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Birthdays
1721 Roger Sherman American lawyer and Founding Father of the United States Declaration of Independence, Constitution

1877 Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American industrialist and inventor (outboard marine engine), born in Gjøvik, Norway

1903 Eliot Ness, US Federal agent "The Untouchables" (put away Al Capone), born in Chicago, Illinois

1922 Erich Hartmann, German WW II pilot (downed 352 Russian aircraft), born in Weissach, Württemberg, Weimar Republic

1933 Jayne Mansfield American actress, born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

1935 Dudley Moore English comedian, actor, jazz pianist, and composer, born in London

1979 Kate Hudson American actress, born in Los Angeles, California


Events
1775 American Revolution begins in Lexington, Massachusetts, with the "Shot Heard Round the World" fired later that day in Concord

1934 Shirley Temple appears in her first feature-length film, "Stand Up and Cheer"

1935 "Bride of Frankenstein," a horror film classic and sequel to "Frankenstein," starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester is released

1948 American Broadcasting Company (ABC) TV network debuts

1982 Sally Ride is named the first American woman astronaut

1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve

1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors

1993 After a 51 day siege by the FBI 76 Branch Davidians die in a fire near Waco Texas (accident, suicide, tear gas are disputed causes)

1995 Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh sets a truck bomb at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168. including 19 children, and injuring 500

2011 Fidel Castro resigns his position of First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba after 45 years in power

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Ludlow Massacre (1914)
In the spring of 1914, the Colorado National Guard machine-gunned and torched a tent colony in Ludlow, where striking coal miners and their families had been living after being evicted from their company-owned homes some months earlier. Nineteen people, most of them women and children, were killed. For the next 10 days, the strikers attacked nearby mines and battled mine guards and militia. Federal troops were needed to put an end to the violence.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
SWAT Team Retrieves Elián González from Relatives in Miami (2000)
In late 1999, 5-year-old Elián González and his mother left Cuba on a boat with a dozen other people seeking asylum in the US. Elián's mother and several others died during the voyage, and Elián was found on an inner tube by fishermen off the coast of Florida. He was released into the custody of his uncle in Miami, but his father in Cuba pressed for his return. The custody dispute ended in an armed raid on the Miami house, and Elián returned to Cuba with his father.

Birthdays

1564 William Shakespeare
1791 James Buchanan
1968 Timothy McVeigh

Events

1516 Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria endorses "The German Beer Purity Law" (Reinheitsgebot) and adds to it standards for the sale of beer in Bavaria, ensuring beer is only brewed from three ingredients: water, barley, and hops

1849 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky and members of the Petrashevsky Circle are arrested in St. Petersburg

1861 Robert E. Lee is named commander of Virginia's Confederate forces during the US Civil War

1939 Ted Williams hits his 1st Major League home run while playing for the Boston Red Sox

1942 1st night Exeter bombed by German Luftwaffe

1942 4-day allied bombing on Rostock, Germany begins

1952 Bob Cain of St. Louis Browns and Bob Feller of Cleveland Indians each pitch a one-hitter, as the home team wins 1-0 at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, Missour

1954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers

1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explore the moon's surface

1982 Conch Republic is established - secession of the Florida Keys from the United States of America

1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last regular season game

1989 Texas Rangers' Nolan Ryan loses a no-hitter in the 9th inning against the Toronto Blue Jays

1989 Wine merchant William Sokolin breaks a bottle of 1787 Château Margaux,  possibly belonging to Thomas Jefferson, worth $500,000 at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York - oopsie

1992 McDonald's opens its 1st restaurant in China, serving over 40,000 customers on its opening day

2005 YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploads the first video to YouTube, "Me at the zoo," showing him in front of two elephants at the San Diego Zoo, which has over 311 million views

Birthdays
1940 Al Pacino
1969 Renée Zellweger


Events
1507 German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller is the first to use the name America on his world map "Universalis Cosmographia"

1684 Patent granted for thimble

1719 Daniel Defoe publishes "Robinson Crusoe", regarded as the 1st English novel

1792 "La Marseillaise", later the national anthem of France, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg

1792 They celebrated by Guillotine first used in France, executes highwayman Nicolas Pelletier

1850 Paul Julius Reuter sets up carrier-pigeon service, using 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices between Aachen and Brussels

1867 Tokyo opens for foreign trade

1875 Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3")

1876 Chicago Cubs 1st NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)

1886 Sigmund Freud opens his first practice at Rathausstrasse 7 in Vienna

1898 Spain declared war on the United States on this day as tensions rose over Cuba and a US warship was destroyed

1901 New York becomes 1st state requiring automobile license plates ($1 fee)

1901 Erve Beck hits American League's 1st home run

1905 Whites win right to vote in South Africa

1928 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for a US citizen Morris Frank

1945 Soviet forces complete their encirclement of Berlin, Raising a Flag over the Reichstag

1954 Bell Labs announces the first solar battery made from silicon with about 6% efficiency

1960 First submerged circumnavigation of Earth is completed by the USS submarine Triton in 60 days and 21 hours

1962 Cleveland sends Harry Chiti to the Mets for a player to be named later; on June 15, the Mets send Chiti back to Cleveland

1974 NFL moves goal posts & adopts sudden-death playoff

1976 Cub centerfielder Rick Monday rescues US flag from 2 fans trying to set it on fire

1983 NASA space probe Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit

1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by space shuttle Discovery

1993 Russia elects Boris Yeltsin President of the Russian Federation

1994 14 inches of snow falls in Southern California

2007 Boris Yeltsin's funeral, the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Tsar Alexander III in 1894

I remember watching the Rick Monday Flag Save. Pretty cool to see the Dodger Stadium fans on their feet, singing an impromptu "God Bless America" on that fine Sunday afternoon. 

Good instinct on the organist to get into playing "God Bless America" so quickly.

Rick Monday was a Marine.

"If you're going to burn the flag, don't do it around me. I've been to too many veterans' hospitals and seen too many broken bodies of guys who tried to protect it."

The Cubs lost.