1992 The 1,000,000th Corvette rolls off the assembly line.

1991 Guns N' Roses riot The crowd erupts after lead singer Axl Rose ends the concert early. He stormed off the stage after diving into the crowd and attacking a fan for having a camera.

1982 Kiddy-porn A New York law banning the production and sale of kiddy-porn is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court (9-0).

1976 Death penalty The U.S. Supreme Court overturns its 1972 ban on the death penalty.

1965 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is established.

1962 Wal-Mart The future retail giant opens its first store in Rogers, Arkansas.

1937 Amelia Earhart The aviator's plane disappears over the Pacific Ocean, as she and Fred Noonan attempted to circle the globe.

1934 Securities and Exchange Commission is established.

1921 World War I The U.S. terminates its state of war with Germany.

1919 First lighter-than-air transatlantic flight Major George H. Scott takes off from Firth of Fourth, Scotland. He landed in Mineola, New York on July 13.

1900 First flight of a Zeppelin The LZ-1 is flown by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

1890 Sherman Antitrust Act designed to prevent monopolies and prevent restraint of trade.

1881 Pres. Garfield is shot and mortally wounded by Charles Jules Guiteau.

1776 American Revolution The Continental Congress votes to adopt a resolution of independence.

1968 Ronald Goldman d. 1994 American murder victim. He and Nicole Brown Simpson were murdered together. O.J. Simpson was tried and found not guilty of the crime.

1946 Ron Silver American actor. TV: Rhoda (Gary Levy).

1939 John H. Sununu White House Chief of Staff, traveler.

1937 Richard Petty American auto racer, 7-time-winner of the Daytona 500 and 7-time NASCAR national champ.

1937 Polly Holliday American actress. TV: Alice (Flo).

1922 Dan Rowan d. 1987 American comedian. TV: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

1908 Thurgood Marshall d. 1993 American civil-rights lawyer. He was the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court justice (1967-91), and legal director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

1855 Clarence Walker Barron d. 1928 American financial editor, Barron's Financial Weekly (1921-28).

2007 Beverly Sills b. 1929 (Belle Silverman), American opera singer, soprano.

2002 Ray Brown b. 1926 American Grammy-winning jazz string bassist, performed with Dizzy Gillespie in the late '40s.

1997 James Stewart b. 1908 American Oscar-winning actor. Film: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), and It's a Wonderful Life (1947, George Bailey).

1993 Fred Gwynne b. 1926 American actor. TV: Car 54, Where Are You (officer Francis Muldoon) and The Munsters (Herman).

1991 Lee Remick b. 1935 American actress. Film: Anatomy of a Murder (1959) and The Days of Wine and Roses (1962).

1989 Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko b. 1909 Soviet statesman, director of Soviet affairs with the West for nearly 50 years.

1973 Betty Grable b. 1916 (Elizabeth Ruth Grable), American actress, dancer, pin-up girl. Her legs were insured for $1,000,000 with Lloyds of London.

1961 Ernest Hemingway b. 1899 American Nobel and Pulitzer-winning author. Writings: The Sun Also Rises (1926), To Have and Have Not (1937), For Whom the Bell Tolls (194), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952, Pulitzer).

1932 Manuel II b. 1889 King of Portugal (1908-10), Portugal's last monarch. Deposed during a revolt, he lived out his life in exile in England.

1926 Emile Coue b. 1857 French druggist. He created the psychotherapeutic technique of Coueism, which is based on repeating the saying "Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better."

1904 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov b. 1860 Russian author, The Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904).

1850 Sir Robert Peel b. 1788 English statesman, founder of the metropolitan police in London (c1829). The term "bobbie" is derived from his first name.

1843 Samuel Hahnemann b. 1755 German physician, founder of homeopathic medicine, based on the "law of similars." This states that diseases can be cured by drugs which produce symptoms in healthy people that are similar to the symptoms being treated.

1798 John Fitch b. 1743 American pioneer steamboat builder. He launched his first steamboat in 1787.

1778 Bathsheba Spooner b. circa 1746 American criminal. She was the first woman executed in the U.S. by American courts. She conspired with her boyfriend and two others to kill her husband. She was pregnant with her boyfriend's child when she was hanged.

1566 Nostradamus b. 1503 (Michel de Nostredame), French astrologer, physician, prophet. He predicted both the date and manner of his death.

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