1691 – Yorktown, Virginia founded.
1780 – British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, South Carolina.
1858 – Britain’s Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan.
1891 – President Benjamin Harrison attends the dedication of the Bennington Battle Monument in Bennington, Vermont.
1904 – NYC begins building Grand Central Station.
1927 – 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park, Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth)
1934 – US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915)
1947 – Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pittsburgh Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs.
1954 – “Sports Illustrated” magazine begins publishing.
1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 84,700 feet.
1962 – Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatles’ drummer.
1969 – First performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Auditorium Theater, Chicago)
1969 – Second Day of the Woodstock Festival in NY.
1976 – PGA Championship, Congressional CC: Dave Stockton wins 2nd PGA Championship in a Monday bad weather finish; by 1 stroke over Ray Floyd & Don January.
1984 – LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges.
1985 – CBS’ premiere of its TV adaptation of “Death of A Salesman”, starring Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich.
1987 – Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 survives)
1991 – US President George H.W. Bush declares recession is near an end.
2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 7th of 8 gold medals at the Beijing Olympics when he takes the 100m butterfly in Olympic record 50.58; beats Milorad Cavic of Serbia by 0.01.
2016 – Wildfire breaks out in Bernardino County, California, engulfing 15,000 acres, prompting evacuation of 82,000 people.
2017 – Baltimore city council removes confederate statues under cover of darkness in response to Charlottesville violence.