1862 John Hunt Morgan's confederate cavalry raid reaches Cynthiana, Kentucky
1887 Dorthea Dix American pioneering nurse and social activist who created the first American mental asylums, dies at 85
1899 American actor James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy) born in New York City
1917 Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor
1917 Lou Boudreau, American Baseball HOF shortstop (8 × MLB All-Star; World Series & AL MVP 1948; Cleveland Indians) and manager (Cleveland, Boston RS, KC A's), born in Harvey, Illinois
1918 Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
1918 The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia
1923 Carl Mays gives up 13 runs and 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
1935 1917 Donald Sutherland (knock it off with the negative waves)Canadian actor-Kelly's Heroes, M*A*S*H,Ordinary People,The Hunger Games films- born in St. John, New Brunswick
1936 NY Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell begins MLB record 24 game winning streak, beating Pittsburgh Pirates, 6-0 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh
1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan leaves New York flying for Los Angeles and winds up in Ireland supposedly by mistake
1941 NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland 😎
1942 Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record); flooding kills 15
1944 WWII: Port Chicago Disaster - explosion during munition loading kills 322 and, injures nearly 400, destroys three ships and a pier at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California; conditions inspire the Port Chicago Mutiny later that summer
1945 Leaders Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill hold their first post World War II meeting at the Potsdam Conference
1948 US Air Force pilot Gail Halvorsen encounters children in at Templehof Airport in Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, giving him the idea to drop candy in 'Operation Little Vittles'
1954 George "Machine Gun Kelly)American gangster during the Prohibition era, dies in prison of a heart attack at 54
1954 Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany (2005-2021), born in Hamburg, West Germany
1956 MGM releases film "High Society", a musical re-working of "The Philadelphia Story" set in Newport, Rhode Island; starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra, with songs by Cole Porter
1961 Ty Cobb American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (AL MVP 1911; Triple Crown 1909; 12 × AL batting champion; Detroit Tigers) and manager (Detroit Tigers 1921-26), dies of cancer at 74
1963 Dave DeBusschere - NBA forward and former MLB player hits a single off Bennie Daniels, his 1st and only MLB hit
1966 American athlete Jim Ryun sets World mile record (3:51.3) in Berkeley, California
1966 Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit
1974 John Lennon is again ordered to leave the US in 60 days due to a 1968 marijuana charge in the UK (he doesn't)
1981 Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23-year-old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
1987 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
1990 Minnesota Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0
1995 Singer-songwriter Carole King's 1971 album "Tapestry" is certified as Diamond for sales of 10 million units in the US
1996 Paris-bound flight TWA 800, explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board the Boeing 747
2009 Walter Cronkite, News Anchor-CBS Evening News 1962-81,broadcast journalist dies of cerebrovascular disease at 92
2019 Mexican drug cartel head Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years in New York
2024 The Mirage Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas strip closes after 34 years
