Here are some events that took lace in history this week, enjoy:

6/27/1922 - The Newbery Award for children's literature is awarded for the first time to Hendrick van Loon for "The History of Mankind."

6/28/1894 - Labor Day becomes a Federal holiday.

6/29/1974 - Isabel Peron becomes president of Argentina and the first female head of government in the Western Hemisphere.

6/30/1859 - Charles A. Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

7/1/1997 - Hong Kong is returned to China after more than 150 years under British rule.

7/2/1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law.

7/3/1962 - Jackie Robinson becomes the first black inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame.