1865 – President Andrew Johnson proclaims an end to “insurrection” in Texas.
1896 – Dial telephone patented.
1908 – America’s Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome: 221 American sailors desert to remain in Australia.
1920 – American Professional Football Association forms; Jim Thorpe installed as president; later to become the National Football League (NFL)
1925 – WJR-AM in Detroit, Michigan begins radio transmission.
1938 – NY Yankees future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Lou Gerig hits record 23rd & final grand slam in11-3 win over Philadelphia A’s at Shribe Park.
1944 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf: Bob Hamilton wins his only major title, 1 up in the 36-hole finals over heavily favored Byron Nelson.
1953 – Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation.
1964 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion.
1965 – Rolling Stones release their single “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (their 1st #1 US hit) in the UK.
1971 – FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr.
1974 – Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 100.4 mph.
1982 – US Marines land in Beirut Lebanon.
1989 – American Janet Evans swims female 800m freestyle world record 8:16.22 in the Pan Pacific Championship in Tokyo, Japan.
1991 – Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million.
1997 – Shelly Moore, 18, of Tennessee crowned 15th Miss Teen USA.
1998- U.S. embassy bombings: US military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
2006 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Medina CC: Tiger Woods wins his 3rd PGA Championship by 5 strokes from Shaun Micheel.
2018 – Measles cases reach record high in Europe with 41,000 infected first six months of 2018 with 37 deaths according to WHO.
2020 – Kamala Harris accepts her nomination for vice-president, becoming the first US woman of color on a major-party ticket saying “there is no vaccine for racism”