1893 – Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
1904 – Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in “modern” baseball as the Boston Americans beat the Philadelphia Athletics 3-0.
1916 – US Marines invade Dominican Republic and stay until 1924.
1920 – President Woodrow Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal.
1936 – Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip.
1942 – United States begins rationing sugar during World War II.
1943 – Postmaster General Frank C. Walker invents Postal Zone System.
1952 – Pulitzer Prize awarded to Herman Wouk for his novel “The Caine Mutiny.”
1961 – Alan Shepard becomes first American in space aboard Freedom 7.
1965 – First large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam.
1978 – Cincinnati Reds’ Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits.
1986 – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announces Cleveland, Ohio chosen as the site of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum.
1987 – Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings.
1995 – Last basketball game at Boston Garden as the Celtics eliminated from the NBA playoffs by the Orlando Magic 95-92.
2012 – Japan shuts down its nuclear reactors leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since 1970.
2018 – Electric cigarette explodes killing a man in St. Petersburg, Florida in the first death from a vaping product.
2021 – Baltimore Orioles pitcher John Means no-hits Seattle Mariners 6-0 at T. Mobile Park in Seattle.
2021 – Donald Trump’s ban from Facebook upheld by the company’s Oversight Board for a further six months.
2022 – WHO study of excess deaths worldwide says 15 million more people have died than normal, far above the official COVID-19 death toll of 6 million.
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