
1911 – State record 105 degrees in North Bridgton, Maine.
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate.
1925 – Jury selection takes place in John T. Scopes evolution trial.
1929 – The United States issues newer, smaller sized currency.
1936 – Philadelphia Phillies’ Chuck Klein becomes fourth Major League Baseball player to hit four home runs in a game.
1938 – “Yankee Clipper” completes first passenger flight over the Atlantic.
1943 – United States, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in World War II in Operation Husky.
1950 – “Your Hit Parade” premieres on NBC-TV (later CBS) after being broadcast on radio since 1935.
1962 – Telstar, the first active communications satellite, launched and developed by American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T).
1964 – The Beatles release “A Hard Day’s Night,” their third studio album.
1968 – Major League Baseball announces it will split into two divisions for 1969.
1961 – 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.
1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome by Italian gangsters wanting a ransom.
1981 – Walt Disney’s “Fox & The Hound” is released.
1991 – L’Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13 people.
1997 – RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads.
2005 – Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
2012 – The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages.
2019 – British ambassador to the United States Sir Kim Darroch resigns after his secret cables calling President Donald Trump “inept” were announced.
2023 – Torrential rains across New England and New York cause historic flooding, especially in Vermont’s capital Montpellier, affecting two million people and resulting in one death.