1960 Echo I, first passive satellite launched

1960 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs

1962 Rolling Stones first performance (Marquee Club, London)

1962 The first time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR)

1966 26.70 cm (10.51") of rainfall, Sandusky, Ohio (state record)

1966 Most rain fell in 1 day in Ohio, 10.5" in Sandusky

1966 Race riot in Chicago

1967 5th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-0

1967 Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured & over 1000 arrested

1970 Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky

1971 Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders

1975 Sao Tom‚ e Pr¡ncipe gains independence from Portugal (Nat'l Day)

1976 Ted Mack TV host (Original Amateur Hour), dies at 72

1977 Ed Holmes actor (Growing Paynes, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 66

1977 The first free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise

1978 Sun Bank Building opens

1979 "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild & causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to the Tigers

1979 Kiribati (Gilbert & Ellice Is) gains independence from Britain

1979 Minnie Ripperton singer (Lovin' You), dies of cancer at 30

1980 John W Davis Pres (WV State college), dies at 92

1981 In British Columbia, 48,000 BC woodworkers go on strike, shut down forest industry; 60,000 workers off the job by July 20.

1982 FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail

1982 Kenneth More actor, dies of Parkinson disease at 67

1984 Geraldine Ferraro, NY became first woman major-party VP candidate

1985 Doctors discover a cancerous growth in Pres Reagan's colon

1985 STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown

1988 Joshua Logan Broadway producer, dies at 79 of palsy

1988 USSR launches Phobos II for Martian orbit

1989 NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA)

1993 In the Hokkaido, Japan Region, a 7.6 earthquake killed at least 200 people and 39 missing in the Hokkaido region, including at least 165 killed on Okushiri

1997 Waterloo - St. Jacobs Railway commences passenger service over the former CN Waterloo Spur between Waterloo and Elmira, Ont.

1389 In England, Geoffrey Chaucer is named chief clerk by Richard II

1862 The United States Medal of Honor is created

1920 Panama Canal opened by American president Woodrow Wilson

1975 Sao Tome and Principe declare independence

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