Also on this date
In 1807,
former Vice President Aaron Burr went on trial before a federal court in Richmond, Virginia, charged with treason. (He was acquitted less than a month later.)
In 1921,
Major League Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis refused to reinstate the former Chicago White Sox players implicated in the “Black Sox” scandal, despite their acquittals in a jury trial.
In 1936,
Jesse Owens of the United States won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he took the 100-meter sprint.
In 1949,
the National Basketball Association was formed as a merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League.
In 1958,
the nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.
In 1993,
the Senate voted 96-tothree to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
In 2014,
Israel withdrew most of its ground troops from the Gaza Strip in an apparent winding down of a nearly monthlong operation against Hamas that had left more than 1,800 Palestinians and more than 60 Israelis dead.
In 2018,
Las Vegas police said they were closing their investigation into the 2017 shooting that left 58 people dead at a country music festival without a definitive answer for why Stephen Paddock unleashed gunfire from a hotel suite onto the concert crowd.
Ten years ago:
A warehouse driver killed eight co-workers and himself in a shooting rampage at a Manchester, Connecticut, beer distributorship.
Five years ago:
President Barack Obama unveiled a plan that would attempt to slow global warming by shifting the way Americans get and use electricity; opponents denounced the proposal as federal overreach that would send power prices surging and vowed to stop it.
One year ago:
A gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, leaving 22 people dead; prosecutors said Patrick Crusius targeted Mexicans in hopes of scaring Latinos into leaving the U.S., and that he had outlined the plot in a screed published online shortly before the attack. (Crusius has pleaded not guilty to state murder charges; he also faces federal hate crime and gun charges.)