| 2005 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies and is succeeded by Prince Abdullah |
| 2004 | Paraguay supermarket fire kills at least 300 |
| 1998 | Gay and Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam |
| 1996 | M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched |
| 1995 | Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network |
| 1994 | 99.9 degrees F (37.7 degrees C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record |
| 1994 | The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour |
| 1994 | Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed |
| 1993 | "In the Summer House" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 25 performances |
| 1993 | "She Loves Me" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 61 performances |
| 1993 | Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
| 1993 | Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York |
| 1993 | Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack |
| 1992 | "Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 9 performances |
| 1992 | NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres |
| 1992 | USA/U.S.S.R. Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica |
| 1991 | Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida |
| 1991 | Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires |
| 1990 | "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 149 performances |
| 1990 | Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game |
| 1990 | Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait |
| 1990 | Soyuz TM-10 launches |
| 1990 | Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs |
| 1989 | Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes |
| 1988 | Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon |
| 1987 | Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart |
| 1987 | Crossbow flight record (2,005 yards 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada |
| 1987 | Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1987 | Nurse Mary R. Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America |
| 1986 | Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000 |
| 1986 | Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934 |
| 1986 | Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma |
| 1986 | Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal |
| 1985 | 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record) |
| 1985 | Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time |
| 1985 | Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74 |
| 1983 | New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England |
| 1982 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Greg Louganis, U.S. becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives |
| 1982 | Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut |
| 1982 | Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10) |
| 1981 | MTV premieres at 12:01 AM |
| 1981 | Poland premier Jagielski resigns |
| 1980 | Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record |
| 1980 | Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon 2:11:03 |
| 1979 | Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal |
| 1978 | Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games |
| 1978 | Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead |
| 1978 | Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL) |
| 1977 | San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer |
| 1976 | 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada |
| 1976 | Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34, kills 139 |
| 1976 | Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton) |
| 1976 | Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20) |
| 1975 | 38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord |
| 1975 | 41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103) |
| 1975 | Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of New York Yankees |
| 1975 | Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations |
| 1974 | Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr. J" Erving to New York Nets |
| 1973 | H. J. Witteveen appointed as director of IMF |
| 1973 | Munson and Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park |
| 1972 | 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward) |
| 1972 | Nate Colbert of San Diego Padres hits record tying 5 home runs in a double header |
| 1971 | CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII |
| 1971 | George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in New York City |
| 1971 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
| 1970 | EAA Convention moves from Rockford Illinois to Oshkosh, Wi |
| 1970 | KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game |
| 1969 | 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival |
| 1969 | 36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208) |
| 1969 | Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars |
| 1968 | Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins |
| 1968 | Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo |
| 1968 | WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Izaak Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam |
| 1967 | WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | Charles Whitman climbs University of Texas tower and shoots 12 dead |
| 1966 | Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 and wounds 31 at University of Texas |
| 1965 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
| 1964 | ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation |
| 1964 | Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks |
| 1963 | Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale |
| 1963 | Germany FR annexes Elten village |
| 1963 | WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0 |
| 1962 | Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana |
| 1961 | Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford |
| 1961 | East Germany limits traffic to West Berlin |
| 1961 | New San Francisco Hall of Justice opens |
| 1961 | Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League |
| 1960 | Aretha Franklins 1st recording session |
| 1960 | Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France |
| 1960 | Chubby Checker releases "The Twist" |
| 1959 | New Continental baseball league formed |
| 1959 | Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia |
| 1959 | WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years) |
| 1958 | U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole |
| 1957 | 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM) |
| 1957 | Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln) |
| 1957 | Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10") |
| 1957 | U.S. and Canada create NORAD |
| 1956 | KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, California (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | 1st microgravity research begins |
| 1955 | Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca government |
| 1955 | WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France |
| 1954 | WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | California introduces sales tax, for education |
| 1953 | Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba |
| 1953 | KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, Missouri (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland |
