1861 – Richmond, Virginia, is designated the Confederate Capital.
1881 – American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton.
1906 – Louis H. Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars.
1914 – Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota.
1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St. Louis, lands in Paris after the first solo air crossing of Atlantic.
1941 – SS Robin Moor becomes the first US ship sunk by a U-boat during World War II.
1952 – Brooklyn Dodgers score 15 runs in their 1st inning to beat Cincinnati Reds, 19-1.
1954 – US twenty-sixth amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated.
1959 – “Gypsy” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances.
1966 – “Downtown” by Mrs Miller hits #82.
1968 – Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight games.
1969 – Robert F. Kennedy’s murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment.
1977 – “Fiddler on the Roof” closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 performances.
1983 – David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” single goes #1.
1990 – Last episode of “Newhart” airs on CBS-TV.
1996 – Ken Griffey Jr. 20, is 8th youngest to hit 200 home runs.
1999 – All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history.
2013 – Microsoft announces the release of Xbox One.
2017 – Barnum & Bailey Circus performs for the last time at the Nassau Coliseum in NYC after 146 years.
2018 – US Justice Department says it is expanding its internal investigation into whether FBI infiltrated Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
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