Japanese attempted to seize the island of Midway, 1942
Battle of Cold Harbor, 1864
Billie Jo MacAlister jumped off the Tallahasee Bridge, 1963
Lou Gehrig hit four home runs, 1932
Samuel Plimsoll, whom Plimsoll Line named after, died, 1898
Bikini introduced (Louis Reard), 1946
Gemini 4 (first American to “walk” in space) launched, 1965
“Philippi (Virginia) Races.”, 1861
First US female rabbi ordained (Sally Preisand, Cincinnati), 1972
Last episode of “Star Trek” aired, 1969
Nicolas Appert, French chef (invented canning process), died, 1841
Pope John 23rd (Angelo Roncalli) died, 1963
Robert N. Noyce, microchip inventor and founder of Intel, died, 1990
Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian leader, died, 1989
Emmett J. Culligan, founder of water treatment organization, died, 1970
San Francisco cable cars began rolling again, 1984
“Casey at the Bat” first appeared in print (San Francisco Examiner), 1888
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded, 1770
Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz’s “The Band Wagon” opened on Broadway, 1931
Franz Kafka, novelist (“The Castle”), died, 1924