1968:James Rado and Gerome Ragni’s counterculture musical Hair, with music by Galt MacDermot, premieres on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre in New York City for the first of 1,750 performances. Authors Rado and Ragni star in the lead roles of Claude and Berger for the premiere of the “American tribal love-rock musical,” which is the first Broadway show to feature actors nude onstage.
1925: Johns Hopkins University professor and medical researcher Dr. Florence Sabin is the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. A statue of Sabin represents her home state of Colorado in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall Collection.
1986: Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox pitches a Major League Baseball record, becoming the first pitcher to throw 20 strikeouts in a nine-inning game, a 3-2 win against the Seattle Mariners at Fenway Park. Clemens will tie his own 20 strikeout record a decade later.
1925: Johns Hopkins University professor and medical researcher Dr. Florence Sabin is the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. A statue of Sabin represents her home state of Colorado in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall Collection.
1986: Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox pitches a Major League Baseball record, becoming the first pitcher to throw 20 strikeouts in a nine-inning game, a 3-2 win against the Seattle Mariners at Fenway Park. Clemens will tie his own 20 strikeout record a decade later.
2004:Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
1992:Riots in Los Angeles, California, follow the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 54 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
1967:Aretha Franklin releases her famous hit song, "Respect"
1913:Gideon Sundback, an American electrical engineer, patents the first zipper
1852:First edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
1992:Riots in Los Angeles, California, follow the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 54 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
1967:Aretha Franklin releases her famous hit song, "Respect"
1913:Gideon Sundback, an American electrical engineer, patents the first zipper
1852:First edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
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