1914 – Babe Ruth’s first professional game as a pitcher was a 6-hit, 6-0 win for the Baltimore Orioles over the Buffalo Bisons in the International League.
1934 – United States Division of Investigation, later the FBI, under Melvin Purvis botched an operation to capture the John Dillinger Gang at Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, with two people dead and four injured.
1940 – Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testified before the Senate Naval Committee that war with Japan was inevitable. His warning caused a political stir.
1952 – The first atomic explosion was conducted at the Nevada Test Site and was broadcast live on network television for the first time.
1954 – The National Basketball Association adopted the 24-second shot clock and six personal foul rules.
1964 – The World’s Fair at Flushing Meadow Corona Park in Queens, New York opened.
1972 – NASA Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke rode the Lunar Rover on the Moon.
1972 – Barbara Walters became the first female nightly network news co-anchor in the United States, joining Harry Reasoner on the ABC Evening News.
1981 – More than $3.3 million was stolen from First National Bank of Arizona in Tucson in the largest bank robbery in United States history.
1998 – Disney’s Animal Kingdom opened at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida.
2012 – TV political comedy “Veep,” created by Armando Lannucci, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Anna Chlumsky, premiered on HBO.
2018 – A gunman opened fire at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee, killing four people before James Shaw Jr. wrestled the rifle from the gunman’s hands.
2023 – Record outbreak of dengue fever in northwest Argentina killed over 40 people and infected more than 60,000.
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