1624 – Earthquake strikes Peru
1921 – Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4 PM
1948 – “Texaco Star Theater” premieres on NBC-TV, with “Mr. Television” Milton Berle being made the permanent emcee in September of the same year
1965 – USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles
1969 – Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August
1984 – “Ghostbusters”, American supernatural comedy film, directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murrary and Dan Aykroyd is released
1985 – 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27
1991 – Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
2008 – The Akihabara massacre took place on the Sunday-pedestrian-zoned Chūōdōri street. A man killed seven in an attack on a crowd using a truck and a dagger.
2017 – British General Election results in a hung parliament, Prime Minster Theresa May and the Conservative party lose their majority