1819 – First parachute jump in US by Frenchman Louis-Charles Guille over Jersey City
1870 – Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London
1920 – Marcus Garvey presents his “Back to Africa” program in NYC
1941 – Thousands of Jews are expelled from Subcarpathian Ruthenia
1967 – US Lunar Orbiter 5 is launched and enters lunar orbit on August 5
1975 – 104°F (40°C) in Providence, Rhode Island (state record)
2013 – 40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria
2015 – British Open Women’s Golf, Turnberry: Inbee Park of South Korea shoots final found 65 (−7) to win her 7th major title, 3 strokes ahead of compatriot Ko Jin-young