1876 – 2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38.25
1940 – German armoured division moves into Northern France
1941 – New York Yankees Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak, with the only RBI, in a 13-1 loss to visiting Chicago White Sox
1943 – Halifax bombers sinks U-463
1953 – Osip Zadkine’s monument to “The destroyed city” unveiled in Rotterdam
1957 – Evangelist Billy Graham launches his “crusade” in front of 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden in NYC
1964 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 – US President George H. W. Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A’s-Baltimore Oriole game
1992 – Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue
1995 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC