1903 - Ford Motors incorporates
1927 - Tommy Armour wins golf's U.S. Open
1932 - President Hoover and VP Charles Curtis renominated by Republican Convention
1961 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects in Paris
1964 - Quake strikes Niigata Japan
1976 - Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day)
1977 - "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
1977 - Leonid Brezhnev named leader of USSR
1983 - European Space Agency launches European Communication Satellite 1, Oscar 10
1989 - "Ghostbusters II" premieres
1991 - Boris Yeltsin elected Commonwealth of Independent States president
1991 - NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week" (through the 23rd)