1767 – Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret
1852 – Congress authorizes US’s 2nd mint (San Francisco, California)
1925 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France takes her 6th Wimbledon singles title with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Briton Joan Fry
1929 – Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
1937 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Dorothy Round of England beats Poland’s Jadwiga Jędrzejowska 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 for her second Wimbledon title
1942 – German troops march into Sebastopol, Crimea
1963 – In New Zealand, a National Airways Corporation Dakota DC-3 crashes in the Kaimai Ranges; all 23 passengers and crew are killed in New Zealand’s worst internal civil aviation accident
1982 – Riot at building Stopera Amsterdam (damages Ÿ1 million)
1991 – Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year lease for the Cleveland Indians to play MLB at Jacobs Field
2006 – Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.