| 1953 | Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief |
| 1951 | David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election |
| 1950 | 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons) |
| 1950 | American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule |
| 1950 | Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act) |
| 1950 | King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King |
| 1947 | "Medium and The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 211 performances |
| 1947 | Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel |
| 1946 | President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) |
| 1945 | Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's |
| 1945 | Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th home run (joins Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx) |
| 1945 | SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld |
| 1944 | Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East |
| 1944 | Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested |
| 1944 | General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army |
| 1944 | U.S. 90th division occupies St. Hilaire-du-Harcourt |
| 1944 | U.S. troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir |
| 1944 | Uprising in Warsaw ghetto |
| 1943 | Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw |
| 1943 | Race riot in Harlem New York City |
| 1943 | Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 and U-383 |
| 1942 | Deurne soccer team forms |
| 1942 | German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers |
| 1942 | Race riots in Harlem, New York |
| 1941 | Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division |
| 1941 | New York Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yankees 9, St. L 0) |
| 1936 | Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin |
| 1936 | Benjamin E. Mays named president of Morehouse College |
| 1933 | Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3) |
| 1933 | Death penality for anti fascists in Germany |
| 1933 | Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno |
| 1928 | Babe Ruth hits home run number 42 and is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace |
| 1927 | Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards |
| 1926 | Battles between Druzen and French in Damascus |
| 1926 | Failed assassination on General Primo de Rivera in Barcelona |
| 1925 | Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherland East-Indies |
| 1922 | Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard |
| 1920 | Papendrecht soccer team forms |
| 1920 | Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia |
| 1919 | Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam |
| 1919 | Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek |
| 1918 | British troops enter Vladivostok |
| 1918 | Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings |
| 1916 | Hawaii National Park forms |
| 1914 | British fleet reaches Scapa Flow |
| 1914 | Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I) |
| 1914 | France and Germany mobilize |
| 1914 | Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I |
| 1911 | Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point |
| 1909 | British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed |
| 1907 | Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF |
| 1907 | Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division |
| 1906 | Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th |
| 1903 | 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed |
| 1902 | Building begins on Dutch public housing |
| 1902 | Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia, 100 die |
| 1901 | Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited |
| 1896 | George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (New York to England) |
| 1893 | Henry Perky and William Ford patent shredded wheat |
| 1890 | Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi |
| 1886 | Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand |
| 1883 | A papyrus offered to British Museum for 10,000 pounds, forgery |
| 1883 | Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights |
| 1883 | Inland postal service begins in Great Britain |
| 1881 | U.S. Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, San Francisco Bay |
| 1876 | Colorado becomes 38th state |
| 1873 | San Francisco's 1st cable car begins service |
| 1869 | 1st voyage down Colorado River |
| 1867 | Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South |
| 1864 | Battle of Petersburg, Virginia |
| 1863 | Battle of Little Rock AK and Start of Chattanooga campaign |
| 1863 | Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign |
| 1861 | Brazil recognizes Confederacy |
| 1855 | Castle Clinton in New York City opens as 1st U.S. receiving station for immigrants |
| 1852 | San Francisco Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist |
| 1842 | Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens |
| 1838 | Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas |
| 1836 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin return to Bahia, Brazil |
| 1834 | Slavery abolished through out the British Empire |
| 1831 | London Bridge opens to traffic |
| 1814 | Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat |
| 1812 | Rare tornado hits Westchester County, New York |
| 1798 | Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet |
| 1794 | Whiskey Rebellion begins |
| 1793 | France becomes 1st country to use the metric system |
| 1790 | 1st U.S. census, population of 3,939,214 |
| 1789 | U.S. Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act |
| 1785 | Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet |
| 1781 | English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia |
| 1780 | Sweden declares neutrality |
| 1774 | Priestly discovers oxygen |
| 1759 | Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France |
| 1732 | Foundation laid for Bank of England |
| 1716 | 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea) |
| 1716 | Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed |
| 1714 | Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England |
| 1711 | Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov |
| 1690 | Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye |
| 1664 | Battle at St. Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Koprulu |
| 1628 | Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism |
| 1626 | Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal |
| 1619 | 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia |
| 1589 | Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III |
| 1588 | English Admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada |
| 1498 | Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" near Venezuela |
| 1485 | Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England |
| 1404 | Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland |
| 1291 | Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence) |
| 1203 | Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium |
| 1177 | Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I and Pope Alexander III |
| 1086 | English barons become submissive to king Willem the Occupier |
| 1021 | Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest |
| 902 | Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily |
| 860 | Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German and Lotharius II |
