1861 – American poet and abolitionist Julia Ward Howe commits to paper the lyrics of “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
1906 – London selected to host 1908 Olympics.
1911 – New York receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy.
1923 – The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor John Callaway Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures.
1932 – Joe Kershalla scores 71 points n a college football game.
1944 – World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt announces the sixth War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion in war bonds to help the United States pay for the war effort.
1951 – Roy Campanella named the National League’s Most Valuable Player on his 30th birthday.
1953 – Supreme Court rules 7-2 that baseball is a sport not a business.
1959 – Ford Motors cancels its poorly received Edsel model.
1965 – Kellogg’s Pop Tarts pastries created.
1971 – Disney World’s Fort Wilderness opens in Orlando, Florida.
1973 – New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 28.67 points to 862.66 on fears that the widening energy crisis could cause a recession.
1979 – The Houston Astros sign pitcher Nolan Ryan to a record 4-year, $4.5 million contract.
1985 – In the largest civil verdict in American history, Pennzoil wins a $10.53 billion judgement against Texaco.
1995 – Home crowd favorite Boris Becker wins his third and final ATP Tour World Championship tennis title with a 7-6, 6-0, 7-6 win over American Michael Chang in Frankfort, Germany.
2006 – Innovative video game console, the Nintendo Wii, is released in North America by Nintendo President Satoru Iwata.
2014 – Singer-songwriter and piano man Billy Joel receives the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the White House in Washington, D.C.
2018 – The Los Angeles Rams beat the Kansas City Chiefs 54-51 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. It’s the third highest scoring game in NFL history and the first time two teams each score 50 points in the same game. Patrick Mahomes’ 6 touchdown passes for Kansas City are the most in “Monday Night Football” history.
2022 – Gunman opens fire at LGBTQ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing five people and injuring 19 in an apparent hate crime.
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