1483 – Sistine Chapel to Our Lady of the Assumption in Vatican City is consecrated with a Mass by Pope Sixtus IV [some sources cite August 9]
1931 – Roy Wilkins joins the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as Assistant Secretary
1949 – WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1970 – Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman professional football player (Orlando)
1992 – Colombo ’92 closes in Genoa, Italy
1997 – Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners’ 3,000th home run
2013 – 20 people are killed and 200 are injured in an explosion in Beirut
2023 – Young activists win a landmark case, Held v Montana, with a judge ruling that the state of Montana must consider climate change when deciding to approve or renew fossil fuel projects