1909 – Orville Wright tests 1st Army airplane, flying 1 hour, 12 minutes, 40 seconds.
1917 – World War I: Allied troops reach the Yser Canal in the prelude to the Battle of Passchendaele.
1921 – Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto.
1931 – Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota destroyed thousands of acres of crops.
1937 – 32nd Davis Cup: United States beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
1940 – Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts.
1944 – US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy.
1949 – 1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies.
1953 – Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons “Chief” Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, Bill Klem and Tom Connolly inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame.
1960 – Vice President Richard Nixon nominated for presidential candidate at Republican convention in Chicago.
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking.
1974 – House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 to recommend President Richard Nixon’s impeachment.
1983 – Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts, also winning his 1st game as a Kansas City Royal.
1987 – First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic Inc.
1991 – TV Guide publishes its 2,000th edition.
2003 – British Senior Open Men’s Golf, Turnberry: American Tom Watson wins in a playoff with Carl Mason of England.
2007 – Two news helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase. There were no survivors. Worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.
2014 – President Barack Obama reaffirms Israel’s “right to defend itself”, but condemns civilian casualties in Gaza.
2020 – Google decides its employees can work from home until July 2021, the largest tech company to commit to working from home.
2021 – American gymnast and four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles withdraws from the women’s team final at the Tokyo Games citing a need to focus on her mental health, also misses individual finals.
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