1851 – Anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in serial form in “The National Era”
1861 – Federal marshals seize arms and gunpowder at DuPont Works in Delaware.
1912 – US marines invade Caimanera, Cuba.
1917 – 10 million men begin registering for draft in WW I.
1925 – US Open Men’s Golf, Worcester CC: Scotsman Willie Macfarlane beats Bobby Jones by 1 stroke in a second 18-hole playoff for is only major title.
1933 – US drops the Gold Standard when Congress enacts a joint resolution nullifying creditors to demand payment in gold.
1937 – Henry Ford initiates a 32-hour work week.
1940 – A synthetic rubber tire exhibited in Akron, Ohio by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
1944 – After receiving favorable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6.
1953 – US Senate rejects China People’s Republic membership to UN.
1957 – NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes.
1965 – “Wooly Bully” by Sam the Sham & Pharaohs hits #2.
1968 – Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan shoots Robert F. Kennedy three times, who dies the next day and woulds 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
1975 – 48th US National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor.
1981 – AIDS Epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles.
1989 – Toronto Blue Jays Skydome stadium opens, Milwaukee Brewers win 5-3.
2001 – U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
2012 – American gubernatorial recall election is held in Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker wins and becomes the first governor to survive a recall election.
2013 – The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK.
2018 – Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to rape and sexual assault charges in court in New York.
2018 – US President Donald Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their families violates international law according to the UN.
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