1925 - The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established.
1961 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris
1972 - The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
1983 - Pope John Paul II visits Poland
1987 - Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
1999 - Thabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
1916 - Hank Luisetti, NBA forward (1st to use a one-handed shot)
1931 - Robert F [Bob] Smith, (Rep-R-OR, 1983- )
1934 - Bill Cobbs [Wilbert], Cleveland, Ohio, American actor (Night at the Museum, The Color of Money)
1940 - Hans Dorrestijn, Dutch cabaret performer
1969 - L B Stephens, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1987 - Diana DeGarmo, Birmingham, Alabama, American singer
1575 - Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian, dies at 63
1881 - Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, US inventor (gyroscope compass), dies
1976 - Francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped and killed
1983 - James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman, at 87
2003 - Pierre Bourgault, French Canadian politician (b. 1934)
At an Amazon.com warehouse in Pennsylvania, workers were required to work — in some cases walking 15 miles a day — in 100+ degree heat. When the news broke, Amazon’s initial response was to keep an ambulance outside the warehouse.
Ronaldinho’s commercial deal with Coca-Cola was terminated after he was caught drinking Pepsi at a press conference.
The bar is drastically lowered for African American applicants to medical school.
The seal “made in Germany” was created by the British Parliament in 1887 to warn consumers that a product was of poor quality.
In 1994, a convicted murderer was granted a retrial after it came to light that four of his jurors had used a Ouija board to consult the victim before rendering a verdict.
There are only 5 countries in the world that still use Fahrenheit to measure temperature, the Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands, Palau, and the United States
While shooting The Blues Brothers movie, they had a budget for cocaine.
Many words used to be spelled phonetically (e.g. debt was ‘det’) until some scholars purposely added silent letters to make them look more like Greek or Latin words, sometimes erroneously.
