1661-Treaty of The Hague is signed, whereby the Dutch Republic sells New Holland (Brazil) to Portugal for 63 tonnes of gold
1890-Murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair, at Auburn Prison in New York
1945- Atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"
1964-Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam
1965-U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities
1990-President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan
1991-Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web and debuts WWW as a publicly available service on the Internet
1992-The U.S. track team sweeps the medals in the long jump at the Barcelona Olympics as Carl Lewis wins gold (28 feet, 5 1/2 inches), Mike Powell silver and Joe Greene bronze
1993-Japan Hosokawa government begins
2020-COVID-19 detected cases in Africa pass 1 million with 21,983 deaths