Bryan Robinson

Secretary of State Antony Blinken denied any role in a 2020 letter signed by past and current intel officials claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation, telling Fox News it wasn't his idea.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., says don’t expect President Biden and Democrats to change their ways in 2022 because of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and the radical left.

WWE pokes fun at the woke left with new wrestler Joe Gacy who believes the ring is a "safe space" and that he does not need to use his "male privilege."

The Republican National Convention opens in Detroit, where presumptive nominee Ronald Reagan tells a welcoming rally he and his supporters are determined to "make America great again."

The Roswell Daily Record, a New Mexico newspaper, quotes officials at Roswell Army Air Field as saying they had recovered a "flying saucer" that crashed onto a ranch.

President Reagan announces he is nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jeffrey Epstein, long been plagued by a.llegations of sexual abuse against minors, is arrested and charged with sex trafficking underage girls.

Larry Doby debuts with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first Black player in the American League; Amazon is founded by Jeff Bezos; the pilot to 'Seinfeld' airs on NBC.

Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean; Rioting erupts in East St. Louis, Ill.

The pivotal, three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg begins in Pennsylvania. President George H.W. Bush nominates federal appeals court judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.

The Civil War novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell is first published; The first Chevrolet Corvette is built.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes after an 83-day filibuster in the Senate. Apple's iPhone goes on sale for the first time. Bernie Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison for multibillion-dollar fraud.

The Treaty of Versailles is signed in France, ending World War I. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Alien Registration Act

"The Diary of a Young Girl," the personal journal of Anne Frank is first published. Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” die.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the GI Bill of Rights. Judy Garland dies.

Five burglars inside the Democratic headquarters in Washington, D.C.'s Watergate complex are arrested. After leading police on a slow-speed chase on Southern California freeways, O.J. Simpson is arrested and charged with murder in the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

The Continental Congress forms a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence calling for freedom from Britain,Timothy McVeigh is executed for the Oklahoma City bombing.

The first execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts takes place. Alcoholics Anonymous is founded. Gawker files for bankruptcy after losing an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit brought by Hulk Hogan.

During the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings, Army Special Counsel Joseph N. Welch famously berates Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., asking: "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" The Senate confirms Warren Burger to be the new chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren. Secretariat becomes the first horse since 1948 to win the Triple Crown.

Authorities announce the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrity chef, author and CNN host Anthony Bourdain is found dead in what authorities would determine was a suicide.

In a hate crime that stuns the nation, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old Black man, is hooked by a chain to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas by White men. A Norwalk, Conn., Superior Court jury convicts Michael Skakel, nephew of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley, Skakel’s 15-year-old neighbor

During World War II, Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, France, on "D-Day" as they begin the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe.

Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing citizens the right to vote regardless of their gender. The Battle of Midway in World War II begins.

Edward H. White becomes the first American to "walk" in space Andy Warhol is shot and critically wounded at his New York film studio.Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, dies. Muhammad Ali dies.

Baseball's "Iron Horse," Lou Gehrig, dies. Pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country; Timothy McVeigh is convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

The mortally wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, gives the order, "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with the British frigate HMS Shannon in the War of 1812. The Beatles’ album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is released, as is David Bowie's debut album, titled "David Bowie." President Trump announces that the U.S. will leave the Paris climate agreement.

The Sierra Club is organized in San Francisco; National League owners give permission for the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants to move to Los Angeles and San Francisco. White House "plumbers" first break into the Democratic National Headquarters at Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C.

Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning animated short "The Three Little Pigs" is first released. Michael Fortier, the government's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing case, is sentenced to 12 years in prison for not warning anyone about the deadly plot. Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. president to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan.

"Dracula" by Bram Stoker is first published in London.; Donald Trump reaches the number of delegates necessary to clinch the Republican nomination for president.

Four Islamic fundamentalists convicted of bombing New York's World Trade Center in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison. "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss is sentenced to three years in prison and fined $1,500 for running a call-girl ring that catered to the rich and famous.