1776 – Colonel John Nixon gives the 1st public reading of the Declaration of Independence to an assemblage of citizens in Philadelphia.
1800 – Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination in the US to his son to prevent smallpox.
1835 – Liberty Bell cracks (again)
1889 – Wall Street Journal begins publishing.
1909 – 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under the lights.
1932 – Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22.
1943 – US invasion fleet passes Bizerta, Tunisia.
1946 – Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary.
1950 – Leroy Deans awarded first Order of Purple Heart in Korea.
1963 – US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba.
1966 – US airline strike (until August 19th)
1969 – US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam.
1976 – Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break.
1984 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: John McEnroe defends his crown, thrashing fellow American Jimmy Conners 6-1, 6-1, 6-2.
1992 – Florida Marlins unveil their uniform.
1999 – Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida.
2007 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Whistling Straits: Brad Bryant wins by 3 strokes from Ben Crenshaw.
2008 – American businessman T. Boone Pickens announces his “Pickens Plan” an energy policy that moves away from imported oil.
2015 – The NFL’s Washington Redskins have their trademark vacated on the grounds it may cause offense to native Americans.
2019 – Deutsche Bank begins laying off 18,000 employees worldwide as part of large overhaul of its operation.
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