1896 – City of Miami incorporated.
1914 – Foxtrot first danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden in New York City by Harry Fox.
1915 – Because of virtual anarchy, United States Marines go ashore in Haiti on orders from President Woodrow Wilson that results in an occupation that will last until 1934.
1928 – XI Summer Olympic games open in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1933 – First singing telegram delivered to Rudy Vallee in New York City.
1943 – President Franklin Roosevelt announces the end of coffee rationing in the United States.
1945 – Senate ratifies United Nations charter by 89-2 vote.
1951 – Walt Disney releases animated musical film “Alice in Wonderland,” featuring Kathryn Beaumont, J. Pat O’Malley, Ed Wynn, and Sterling Holloway, and songs by Sammy Fain and Bob Hilliard.
1957 – Rock and Roll piano player-singer Jerry Lee Lewis makes his first television appearance with a raucous rendition of “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” on the Steve Allen Show.
1965 – President Lyndon Johnson sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam that brings the total in the country to 125,000.
1972 – 39th NFL-College All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 in front of 54,152 spectators in Chicago.
1973 – NASA launches Skylab 3’s astronaut Alan Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma to the space station for a 59 day stay.
1984 – 23rd Modern Olympic Games open in Los Angeles.
1989 – Atlanta Braves outfielder Dale Murphy, hits two 3-run home runs in an inning, becoming the 14th player to hit two homers in an inning and typing the record of six runs batted in in an inning.
1994 – Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers throws the only perfect game in franchise history, against the California Angels.
2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
2014 – Israel criticizes John Kerry’s proposed ceasefire, stating that no ceasefire deal will be accepted without the destruction of tunnels leading from Gaza to Israel and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.
2017 – Senate vote for “skinny” repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” fails 51-49 when John McCain cast deciding vote against.
2022 – Flooding in Garrett County in eastern Kentucky kills at least 37 people with more missing. Four million in Kentucky and surrounding states were under a flood alert.
2023 – Scientist genetically engineer female animals to reproduce without a male for the first time, using fruit flies.
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