1814 – “Star Spangled Banner” published as a song, lyrics by Francis Scott Key, tune by John Stafford Smith.
1859 – George Simpson patents electric range.
1877 – Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
1891 – The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
1904 – Orville & Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II.
1919 – Booth Tarkington’s “Clarence” premieres in NYC.
1939 – Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title.
1951 – 1st North Pole jet crossing.
1954 – 1st FORTRAN computer program run.
1958 – Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits NY Yankees 1-0.
1963 – JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon.
1968 – Mickey Mantle hits final career homer #536.
1969 – Archies’ “Sugar Sugar” hits #1.
1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match.
1978 – “Eubie!” opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 439 performances.
1979 – Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation.
1984 – “Cosby Show” premieres on NBC-TV.
1994 – Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery), lands.
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%.
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