MOMENTS IN TIME

. On July 1, 1941, NBC broadcasts the first TV commercial to be sanctioned by the Federal Communications Commission. Advertiser Bulova paid $9 to advertise its watches on the air during the broadcast of a Dodgers- Phillies game.

. On July 2, 1937, the Lockheed aircraft carrying American aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan is reported missing near Howland Island in the Pacific. The pair was attempting to fly around the world, and no trace of them has ever been found.

. On July 3, 1908, writer Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher is born in Albion, Mich. She was a highly productive writer, producing nine books on food, including "How to Cook a Wolf" (1942).

. On July 4, 1826, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third presidents of the United States, die on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Both men had been central in the drafting of the historic document.

. On July 5, 1865, in the East End of London, revivalist preacher William Booth and his wife Catherine establish the Christian Mission, later known as the Salvation Army. Soup kitchens were the first in a long line of various projects designed to provide physical and spiritual assistance to the destitute.