1900 – James J. Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 23 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
1904 – Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace.
1912 – 38th Kentucky Derby: Carol H Shilling aboard Worth wins in 2:09.4.
1919 – Yanks’ Jack Quinn & Senators’ Walter Johnson, 12 innings 0-0 tie.
1924 – Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)
1928 – General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, NY)
1940 – NY World’s Fair reopens.
1947 – BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron, Ohio)
1951 – American engineer Jay Forrester applies for patent for computer core memory.
1956 – Elvis Presley’s 1st entry on UK charts with “Heartbreak Hotel”
1959 – Yankee catcher Yogi Berra’s errorless streak of 148 games ends.
1963 – “Puff (The Magic Dragon)” by Peter, Paul & Mary hits #2.
1965 – Ellis Island added to Statute of Liberty National Monument.
1970 – Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, North Carolina.
1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing Pentagon papers to The New York Times dismissed.
1973 – Last broadcast of “Marcus Welby, MD” on ABC-TV.
1985 – Madonna’s “Crazy For You” single goes #1.
1993 – 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Vince Gill and Mary Chapin Carpenter win.
2008 – PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Sergio Garcia of Spain claims the biggest win of his career to date in a sudden-death playoff over American Paul Goydos.
2009 – An American soldier in Iraq opened fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, leaving 5 other US soldiers dead and 3 soldiers wounded.
2019 – American actress and #MeToo activest Alyssa Milano urges women to go on a “sex strike” after Georgia state passes new abortion law.
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