1909 – John Heyder becomes president of baseball’s National League.
1916 – German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom island, New Jersey.
1928 – George Eastman shows first amateur color motion pictures to guests, including Thomas Edison, at his house in New York.
1932 – X Summer Olympic Games open in Los Angeles, California.
1935 – First Penguin Book is published, starting the paperback revolution.
1944 – World War II: US 30th Division reaches the suburbs of Saint-L6, Normandy with heavy battles also occurring at Tessy-sur-Vine and Villebaudon.
1945 – After delivering the atomic bomb across the Pacific Ocean, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine 1-58, 880 of the crew died, many after being attacked by sharks, which was the inspiration for the movie Jaws.
1954 – Bob Kennedy hits the first grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles.
1956 – United States motto “In God We Trust” authorized.
1964 – United States naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam.
1965 – President Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966.
1971 – Apollo 15, with astronauts David Scott and James Irwin aboard, lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon.
1977 – “I Just Want to be Your Everything” by Andy Gibb reaches Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
1984 – Soap Opera “Santa Barbara” premieres on NBC-TV.
1995 – Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter baseball’s Hall of Fame.
2003 – The last “old style” Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line in Mexico.
2014 – The European Union and United States extend sanctions on Russia to include banks, energy, and defense firms. Moscow denies the allegation that Russia is arming rebels in Eastern Ukraine.
2017 – Russian President Vladimir Putin announces American diplomats in Russia cut by 755 in response to American sanctions.
2021 – One out of 169 Americans are employed by Amazon in new figures released by the company. Now the country’s second largest employer behind Walmart, which employs one out of 100 Americans.
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