Notorious pirate Captain William Kidd (“Captain Kidd”) seized in Boston –
Pennsylvania Evening Post first newspaper to publish Declaration of Independence –
French scientist Louis Pasteur successfully tested a vaccine against rabies on a boy bitten by an infected dog –
First east-to-west Atlantic crossing by a dirigible (R34) completed, Scotland to N.Y. –
First major league All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park –
The main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus went up in flames during a performance in Hartford, Connecticut; over 165 people died and many more were injured –
Candid Microphone made its radio debut –
Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon championship becoming the first African American athlete to do so –
A nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site caused the largest manmade crater in the United States (Sedan Crater). –
The first Beatles film, A Hard Day’s Night, premiered –
Fires in Quebec brought smoke to northeastern U.S. –
Queen Elizabeth II dedicated and formally opened a $6.5 million oval granite water fountain in honor of Princess Diana in Hyde Park –
Weather
A hailstone measuring 5.5 inches in diameter and weighing 1.5 pounds fell from the sky in Potter, Nebraska –
Steele, North Dakota, was 121 degrees F –
Moorhead, Minnesota, was 114 degrees F –
Skies over Greater Vancouver and southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, were lit up by over 7,000 lightning strikes. –
