The Duke of Argyll, Marquess of Lorne(Canadian Governor General 1878 - 1883)–
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt(U.S. First Lady)–
Alexander Fleming(Scottish bacteriologist)–
Scott Nearing(sociologist)–
Lucille Ball(actress)–
Robert Mitchum(actor)–
Andy Warhol(artist)–
M. Night Shyamalan(film director, writer, producer)–
Events
At Auburn Prison, Auburn, NY, William Kemmler became the first man to be executed by electrocution –
Baseball pitcher Cy Young made his major league debut –
Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. She did it in record time, 14 hours and 31 minutes –
The first atomic bomb, named Little Boy, was dropped out of an American B-29 bomber over the center of the city Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II. –
Jamaica became independent –
A miscalculation in a practice flight for an air show the following day caused a U.S. Blue Angel pilot to break the sound barrier. This, in turn, broke many windows in downtown Kelowna, British Columbia, and caused some injuries. –
Microsoft and Apple agreed to share technology –
Asteroids renamed to honor final Shuttle Columbia crew –
Weather
Adair and Union counties in Iowa received 4 inches of hail –
The temperature soared to 106 degrees F in Washington, D.C., and Maryland –
Large hail, some softball size, struck areas of Colorado, including the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. Although hail was not quite softball size there, it injured 14 people, killed a 4-year-old muscovy duck named Daisy and a 13-year-old Cape vulture named Motswari, injured other animals, and damaged windows and an estimated 400 cars. The storm also knocked out power to nearly 2,000 customers in the region. –
