1904 - Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, author of "The Cherry Orchard," died.
1923 - Bobby Jones won the U.S. Open Championship.
1927 - Nearly 90 people were killed in riots in Vienna.
1997 - Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot outside his Miami Beach mansion.
2002 - John Walker Lindh, a Muslim from California who was captured among Taliban and Qaeda prisoners in Afghanistan, later pleaded guilty to aiding the Taliban.
2004 - Former Rwandan Finance Minister Emmanuel Ndindabahizi was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the 1994 genocide in the country.
2005 - American Herbert Brown, a 105-year-old survivor of the Nazi concentration camps Dachau and Majdanek, and his 100-year-old wife, entered the Guinness World Records for being the oldest married couple in the world.
2006 - The social media platform "Twitter" was launched.
2011 - An Italian couple set a world record for the longest underwater kiss, lasting 3 minutes and 8 seconds.
2016 - A failed military coup took place in Turkey.
2017 - British Samantha Kinghorn set the world record for the 200 meters "T53" at the ParaAthletics Championships.
