Gracie Allen (Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen) died, 1964
Battle of Long Island, 1776
Kaiser Wilhelm Degross, German luxury liner destroyed, 1914
Stevie Ray Vaughn died, 1990
Single season base stealing record set (Rickey Henderson), 1982
Mariner II (US) launched, 1962
US troops began landing in Japan following their surrender, 1945
H.L. Mencken married Sara Haardt, 1930
“Sergeant York” weapon system cancelled as ineffective, 1985
Andrew W. Mellon, financier, died, 1937
First arrest for automobile speeding (Newport, Rhode Island), 1904
“Tarzan of the Apes” published, 1912
Lord (Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten killed, 1979
Union troops captured Cape Hatteras, 1861
Paul Ekai sentenced in Kenya for killing “Born Free” Joy Adamson, 1981
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, aviator, died, 1974
Francis the Talking Mule was the mystery guest on “What’s My Line”, 1961
Brian Epstein, Beatles manager, found dead, 1967
First play performed in the North American colonies (Ye Bear and Ye Cubb), 1665
Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed, 1928
First successful oil well in the US drilled (near Titusville, Pennsylvania), 1859
William Edward Burghardt DuBois, US educator died, 1963
Robert Frost disrupted a poetry reading by Archibald MacLeish by setting fire to a stack of papers, 1938
Charles Evans Hughes, Supreme Court Justice, died, 1948