1816 – Republican convention in Chicago selects Abraham Lincoln as candidate.
1891 – George A. Hormel & Co establishes Geo. A. Hormel & Co. (Hormel Foods Corporation) in Austin, Minnesota.
1903 – First transcontinental motorcycle trip began in San Francisco by George A. Wyman. He arrives in New York on July 6.
1924 – 108 degrees in Blitzen, Oregon.
1927 – Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax.
1932 – New York Yankees’ fourth straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland and Boston.
1939 – Food stamps are first issued in Rochester, New York.
1946 – Irving Berlin, Dorothy and Herbert Fields’ musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” starring Ethel Merman and featuring “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” opens at Imperial Theater in New York City.
1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (New York International Airport) and Heathrow Airport (London) operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1961 – 13th Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr and Barbara Stanwyck win.
1965 – The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.
1971 – First class postage increases to 8 cents from 6 cents.
1979 – Major League Baseball’s National League approves sale of Houston Astros by Ford Motors to John J. McMullen for $19 million.
1985 – Michael Jordan named National Basketball Association Rookie of the Year.
1992 – Presidential polls show Ross Perot, George Bush and Bill Clinton could be in a deadlock.
1997 – Major League Baseball’s Montreal Expos beat the San Francisco Giants 14-13 after trailing by 9 runs during the game.
2004 – Day of Mourning at Bykivnia Forest, just outside of Kylv, Ukraine, where during the 1930s and early 1940s communist Bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians.
2013 – Bill Gates regains his position as the world’s richest man with $72.7 billion after losing the position in 2008.
2019 – President Donald Trump declares a national emergency over information technology threats, banning US companies from using foreign technology without a license.
2020 – 118-year-old department store JC Penny files for bankruptcy.
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