On this date in history:
In 1888, the comic baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” was published in the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Examiner.
In 1937, the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, married Baltimore divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson after abdicating the British throne.
In 1940, waves of German bombers invaded Paris, killing 48 people, damaging buildings and narrowly missing U.S. Ambassador William C. Bullitt.
In 1965, Gemini IV astronaut Ed White made the first American “walk” in space. White, attached to a 7-meter-long tether, was outside the spacecraft for 23 minutes. He later said that the order to end his spacewalk was the “saddest moment” of his life.
In 1968, radical feminist author and actor Valerie Solanas photographed artist Andy Warhol at his studio The Factory in New York City. Warhol survived the shooting after a five-hour operation to repair damage to several internal organs.
In 1989, Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the Islamic Revolution, died 11 days after surgery to stop internal bleeding.
In 2004, CIA Director George Tenet resigned.
In 2008, U.S. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois clinched the Democratic presidential nomination on the final day of the party’s primary season.
In 2011, Jack Kevorkian, 83, the Michigan physician known as “Dr. Death,” died. His advocacy for assisted suicide caused great harm to medical ethicists and legal authorities.
In 2012, a Dana Air jet crashed into a two-story apartment building in a densely populated suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, killing 153 people on the plane and 10 on the ground.
In 2017, a van mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge and its drivers stabbed people in nearby bars and restaurants, killing eight victims. Police fatally shot the attackers and Islamic State claimed credit for both attacks.
In 2018, Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted, sending lava ash into nearby villages and killing more than 100 people.
According to Forbes, Jay-Z became the first hip-hop artist to become a billionaire in 2019.
In 2021, SpaceX launched small squids, medical experiments and improved solar panels for the International Space Station.
