Historical Events
1910 - Walter Brookins, flying a Wright biplane over Atlantic City, New Jersey, becomes 1st to fly an airplane to an altitude of 1 mile (actually reaching 6,175 feet or 1.169 miles)
1941 - Dutch-American Physicist Abraham Pais is awarded his Ph.D. in Holland five days before a Nazi deadline banning Jews from receiving degrees
1946 - 13th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 12-0 at Fenway Park, Boston
1986 - Atlanta's Dale Murphy doesn't play ending consecutive streak at 740
2011 - Super Rugby Final, Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane: Queensland Reds beat Canterbury Crusaders 18-13 at home for their first SR title
2022 - Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan claims her first Grand Slam title with a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 win over Tunisia's Ons Jabeur; first Kazakhstani player to win a major title
Famous Birthdays
1887 - Samuel Eliot Morison, American historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1976)
1926 - Murphy Anderson, American comic artist (DC Comics), born in Asheville, North Carolina (d. 2015)
1936 - David Zinman, American composer and conductor (Baltimore Symphony, 1985-98), born in New York City
1944 - Dorian Rudnytsky, American concert and session cellist (New York Rock and Roll Ensemble), and composer (Costa Blanca Suite), born in New York City
1969 - Robert Gordon, American CFL and Arena football receiver, 1991-2005 (Edmonton Eskimos, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and 7 other teams), born in Detroit, Michigan
1990 - Fábio and Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballers
Famous Deaths
1706 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French Canadian sailor and explorer and adventurer (explored Hudson Bay and Louisiana), dies of fever in Havana at 44
1932 - King C. Gillette, American businessman and inventor of inexpensive and disposable safety razor blades, dies at 77
1995 - Julian Graham Theodore Hough, actor (Deathwatch, Shout), dies at 47
2006 - Milan Williams, American keyboardist (Commodores - "Three Times A Lady"), dies of cancer at 58
2019 - Rip Torn [Elmore Rual Torn Jr], American actor, voice artist and comedian (Cross Creek, The Larry Sanders Show), dies at 88
2023 - Luis Suárez, Spanish soccer midfielder (32 caps; Barcelona, Inter Milan, Sampdoria) and manager (Spain 1988-91; Cagliari, SPAL, Como, Inter Milan, Deportivo La Coruña), dies at 88
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