1877 – Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
1893 – The first gasoline powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1904 – Orville & Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II.
1919 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Engineers CC: Defending champion Jim Barnes defeats Fred McLeod, 6 & 5 in the final.
1931 – MLB’s Lou Gehrig’s 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 enroute to 184.
1939 – Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title.
1946 – Winston Churchill argues for a “United States of Europe”
1951 – MLB owners elect National League President Ford Frick as 3rd Baseball Commissioner for a 7-year term at a then massive $65,000 per annum.
1955- Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRs in a season.
1961 – African-American student James Meredith is refused enrollment to the segregated University of Mississippi.
1969 – Ryder Cup Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: US, Great Britain tie, 16-16; great sporting gesture, America’s Jack Nicklaus conceded missable 3-foot putt to Tony Jacklin at the 18th hole for the draw.
1969 – Virtual band Archies’ single “Sugar Sugar” hits #1.
1973 – Billie Jean King bests Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match.
1979 – Lee Iacocca is elected president of Chrysler Corporation.
1984 – “Crosby Show” premieres on NBC-TV.
1994 – Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands.
2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, US President George W. Bush declares a “war on terror”
2011 – The United States ends its “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
2015 – Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, confirms raising the price of toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim by 5,000%.
2019 – Batman Day – 80th anniversary of the first Batman comic.
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