1821 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer, designed the Waterloo Bridge (b. 1761) dies.
1890 – Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829) dies.
1895 – The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
1904 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834) dies.
1918 – An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey.
1923 – Charlton Heston, American actor, director and gun rights activist (d. 2008) is born.
1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
1957 – Russell Simmons, American businessman, founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm is born.
1960 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people (out of 72 onboard).
1961 – Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author and illustrator, created Yu-Gi-Oh! is born.
1965 – Pope Paul VI arrives in New York City, the first Pope to visit the Americas.
1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
1989 – Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970) dies.
1997 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created Game Boy (b. 1941) dies.
1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million stolen cash.
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