On This Day:

1798, Egypt: The Battle of the Pyramids took place during Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign.

1919, USA: President Woodrow Wilson officially opened the first international golf tournament held in the country, the Victory National Championship, at the Interlachen Country Club in Minnesota.

1921, USA: Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dr. Rosalind Franklin was born. Her work with X-ray diffraction was critical to the discovery of the DNA double helix structure.

1940, USA: President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented third term by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, breaking the tradition of serving only two terms.

1950, USA: Bell Labs announced the development of the first transistor-based computer, the TRADIC (Transistorized Airborne Digital Computer).

1960, USA: Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" was published, addressing racial inequality and moral growth through the eyes of Scout Finch.

1962, USA: The first live transatlantic television broadcast took place via the Telstar satellite, allowing viewers in Europe and North America to see live images from across the Atlantic for the first time.

1996, USA: The Clipper Chip initiative was formally abandoned by the U.S. government.

2006, Mumbai, India: Coordinated bomb blasts struck commuter trains, killing 209 people and injuring over 700.

2007, USA: Apple Inc. announced that it had sold its one-millionth iPhone, just 74 days after the product's launch.