1858 – Abraham Lincoln says “A House divided against itself cannot stand” accepting Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the Senate.
1880 – Salvation Army forms in London.
1882 – 17″ hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque, Iowa.
1893 – RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack.
1903 – Pepsi Cola company forms.
1909 – 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000.
1909 – Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mounty (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals.
1922 – Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics.
1933 – US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created.
1941 – 1st US federally owned airport opened in Washington, DC.
1946 – “Annie Get Your Gun” opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 performances.
1961 – Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host.
1968 – 68th US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill CC, NY.
1975 – Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation.
1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL0 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1980 – “Blues Brothers” premieres in Chicago.
1991 – “Fiddler on the Roof” closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 241 performances.
1991 – Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day.
2012 – Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years.
2015 – 69th NBA Championship: Golden State Warriors beat Cleveland Cavaliers, 4 games to 2.
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