1876: Mata Hari is born [photos]
1903: Louis Leakey is born
1934: The US Court of Appeals upholds Judge Woolsey’s earlier ruling allowing James Joyce’s Ulysses into the country
1957: Oliver Hardy dies
1958: Arthur Miller is cleared of contempt of Congress
1964: The US Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on US forces (see entry for 5 August)
1978: The Love Canal subdivision is formally declared a toxic disaster area by President Carter