1861 – Congress authorizes paper money.
1897 – 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon.
1902 – Baltimore Orioles forfeit to St Louis, having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the American League.
1925 – Tris Speaker is 5th to get 3,000 hits.
1935 – “Variety” publishes famous headline “Sticks Nix Hick Pix”
1942 – 3 feet of rain falls on Philadelphia, flooding kills 15.
1945 – Potsdam Conference: Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill hold 1st World War II meeting.
1954 – Construction of Disneyland commences in Anaheim, California.
1956 – MGM releases film “High Society”, a musical re-working of “The Philadelphia Story” set in Newport, Rhode Island; starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra, with songs by Cole Porter.
1961 – John Chancellor becomes new anchor of “Today Show”
1966 – Cleveland Indians set a club record by hitting 7 home runs in 15-2 win over Detroit.
1972 – 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico.
1981 – Lobby walkways at Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel collapse killing 114 and injuring over 200.
1983 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: Defending champion Tom Watson wins his 5th Open Championship; 1 stroke clear of Andy Bean and Hale Irwin; Watson’s 2nd consecutive Open win and 3rd in 4 years.
1987 – Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,500.04) for 1st time.
1995 – Forbes Magazine announces Bill Gates is the richest man in the world with a net worth of $12.9 billion dollars.
2012 – 12 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
2018 – 89th Major League Baseball All Star Game, Nationals Park, Washington, D.C: American League beats National League, 8-6, the teams combining for a record 10 home runs accounting for 13 of the 14 total runs.
2019 – Mexican drug cartel head Joaquin “El Champ” Guzman sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years in New York.
2019 – Streaming service Netflix reaches 150 million subscribers worldwide, but with slower growth than forecast.
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