Birthdays: P.T. Barnum, Beatrix Potter, Mrs. Sarah Siddons, Jean Cocteau, Admiral David Farragut, Len Lye, George Pompidou, Shirley Knight, Huey Lewis is 70, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Milburn Stone (Doc on Gunsmoke), Warren Oates, Henry Cabot Lodge IV, Eva Green is 41, Edie Falco is 57
1910- Writer O. Henry died of cirrhosis and tuberculosis at 47. His last words were "Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark." He became a writer while serving a jail term for embezzlement.
1935- The Wagner Act passed congress, decreeing all American workers have the right to collective bargaining and to form unions.
1943- Betty Grable married bandleader Harry James.
1954- Elvis Presley recorded "That’s All Right" at Sun Records in Memphis. Some call it the first true Rock & Roll song, but that is disputed by Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock, Ike Turners Delta 88 and many other R&B hits. “That’s All Right” was written by black bluesman Arthur Big-Boy Crudup, who never profited from the song’s success and died living in a shack.
1954- Tomoyuki Tanaka announced the beginning of production on the movie Godzilla.
1975-Tennis player Arthur Ashe becomes the first African-American to win Wimbledon.
1989- The first episode of the TV sitcom Seinfeld.
1994- In Bellevue Washington, a man named Jeff Bezos formed a company named Cadabra. Shortly after he changed its name to Amazon.
2002- International Professional Women’s Tennis had become dominated by two amazing American sisters, Venus and Serena Williams. This day Serena defeated Venus to win Wimbledon. Of 17 Wimbledon Women’s singles between 1999 and 2016, the Williams sisters won 12 of them. They are still competing today. Last Sunday, after winning 5 Wimbledons, Venus was defeated by a 15 year old girl Cori “Coco” Gauff in straight sets. Coco said Venus was her inspiration.
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