1776 – Colonel John Nixon gives the 1st public reading of the Declaration of Independence to an assemblage of citizens in Philadelphia.
1835 – Liberty Bell cracks (again)
1905 – Part of Angel Island in San Francisco Bay allocated for Immigration Detention Center.
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson returns to New York City from Versailles Peace Conference.
1932 – Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22.
1939 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: American Alice Marble wins her only Wimbledon singles title beating Kay Stammers of England 6-1,6-0.
1941 – 9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit.
1946 – Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary.
1950 – 33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record)
1957 – First Pugwash Conference, the “Thinkers Lodge,” held on nuclear disarmament at Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, founded by Joseph Rotblat and hosted by Cyrus Eaton.
1963 – US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba.
1966 – US airline strike (until August 19th)
1972 – US sells grain to Soviet Union for $750 million.
1976 – Randy Jones wins National League record 16 games before All-Star break.
1986 – NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain & Quality Assurance.
1994 – Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try O.J. Simpson.
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 over Ben Crenshaw.
2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
2019 – Deutsche Bank begins laying off 18,000 employees worldwide as part of a large overhaul of its operation.
2021 – President Joe Biden says US troops will withdraw from Afghanistan by August 31, despite increased Taliban gains across the country.
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