Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theatre, notorious criminal
John Dillinger—America’s “Public Enemy No. 1″—was
killed in a hail of bullets fired by federal agents.

In a fiery bank-robbing career that lasted just over a year,
Dillinger and his associates robbed 11 banks for more
than $300,000, broke jail and narrowly escaped capture
multiple times, and killed seven police officers and
three federal agents.

John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934)

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014)

Williams was an actor and comedian. Known for his
improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters
he created on the spur of the moment and portrayed on
film, in dramas and comedies alike. 

He is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all
time receiving numerous accolades including an Academy
Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe
Awards, five Grammy Awards, and two Screen Actors
Guild Awards. Williams was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille
Award in 2005.

At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000
miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion
people listening at home: “That’s one small step for a man, one
giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar module Eagle,
Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of
the moon.

   
CARLATA BRADLEY

At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, a woman’s
rights convention—the first ever held in the United States—
convened with almost 200 women in attendance.

The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-
Slavery Convention in London.

Shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator
Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts drove an Oldsmobile
off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped
the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo
Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car
accident for 10 hours.

Edward Moore Kennedy
(February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009)