1834 – American inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick patents the reaping machine.
1879 – Frank W. Woolworth opens his 1st successful “F.W. Woolworth Great Five Cent Store” on North Queens Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1893 – 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago’s Columbian Exposition)
1907 – E W Scripps founded United Press.
1933 – 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico trip completed, New Orleans.
1939 – NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig’s retirement after doctor’s reveal he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1945 – US defeats Japanese forces in Okinawa.
1946 – Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million.
1948 – 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78’s planned to be phased out (Dr Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)
1950 – Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit.
1955 – Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song “Cry! Cry! Cry!”
1964 – Byron De La Beckwith arrested for the murder of civil rights activist Medger Evers, found guilty 30 years later.
1971 – Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf.
1977 – Former White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman enters prison.
1982 – John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity.
1990 – Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood’s walk of fame.
2001 – Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is the 1st Hispanic woman to be honored on a US postage stamp.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2012 – Miami Heat win the 2012 NBA finals after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunders 4 games to one.
2018 – EU imposes tariffs on US goods worth $3.2 billion in response to US tariffs.
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