1865 – Secret Service begins operating under the Treasury Department.
1934 – “Bloody Thursday” – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
1935 – President Franklin Roosevelt signs the National Labor Relations Act.
1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is first introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
1943 – US invasion fleet (96 ships) sails to Sicily.
1950 – US forces enter combat in the Korean War for the first time, in the Battle of Osan.
1954 – B-52A bomber makes its maiden flight.
1966 – National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting.
1971 – 26th amendment to the US constitution certified (reduces voting age to 18)
1983 – Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, Virginia)
1986 – Nancy Reagan cuts a red, white and blue ribbon to reopen Statue of Liberty after refurbishment.
1994 – Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos.
1994 – The United States announces it will no longer accept unrestricted immigration from Haiti.
2006 – Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting at the UN in New York City because of North Korean missile tests that day.
2016 – FBI releases report stating Hillary Clinton was “extremely careless” handling classified emails but doesn’t recommend prosecution.
2017 – 101 people reported shot, 15 killed in Chicago, Illinois over 4th of July weekend.
2017 – Volvo Cars announces all new models by 2019 will be either hybrids or battery powered, 1st automaker to do so.
2020 – Florida reports a record 11,458 daily COVID-19 cases.
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