1890 – Daughters of American Revolution founded.
1906 – San Francisco Board of Education orders segregation in separate schools of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean children sparking diplomatic crisis.
1911 – Ty Cobb (American League) and Frank Schulte (National League) are named inaugural Major League Baseball Most Valuable Players. Prize is a car.
1925 – New York Giants play first NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0.
1929 – JC Penny opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
1939 – Albert Einstein informs President Franklin Roosevelt of the possibilities of an atomic bomb.
1950 – The Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color to CBS.
1954 – Revival of George Abbott, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart’s musical “On Your Toes” opens at 46th St. Theater in New York City; runs for 64 performances.
1958 – Second US moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,910 kilometers, falls back.
1967 – World Series record three consecutive home runs by Carl Yastrezemski, Reggie Smith and Rico Petrocelli as Boston Red Sox beat St. Louis Cardinals 8-4 in Game 6 at Fenway Park.
1968 – Apollo 7 (Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham) made 183 orbits in 260 hours.
1971 – 60th Davis Cup: United States beats Romania in Charlotte 3-2.
1979 – Allan MacLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan.
1983 – Last hand-cranked telephones in United States went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial.
1990 – Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel.
1996 – Ford buys rights to name Detroit domed stadium for $40 million.
2002 – Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to former President Jimmy Carter.
2009 – Presidents Cup Golf, Harding Park GC: United States downs International team 19½-14½ for their second consecutive win by that score and third straight overall.
2018 – World’s new longest flight from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey takes 17 hours 52 minutes.
2020 – National Basketball Association Finals: Los Angeles Lakers beat Miami Heat 106-93 in Game 6 to win the record-equaling 17th title; MVP: LeBron James is the first to win the award with 3 different teams.
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