1906 – US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’ in particular)
1924 – England score 2-503 in day’s play v South Africa at Lord’s
1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York is dedicated
1980 – British sixpence demonetised after being in used since 1551 and 12 years after introduction of decimal currency
1992 – South African ANC President Nelson Mandela meets with UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at Dakar
1994 – Pre-trial hearings open in LA against O.J. Simpson
2009 – Turkey records its fastest contraction of 13.8% in the first quarter of 2009 compared to 2008, leading the country into recession; this is Turkey’s biggest economic slump since 1945
2019 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Warren GC: Steve Stricker wins his second Champions Tour major of the year by 6 strokes from David Toms and Jerry Kelly