1885 – 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)
1894 – In NYC, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting against sweat shops.
1918 – US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months.
1922 – William Walmsley and William Lyons officially found the Swallow Sidecar Company (later Jaguar Cars) in Blackpool, England.
1923 – New York Yankees pitcher ‘Sad Sam’ Jones no-hits Philadelphia A’s, 2-0.
1933 – 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph, JR Wendell, Glenview, II.
1941 – New York Yankees clinch their 3rd straight AL pennant: beat the Red Sox, 6-3; earliest date in baseball history a team has captured a flag.
1945 – US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.
1950 – First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.
1950 – NASCAR’s first paved super speedway, Darlington Raceway hosts Southern 500, first 500-mile event in NASCAR history: winner Johnny Mantz ina Plymouth.
1957 – Ford Motor Co. introduces Edsel automobile.
1957 – Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to prevent 9 black students from entering Little Rock’s Central High School.
1967 – Jerry Lewis 2nd Muscular Dystrophy telephone.
1972 – “The Price is Right” – US longest running game show debuts on CBS.
1981 – Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC.
1991 – MLB Statistical Accuracy Committee votes to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris’ 1961 home run record of 61 (passing Babe Ruth’s 60) & determined an official no hitter must go 9 innings.
1998 – Google is formally incorporated by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
2005 – 20 year old Kyle Busch becomes youngest driver to win a NASCAR Cup Series race when he outduels Greg Biffle in the Sony HD 500 at California Speedway.
2017 – US President Donald Trump announces Dreamers program, The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), will be stopped.
2018 – Amazon becomes America’s second billion dollar company.
2020 – Record 52% of American 18-29-year-olds are living with their parents because of the pandemic according to Pew Research Center study.
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