1896 – William S. Hadaway patents an electric stove in the US.
1906 – Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’ in particular)
1911 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal St. George Golf Club: Harry Vardon wins his 5th Championship by 10 strokes in a playoff with 1907 champion Arnaud Massy of France.
1925 – Charles Jenkins is granted the U.S. patent for Transmitting Pictures over Wireless (early television)
1934 – Detroit radio executive George Richards pays $7,957.08 to buy NFL’s Portsmouth Spartans; moves team to Detroit and rebrands it to ‘Lions’.
1936 – 40 hour work week law approved for federal employees.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
1950 – General Douglas MacArthur visits front in South Korea, asks for US troops.
1955 – “Johnny Carson Show” debuts on CBS-TV.
1960 – US stops sugar import from Cuba.
1962 – LA Dodgers’ future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax no-hits New York Mets, 5-0; first of 4 career no-hitters thrown by Koufax.
1967 – Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. named 1st black astronaut.
1977 – Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Washington, D.C.)
1985 – 39 remaining hostages from hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut.
1991 – LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Bethesda CC: Meg Mallon wins her first major title by 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Pat Bradley and Ayako Okamoto.
1999 – NBA Draft: Duke power forward Elton Brand first pick by Chicago Bulls.
2012 – Mid-Atlantic storms kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
2014 – Supreme Court rules that family-owned corporations can reject provisions of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) on religious grounds.
2019 – President Donald Trump becomes first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea in the Korean Demilitarized Zone meeting Kim Jong Un.
2022 – New York is named world’s wealthiest city, home to 345,600 millionaires, and 59 billionaires, with Tokyo and San Francisco making up the top three.
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