TODAY’S HISTORY

1889: The Wall Street Journal was published for the first time.

1932: The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell to its lowest point of the Great Depression, at 41.22.

1947: news outlets reported a UFO crash near an army airfield in Roswell, New Mexico.

1994: Kim Jong Il began to assume leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.

2011: the space shuttle Atlantis began the last NASA space shuttle mission.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: John Pemberton (18311888), chemist/ Coca-cola inventor; John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), entrepreneur; Hugo Boss (1885-1948), fashion designer; Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908-1979), New York governor/u.s. vice president; Jeffrey Tambor (1944-), actor; Ruby Sales (1948-), civil rights activist; Wolfgang Puck (1949-), chef; Anjelica Huston (1951-), actress; Kevin Bacon (1958-), actor; Toby Keith (1961-), singer-songwriter; Beck (1970-), singer-songwriter; Milo Ventimiglia (1977-), actor; Jaden Smith (1998-), actor.

TODAY’S FACT: Between 1855 and 1934, John D. Rockefeller donated $530.9 million to charitable causes.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1889, boxing’s last bare-knuckle championship match was fought. John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain in a 75-round bout that lasted two hours and 16 minutes.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.” — Nelson A. Rockefeller

TODAY’S NUMBER: 68,000 — women currently serving in the U.S. Air Force. The USAF accepted its first female recruits into the Women in the Air Force program on this day in 1948.

TODAY’S MOON: Between first quarter moon (July 6) and full moon (July 13).