1890 – 1st concrete paved street built (Bellefontaine, Ohio)
1913 – World’s official highest recorded temperature at Greenland Ranch (now known as Furnace Creek Ranch), Death Valley, California at 134 degrees F.
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate.
1926 – US Open Men’s Golf: Scioto CC: Amateur Bobby Jones, winner of the British Open 2 weeks earlier, claims the second of his 4 US Opens, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Joe Turnesa.
1934 – National League pitcher Carl Hubbell strikes out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and Joe Cronin for Major League Baseball All Star game record for consecutive strikeouts; American League still wins, 9-7.
1938 – “Yankee Clipper” completes 1st passenger flight over the Atlantic.
1938 – Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours.
1943 – US, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WWII (Operation Husky)
1950 – “Your Hit Parade” premieres on NBC-TV (later CBS), after being broadcast on radio from 1935.
1956 – 650,000 US steel workers go on strike.
1962 – Martin Luther King Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia.
1971 – 100th British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Birkdale: Lee Trevino wins the first of his consecutive Open Championships, a stroke ahead of Lu Liang Huan of Taiwan.
1978 – World News Tonight premieres on ABC with Max Robinson as the first African-American anchor on a network newscast in the United States.
1981 – Walt Disney’s “Fox & the Hound” released.
1991 – L’Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13.
2002 – 10th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Venus Williams win.
2012 – The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages.
2015 – The Confederate flag is taken down for the last time from South Carolina Capitol grounds 1 day after the state legislature ordered it removed.
2018 – Original sketch of Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood by Acre Woody by EH Shephard sells for 430,000 pounds in London, a record price for a book illustration.
2019 – Taylor Swift named the world’s highest paid entertainer by Forbes earning $185 million in 2018.
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