- 1938] Grand Salami Champ: Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam against the A's - his career record for grand slams still stands...
- 1953] Dropping a bomb: The Soviet Union publicly acknowledges it had tested a hydrogen bomb...
- 1964] Anti-poverty: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure...
- 1977] Voyager 2: The U.S. launches Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozen of languages, samples of music, sounds of nature and the Murray The K show open...
- 1989] A self-defense claim: Record executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty are shot to death by their sons Lyle and Erik, who claim self-defense after being abused. The 1st trial ends in hung juries but eventually the brothers are convicted and are still serving their terms...
- 1990] Don't let the door hit you on the way out: George Steinbrenner steps down as Yankees owner after being banned from baseball by Commissioner Fay Vincent, Gene Michael is named VP/GM. Steinbrenner is reinstated in 1993...
- 1992] Vote for us: The Republican National Convention nominates President George H.W. Bush and VP Dan Quayle for a second term...
- 1998] Payback: Retaliating 13 days after the deadly embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the U.S. strikes against al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and Sudan...
- 2006] Can't hold that Tiger: Tiger Woods wins the PGA Championship by 5 strokes over Shaun Micheel...
- 2007] 'Queen of Mean' is gone: Leona Helmsley dies from congestive heart failure at 87...
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