1868 – 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes.
1890 – Snow and hail in Calais, Maine.
1907 – A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills 30 and injures 70 more.
1917 – WW I draft lottery held, #258 is first drawn.
1921 – Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the floor of the House of Representatives.
1926 – A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
1930 – 106 degrees F, Washington, D.C. (district record)
1940 – Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart, “I’ll Never Smile Again” by Tommy Dorsey, with vocal by Frank Sinatra is #1.
1944 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack.
1956 – Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties American League record of 6 straight strike outs.
1958 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Lianerch CC: Dow Finsterwald wins 1st PGA Championship held in current stroke play format; wins by 2 from Billy Casper.
1965 – Columbia Records release Bob Dylan single “Like A Rolling Stone”
1969 – Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lands on the surface of the Moon, Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later; Michael Collins remains in orbit in the lunar module.
1975 – US Open Women’s Golf, Atlantic City, CC: Sandra Palmer wins her second major title by 4 strokes from JoAnne Carner, Sandra Post and Nancy Lopez.
1976 – Hank Aaron hits 755th and last home run off Angels Dick Drago.
1984 – Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America due to publication of nude photos of her.
1995 – The Regents of the University of California vote to end all affirmative action in the UC system by 1997.
2008 – 16th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Candace Parker win.
2017 – Elon Musk tweets he has “verbal government approval” to build a 29 minute Hyperloop between New York and Washington, D.C.
2021 – New York records the worst air quality in the world due to smoke from 80 wildfires on the west coast.
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