1929 – 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8
1963 – American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes
1965 – USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles
1974 – US and Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
1979 – “The Source,” 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
1982 – Falklands War: Royal Fleet Auxiliary Sir Gahalad attacked in San Carlos Water (“Bomb Alley”) by Argentine aircraft: 48 soldiers and crewman were killed.
1982 – Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time
1985 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Chris Evert beats Martina Navratilova 6-3, 6-7, 7-5 for her 17th Grand Slam title and 6th French singles crown
1996 – PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper
2018 – World’s most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia