EVENTS
- 1894 – World’s first competitive motor race. The Paris–Rouen, Le Petit Journal Competition for Horseless Carriages was the world’s first city to city motoring competition. Staring in Paris and ending in Rouen, the race was organized by the newspaper Le Petit Journal.
- 1933 – Wiley Post becomes first person to fly solo around the world.
- 1934 – Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger is killed by FBI agents.
John Dillinger - 1944 – Communist rule starts in Poland.
- 1983 – First solo helicopter flight around the world. Australian Dick Smith became the first person to fly a helicopter around the world solo. He started his trip in August, 1982 and it took him around a year to finish his trip.
- 2003 – Raid in Mosul. A raid on a compound near Mosul, Iraq by United States Army 101st Airborne Division ended with the deaths of killing Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay and Qusay’s 14-year old son.
- 2011 – Lone wolf extremist goes on a massacre in Norway. Anders Behring Breivik an anti-Islamist extremist placed a car bomb in front of the Norwegian Prime Minister’s office in Oslo. A few hours after the bomb exploded, killing 8 people and injuring about 200 others, Breivik opened fire at a youth summer camp at the island of Utøya killing 69 participants. This was the deadliest incident of violence in the Scandinavian country since the Second World War.
BIRTHDAYS
- 1923 – The Fabulous Moolah (American wrestler)
- 1940 – Alex Trebek (Game Show Host of Jeopardy)
- 1946 – Danny Glover (American actor)
- 1947 – Don Henley (Singer with the Eagles)
- 1955 – Willem Defoe (Actor)
Willem Defoe - 1964 – David Spade (Comedian)
- 1965 – Shawn Michaels (American wrestler)
- 1969 – Despina Vandi (German/Greek singer, actress)
- 1972 – Keyshawn Johnson (Football Player)
- 1983 – Steven Jackson (NFL Football player)
- 1992 – Selena Gomez (Actress and Singer)
DEATHS
- 1916 – James Whitcomb Riley (American poet)
James Whitcomb Riley - 1934 – John Dillinger (American bank robber, murderer)
- 1950 – William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canadian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada)
- 1995 – Harold Larwood (English cricketer)
- 2007 – Ulrich Mühe (German actor)
