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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Gertrude Ederle Becomes First Woman to Swim across the English Channel (1926)
Only five men had managed to swim across the 35-mile (56-km) English Channel by the time Ederle became the first woman to make the trip. On her second attempt, the 19-year-old Olympic medalist from America made the swim from France to England in 14 hours and 31 minutes—beating the male record-holder by two hours. Hours before Ederle reached England, the weather deteriorated. A supporter following her by boat called out and urged her to get out of the water.

1806 Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Francis II renounces the title, becoming Emperor of Austria.

1890 Future Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young makes his MLB debut, throwing a 3-hitter for the Cleveland Spiders in an 8-1 win over the Chicago Colts at League Park in Cleveland; Young's first career error leads to Chicago's only run

1890 Murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person executed by electric chair at Auburn Prison in New York

1926 American Gertrude Ederle (20) becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel from Cap Gris-Nez, France, to Kingsdown, England, in 14 hours and 39 minutes, setting a record for males and females

1930 Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in New York City

1934 US troops leave Haiti, which has been occupied since 1915

1936 American athlete Forrest Towns runs a world record of 14.1 in the semi-finals of the 110 m hurdles at the Berlin Olympics; he can't match the time in the final but wins the gold medal

1936 Jack Lovelock of New Zealand runs a world record time of 3:47.8 to win the gold medal in the 1,500 m at the Berlin Olympics


1937 MLB overturns New York Yankees' 7-6 win over Cleveland Indians due to umpire error(that's important,dammit)

1945 An atomic bomb is dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"

1952 St. Louis Browns veteran pitcher Satchel Paige, 46, becomes the oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout, 1-0 over the Detroit Tigers in 12 innings

1953 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Ted Williams returns to the Red Sox from military service in Korea and ends the abbreviated season with a .407 batting average

1962 Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule

1967 Future Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles hits into an MLB-record fourth career triple play

1980 University administration declares five Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles and postseason play due to transcript and curriculum abuses

2024 Kamala Harris picks Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her vice-presidential running mate for the US presidential elections(frightening concept)

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Federal Emergency Declared at Love Canal in New York (1978)
In the 1940s and 50s, an abandoned canal in Niagara Falls, New York, became a dumping ground for chemical waste. It was later filled in, and after the land was given to the city of Niagara Falls by the chemical company, houses and an elementary school were built there. By the late 1970s, toxic chemicals had risen to the surface, and residents were found to have a high incidence of chromosome damage. A federal emergency was declared in 1978, and residents were evacuated.

may have drank a few too many when deciding to build there

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0qtE3vofJg0?feature=share
Daniel Inouye's Insane Medal of Honor Story

All while his family was imprisoned in Arkansas, thousands of miles from their home in Hawaii.
talk about love of country: the men of the 442nd put it all on the line. “Go for broke” was their motto, and they did.
From Wikipedia:
“The combined units earned, in less than two years, more than 4,000 [color=var(--color-visited,#6a60b0)]Purple Hearts[/color] and 4,000 [color=var(--color-visited,#6a60b0)]Bronze Star Medals[/color]. The unit was awarded seven [color=var(--color-visited,#6a60b0)]Presidential Unit Citations[/color](seven between 1944 and 1946,^{[color=var(--color-visited,#6a60b0)][[/iurl][/font][/size][/color]}five earned in one month). Twenty-one of its members were awarded the [color=var(--color-visited,#6a60b0)]Medal of Honor[/color].”