
- 2018: Twelve boys and their soccer coach are rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand after being trapped for over two weeks.
- 1994: The movie "Forrest Gump," starring Tom Hanks, is released in theaters.
- 1957: Althea Gibson becomes the first African-American tennis player to win a Wimbledon title, winning the women's singles championship.
- 1885: Louis Pasteur successfully tests the first vaccine against rabies on a boy named Joseph Meister.