1843 – 1st wagon train with 700 – 1,000 migrants departs Independence, Missouri for Oregon.
1892 – Dr. Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube.
1902 – President Theodore Roosevelt signs a treaty with Mexico under which both countries agree to submit standing dispute over interest payments to the Court of Arbitration at The Hague.
1911 – Boston Braves pitcher Cliff Curtis loses his 23rd game in a row.
1931 – Canned rattlesnake meat 1st goes on sale in Florida.
1938 – Brooklyn Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field.
1945 – 6th US Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa.
1953 – President Dwight Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill.
1956 – “Bob Hope Show” last airs on NBC-TV.
1961 – “Mother-in-Law” by Ernie K-Doe hits #1.
1966 – 18th Emmy Awards: “The Fugitive,” Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore win.
1973 – President Richard Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up.
1985 – Pete Rose’s 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader.
1987 – 30 killed in Texas tornado.
1990 – Dow Jones average hits a record 2,852.23.
1992 – Johnny Carson’s final appearance as host of “The Tonight Show”
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that US Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal involving President Bill Clinton.
2004 – Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles wide. It also kills one local resident.
2011 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing at least 158 people, the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.
2022 – Report released on sexual abuse in Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, details 20 years of suppressing many allegations.
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