1904 – New York City begins building Grand Central Station.
1918 – United States troops overrun at Archangel, Russia by Bolshevik troops during World War I.
1920 – Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is hit in the head by a pitch thrown by the New York Yankees’ Carl Mays and dies the next day in the only Major League Baseball game related fatality.
1930 – The first color sound cartoon “Fiddlesticks” by Ub Iwerks, an ex-Walt Disney studio employee, is released.
1936 – XI Summer Olympic Games close at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany.
1944 – United States 15th Army Corps surrounds Dreux, France during World War II.
1947 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Ralph Kiner hits three successive home runs for host Pittsburgh Pirates in a 12-7 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. The clubs combine for a then-MLB record 10 home runs in the game.
1954 – American brand management company Authentic Brands Group first publishes sports magazine “Sports Illustrated.”
1959 – LPGA Western Open Women’s Golf, Rainier Golf & Country Club: Betsy Rawls wins her second Western Open by 6 strokes over JoAnne Gunderson and Patty Berg.
1966 – The Beatles perform in concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in their second and final show in the city.
1976 – The St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo, Japan as part of the National Football League Expo.
1984 – Los Angeles federal jury acquits automaker John Z. DeLorean on cocaine charges.
1987 – Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, Michigan, killing 156 of the 157 people on board.
1988 – IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence.
1991 – President George H.W. Bush declares recession is near an end.
1997 – For only the second time the Stanley Cup leaves North America and heads to Russia.
2003 – Representative from South Dakota, Bill Janklow, hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota. He will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress.
2012 – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is granted political asylum by Ecuador.
2017 – Baltimore city council removes confederate statues under cover of darkness in response to Charlottesville, Virginia, violence.
2022 – President Joe Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act into law with $370 billion of spending and tax cuts to combat climate change.
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