1905 – US Secretary of War William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the United States in the Philippines.
1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England.
1914 – First transcontinental phone link between New York City and San Francisco.
1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project in Oregon.
1927 – First iron lung installed in Bellevue Hospital in New York.
1928 – Test footage first created for Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” with Mickey Mouse.
1933 – Police shootout with Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow’s gang in Iowa, leaves Clyde’s brother, Buck Barrow, dead and one captured, but Bonnie and Clyde escaped.
1944 – Allied air force bombs Germany for six hours during World War II.
1950 – Pee Wee Reese hits the 3,000th Brooklyn Dodgers home run.
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.
1974 – Second impeachment vote held against President Richard Nixon by House Judiciary Committee.
1978 – On Old Timer’s Day, New York Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as team manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become general manager.
1987 – Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor; Cherry Garcia, which is cherry ice cream with cherries and fudge flakes.
1990 – Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game.
1995 – Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their first National Football League exhibition game 20-14.
2009 – Temperature reaches a record 103 degrees in Seattle, Washington.
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.
2021 – Following Simone Biles’ withdrawal, teammate Sunisa Lee becomes first Hmong-American Olympic champion in any sport when she wins women’s artistic individual all-around gymnastics gold in Tokyo.
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