1915 – Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT), later the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), begins subway service in New York.
1922 – Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are shot and killed in Herrin, Illinois.
1930 – New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig smashes three home runs in a 20-13 win over the Philadelphia Athletics at Shibe Park.
1932 – Congress approves the “Lindbergh Act” making kidnapping a federal offense.
1940 – First Dairy Queen restaurant opens in Joliet, Illinois.
1944 – President Franklin Roosevelt signs “GI Bill of Rights,” the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act.
1947 – 12 inches of rain falls in 42 minutes in Holt, Missouri.
1955 – Walt Disney’s animated film “Lady & the Tramp” released.
1959 – “Along Came Jones” by the Coasters peaks at #9.
1962 – First test of a Hovercraft.
1969 – Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River catches fire due to pollution.
1973 – Skylab 2’s astronauts land on return voyage from the United States Space Station. Astronauts Pete Conrad, Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz are the first to safely return to Earth.
1977 – Former United States Attorney General John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison for perjury regarding his involvement in the Watergate scandal.
1982 – Philadelphia Phillies infielder Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd career hit and moves past Hank Aaron into second place on Major League Baseball’s all-time hit list.
1992 – Supreme Court rules “hate crime” laws violated free speech rights.
1994 – Ken Griffey Jr. breaks Babe Ruth’s record for most home runs by end of June with 31.
2002 – An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people.
2011 – After hiding for 16 years, Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is arrested outside an apartment in Santa Monica, California.
2020 – United States government data shows African Americans four times more likely than whites to be hospitalized for COVID-19, highlighting racial disparities for the pandemic.
2022 – United Kingdom posts highest inflation rate in the G7 at 9.1%, a 40-year high, lead by a rise in the price of food and fuel.
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