1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.

1896 – Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London, the UK's first pedestrian motoring fatality.

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1962 – The famous lineup of The Beatles is formed when drummer Pete Best is discharged from the band, and Ringo Starr is brought on.

1930 – The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.

1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.

1969 – The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.

1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.

1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.

1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in London.

1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.

1960 – Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.

1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.

2015 – For the first time in Major League Baseball history, all 15 home teams won their game. Prior to this happening, the record was 12 which was reached over a century ago in 1914.

1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.

1961 – First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.

1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.