EVENTS:
- 1868 – Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer.”
- 1887 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation’s first national park, Banff National Park.
- 1894 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
- 1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
- 1941 – The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
- 1946 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
- 1969 – Software Industry IBM announced that effective January 1970 it would price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
- 2012 – Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.
- 2013 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
- 2014 – The last of Syria’s declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
- 2016 – The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
- 2017 – A series of terrorist attacks took place in Pakistan resulting in 96 deaths and wounded 200 others.
- 2018 – Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation.
BIRTHS:
- 1907 – James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 1916 – Len Hutton, English cricketer (d. 1990)
- 1935 – Keith Burkinshaw, English footballer and manager
- 1937 – Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish politician, 10th President of Finland, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1943 – Vint Cerf, American computer scientist
- 1955 – Jean Tigana, French footballer and manager
- 1956 – Tony Hill, American football player and sportscaster
- 1977 – Hayden Foxe, Australian footballer and manager
- 1980 – Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer
- 1985 – Marcel Reece, American football player
- 2000 – Starford To’a, New Zealand rugby league player
