1712 – Great Britain, Portugal and France sign ceasefire [or 19th]
1912 – International Amateur Athletic Federation forms in Stockholm, Sweden (now known as World Athletics)
1925 – Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
1944 – WWII: Port Chicago Disaster – explosion during munition loading kills 322 and, injures nearly 400, destroys three ships and a pier at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California; conditions inspire the Port Chicago Mutiny later that summer
1954 – Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany
1958 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands
1970 – 30,000 attend Randall’s Island Rock Festival, NYC
1974 – Bob Gibson becomes second pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters (Cesar Geronimo)
1997 – STS 94 (Columbia 23) lands
2016 – 17 works by Swiss architect Le Corbusier included in UNESCO World Heritage sites list as “an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement”