1729 – North Carolina becomes a colony.
1850 – Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
1866 – Ulysses S. Grant named 1st General of Army.
1918 – Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, California.
1941 – FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan.
1944 – Operation Cobra: US forces begin major offensive in Normandy with air bombardment.
1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
1949 – St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Brooklyn Dodgers 14-1.
1952 – Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth (Constitution Day)
1961 – In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
1964 – Beatles’ album “A Hard Day’s Night” goes #1, stays #1 for 14 weeks.
1969 – Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne.
1978 – Cincinnati Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games.
1983 – Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion.
1985 – Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms he has AIDS.
1993 – US Open Women’s Golf, Crooked Stick GC: Lauri Merten fires a final round 68 (-4) to win her lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Donna Andrews and Helen Alfredsson.
1997 – QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 years.
2014 – Both Israel and Hamas review US Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire and meetings in Cairo.
2016 – Verizon announces $4.83 billion purchase of Yahoo.
2019 – US Justice department announces it is resuming the death penalty, scheduling five executions.