1923 – The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads “Hollywoodland” but the four last letters were dropped after renovation in 1949.
1930 – David Sarnoff reports in New York TImes “TV would be a theater in every home.”
1939 – Frank Sinatra makes his recording debut, with The Harry James Orchestra, singing “From the Bottom of My Heart” and “Melancholy Mood”
1948 – 15th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman’s Park, St. Louis.
1951 – Great Flood: 2 million acres in Kansas and Missouri are flooded from rain swollen Missouri and Kansas Rivers.
1955 – Industrialist Cyrus Eaton first offers to host a conference on dangers of nuclear weapons in Pugwash, Nova Scotia.
1960 – Democratic convention nominates John F. Kennedy as presidential candidate.
1962 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Troon: Arnold Palmer wins his 2nd consecutive Open, 6 strokes clear of runner-up Kel Nagle of Australia.
1969 – Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to the moon.
1973 – Bobby Mercer’s 3 homers accounted for all RBIs as New York Yankees beat Kansas City 5-0.
1977 – New York City experiences a 25 hour black-out.
1978 – Ford Motor Company chairman Henry Ford II fires company president Lee Iacocca.
1985 – Doctors at Bethesda Naval Hospital remove two small benign polyps from President Ronald Reagan’s colon.
1994 – Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J.Simpson (charged with murder) gives hair samples for testing.
1994 – Tonya Harding’s ex-husband Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years in prison for attack on Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
2001 – International Olympic Committee votes to award Beijing the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
2008 – Brewing company InBev announces deal to buy American brewer Anheuser-Busch for almost $52 billion.
2018 – Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay record $4.7 billion in damages in talc cancer case by jury in Missouri.
2022 – President Joe Biden lands in Israel to begin a four-day trip to the Middle East.
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