1788 – US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it.
1834 – American inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick patents the reaping machine.
1893 – 1st Ferris wheel opens at Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
1904 – The US Republican Convention nominates Theodore Roosevelt for President, but not without opposition from those whom he calls ‘malefactors of great wealth’
1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1930 – Babe Ruth his 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7.
1939 – NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig’s retirement after doctors reveal he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1945 – US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa.
1948 – 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78’s planned to be phased out (Dr. Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)
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 – US Open Men’s Golf, Merion GC: Lee Trevino wins his 2nd Open by 2 strokes in a Monday 18 hole playoff with Jack Nicklaus.
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.
1986 – President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments.
1993 – STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2012 – Moody’s downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe.
2015 – US Open Men’s Golf, Chambers Bay GC: Jordan Spieth (21) becomes youngest winner since 1923 by 1 shot from Dustin Johnson & Louis Oosthuizen.
2020 – WHO records a new record number of new daily cases of COVID-19 – 183,200 with 116,000 coming from North and South America.
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