Last original Playboy Club in U.S. closes, 1988
Major League Baseball strike ends, 1981
MTV starts broadcasts, 1981
Eagleton withdraws from Vice Presidential Race after disclosure about his electroshock therapy, 1972
Evonne Goolagong's Birthday, 1951
William J. Bennett's Birthday, 1943
Curt Gowdy's Birthday, 1919
Milton Friedman's Birthday, 1912
Marconi receives patent for wireless telegraph, 1897
First U.S. patent issued, 1790
Independence Day [Vanuatu], 1980
Jimmie Hoffa disappears, 1975
Racial rioting breaks out in Milwaukee, 1967
Congress approves Medicare, 1965
Bill Cartwright's Birthday, 1957
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Birthday, 1947
Paul Anka's Birthday, 1941
Kellogg invents Corn Flakes, 1898
Casey Stengel's Birthday, 1889
Henry Ford's Birthday, 1863
First legislative assembly in America [Virginia House of Burgesses] convenes, 1619
Javier Sotomayar is first to clear over 8 feet in the high-jump, 1989
Congress passes Reagan's tax bill - the largest tax cut in U.S. history, 1981
Lady Diana marries Prince Charles, 1981
Peter Jennings' Birthday, 1938
Nancy Kassebaum's Birthday, 1932
First motorcycle race in U.S., 1899
Alexis De Tocqueville's Birthday, 1805
Trans-Alaskan Pipeline opens, 1977
Eisenhower signs act creating NASA, 1958
Terry Fox's Birthday, 1958
Vida Blue's Birthday, 1949
Sally Struthers' Birthday, 1948
Jim Davis' Birthday, 1945
Army bomber crashes into Empire State Building, 1945
Senate ratifies United Nations Charter, 1945
Bill Bradley's Birthday, 1943
First singing telegram delivered, 1933
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' Birthday, 1929
U.S. Marines land in Haiti, 1915
14th Amendment ratified [citizenship for Blacks], 1868
Congress authorizes metric system as a legal system of measurement in the U.S., 1866
Independence Day [Peru], 1824
Greg Lemond is first American to win Tour de France, 1987
House Judiciary Committee recommends Nixon's impeachment, 1974
Korean War ends with armistice signed at Panmunjom, South Korea, 1953
Peggy Fleming's Birthday, 1948
Norman Lear's Birthday, 1922
Leo Durocher's Birthday, 1906
Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable completed, 1866
First Presidential Cabinet Department [predecessor of State Department] established by Congress, 1789
Bank of England incorporated, 1694
Independence Day [Maldives, 1965]
Dorothy Hamill's Birthday, 1956
Vitas Gerulaitis' Birthday, 1954
Truman ends racial segregation in armed forces, 1948
Truman signs National Security Act, 1947
Mick Jagger's Birthday, 1944
Stanley Kubrick's Birthday, 1928
Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister after his party is soundly defeated in election, 1945
Blake Edwards' Birthday, 1922
Aldous Huxley's Birthday, 1894
Carl Jung's Birthday, 1875
George Bernard Shaw's Birthday, 1856
Independence Day [Liberia], 1847
New York is 11th State to ratify the Constitution, 1788
Louise Brown's Birthday [first "test-tube" baby], 1978
"Andrea Doria" ocean liner sinks after collision, 1956
Walter Payton's Birthday, 1954
Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. Commonwealth, 1952
First airplane flight across English Channel, 1909
Supreme Court rules unanimously that Nixon must turn over the subpoenaed White House Tapes, 1974
Apollo 11 splashes down on Earth after moon trip, 1969
Nixon - Khrushchev "Kitchen Debate", 1959
Joe Barry Carroll's Birthday, 1958
Lynda Carter's Birthday, 1951
Ruth Buzzi's Birthday, 1936
Patrick Oliphant's Birthday, 1935
Amelia Earhart's Birthday, 1898
Tennessee is readmitted to the Union, 1866
Mormons reach the Great Salt Lake, 1847
Ambrose Bierce's Birthday, 1842
Simon Bolivar's Birthday, 1783
Detroit founded, 1701
President Reagan creates commission to establish government policy to combat aids, 1987
Vanessa Williams is first Miss America to resign, 1984
Pham Tuan of Vietnam, aboard a U.S.S.R. spacecraft, becomes first non-Caucasian in space, 1980
Last annual football game between NFL Champions and College All-Stars [Pittsburgh Steelers win], 1976
Racial Rioting breaks out in Detroit, 1967
Law removing silver from quarters and dimes signed, 1965
Don Drysdale's Birthday, 1936
Pee Wee Reese's Birthday, 1918
Mohammed Faris, aboard a U.S.S.R. spacecraft, becomes first Syrian in space, 1987
Sam Snead, age 67, shoots a 66, becoming first golfer to shoot less than his age, 1979
Don Henley's Birthday, 1947
George Clinton's Birthday, 1940
John Dillinger killed by FBI agents, 1934
Oscar De La Renta's Birthday, 1932
Robert Dole's Birthday, 1923
Emma Lazarus' Birthday, 1849
Gregor Mendel's Birthday, 1822
Pied Piper drives rats out of Hamelin, 1376
