Today:
1906: The first Grand Prix motor race was held in Le Mans, France.
1945: The United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco.
1960: Madagascar gained independence from France.
1963: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech in West Berlin.
1974: The Universal Product Code (UPC) was scanned for the first time at a supermarket in Ohio.
1993: The United States launched a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in response to a plot to assassinate former President George H. W. Bush.
1997: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment.
2000: Pope John Paul II revealed the third secret of Fatima.
2003: The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws against sodomy in Lawrence v. Texas.
2015: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right across all states.