1925 – The “Monkey Trial” ended in Dayton,\u00a0TN. John T. Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating the state prohibition on teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. The conviction was later overturned on a legal technicality because the judge had set the fine instead of the jury.<\/p>\n
1930 – The Veterans Administration of the United States was established.<\/p>\n
1931 – CBS aired the first regularly scheduled program to be simulcast on radio and television. The show featured singer Kate Smith, composer George Gershwin and New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker.<\/p>\n
1931 – The Reno Race Track inaugurated the daily double in the\u00a0U.S.<\/p>\n
1940 – Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia were annexed by the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
1944 – American forces landed on Guam during World War II.<\/p>\n
1947 – Loren MacIver\u2019s portrait of Emmett Kelly as Willie the Clown appeared on the cover of “LIFE” magazine.<\/p>\n
1949 – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.<\/p>\n
1954 – The Geneva Conference partitioned Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.<\/p>\n
1957 – Althea Gibson became the first black woman to win a major\u00a0U.S.\u00a0tennis title when she won the Women\u2019s National clay-court singles competition.<\/p>\n
1958 – The last of “Arthur Godfrey\u2019s Talent Scouts” programs aired on CBS-TV.<\/p>\n
1959 – A\u00a0U.S.\u00a0District Court judge in New York City ruled that “Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover” was not a dirty book.<\/p>\n
1961 – Captain Virgil “Gus” Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth. He was flying on the\u00a0Liberty Bell 7<\/i>.<\/p>\n
1968 – Arnold Palmer became the first golfer to make a million dollars in career earnings after he tied for second place at the PGA Championship.<\/p>\n
1980 – Draft registration began in the\u00a0United States\u00a0for 19 and 20-year-old men.<\/p>\n
1987 – Mary Hart, of “Entertainment Tonight”, had her legs insured by Lloyd\u2019s of London for $2 million.<\/p>\n
1997 – The\u00a0U.S.S. Constitution<\/i>, which defended the\u00a0United States\u00a0during the War of 1812, set sail under its own power for the first time in 116 years.<\/p>\n
1998 – Chinese gymnast Sang Lan, 17, was paralyzed after a fall while practicing for the women’s vault competition at the Goodwill Games in New York. Spinal surgery 4 days later failed to restore sensation below her upper chest.<\/p>\n
2000 – NBC announced that they had found nearly all of Milton Berle’s kinescopes. The filmed recordings of Berle’s early TV shows had been the subject of a $30 million lawsuit filed by Berle the previous May.<\/p>\n
2002 – WorldCom Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. At the time it was the largest bankruptcy in\u00a0U.S.\u00a0history.<\/p>\n
2004 – White House officials were briefed on the September 11 commission’s final report. The 575-page report concluded that hijackers exploited “deep institutional failings within our government.” The report was released to the public the next day.<\/p>\n
2007 – The seventh and last book of the Harry Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” was released.<\/p>\n
2011 –\u00a0In Florida, Space Shuttle Atlantis landed successfully at Kennedy Space Center after completing STS-135. It was the final flight of NASA’s space shuttle program.<\/p>\n
1981 \u2013 Paloma Faith, English singer-songwriter and actress
\n1981 \u2013 Anabelle Langlois, Canadian figure skater
\n1982 \u2013 Jason Cram, Australian swimmer
\n1982 \u2013 Mao Kobayashi, Japanese newscaster and actress (d. 2017)
\n1984 \u2013 Jurrick Juliana, Dutch footballer
\n1984 \u2013 Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
\n1985 \u2013 Mati Lember, Estonian footballer
\n1985 \u2013 Von Wafer, American basketball player
\n1986 \u2013 Anthony Annan, Ghanaian footballer
\n1986 \u2013 Jason Thompson, American basketball player
\n1987 \u2013 Bilel Mohsni, French footballer
\n1987 \u2013 Jes\u00fas Zavala, Mexican footballer
\n1988 \u2013 KB, American rapper
\n1988 \u2013 Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer (d. 2016)
\n1989 \u2013 Marco Fabi\u00e1n, Mexican footballer
\n1989 \u2013 Kirill Nesterov, Russian footballer
\n1990 \u2013 Chris Martin, English footballer
\n1990 \u2013 Franck Elemba, Congolese athlete
\n1991 \u2013 Sara Sampaio, Portuguese model
\n1992 \u2013 Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
\n1996 \u2013 Mikael Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian footballer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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