1890

Artist Vincent van Gogh, 37, died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

1914

Transcontinental telephone service in the U.S. became operational with the first test conversation between New York and San Francisco.

1921

Adolf Hitler became the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

1957

The International Atomic Energy Agency was established.

1958

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA.

1967

An accidental rocket launch on the deck of the supercarrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin resulted in a fire and explosions that killed 134 servicemen.

1981

Britain’s Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer in a glittering ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. The couple divorced in 1996.

Birthdays

Former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum-Baker is 91. Actor Roz Kelly is 81. Rock musician Neal Doughty is 77. Marilyn Tucker Quayle, wife of former Vice President Dan Quayle, is 74. Actor Mike Starr is 73. Documentary maker Ken Burns is 70.