1925 – NY Yankees buy future Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Leo Durocher from Hartford Senators (Eastern League)
1937 – US Senate rejects FDR’s proposal to enlarge Supreme Court
1950 – Frank Worrell completes 261 v England at Trent Bridge
1958 – US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1965 – Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Home as leader of the British Conservative party
1969 – USSR launches Sputnik 50 and Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
1981 – Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome, Italy court to life
1990 – British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Englishman Nick Faldo wins the 2nd of his 3 Open Championships by 5 strokes from runners-up Mark McNulty and Payne Stewart
1994 – 23rd and last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (since July 16th)
2014 – News broadcaster Al Jazeera claim that its office in Gaza is under attack by the Israeli Defence Force