Birthdays
1509 John Calvin
1856 Nikola Tesla
1947 Arlo Guthrie
1954 Andre Dawson
1980 Jessica Simpson
Events
1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to persuade her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes
1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state of US
1911 105°F recorded at North Bridgton, Maine (state record)
1923 Two-pound hailstones kill 23 people and many cattle in Rostov, Russia
1936 109°F recorded at Cumberland and Frederick, Maryland (state record)
1936 110°F recorded at Runyon, New Jersey (state record)
1936 111°F recorded at Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record)
1936 112°F recorded at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record)
1940 Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attack shipping convoys in the English Channel
1943 US, British, and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WWII (Operation Husky)
1965 Beatles' "VI" album goes to number 1 and stays at number 1 for 6 weeks
1965 Rolling Stones score their first US number 1 single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
1967 Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe," which goes on to win four Grammy awards
1979 Chuck Berry begins a four-month prison term for $200,000 in tax evasion
1981 Science fiction action film "Escape from New York," directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell and Donald Pleasence, premieres in the US
1985 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand, to prevent it from interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.
1991 Boris Yeltsin is sworn in as the first elected President of the Russian Federation
2005 Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage
2015 The Confederate flag is taken down for the last time from South Carolina Capitol grounds 1 day after the state legislature ordered its removal
150 yrs after the end of the War, little latere Charlestonians dontcha think?
2019 Taylor Swift named the world's highest paid entertainer by Forbes earning $185 million in 2018.
2023 More than 61,000 people die in European heatwaves in 2022, according to study published in "Nature Medicine", suggesting world not doing enough to counter increasing heatwaves [1]
2023 Torrential rains across New England and New York cause historic flooding, especially in Vermont's capital Montpellier, affecting two million people and causing one death
Five of the hottest days recorded in the US for this date in 1911 and 1935
