| 1998 | 80th PGA Championship at Sahalee CC, Seattle WA |
| 1998 | Weetabix Women's British Golf Open |
| 1997 | For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia) |
| 1994 | Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections |
| 1994 | Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA |
| 1992 | 20th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sherri Steinhaur |
| 1992 | 74th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 278 at Bellerive St. Louis |
| 1992 | Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96) |
| 1991 | Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants |
| 1991 | President Bush declares recession is near an end |
| 1990 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1990 | Iraq orders 4,000 Britons and 2,500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq |
| 1989 | Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich |
| 1988 | Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29) |
| 1988 | IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence |
| 1988 | Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis |
| 1988 | Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers |
| 1987 | Astrological Harmonic Convergence - Dawn of New Age |
| 1987 | New York Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9 |
| 1987 | Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives) |
| 1987 | Val Skinner wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am |
| 1986 | Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed |
| 1986 | "Papa Don't Preach," goes #1 for 2 weeks |
| 1986 | Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks and her single |
| 1985 | Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday |
| 1984 | Andrea Doria's safe opened |
| 1984 | L.A. federal jury acquits auto maker John DeLorean on cocaine charges |
| 1984 | Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500) |
| 1983 | Paul Simon weds Carrie Fisher |
| 1981 | Highest score in World Cup soccor match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0) |
| 1981 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic |
| 1981 | Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93) |
| 1980 | Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath |
| 1980 | Cozy Powell quits Rainbow |
| 1980 | Jools Holland quits Squeeze |
| 1977 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1977 | Yankees blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th |
| 1976 | 58th PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional MD |
| 1976 | St. Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo) |
| 1975 | "Rodgers and Hart" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 108 performances |
| 1975 | Peter Gabriel quits Genesis |
| 1974 | Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs) |
| 1972 | 54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills, Michigan |
| 1972 | Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at |
| 1972 | Philip Potter appointed Secretary-General of World council of Churches |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1970 | 52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK |
| 1970 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open |
| 1969 | WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, Georgia begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Woodstock rock festival begins in New York |
| 1967 | Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured and leaves |
| 1967 | WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins) |
| 1964 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational |
| 1964 | St. Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader |
| 1963 | Independence is restored to Dominican Republic |
| 1962 | Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer |
| 1961 | 250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin |
| 1961 | Martin L. King protests for black voting right in Miami |
| 1960 | Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus |
| 1960 | Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700') |
| 1960 | Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms |
| 1959 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open |
| 1959 | U.S.S.R. introduces installment buying |
| 1956 | Adlai E. Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate |
| 1956 | Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4 |
| 1955 | Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor |
| 1954 | Sports Illustrated magazine begins publishing |
| 1954 | 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood |
| 1953 | KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins |
| 1953 | Shah of Persia and princess Soraya flee to Baghdad and Rome |
| 1950 | West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England |
| 1948 | Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem |
| 1948 | Israeli pound becomes legal tender |
| 1947 | Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive home runs |
| 1946 | Great Calcutta blood bath - Moslem/Hindu riot (3-4,000 die) |
| 1944 | 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy |
| 1944 | Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London |
| 1944 | U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux |
| 1943 | 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily) |
| 1943 | Bulgarian czar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler |
| 1942 | Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow |
| 1940 | 45 German aircrafts shot down over England |
| 1936 | 11th Olympic games closes in Berlin |
| 1934 | U.S. explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere |
| 1927 | 1st home run hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago by New York Yankee Babe Ruth |
| 1924 | 38th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (61 63) |
| 1924 | Conference about German recovery payments opens in London |
| 1924 | Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed |
| 1922 | AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (New York City) |
| 1920 | Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yankees' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality |
| 1918 | U.S. troops overthrows Archangelsk |
| 1915 | KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0 |
| 1914 | German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught |
| 1914 | Zapata and Pancho Villa over run Mexico |
| 1907 | Abd al-Hafid proclaims himself sultan of Morocco |
| 1906 | 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000 |
| 1905 | Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa |
| 1904 | New York City begins building Grand Central Station |
| 1903 | Tigers play a home game in Toledo, Ohio, Yankees win 12-8 |
| 1898 | Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster |
| 1896 | Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala |
| 1894 | Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their old Indian faith |
| 1890 | Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia |
| 1882 | British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria |
| 1876 | Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth |
| 1870 | Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion |
| 1864 | 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault |
| 1864 | Battle of Front Royal Virginia (Guard Hill) |
| 1864 | Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam |
| 1863 | Chickamauga campaign GA |
| 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation signed |
| 1861 | President Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy |
| 1861 | Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri |
| 1858 | Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan |
| 1846 | Gioacchino Rossini marries Olympe Pelissier in Paris |
| 1834 | Charles Darwin climbs Mount Campana in Chile |
| 1829 | Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited |
| 1819 | Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators |
| 1812 | General Hull surrenders Detroit and Michigan territory to England |
| 1797 | Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth |
| 1794 | Hungarian revolutionary Ignac Martinovics arrested in Vienna |
| 1780 | British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC |
| 1777 | Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt |
| 1748 | "Geldermalsen" sails to East-Indies |
| 1745 | Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots |
| 1743 | Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton) |
| 1717 | Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade |
| 1691 | Yorktown Virginia founded |
| 1625 | Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe |
| 1570 | King Janos Sigismund Zapolyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II |
| 1513 | Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate: Maximilian and Henry III beat France |
| 1465 | Battle at Montlhery |
| 1290 | Charles van Valois weds Margaretha van Anjou |
