1699 – Pirate Captain William Kidd is captured in Boston.
1776 – American Declaration of Independence announced on front page of “PA Evening Gazette.”
1785 – Congress unanimously resolves US currency named “dollar” & adopts decimal coinage.
1858 – Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine.
1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine.
1898 – US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii.
1928 – 1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY).
1936 – 121 degrees, Steele, North Dakota (state record).
1945 – US President Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom.
1945 – Abbott and Costello’s film “The Naughty Nineties” is released featuring longest version of their “Who’s on First” routine.
1956 – 70th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4).
1956 – Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honor an outstanding pitcher.
1965 – Rock group “Jefferson Airplane” forms.
1971 – White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks.
1990 – “Jetsons the Movie” with Tiffany, premieres.
1994 – “Forrest Gump”, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise, is released (Best Picture 1995).
1997 – “Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical” closes at Royale NYC after 109 performances.
2008 – 115th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Venus Williams beats Serena Williams (7-5 6-4).
2013 – 3 people are killed and 181 injured after a Boeing 777 crash lands at San Francisco Airport.
2016 – Pokeman Go, the real-world mobile game by Niantic, is released.
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