1966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act

1967 Freedom of Information Act goes into effect

1969 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK

1969 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin

1969 Ann Jones defeats Billie Jean King for Wimbeldon Ladies championship

1970 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ

1970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons

1970 Harold Vanderbilt America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85

1973 A Liberian tanker collides with a grain-carrier in the St. Lawrence River at Trois-Pistoles.

1974 Off Newfoundland, nearly 250 large icebergs are counted along the eastern shores off Newfoundland.

1975 Bundy victim (?) Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah

1977 Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher

1977 Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie

1978 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3332

1978 Memphis firefighters halt 3-day strike under a court order

1979 In Eastern China a 5.4 quake was centered about 225 kilometers southwest of Shanghai in the Liyang area. At least 41 people were reported killed, more than 2,000 were injured

1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB

1982 Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for his last Wimbeldon championship

1985 Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins

1987 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission

1987 Martina Navratilova wins 6th straight Wimbeldon defeats Steffi Graf

1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" convicted by a French court

1988 Steffan Edberg beats Boris Becker for Wimbeldon crown

1989 Federal PC cabinet minister Bernard Valcourt injured while motorcycling; later charged with impaired driving and dropped from the cabinet.

1990 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner & Gettysburg Address

1991 In Timor two events measuring 6.5 about 2.5 seconds apart. Twenty-three people killed, 181 injured, at least 5,400 left homeless

1997 Web surfers viewed the first-ever photos of the surface of Mars, transmitted by the Sojourner, a roving robot deposited by the Mars Pathfinder, an unmanned spacecraft

1776 The United States adopt the Declaration of Independence

1946 The Philippine Islands granted independence by the United States

1804 The birth of Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author

1807 The birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian soldier

1927 The birth of Neil Simon, American author

1942 The birth of Prince Michael of Kent

2005 NASA's "Copper bullet" from Deep Impact spacecraft hits Comet Tempel 1, creating a crater for scientific studies.

2005 Violent G8 demonstrations occur in Gleneagles, Scotland.

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