1897 – Roger Bresnahan debuts as Washington Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
1909 – Jack Chesbro’s final Highlander game
1927 – Parks College, America’s oldest aviation school, opens
1934 – Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin and Yips Harburg’s musical ‘Life Begins at 8:40’ premieres in NYC
1955 – Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1970 – Jimi Hendrix creates his last studio recording at Electric Lady Studios in New York, an instrumental called “Slow Blues”
1975 – Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
1986 – Protests erupt in Soweto, South Africa, against evictions carried out after an 11 week rent boycott
1990 – Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)