Also on this date
In 1911,
actor-comedian Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, New York.
In 1926,
Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, arriving in Kingsdown, England, from France in 141⁄2 hours.
In 1930,
New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater went missing after leaving a Manhattan restaurant; his disappearance remains a mystery.
In 1965,
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
In 1973,
entertainer Stevie Wonder was seriously injured in a car accident in North Carolina.
In 1978,
Pope Paul VI died at Castel Gandolfo at age 80.
In 1991,
the World Wide Web made its public debut as a means of accessing webpages over the Internet. TV newsman Harry Reasoner died in Norwalk, Connecticut, at age 68.
In 2009,
Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice by a Senate vote of 68-31; she became the high court’s first Hispanic justice.
In 2009,
John Hughes, 59, Hollywood’s youth movie director of the 1980s and ’90s, died in New York City.
In 2013,
U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan went on trial at Fort Hood, Texas, charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a 2009 attack. (Hasan, who admitted carrying out the attack, was convicted and sentenced to death.)
Ten years ago:
Hewlett-Packard Co. said it had ousted CEO Mark Hurd after an investigation of a sexual harassment complaint found that he had falsified expense reports and other documents to conceal a relationship with a contractor.
Five years ago:
“Hamilton,” the hip-hop flavored biography about Alexander Hamilton, the nation’s first treasury secretary, opened on Broadway.
One year ago:
In a strong rebuke to President Donald Trump, the four living former leaders of the Federal Reserve said that the head of the nation’s central bank should be able to make decisions on interest rates without political pressure or the threat of being removed.