1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England.
1914 – 1st transcontinental phone link between New York City and San Francisco.
1927 – 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue Hospital, New York)
1928 – Test footage first created for Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” with Mickey Mouse.
1938 – Olympic National Park established in Washington state, longest undeveloped coastline in America.
1944 – US 4th Armored Division occupies Avranches (Normandy, France)
1952 – 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet.
1955 – Smokey Burgess hits 3 home runs to help Pittsburgh Pirates beat Cincinnati Reds, 16-5.
1957 – Jack Paar’s “The Tonight Show” premieres on NBC.
1965 – Gemini 5 returned after 12 days, 7 hours, 11 minutes, 53 seconds in space.
1969 – Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars.
1974 – St Louis Cardinals’ Lou Brock steals his 700th base.
1985 – 19th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-G): Challenger 8 launches.
1988 – FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion.
1990 – 26th Curtis Cup: US wins 14-4.
1995 – Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14.
2009 – Temperature reaches 103 degrees F in Seattle, Washington, the hottest day on record.
2015 – Microsoft launches Windows 10.
2018 – Chipper Jones, Alan Trammell, Trevor Hoffman, Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome and Jack Morris are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York.
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