Ian Fleming 1908 - Author, journalist, created character of James Bond
- 1863 - The first black regiment left Boston to fight in the U.S. Civil War.
- 1928 - Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc.
- 1959 - The U.S. Army launched Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard a Jupiter missile for a suborbital flight. Both primates survived the trip.
- 1987 - Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. He was released August 3, 1988.
- 1996 - U.S. President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud.
- 2002 - Russia became a limited partner in NATO with the creation of the NATO-Russia Council.
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