1600 – Prince Maurits’ army occupies Newport Flanders Netherlands
1820 – 1st edition of newspaper “Courrier de la Meuse” published
1896 – Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as 1st French speaking Prime Minister of Canada
1916 – First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men (WWI)
1925 – SDAP wins 4 chairs in Second-Parliamentary election
1950 – “Lost in the Stars” by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill, based on the novel “Cry the Beloved Country” by Alan Paton closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 281 performances
1963 – ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) Codes are introduced for United States mail
1972 – “Hair” closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 1750 performances
1982 – Cal Ripken Jr. makes the first of his record 2,216 consecutive MLB starts at shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles.
2015 – Greek Credit Crisis: Greece becomes 1st developed country to default on debt to the International Monetary Fund (1.7 billion)