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1819 - The United States first bank opened in New York City. The first day saw deposits totalling $2,807.

1871 - The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company introduced the first narrow-gauge locomotive called the "Montezuma."

1878 - John Wise of Lancaster, Pennsylvania piloted the first flight of a dirigible.

1884 - Journalists Charles Dow and Edward Jones published the first average of US stocks. The first Dow-Jones average included mostly railroads because they were the biggest and sturdiest companies at the time. Dow and Jones founded their financial news company next to the New York Stock Exchange, on Wall Street.

1912 - Rube Marquand set a pitching record for baseball. Marquand and the New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-1, earning Marquand a 19th consecutive win.

1922 - Magazine readers were introduced to "Fruit Garden and Home" magazine. Two years later, the publication would be reborn as "Better Homes and Gardens."

1934 - The United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) made its first payment ever to Lydia Losiger of East Peoria, Illinois.

1937 - In Del Mar, California, the Del Mar race track opened.

1939 - "Blondie," Chic Young’s comic strip character, made her debut on CBS radio. Later, the comic strip would become a television favorite.

1940 - On NBC the comedy team Bud Abbott and Lou Costello their network radio show. For the summer the duo replaced Fred Allen.

1941 - Cab Calloway and orchestra recorded "St. James Infirmary" for Okeh Records.

1945 - For the first time Victor Borge was heard on NBC radio. The network used the comedian/pianist to replace "Fibber McGee and Molly" for the summer.

1945 - Since February 1942, the first civilian passenger car to be built was driven off the Ford Motor Company's assembly line at their plant in Detroit, Michigan. Automotive production had been diverted to military production for World War II efforts.

1951 - The New York premier of Alfred Hitchcock's cinema classic, Strangers on a Train, was on this date.

1953 - When Harry Belafonte was pictured with actress Janet Leigh and actor Tony Curtis on the cover of "Ebony" magazine it was the first time a black person was seen with two Caucasians on a magazine cover in the United States.

1971 - The reputation of the Newport Jazz Festival’s was tarnished when crashers advanced on the stage. The unruliness of the crowd forced the show to abandon Newport, Rhode Island for New York City. The crowd got unruly over singer Dionne Warwick. At the time of the incident she was singing "What the World Needs Now is Love."

1971 - Jim Morrison, lead singer and composer for the rock group The Doors, died at the age of 27, while in a hot bath in the middle of the night at a Paris, France hotel room. His death was attributed to heart failure, although popular speculation blamed an overdose of heroin. As there was no autopsy, the truth may never be known. Before his death, Morrison had a series of arrests which critics linked to his drug abuse problem. His popularity with fans was waning, only to be rekindled after his death. Some critics felt he was a mediocre rock singer whose star was falling fast, and who was catapulted undeservedly into rock 'n' roll legend. Hit songs by the Doors include Light My Fire and Riders On the Storm.

1973 - For his single "Playground in My Mind," Clint Holmes received a gold record.

1974 - Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 14 was launched from Baikonur (the Soviet Union's largest cosmodrome). During the 15-day mission, cosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Yuri Artyukhin linked with space station Salyut 3. The Soyuz series is considered one of the most efficient and reliable of all spacecrafts.

1976 - After 12 years out of the Beach Boys's tour schedule, Brian Wilson rejoined the group while they appeared at Angels Stadium in Anaheim, California, in front of 74,000 fans.

1976 - An Israeli commando unit rescued 103 hostages after a raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda. The 106 hostages originally taken were snatched from a hijacked Air France airliner on its way to Paris from Tel Aviv. During the raid, seven pro-Palestinian guerrilla hijackers, 20 Ugandan soldiers and 3 hostages were killed .

1982 - Philadelphia Phillie Pete Rose of the connected for the 3,786th hit of his career to move into second place in record books' career-hits columns. Rose took second place to Ty Cobb whose major league record totaled4,191 hits. Rose was 41 years old at the time, and three years later he would surpass Cobb’s mark.

1983 - Tennis champion John McEnroe earned his second consecutive Wimbledon men's singles title, beating unseeded Chris Lewis.

1985 - At the Wimbledon tennis championships, Kevin Curren defeated #1-seeded John McEnroe, who had been trying to become the first American to win three consecutive men’s Wimbledon titles.

1986 - In a ceremony at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, Mikhail Baryshnikov, considered by many to be the world’s greatest ballet dancer, became a United States citizen.

1986 - After renovations on the Statue of Liberty, United States President Ronald Reagan presided over the statue's relighting.