JULY 5
1921:"Say it ain't so." The trial of eight Chicago White Sox players begins, with major leaguers including "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Buck Weaver and Eddie Cicotte accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. All of the players, by then known as the "Black Sox" due to the scandal, will be acquitted but banned from Major League Baseball for life.
1946: Micheline Bernardini models the world's first bikini, designed by Louis Réard and named for the atomic test-site Bikini Atoll, at a fashion show held at the Piscine Molitor, a popular Paris swimming pool. Réard later describes his beach-worthy invention as "four triangles of nothing."
1954: Nineteen-year-old truck driver Elvis Presley heads to Sun Studios, owned by Sam Phillips, in Memphis, Tenn., for his first commercial recording session, ultimately laying down the career-launching hit "That's All Right," as well as "Blue Moon of Kentucky."
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