1870 – Congress creates Department of Justice.
1918 – Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe, Illinois)
1932 – National League finally approves players wearing numbers.
1934 – John Dillinger is informally named America’s first Public Enemy Number One.
1940 – 1st Dairy Queen restaurant opens in Joliet, Illinois.
1944 – Boston Braves pitcher Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of year, beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 innings.
1944 – US troops occupy Biak during Battle of Biak, New Guinea.
1947 – 12 inches of rain in 42 minutes (Holt, Mo.)
1959 – American bowler Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games.
1962 – 1st test flight of a Hovercraft.
1970 – President Richard Nixon signs extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that requires voting age at 18 in all federal, state, and local elections.
1973 – Skylab 2’s astronauts land on return voyage from US space station – 1st to safely return to earth.
1983 – 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle.
1990 – Florida passes a law which prohibits wearing a thong bathing suit.
1994 – New York Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253.
2011 – After hiding for 16 years, Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is arrested outside an apartment in Santa Monica, California.
2015 – JAMA Internal Medical Journal announces obese Americans now outnumber those just overweight.
2020 – US government data shows African Americans four times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 highlighting racial disparities for the pandemic.
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