Dorothy Hamill(Olympic gold medal figure skater)β
Sandra Bullock(actress)β
Jeremy Piven(actor)β
Kate Beckinsale(actress)β
Died
Sam Houston(president of Texas, 1836-38; 1841-44)β
Eva Peron(wife of Argentine President Juan Peron)β
Events
Benjamin Franklin became the first Postmaster Generalβ
New York ratified the Constitution and became the 11th stateβ
Black Bart made his first stagecoach robbery in Californiaβ
The Potsdam Declaration was issued by President Truman, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek, which outlined the terms of surrender for Japanβ
The SS Andrea Doria sunk near Nantucket Lightship, MAβ
First Moon rock samples analyzed, Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Houston, Texasβ
A federal grand jury indicted Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer worm, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Actβ
Jim Rice and Ricky Henderson were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fameβ
The Plastiki, a boat made mostly from recycled plastic bottles (12,500 of them), reached Sydney, Australia, to complete a 4-month journey across the Pacific Oceanβ
Weather
Catskill, New York, and Westfield, Massachusetts, each got 15 inches of rain, causing flash floods and enormous erosion damageβ
The temperature in Salt Lake City soared to an all-time high of 107 degrees Fβ
Eastport, Maine, the northeastern most tip of the U.S., reached 96 degreesβ