1893 – 1st Ferris Wheel opens at Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
1904 – The Republican Party nominated Theodore Roosevelt for President, but not without opposition from those whom he calls ‘malefactors of great wisdom’
1913 – Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane.
1933 – 1st Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans.
1939 – NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig’s retirement after doctors reveal he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1943 – Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit, 30 dead.
1948 – Columbia Records unveil the 33 1/3 rpm LP phonograph record invented by Peter Carl Goldmark, allowing up to 20 minutes per side (available in 10 and 12 inch diameters), at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City. Over the next decade the popularity and profitability of the LP pushed the 78 rpm out of production.
1951 – LPGA Western Open Women’s Golf, Whitemarsh Valley CC: Patty Berg defeats Pat O’Sullivan, 2-up in the final.
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.
1966 – “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” film directorial debut of Mike Nichols, based on Edward Albee’s 1962 play of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress, 1967)
1971 – 50,000 attend Celebration of Life rock concert in McCrea, Louisiana: performers included Chuck Berry, Stephen Stills, WAR, John Sebastian, and Delaney and Bonnie.
1977 – Former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman enters prison.
1982 – John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan by reason of insanity.
1989 – Supreme Court rules OK to burn the US flag as a political expression.
1998 – US Open Men’s Golf, Olympic Club, San Francisco; Lee Janzen recovers from 7 stroke deficit to win his second Open title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Payne Stewart.
2006 – Pluto’s newly discovered moon is officially named Nix and Hydra.
2018 – European Union imposes tariffs on US goods worth $3.2 billion in response to US tariffs.
2022 – Los Angeles jury finds Bill Crosby liable for sexual assault of a 16 year-old in 1975 at the Playboy mansion, awards victim $500,000.
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