1897 – Cap Anson is first Major League Baseball player to get 3,000 hits.
1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld’s “Follies of 1907” premieres in New York City.
1914 – US Army Air Service first comes into being in the Signal Corps.
1921 – Babe Ruth becomes the all-time Major League Baseball home run leader with his 139th career home run, a record 575 foot blast, taking the title from Roger Connor.
1927 – Ty Cobb collects his 4,000th Major League Baseball career hit.
1940 – Democratic Convention nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for an historic third term.
1942 – First legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years held as Garden State Park track opens.
1947 – President Harry Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act which calls for any person serving as acting president can be supplanted or bumped from the acting presidency by an officer higher in the order of succession.
1951 – Jersey Joe Walcott knocks out Ezzard Charles in seven rounds at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, becoming, at age 37, the oldest world heavyweight boxing champion.
1953 – Elvis Presley pays $3.98 to make his first demo recording at Sun Studio in Memphis, recording “My Happiness” and “That’s When Your Heartaches Begin.” He reportedly gives the record to his mother as a belated birthday present.
1960 – Baseball’s National League votes to add Houston and New York franchises.
1966 – Gemini 10 launches John Young and Michael Collins into space to orbit the Earth.
1970 – San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays becomes the 10th baseball player to get 3,000 hits.
1976 – Nadia Comaneci, at 14 years old, becomes the first gymnast in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10, doing so seven times, at the Montreal Games.
1986 – Videotapes released showing Titanic’s sunken remains.
1994 – Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons.
2004 – 12th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Diana Taurasi win.
2013 – Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy, becoming the largest municipal bankruptcy at $18.5 billion.
2018 – Google fined record $5.1 billion by the European Union for abusing its power in the mobile phone market.
2023 – Phoenix, Arizona, breaks a five decade heat record recording 19 consecutive days of temperature at or above 110 degrees with an overnight low of 97 degrees, the highest since 1989.
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