1846 – Michigan ends the 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 the request of the United States, Germany curtails its submarine warfare.
1919 – 1st legal Sunday baseball game in New York City, 35,000 watch the Phillies beat the New York Giants 4-3.
1932 – Al Capone enters Atlanta Penitentiary convicted of income tax evasion.
1942 – Food 1st rationed in the US.
1953 – Pulitzer Prize for Literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway for “The Old Man and The Sea”
1957 – Alan Freed hosts “Rock n’ Roll Show,” 1st prime-time network rock show, cancelled after 4 episodes.
1964 – “Another World” premiered on TV in the US.
1965 – Willie Mays’ 512th home run breaks Mel Ott’s 511th NL record.
1970 – National Guard kills 4 students anti-war protesters at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
1979 – NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
1988 – PEPCON chemical plant in Henderson, Nevada explodes killing 2 and injuring 372 causing damage within a 10-mile radius..
1991 – 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 Kacznski accepts a plea agreement sparing him the death penalty.
2002 – Barry Bonds hits his 400th home run as an San Francisco Giant, in a 3-0 win over Cincinnati. Bonds is first player with 400 homers for one team and 100 with another (Pirates)
2012 – 14 decapitated bodies and 9 hung from a bridge are found in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
2021 – President Joe Biden announces a new goal of 160 million people, nearly 70% of adults vaccinated by July 4.
2022 – Federal Reserve makes largest interest rate increase since 2000 (0.5%), attempting to combat the fastest rate of inflation in four decades.
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