1906 – After 20 straight wins, Boston Pilgrims lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0.
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 – Legendary American 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 sport”
1941 – Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for 1st time in 1941.
1950 – Brooklyn Battery Tunnel opens in NYC.
1955 – Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall, Kansas & most of Blackwell, Okla.
1961 – JFK announces US goal of putting a man on the Moon before the end of decade.
1962 – Isley Brothers release “Twist & Shout”
1962 – US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week.
1968 – Archway Arch in St Louis dedicated.
1973 – US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weltz.
1979 – American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago killing 273 including 2 on the ground.
1986 – Hands Across America – 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY.
1992 – Jay Leno becomes permanent host of “The Tonight Show”
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.
2003 – Indianapolis 500: Gil de Ferran wins in 3:11:56.989.
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.
2020 – Video of African American George Floyd’s arrest and murder while restrained in Minneapolis police custody shows he was pinned to the ground by police officer Derek Chauvin’s knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, ignites widespread condemnation and nationwide protests.
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