1889 – The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast
1939 – Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe
1944 – 76th Belmont: G L Smith riding Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2
1953 – KVOS TV channel 12 in Bellingham/Vancouver, WA (CBS) begins
1989 – Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09)
1989 – Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season and 11th overall
2015 – 200 people are killed by an explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana
2018 – Dead whale found with 17 pounds (80 pieces) of plastic in its stomach in Songkhla province, Thailand
2019 – MLB Draft: Oregon State catcher Adley Rutschman first pick by Baltimore Orioles
2019 – Canadian government inquiry find deaths of over 1,000 indigenous women and girls over decades who have been murdered or are missing a “national genocide”