1917 - Riots in East St Louis, Missouri
1921 - In boxing's first million dollar gate ($1.7m), world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey KOs Frenchman Georges Carpentier in round 4 of his 3rd title defence; crowd 91,000 at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey
1932 - FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech
2001 - Bush Administration announce that it will seek to let oil companies drill on about 1,500,000 acres of the Gulf of Mexico
2005 - Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Venus Williams beats fellow American Lindsay Davenport 4-6, 7-6, 9-7 for the 3rd of her 5 Wimbledon singles titles
2018 - 270,000 people now displaced by fighting in south-western Syria says UN since assault on rebel-held area two weeks ago
1918 - Sheikh Imam, Egyptian singer and composer, born in Giza (d. 1995)
1925 - Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist and NAACP official who was assassinated, born in Decatur, Mississippi (d. 1963)
1926 - Billy Usselton, American big band jazz saxophonist (Les Brown and His Band of Renown), born in New Castle, Pennsylvania (d. 1994)
1939 - John H. Sununu, US Secretary of State (R, 1989-91), Governor of New Hampshire (1983-89), born in Havana, Cuba
1947 - Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of President LBJ
1972 - Darren Shan, Irish children's author
936 - Henry I the Vogelaar, German king (919-36), Duke of Saxon 912-36, dies
1708 - Willem of Nassau, mister of Zuylenstein/lt-gen/baron Enfield, dies
1746 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian, dies at 89
1946 - Anthony Overton, publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker, dies at 81
1961 - Ernest Hemingway, American author and Nobel laureate (The Old Man and the Sea), dies from suicide at 61
1989 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)