1898 – American troops drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas, Cuba.
1902 – Target Corporation is founded by businessman George Dayton as Goodfellow Dry Goods in Minneapolis.
1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract.
1922 – Charter NFL club Chicago Staleys renamed Chicago Bears by team founder, owner and head coach George Halas.
1938 – 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1947 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Jackie Robinson steals home for the first of 19 times in his career as the Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2.
1949 – “Hopalong Cassidy” becomes first network western (NBC)
1957 – The Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States.
1964 – Federal Trade Commission rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages.
1968 – Joe Frazier stops Mexican challenger Manuel Ramos in the 2nd round by technical knockout at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in his first heavyweight boxing title defense.
1970 – Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
1977 – Crystal Gayle releases best-selling album “We Must Believe in Magic,” featuring worldwide hit “Don’t it Make My Brown Eyes Blue,” which was the first platinum album by a female country music artist.
1982 – Supreme Court rules that the president can’t be sued for actions in office.
1986 – Senate approves “tax reform.”
1991 – National Hockey League adopts instant-replay and tenth of second clock in final minute.
1999 – Christie’s Auction House in New York City conducts sale of 100 of Eric Clapton’s guitars to benefit Crossroads Centre at Antigua, a drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation facility he co-founded in 1997, raising nearly $4.5 million. “Brownie,” a 1956 Fender Stratocaster used on the original recording of “Layla.” sells for a then-record $450,000.
2004 – Capital punishment is declared unconstitutional in New York.
2017 – United Nations stated Yemen cholera epidemic reached 200,000 cases, with 1,300 deaths and was the worst cholera outbreak anywhere in the world.
2019 – El Salvador immigrant father and his 23-month-old daughter drown trying to cross the Rio Grande into the United States with their photo causing widespread condemnation.
2022 – Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, eliminating constitutional right to choose abortion, in a 6-3 vote.
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