1787 – Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes
1879 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: John Hartley beats Vere St. Leger Goold 6-2, 6-4, 6-2
1895 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Charlotte Cooper beats Helen Jackson 7-5, 8-6 for her first of 5 Wimbledon singles titles
1942 – 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz
1954 – 1st commercial jet transport plane built in US tested (Boeing 707)
1958 – President Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months
1986 – 57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston
1994 – Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary
2014 – 20 people are killed and 100 are injured after a train derails in Moscow
2018 – 8-year-old girl finds pre-Viking-era sword in Vidostern lake, Sweden, internet proclaims her Queen of Sweden