- 1644 Florentine scientist Evangelista Torricelli describes his invention of the mercury barometer in 1643 in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci
- 1892 The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia
- 1907 George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket
- 1935 Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey
Royals Try Hot Dogs
1939 British ruler King George VI and Queen Elizabeth taste their first "hot dogs" at a party at FDR's Hyde Park residence during their US visit [1]
- 1962 Brothers John and Clarence Anglin and fellow inmate Frank Morris escape from Alcatraz Island prison, the only ones to do so
- 1978 Christa Tybus of London sets record of 24½ hrs of hula-hoop
- 1984 Michael Larson shown winning record $110,237 on American TV game show "Press Your Luck" by memorizing patterns
- 1993 "Jurassic Park," adapted from best-selling novel by Michael Crichton, directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum, opens and sets a box office weekend record of $502 million
- 2002 Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress
- 2009 Texas mother hit by lightning while standing in her kitchen in her Texas home. Witnesses say lightning came through a light fixture, struck her chest and exited her foot. Survived after three days in hospital.
- 2021 US lobsterman survives being swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts
- 2024 Estonian Biobank opens its portal allowing 200,000 people to access their genetic information, including disease risk, ancestry markers and how they handle caffeine [1]
