1607 – 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown.
1684 – King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter.
1788 – US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it.
1821 – African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
1834 – American inventor and businessman Cyrus Hall McCormick patents the reaping machine.
1879 – FW Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)
1893 – 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago’s Columbian Exposition)
1904 – The US Republican Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for President, but not without opposition from those whom he calls ‘malefactors of great wealth’
1913 – Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane.
1933 – 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barged trip completed, New Orleans.
1939 – NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig’s retirement after doctors reveal he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1945 – US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WW II.
1948 – 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I.
1954 – John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0)
1964 – Three civil rights workers, Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E. Chane, disappear after release from a Mississippi jail.
1971 – 71st US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 280 at Merion GC in Ardmore, Pa.
1982 – John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity.
1993 – “Camelot” opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 56 performances.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2015 – Jordan Spieth wins 115th U.S. Open at Chambers Bay (68-67-71-69-275)
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