National News

The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis docked with Russia’s Mir space station as they orbited the Earth.

Riots broke out following a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, an LGBTQ+ bar in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, leading to six days of violent protests that served as a watershed moment in the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

The first Harry Potter novel, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling, was published in the United Kingdom.

Barclays Bank unveiled the first automated teller machine (ATM) in the town of Enfield, north London.

The Supreme Court sided with Bayer, maker of Roundup weedkiller, blocking thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn of cancer risks.

A new AP-NORC poll shows that most Americans are inundated with scam attempts on a daily basis and many have lost money or info to scams.

American John Isner won the longest professional tennis match in history, defeating Nicolas Mahut of France 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68.

12 young soccer players and their coach became trapped in a flooded cave in northern Thailand.

Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona scored the infamous “Hand of God” goal in the quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup against England, giving Argentina a 1-0 lead before he scored again minutes later to seal a 2-1 victory.

The aircraft SpaceShipOne made the first privately funded human spaceflight.