World Events Today
- The pirate Captain William Kidd was arrested today in 1699 in Boston, Massachusetts, he was sent to England for trial and later hanged at Execution Dock in London
- The International Olympic Committee, the IOC, awarded London the right to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, today in 2005
- The South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius, found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment today in 2016
Entertainment Events Today
- The German tennis player Boris Becker, the defending champion, beat the Czechoslovakian Ivan Lendl at Wimbledon today in 1986, to win the 100th Wimbledon Men’s Singles title
- The comedy-drama movie Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks as the main character, went on general release in the United States today in 1994
- The Augmented Reality mobile game Pokémon Go was released today in 2016, GPS was used to locate, capture, battle, and train virtual creatures
Family Events Today
- William John Clifton Haley, better known as the American rock and roll legend Bill Haley, was born today in 1925 in Michigan
- The American actor and screenwriter Sylvester Stallone, star of the Rambo and Rocky movies, was born today in 1946 in New York
- Two of the four members of the pop supergroup Abba, Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus, married today in 1971
Main Event Today
- The Piper Alpha Disaster, an explosion on a North Sea oil production platform, occurred today in 1988, over 150 people lost their lives and it took over 3 weeks to finally put the fire out
National Day Today
- Today, it’s National Fried Chicken Day