1900 – The first Michelin Guide is published by the brothers Edouard and Andre Michelin as a hotel and restaurant reference guide to encourage more road travel and thus boost tire sales. (Exact date beyond August 1900 unknown)
1911 – Harriet Quimby passes her pilot’s test and becomes the first United States woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator’s certificate.
1918 – Pittsburgh and Boston Braves play a Major League Baseball record 20 scoreless innings before Pirates win 2-0 in 21 innings.
1927 – Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards.
1936 – XI Summer Olympic Games were opened by Adolph Hitler in Berlin.
1941 – The first Jeep is produced.
1946 – President Harry Truman establishes the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
1953 – California introduces sales tax for education.
1958 – First class postage up to 4 cents after being 3 cents for 26 years.
1964 – Beatles’ single “A Hard Day’s Night” goes #1 & stays there for two weeks.
1970 – Future Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Stargell smacks three doubles and two homers in a 20-10 Pittsburgh Pirates win against the Braves at Atlanta Stadium.
1971 – Richard Petty wins the Dixie 500 in Atlanta, Georgia to become the first NASCAR driver to win $1 million in career earnings.
1972 – First article exposing Watergate scandal by Bernstein and Woodward in “The Washington Post.”
1981 – “Endless Love” single released by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie becomes Billboard Song of the Year and Billboard Greatest Song Duet of All-Time.
1992 – American sprinter Gail Devers wins an incredibly close blanket finish in the women’s 100 meters at the Barcelona Olympics with 5 athletes within 0.06 seconds of Devers 10.82 winning time.
2000 – First patient to receive the Jarvik 2000, the first total artificial heart that can maintain blood flow in addition to generating a pulse.
2002 – In signing star linebacker Ray Lewis to a 5-year contract extension the Baltimore Ravens give him a $19 million signing bonus, then the largest in NFL history.
2010 – Australian Stuart Appleby finishes with an 11-under-59 to win the Greenbrier Classic in White Sulphur Springs, to become only the fifth player and first non-American to break 60 on the PGA Tour.
2017 – Christopher A. Wray is confirmed as FBI director by the Senate.
2023 – Former President Donald Trump is indicted on charges of conspiring to defraud the country and prevent the peaceful transfer of power by special counsel Jack Smith.
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