1863 – The first 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa.
1891 – National Forest Service organized.
1906 – Congress passed the Hepburn Act, permitting the regulation of rates charged by railroads, pipelines, and terminals engaged in interstate commerce.
1927 – 1st flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii.
1936 – George M. Cohan is the first artist to be presented with a Congressional Gold Medal, by Franklin D. Roosevelt (for raising war morale)
1941 – Joe DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42, breaking George Sisler’s record.
1944 – US 7th army corps conquers Cherbourg, France.
1949 – US troops withdraw from Korea after WWII.
1956 – Federal interstate highway system act signed.
1961 – San Francisco outfielder Willie Mays becomes the 4th player in Major League Baseball history with 3 or more home runs twice in one season with a 10th inning blast in Giants 8-7 win over the Phillies in Philadelphia.
1966 – Vietnam War: US planes bomb the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and the port city of Hiphong for the first time.
1972 – Supreme Court rules 5-4 that the death penalty is cruel & unusual.
1982 – US Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended.
1990 – Oakland A’s Dave Stewart no-hits Toronto Blue Jays & Los Angeles Dodgers’ Fernando Valenzeula no-hits St. Louis 6-0, 1st time no-hitters in both leagues.
1994 – US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees.
2002 – Vice President Dick Cheney serves as Acting President for two and a half hours while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
2009 – Financier Bernie Madoff sentenced to 150 years in maximum prison for conducting a massive Ponzi scheme.
2016 – Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter lifts Pentagon’s ban on transgender people serving in the armed forces.
2020 – Supreme Court rules 5-4 that abortion restrictions in Louisiana unconstitutional, striking down a 2014 state law.
2022 – Earth records its shortest ever day – 1.59 milliseconds faster than a standard day.
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