1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully give an anti-rabies vaccine to 9-year-old Joseph Meister, saving his life.
1898 – US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii.
1908 – Robert Peary’s arctic expedition sails from NYC for the north pole.
1920 – New York Yankees score MLB record 14 runs in 5th inning of a 17-0 rout of Washington Senators.
1928 – Largest recorded hailstone at the time 1.5 lbs (7 inches in diameter) falls in Potter, Nebraska.
1932 – 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.
1943 – US destroyer William D. Porter (Willie Dee) launched.
1945 – Abbott and Costello’s film “The Naughty Nineties” released featuring longest version of their “Who’s on First” routine.
1957 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Althea Gibson becomes the first black female athlete to win Wimbledon beating Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.
1970 – California passes 1st “no fault” divorce law.
1980 – Phillies starter Steve Carlton fans 7 Cardinals to reach 2,836 strikeouts, the most by a left-handed pitcher in MLB history.
1983 – Supreme Court rules retirement plans can’t pay women less.
1994 – “Forrest Gump”, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1995)
1997 – Montreal Expos retire Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Andre Dawson’s uniform #10.
2003 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Roger Federer beats Australian Mark Phillppoussis 7-6, 6-2, 7-6 for his first Grand Slam title.
2013 – 3 people are killed and 181 are injured after a Boeing 777 crash lands at San Francisco Airport.
2016 – South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to 6 years in jail for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
2016 – Pokeman Go, the real-world mobile game by Niantic, is first released.
2020 – Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes agrees to the largest contract for an athlete in sports history, inking a 12-year deal that could end up being worth $503 million.
2020 – American officially begins withdrawing from the World Health Organization.