1846 – Michigan ends death penalty.
1878 – Thomas Edison’s Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House.
1904 – Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
1916 – At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare.
1919 – 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC, 35,000 watch as the Phillies beat the NY Giants 4-3.
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”
1957 – Alan Freed hosts “Rock n’ Roll Show”, 1st prime-time network rock show.
1959 – First Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win.
1964 – “Another World” premieres on TV in the US.
1965 – Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott’s 511th NL record.
1970 – National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio.
1974 – 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Cannonade wins 2:04.
1977 – US Catholic bishops rescind automatic excommunications for divorced and remarried Catholics (receiving communion still outlawed if the previous marriage were not annulled by Church tribunals)
1984 – Dave Kingman’s fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
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.
2013 – 5 US soldiers are killed by a bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
2015 – Golden State Warrior Stephan Curry is named MVP for the 2014-15 NBA season.
2018 – LA Angels 1st baseman Albert Pujols collects his 3,000th MLB hit in a 5-0 win v Mariners in Seattle.
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