This Day In History
- 1588 The English soundly defeated the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines.
- 1890 Artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France, at age 37.
- 1914 Transcontinental telephone service began with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco.
- 1957 The International Atomic Energy Agency was established.
- 1957 Jack Paar made his debut as host of NBC's ''Tonight'' show.
- 1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA.
- 1967 Fire swept the USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin, killing 134 servicemen.
- 1968 Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's stance against artificial methods of birth control.
- 1975 President Gerald R. Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland.
- 1993 The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk of being Nazi death camp guard ''Ivan the Terrible,'' and threw out his death sentence.
- 1997 Minamata Bay in Japan once a worldwide symbol of industrial pollution was declared free of mercury 40 years after contaminated fish were blamed for deaths and birth defects.
- 1998 Choreographer Jerome Robbins died at age 79.
- 1999 A day trader opened fire in two Atlanta brokerage offices, killing nine people and wounding 13 before shooting himself to death; he had earlier killed his wife and two children.
- 2003 Boston Red Sox batter Bill Mueller became the first player in major league history to hit grand slams from both sides of the plate in a single game in a 14-7 win at Texas.
- 1905 Clara (Gordon) Bow (actress)
- 1907 Melvin Belli (‘King of Torts’: attorney)
- 1913 Stephen (Horace) McNally (actor: Dear Detective, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, A Bullet is Waiting, The Black Castle; died June 4, 1994)
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