1603 – English explorer Walter Raleigh is arrested by forces of King James I of England
1864 – CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
1867 – 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1922 – Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1925 – Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
1959 – Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or ‘Zinj’ (now called Paranthropus boisei) lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago
1974 – The Moody Blues open 1st quadrophonic recording studio in UK
1981 – Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23-year-old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
1996 – Paris-bound flight TWA 800, explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board the Boeing 747
2018 – 89th MLB All Star Game, Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.: AL beats NL 8-6, the teams combining for a record 10 home runs accounting for 13 of the 14 total runs
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