On this date
In 1962,
the first public TV transmissions over Telstar 1 took place during a special program featuring live shots beamed from the United States to Europe, and vice versa.
In 1967,
five days of rioting erupted in Detroit after a police raid on an unlicensed bar resulted in a confrontation with residents that escalated into violence; 43 people, mostly African-Americans, were killed.
In 1982,
actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of “Twilight Zone: The Movie.” (Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of manslaughter.)
In 1984,
Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, after nude photographs of her taken in 1982 were published in Penthouse magazine.
In 1996,
at the Atlanta Olympics, Kerri Strug made a heroic final vault despite torn ligaments in her left ankle as the U.S. women gymnasts clinched their first-ever Olympic team gold medal.
In 1997,
the search for Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace and others, ended as police found his body on a houseboat in Miami Beach, an apparent suicide.
In 2011,
singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning. She was 27.
Ten years ago:
Hurricane Dolly slammed into the South Texas coast with winds of 100 mph.
Five years ago:
The White House and backers of the National Security Agency’s surveillance program warned that ending the massive collection of phone records would put the nation at risk.
One year ago:
President Donald Trump tweeted that he has “complete power” to issue pardons.