1816 – American Bible Society forms (NY)
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.
1919 – Washington Senators future Baseball Hall of Fame ace Walter Johnson pitches 12 scoreless innings in a famous 0-0 duel with Jack Quinn of the NY Yankees at the Polo Grounds.
1928 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal St. George’s GC: Walter Hagen wins 3rd of his 4 Open Championship titles, 2 strokes ahead of fellow American Gene Sarazen.
1929 – 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasting (3 nights per week)
1940 – NY World’s Fair opens.
1945 – US Marines conquer Awatsha Draw, Okinawa.
1947 – BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron, Ohio)
1951 – American engineer Jay Forrester applies for patent for computer core memory.
1959 – “Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Yout Comb” by Byrnes & Connie Stevens hits #4.
1967 – 100,000,000th US phone connected.
1970 – Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, North Carolina.
1980 – Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third & home in one inning for Phillies.
1988 – Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221,565 mph)
1989 – US President George H.W. Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama.
1994 – Musical “Grease” opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC for 1,503 performances.
2009 – An American soldier in Iraq opened fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Bagdhad, leaving 5 other US soldiers dead and 3 soldiers wounded.
2018 – Most popular names in the US for 2017 revealed as Emma for girls and Liam for boys.
2019 – American actress and $MeToo activist Alyssa Milano urges women to go on a “sex strike” after Georgia state passes new abortion law.
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