1891 – United States National Forest Service organized.
1906 – Congress passed the Hepburn Act, permitting the regulation of rate changes by railroads, pipelines, and terminals engaged in interstate commerce.
1927 – First airplane flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii.
1929 – First high-speed jet wind tunnel completed at Langley Field, California.
1936 – George M. Cohan is the first artist to be presented with a Congressional Gold Medal by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for raising war morale.
1939 – Ford introduces the revolutionary Ford-Ferguson 9N tractor incorporating Harry Ferguson’s three-point hitch system.
1944 – US 7th Army Corps conquers Cherbourg, France.
1949 – American troops withdraw from Korea after World War II.
1956 – Federal Interstate Highway System Act signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
1961 – San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays becomes the fourth player in Major League Baseball history with three or more home runs twice in one season with a 10th inning blast in the Giants’ 8-7 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.
1964 – Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after an 83-day filibuster in the Senate.
1968 – “Tip-Toe Thru The Tulips With Me” by Tiny Tim peaks at #17 on the music charts.
1979 – San Diego Chicken reborn at Jack Murphy Stadium.
1986 – Sparky Anderson is first to win 600 games as a manager in both the American and National leagues.
1994 – 127 degree at Lake Havasu City, Arizona, breaking the state record previously set in 1905.
2002 – Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as acting president for 2 1/2 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.
2015 – Beijing Times reports 30% of the Great Wall of China has disappeared due to natural forces and stealing bricks.
2020 – Supreme Court rules 5-4 that abortion restrictions in Louisiana are unconstitutional, striking down a 2014 state law.
2023 – Supreme court rules 6-3 that college race-based admission programs used to increase diversity are illegal under the Equal Protection of the 14th Amendment.
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