1875 - 9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42.25
1916 - US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Molla Bjurstedt outclasses Louise Hammond Raymond 6-0, 6-1
1950 - The first of two Air France DC-4 aircraft flying the same route from Saigon to Paris crashes near Bahrain, killing 46 passengers and crew, while 6 survive; a second DC-4 on the same route crashes two days later a few miles away under similar circumstances
1990 - Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd place on the all-time list
2007 - Russian novelist and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn receives the State Prize of the Russian Federation from President Putin for his humanitarian work

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