1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.

1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.

1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.

1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.

1954 – Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right," at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee

1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation

1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.

1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.

1987 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.

1972 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee during an attempt by members of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to illegally wiretap the political opposition as part of a broader campaign to subvert the democratic process.

1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.

Literally today:

Kentucky removes statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the Capitol Rotunda. (Yes, the linked article is technically an opinion piece, but it gives some good background and looks to the future.)

1817 – The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais.

1963 – American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.

day 60,225 without the majority of the planet using critical thought

maybe

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 

What goes around comes around or no?

1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.

1989 – The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests