1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
1912 – United States Army tests first machine gun mounted on a plane.
1917 – Melvin Jones and a number of other Chicago businessmen found Lions Club International which now is the largest service organization in the world.
1929 – Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.
1936 – Charles “Lucky” Luciano is convicted on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution.
1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
1942 – USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island during World War II.
1946 – Players on Major League Baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates attempt to unionize and vote 20-16 to go on strike rather than play the New York Giants. The vote fell short of required 2/3 majority and union fizzled. Pirates win 10-5 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
1955 – “$64,000 Question,” hosted by Hal March, premieres on CBS-TV.
1958 – Songwriter and impresario Berry Gordy Jr. founds Tamia Records, precursor to Motown Records, in Detroit, Michigan.
1965 – Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits around Earth.
1968 – Sirhan Sirhan indicted for the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1975 – “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” by John Denver hits #1.
1982 – Graceland, Elvis Presley’s home, is opened to the public.
1989 – Atlanta Fulton County Commission approves $210M stadium for the National Football League’s Falcons.
1995 – The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
2009 – 63rd Tony Awards: “Billy Elliott the Musical” (musical) and “God of Carnage” (play) win.
2018 – Baltimore ex-police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins, head of a rogue police unit, sentenced to 25 years for robbery and racketeering.
2021 – Vice President Kamala Harris visits Guatemala on her first foreign trip and announces task forces on corruption and human trafficking.
2022 – “For many countries, recession will be hard to avoid,” says World Bank President David Malpass, with prediction world growth in 2022 will slow to 2.9% (down from 5.7%).
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