1812-Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins
1839-First baseball game played in America
1867-Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
1880-First baseball perfect game-John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve
1903-Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
1917-Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
1920-Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
1937-USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued
11967-Israel wins six-day war
1967-Race riot in Cincinnati, Ohio (300 arrested)
1967-Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages
1967-USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
1982-750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC
1989-Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids