s Miracle Network Telethon.
1997 – Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168.
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated television game show “Jeopardy”
2015 – Congress passes new legislation to reform National Safety Agency procedures, restricting gathering of phone records.
2020 – UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet says pandemic exposing “endemic inequalities” around the world, cites death of George Floyd and higher death toll for ethnic minorities.
2022 – Queen Elizabeth marks her Platinum Jubilee with four days of celebrations starting with a military parade at Buckingham Palace.
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