1775 – 1st military hospital approved.
1794 – Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia’s Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
1861 – US Congress authorizes paper money.
1922 – Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year.
1935 – Variety’s famous headline “Sticks Nix Hick Pix”
1941 – NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting steak ends in Cleveland.
1945 – Potsdam Conference (Harry Truman, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin) hold first meeting.
1954 – Construction begins on Disneyland.
1955 – Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
1961 – John Chancellor becomes news anchor of Today Show.
1962 – Senate rejects medicare for aged.
1966 – “It’s a Bird….It’s Superman” closes at Alvin NYC after 129 performances.
1972 – 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico.
1975 – Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space.
1978 – NY Yankee manager Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson fight in dugout.
1984 – US passes National Minimum Drinking Age Act, prohibiting under 21’s from buying or possessing alcohol as a condition of receiving State highway funds.
1989 – 1st Test flight of US stealth-bomber.
1995 – Forbes Magazine announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world ($12.9B).
2004 – Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home confinement for lying to federal investigators.
2005 – 134th British Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 274 at St. Andrews to win his 10th major and become only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to win each major more than once.
2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.
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