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Events in History

1940 Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attack shipping convoys in the English Channel

1985 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.

1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected President of the Russian Federation

2012 The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages

Events in Flim and TV

1949 WJAR TV channel 10 in Providence, Rhode Island (NBC) begins broadcasting

1950 “Your Hit Parade” premieres on NBC-TV (later CBS), after being broadcast on radio from 1935

1981 Walt Disney’s “Fox & The Hound” released

Events in Music

1948 Jerome Moross and John Latouche’a musical “Ballet Ballads” closes at Music Box Theater, NYC, after 62 performances

1964 The Beatles release “A Hard Day’s Night”, their 3rd studio album

1965 Beatles’ “VI” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks

1965 Rolling Stones score their 1st US #1 single “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

1977 “Happy End” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 75 performances

1984 Prolific studio drummer Jim Gordon convicted of murdering his mother and sentenced 16 years to life in prison. Diagnosed with schizophrenia after the killing, he is serving time in a medical / psychiatric prison, and has been denied parole 10 times as of 2018. [1]

Events in Sports

1884 First day of Test Cricket at Old Trafford, Manchester (1st Test, England v Australia) is washed out

1929 Pittsburgh Pirates outslug Philadelphia Phillies, 15-9 at the Baker Bowl; 9 HRs hit, 1 in each inning – unique in MLB history

1934 2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, NYC

1938 “Yankee Clipper” completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic

1951 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit

1956 23rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C.

1960 UEFA European Championship Final, Parc des Princes, Paris, France: Viktor Ponedelnik scores in extra time as Soviet Union beats Yugoslavia, 2-1

1962 32nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington

1964 Jesús Alou is the first San Francisco Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game in a 10-3 win over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field

1968 US Major League baseball announces it will split into 2 divisions for 1969

1990 61st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago

1990 All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers)