1905 – A state-record 10.5 inches of rain falls in Princeton, Indiana.
1914 – Dennis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War 1.
1926 – “Don Juan,” starring John Barrymore, is released by Warner Bros., the first feature-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects.
1934 – United States troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915.
1927 – The United States and Soviet Union sign a trade treaty.
1941 – Detroit Tigers pitcher Al Benton collects two sacrifices in an inning, a Major League Baseball record, in an 11-2 win against the Cleveland Indians.
1945 – Atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by US B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay.”
1952 – St. Louis Browns veteran pitcher Satchel Paige, 46, becomes the oldest pitcher to win a complete game shutout, 1-0 against the Detroit Tigers in 12 innings.
1960 – Chubby Checker performs his version of Hank Ballard’s “The Twist” on “The Dick Clark Show,” starting a worldwide dance craze.
1964 – Prometheus, the world’s oldest tree at least 4,862 years old, is accidentally cut down in Nevada.
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities.
1972 – Hank Aaron hits his 660th and 661st home runs for the Atlanta Braves, breaking Babe Ruth’s Major League Baseball record for home runs for one team.
1979 – Marcus Hooper, 12, becomes the youngest person to swim the English Channel.
1985 – 19th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-G): Challenger 8 lands at Edwards Air Force Base.
1991 – Tim Beners-Lee releases his files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. “WWW” debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1997 – Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc.
2006 – Thirty-year-old Tiger Woods becomes the youngest player to compile 50 PGA Tour wins with a 3-stroke victory over Jim Furyk in the Buick Open at Grand Blanc, Michigan.
2011 – A helicopter containing members of Navy Seal Team 6 is shot down in Afghanistan, killing 38 United States soldiers.
2018 – Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify remove conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from their platforms.
2023 – “Barbie” film passes $1 billion at the global box office and director Greta Gerwig is the first solo filmmaker to do so.
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