1912 Massachusetts becomes the first state in the union to set a minimum wage.
1937 The grocery shopping cart is invented by Sylvian Goldman.
1958 Jerry Lee Lewis renews his vows to his cousin Myra. They had to redo the ceremony because Lewis wasn’t legally divorced from his prior wife when he and child-bride Myra got married.
1962 The Beatles sign a recording contract with EMI in the U.K.
1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience performs at the Saville Theater in London, along with Procol Harum, the Chiffons, and Denny Laine‘s Electric String Band. Hendrix opens his set with a cover of the Beatles‘ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” much to the surprise of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, who are sitting in the audience.
1973 – a patent is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain, for the Automated Teller Machine, or ATM.
1974 A baseball PR stunt goes bad when “10-Cent-Beer Night” is held at Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium. Fans get so drunk and unruly that the Indians have to forfeit the game to the Texas Rangers.
1983 “Overkill” by Men At Work peaks at Number Three on the pop chart.
1998 The Other Ones, the group made up of the surviving members of the Grateful Dead following Jerry Garcia‘s death, make their debut at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco.
1989, Chinese troops stormed Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to end student-led pro-democracy protests that had been going on since mid-April. Hundreds, and possibly thousands, of people died when the troops opened fire and drove armored personnel carriers into the square, crushing protestors as they slept in tents.
1990 54-year-old Alzheimer’s disease patient Janet Adkins kills herself using a “suicide machine” developed by Dr. Jack Kevorkian. She’s the first person Kevorkian helps to commit suicide, bringing “Dr. Death” to national attention.
1998 A federal judge sentences Terry Nichols to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.