1721 – John Copson becomes America’s 1st insurance agent.
1787 – Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding.
1895 – Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for gross indecency.
1919 – Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap.
1927 – Henry Ford announces that he is ending production of the Model T Ford.
1932 – Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in ‘Mickey’s Revue’ by Walt Disney.
1935 – Track and field athlete Jesse Owens equals or breaks 4 world records in 45 minutes at a Big Ten meet at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Remembered as “the greatest 45 minutes ever in sports”.
1941 – Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for 1st time in 1941.
1943 – Agnes Morehead appears in “Sorry, Wrong Number” on the radio program “Suspense”, her most successful appearance.
1948 – 30th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood hills CC St Louis.
1961 – JFK announces US goal of putting a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.
1969 – “Midnight Cowboy” directed by John Schlesinger and starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1970)
1979 – American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago killing 273 including on the ground.
1986 – 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida.
1986 – Hands Across America – 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY.
1999 – The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report detailing People’s Republic of China’s nuclear espionage against the U.S. over prior two decades.
2008 – Indianapolis 500: Scott Dixon wins in 3:28:57.6792.
2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
2012 – A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station.
2017 – Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg receives an honorary degree from Harvard University, after dropping out in 2004.