1858 ~  Lyman Blake patented the shoe manufacturing machine.

1863 ~ In northwest Iowa 71 people were killed by a tornado. 

1917 ~ During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks.

1928 ~ ""The Lights of New York" was previewed in New York's Strand Theatre. It was the first all-talking movie. 

1933 ~ The first All-Star baseball game was held in Chicago. The American League beat the National League 4-2.

1942 ~ Diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam.

1945 ~ U.S. President Truman signed an order creating the Medal of Freedom.

1948 ~ Frieda Hennok became the first woman to serve as the commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission.

1957 ~ Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women’s singles tennis title. She was the first black athlete to win the event.

1967 ~ The Biafran War erupted. The war lasted two-and-a-half years. About 600,000 people died.

1983 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that retirement plans could not pay women smaller monthly payments solely because of their gender.

1983 ~ Fred Lynn of the California Angels hit the first grand slam in an All-Star game. The American League defeated the National League 13-3.

1987 ~  Sikh extremists made their first of three attacks over a two day period. The gunmen attacked a bus loaded with Hindu passengers. Over the two day period a total of 72 people were killed by the extremists.

1989 ~ The U.S. Army destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles at an ammunition plant in Karnack, TX. The dismantling was under the terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

1996 ~ Steffi Graf won her seventh Wimbledon title.

1998~ Protestants rioted in many parts of Northern Ireland after British authorities blocked an Orange Order march in Portadown.

2000 ~   In Orlando, FL, the body of Cory Erving was found in his vehicle in a pond near his families home. Julius "Dr. J" Erving had reported his son missing on June 4, 2000.

2000 ~  A jury awarded former NHL player Tony Twist $24 million for the unauthorized use of his name in the comic book Spawn and the HBO cartoon series. Co-defendant HBO settled with Twist out of court for an undisclosed amount.