1849 – First women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
1909 – Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball completes the first modern unassisted triple play in Major League Baseball in the Indians’ 6-1 win over the Boston Red Sox.
1922 – American swimmer Johnny Weissmuller is the first to break 1 minute barrier for 100-meter freestyle at 58.6 seconds in a meet at Alameda, California.
1930 – Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team return to the United States following the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica.
1936 – 17-year-old Cleveland Indians future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief in 9-5 loss to the Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC.
1939 – Dr. Roy P. Scholz is the first surgeon to use fiberglass sutures.
1944 – More than 1,200 8th US Air Force bombers bomb targets in southwest Germany.
1950 – The New York Yankees sign their first Black players in Elston Howard and Frank Baines.
1957 – First rocket with a nuclear warhead fired at Yucca Flat, Nevada.
1969 – Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit.
1973 – New York Mets future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Mays is named to National League All Star team for the 24th time, tying Stan Musial for the most times named to the All Star game.
1977 – Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kill 76 people.
1980 – XXII Summer Olympic Games open in Moscow, Russia with the United States leading a boycott of 66 nations because of the Soviet-Afghan war.
1989 – United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City, Iowa, kills 112 people.
1993 – President Bill Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions.
1996 – XXVI Summer Olympic Games open in Atlanta, Georgia.
2009 – 17th ESPY Awards: Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin win.
2015 – World Health Organization puts world’s Ebola death toll at 11,284 people.
2017 – Senator John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer.
2019 – Largest heat wave begins across the east of America affecting 100 million people and killing 6, with New York City declaring a state of emergency.
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