1915 – Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 people die.
1929 – President Herbert Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounces war.
1936 – State-record 118 degrees in Minden, Nebraska.
1941 – President Franklin Roosevelt demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China.
1942 – Irving Berlin’s musical “This Is The Army” premieres in New York City.
1945 – World War II: Suicide attack by Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo sinks United States Navy destroyer USS Underhill west of Guam with nearly half of the 234-member crew killed.
1952 – “High Noon,” a Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gary Cooper and Thomas Mitchell, is released.
1952 – President Harry Truman settles a 53-day steel strike.
1958 – Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again.
1961 – Beginning of a trend, a United States commercial airplane is hijacked to Cuba.
1968 – Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game, breaking Cy Young’s record for pitching appearances.
1969 – At 12:51 p.m. EDT, Apollo 11 returns to Earth after taking the first astronauts to the moon and returning them safely.
1974 – Supreme Court unanimously rules President Richard Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes.
1986 – Federal jury convicts Navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage for his participation in a Soviet spy ring.
2002 – James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
2009 – FINA Congress votes to ban all body-length swimsuits with men’s suits to maximally cover from the waist to knee and women’s suits from shoulder to knee with fabric that must be a “textile” or woven material effective January 1, 2010.
2019 – Facebook agrees to pay a $5 billion fine, largest ever for violating consumer privacy, to the Federal Trade Commission.
2019 – Special counsel Robert Mueller reports to the United States Senate that President Donald Trump was not exonerated of obstruction of justice and that Russia interfered in the presidential election to benefit Trump.
2022 – Heatwave across the Northeast with many cities, including Boston, St. Louis, and Philadelphia, declaring heat emergencies.
2023 – Gender pay gap in America drops to its lowest level with women earning 84 cents for every $1 men earn full time, which is up from 78 cents a decade ago.
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