1817 – Mississippi River steamboat service begins.
1860 – Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln as candidate.
1894 – Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings.
1914 – American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City.
1927 – US Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax.
1939 – US food stamps are 1st issued in Rochester, New York.
1946 – “Annie Get Your Gun” musical by Irving Berlin, Dorothy and Herbert Fields opens at Imperial Theater NYC, starring Ethel Merman and featuring “There’s no Business Like Show Business”
1953 – Phillie Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row.
1954 – Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone.
1957 – US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton, Connecticut.
1963 – Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Project Mercury.
1965 – The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.
1971 – US 1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents)
1979 – National League approves Astros sale from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M.
1985 – Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of the Year.
1988 – US Surgeon General C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin.
1988 – US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant.
1996 – Sammy Sosa is 1st Chicago Cub to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning.
2013 – Bill Gates regains his position as the world’s richest man with $72.7 billion after losing the position in 2008.
2019 – US President Donald Trump declares a national emergency over IT threats, banning US companies from using foreign technology without a license.
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