1630 – New Amsterdam’s governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island.
1843 – Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy.
1859 – Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Mass.
1901 – Cy Young wins his 300th baseball game.
1909 – 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes).
1930 – 34th US Golf Open: Robert T. “Bobby” Jones wins.
1933 – Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour).
1940 – Fredrick McKinley Jones receives a patent for an air conditioning unit for trucks, helping to change long-haul carriage of food and blood.
1948 – 1st jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires).
1954 – President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system.
1957 – US Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer.
1958 – “Li’l Abner” closes at St. James Theater NYC after 693 performances.
1972 – Democrats nominated George McGovern for president in Miami, Fla.
1976 – 1st “Family Fued” game show debuts on ABC hosted by Richard Dawson.
1985 – “Singin’ in the Rain” opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 367 performances.
1989 – NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA).
1993 – Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM)
1994 – Nomination hearings for Steve Breyer for supreme court justice begins.
1996 – Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million.
2016 – Bernie Sanders endorses fellow Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a speech in New Hampshire.
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