1780 – American Academy of Arts & Science founded in Boston, James Bowdoin, John and Samuel Adams founding members.
1805 – Henry C. Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in the Bronx.
1846 – US state Michigan ends death penalty.
1883 – John Gordon Cashman publishes 1st edition “Vicksburg Evening Post” (Mississippi)
1904 – Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
1916 – At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare.
1923 – NY state revokes Prohibition law.
1932 – Al Capone enters Atlanta Penitentiary convicted of income tax evasion.
1942 – Food 1st rationed in US.
1953 – Pulitzer Prize for Literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway for “The Old Man & The Sea”
1964 – “Another World” premieres on TV in the US.
1970 – National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio.
1979 – NASA launches Fitsatcom-2.
1984 – Dave Kingman’s fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
1991 – Indians’ Chris James sets club record for most RBIs in a game (9)
1991 – US politician Mo Udall, Representative for Arizona (1961-91), resigns due to Parkinson disease.
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
2007 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7m wide EF-5 tornado.
2016 – John Kasich bows out of the race for US Republican Presidential nominee.
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