On this date in history: In 1883, the New York Giants had the first Ladies' Day baseball game. In 1909, President William Howard Taft, in a message to Congress, recommended the adoption of a constitutional amendment giving the federal government the right to levy and collect an income tax . In 1940, Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain became prime minister of the Vichy government in France. Vichy, France, Marshal Philippe Petain (L) greets Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in 1940. File Photo courtesy the