Historical Events
1643 - 1st recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts)
1814 - Americans defeat British and Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
1859 - American sealing ship Captain N. C. Brooks discovers the uninhabited Midway Islands in the North Pacific Ocean and claims for the US
1907 - Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American May Sutton avenges previous year's defeat, beating Dorothea Chambers 6-1, 6-4
1987 - Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Pat Cash of Australia scores his only Grand Slam singles success 7-6, 6-2, 7-5 over Ivan Lendl
2023 - Meta launches Threads - Instagram's new public conversations app - a day later it becomes the most rapidly downloaded app ever with 30 million downloads
Famous Birthdays
1852 - Stefano Gobatti, Italian composer, born in Bergantino, Italy (d. 1913)
1879 - Dwight F. Davis, American politician (49th United States Secretary of War) and founder of Davis Cup, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1945)
1946 - Gerard 't Hooft, Dutch physicist (1999 Nobel Prize for Physics -for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions), born in Den Helder, Netherlands
1947 - Atanas Golomeev, Bulgarian basketball center (FIBA EuroBasket Top Scorer 1973 Academic Sofia, 1975 Levski Sofia; FIBA European Selection 1971, 73, 75, 77), born in Sofia, Bulgaria (d. 2023)
1957 - David Hanson, British Labour politician, born in Liverpool
1995 - P.V. Sindhu, Indian badminton player (World C'ship gold women's singles 2019; Olympic silver 2016, bronze 2020), born in Hyderabad, India
Famous Deaths
1626 - Stephan Fadinger, Austrian boer leader, dies in battle
1981 - Jorge Urrutia Blondel, Chilean composer, dies at 75
1985 - Marion Byron, actress (Steamboat Bill Jr), dies at 73
1989 - Ernesto Halffter, Spanish classical and film score composer (Rapsodia portuguesa; is Don Quixote de la Mancha), and conductor, dies at 84
2007 - Régine Crespin, French operatic mezzo-soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1962-87; Sheherazade, Les Nuits D'ete), dies of liver cancer at 80
2020 - Volodymyr Troshkin, Ukrainian soccer defender (31 caps, USSR; Dynamo Kiev 205 games), dies at 72
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