- 1900] Debuted on this date: Future Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson makes his major league debut with the New York Giants...
- 1941] Boogety, boogety. This streak ends: The longest hitting streak in baseball ends in Cleveland for the "Yankee Clipper", Joe DiMaggio. After hitting in 56 games, Indian pitchers stop DiMag. 66 years later, no one has come close to equalling or breaking his record...
- 1954] Jazz matazz: The 1st Newport Jazz Festival is held at the Newport (RI) Casino...
- 1955] Mickey goes Hollywood: Disneyland opens in Anaheim (CA)...
- 1959] "Happy Trails": The legendary Billie Holiday is a victim of cirrhosis of the liver at 44...2006] Author Mickey Spillane dies from pancreatic cancer at 88...
- 1975] What's up Dock?: An Apollo spaceship and Soyuz spacecraft dock in orbit. It's the 1st superpower linkup of its kind...
- 1981] Tragedy on the ground: A pair of walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapses during a dance. 114 are killed...
- 1996] Tragedy in the air: TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 bound for Paris, explodes and crashes off Long Island, shortly after take-off from JFK killing all 230 aboard...
- 1997] Nickel and diming days are over: The Woolworth Corp. closes its last 400 five-and-ten stores...
- 2004] Girlie Mahn: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger mockingly refers to Democrats as "girlie men" for delaying the state budget by catering to special interests...
Music Memories:
- 1967] Opening for the Monkees: The Jimi Hendrix Experience. It's true!!! It happened in Forest Hills, Queens...
- 1974] Should I stay or should I go?: John Lennon is ordered to leave America in 60 days. The 60-day order will be wiped out and John stays in the U.S.A...
"Happy Birthday...happy birthday":
Mark Burnett (48), Bryan Trottier (52), Phoebe Snow (56), David Hasselhoff (56), Lucie Arnaz (57), Spencer Davis (66), Diahann Carroll (73), Donald Sutherland (74), Phyllis Diller (91) and Art Linkletter (96)...Timeline Countdown: 10 days away from the opening of all NFL training camps and 22 days away from the Summer Olympics...
