1903 – Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is the only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 and 5-3.
1910 – The Mann Act is passed, invoking the Commerce Clause to make it a felony for use of interstate or foreign commerce to transport women for immoral purposes.
1919 – First advanced monoplane airline flight aboard the Junkers F13.
1929 – President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam.
1934 – New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle in an 11-2 win against the Chicago White Sox.
1938 – “A Tisket A Tasket” by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1 on the music charts.
1941 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8802 which forbids racial discrimination in the defense industry.
1948 – Joe Louis knocks out Joe Walcott in the 11th round for the heavyweight boxing title at Yankee Stadium in New York City.
1957 – “Jonathan Winters Show” last airs on NBC-TV.
1966 – Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” single goes #1 and stays there for two weeks.
1973 – Former presidential council John Dean begins testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.
1978 – First use of the rainbow flag, symbol of gay pride, made by Gilbert Baker at a march in San Francisco.
1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1988 – 104 degrees, highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June.
1990 – Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known.
1997 – NBA Draft: Wake Forest power forward Tim Duncan is first pick by the San Antonio Spurs.
2009 – Columbia entered into recession after witnessing 0.7% contraction in the last quarter of 2008 and 0.6% in the following quarter.
2014 – The Supreme Court rules that police examining the digital contents of a cell phone without a court order is unconstitutional.
2018 – Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson announced it plans to move some production abroad in response to European Union retaliatory tariffs.
2021 – Former police officer Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22 years and six months for the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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