1768 – 1st medical diploma in America is granted to Dr. John Archer from the College of Philadelphia.
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 Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1893 – 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago’s Columbian Exposition)
1907 – E.W. Scripps founded United Press.
1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1923 – Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud.
1933 – 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans.
1945 – US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa.
1946 – Bill Veech 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)
1954 – John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0)
1964 – Byron De La Beckwith arrested for the murder of civil rights activist Medger Evers, found guilty 30 years later.
1970 – Detroit Tiger’s Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892.
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.
1989 – Supreme Court rules OK to burn US flag as a political expression.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight.
2018 – EU imposes tariffs on US goods worth $3.2 billion in response to US tariffs.
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