1909 – Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators play longest scoreless game in American League history – 18 innings at Bennett Field in Detroit, Michigan.
1912 – Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske.
1926 – National Geographic takes first natural color undersea photos.
1935 – First automatic parking meter in the United States is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1936 – First x-ray photo of arterial circulation taken in Rochester, New York.
1941 – 100 degrees is the highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle, Washington.
1945 – First test detonation of an atomic bomb in Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the Manhattan Project.
1951 – Novel “Catcher in Rye” by J.D. Salinger published by Little Brown and Company.
1956 – Last Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent.
1961 – American Ralph Boston sets the long jump record at 27 feet, 2 inches.
1967 – Pop-rock group “The Monkees” perform at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York, with psychedelic rock group Jimi Hendrix Experience as opening act.
1969 – Apollo 11 launched, carrying the first men to land on the moon.
1972 – Smokey Robinson and the Miracles make final live performance in Washington, D.C.
1980 – Republicans nominate Ronald Reagan for president during the convention in Detroit.
1988 – Florence Joyner runs 100 meters in women’s world record time of 10.49 seconds.
1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy.
2004 – Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
2015 – Shootings in Chattanooga at a United States military recruitment center and naval reserve training center kill five people and injure others.
2016 – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announces Indiana governor Mike Pence as his vice presidential running mate.
2018 – Presidential Donald Trump appears to accept the word of Russian President Vladimir Putin over United States intelligence services about Russian meddling in the 2018 US election in an interview after the two leaders’ Helsinki Summit.
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