| 2008 | Michael Phelps wins 8 Gold Medals in 2008 Olympics |
| 2000 | The Democratic party nominates Al Gore to run for president |
| 1999 | Earthquake kills 17,000 in northwest Turkey |
| 1998 | President Bill Clinton testifies before a grand jury investigating his conduct (first president to do so), and admits an 'inappropriate relationship' with Monica Lewinsky |
| 1997 | 79th PGA Championship: Davis Love III shoots a 269 at Winged Foot GC |
| 1997 | First of America Senior Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Macy's Tap-o-mania |
| 1997 | Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open |
| 1996 | Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit |
| 1995 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1994 | Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle |
| 1994 | New York Central park reservior officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis |
| 1992 | Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0 |
| 1991 | Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league home run since 1983 |
| 1990 | Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th home run |
| 1990 | Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment |
| 1989 | 32nd Walker Cup: Britain - Ireland, 12 -11 |
| 1989 | Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game) |
| 1988 | Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29) |
| 1988 | LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991 |
| 1988 | New York City 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy) |
| 1988 | Republicans nominate George H. W. Bush for president |
| 1988 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1987 | Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games |
| 1987 | Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57) |
| 1987 | Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame |
| 1986 | Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market |
| 1986 | Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am |
| 1986 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship |
| 1986 | Rioting at DMC concert, 40 injured |
| 1986 | Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones and pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen and outfielder Dave Henderson |
| 1985 | 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant |
| 1985 | Dave Kingman hits his 400th home run |
| 1985 | Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India |
| 1985 | Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando |
| 1984 | Pete Rose returns to Cincinnati Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits) |
| 1983 | Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas |
| 1982 | Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18) |
| 1982 | South Bend, Indiana jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin |
| 1980 | "Blackstone" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 104 performances |
| 1980 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| 1980 | George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401 |
| 1979 | 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed |
| 1979 | Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres |
| 1978 | 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans) |
| 1977 | Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole |
| 1977 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1977 | Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8) |
| 1976 | An earthquake and tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000 |
| 1976 | Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match |
| 1975 | Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one |
| 1973 | Willie Mays hits 660th and last home run (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati) |
| 1972 | Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game |
| 1970 | Venera 7 launched, makes 1st softlanding on Venus |
| 1969 | 51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR Golf Club Dayton, Ohio |
| 1969 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Southgate Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1969 | New York Jets beat New York Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season) |
| 1968 | Dick Beyers (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ |
| 1966 | Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit |
| 1966 | Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time home run list |
| 1964 | Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 vs. Australia at the Oval |
| 1963 | Jim Hickman becomes 1st New York Met to hit for cycle |
| 1963 | Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief |
| 1962 | Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr |
| 1962 | E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector |
| 1961 | Building of Berlin Wall begins |
| 1961 | Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress |
| 1960 | Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow |
| 1960 | Gabon gains independence from France, National Day |
| 1960 | Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands |
| 1959 | 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park |
| 1959 | U.S.S.R. and Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor |
| 1958 | Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open |
| 1958 | World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec |
| 1957 | Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher |
| 1956 | Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany |
| 1955 | Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 and doing $1.8 billion damage |
| 1952 | Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
| 1951 | 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180) |
| 1951 | Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica |
| 1950 | Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands |
| 1950 | Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) and Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park home runs |
| 1948 | Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent |
| 1948 | Phillies commit 8 errors in a game |
| 1948 | Tom Henrich hits his then record tying 4th grand slam of season |
| 1946 | Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique," premieres |
| 1945 | Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands |
| 1945 | Koreas divided on 38th parallel with U.S. occupying the southern area |
| 1944 | 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy |
| 1944 | Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy |
| 1944 | German Field Marshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy |
| 1944 | Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border |
| 1944 | U.S. 12 Army corp occupies Orleans |
| 1944 | U.S. 320th regiment infantry occupies Chateaudun |
| 1944 | Yankees Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game |
| 1943 | 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde |
| 1943 | General Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies |
| 1943 | U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt |
| 1942 | 1st European bombing run undertaken by U.S. forces |
| 1942 | 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe |
| 1942 | Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on Hornet |
| 1942 | Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1942 | U.S. bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France |
| 1941 | German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan |
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William M. King agree to joint defense commission |
| 1940 | Hitler orders total blockade of Great Britain |
| 1939 | "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY |
| 1938 | 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland) |
| 1938 | Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship |
| 1933 | Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game |
| 1933 | Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game |
| 1933 | Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09") |
| 1926 | Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed |
| 1924 | French-German trade agreement signed |
| 1920 | In memory of Ray Chapman (died Aug 16), Yankees cancel game with Indians |
| 1918 | British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan |
| 1918 | Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000 |
| 1918 | Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus |
| 1917 | Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey |
| 1916 | Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia |
| 1915 | German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana |
| 1915 | Hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas (275 killed) |
| 1915 | Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life |
| 1914 | French troops under General de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins |
| 1914 | Lithuiana surrenders to Germans |
| 1908 | B Tarkington and HL Wilson's "Man from Home," premieres in New York City |
| 1908 | Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay and Montgomery |
| 1907 | Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union |
| 1905 | Dutch government of De Master begins |
| 1904 | Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 6-0 |
| 1903 | Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U and begins Pulitzer Prizes |
| 1897 | W B Purvis patents electric railway switch |
| 1896 | George Washington Carmack discoveres gold in Klondike region of Yukon |
| 1894 | Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4 |
| 1892 | Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance |
| 1891 | 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in New York City (People's Bath) |
| 1891 | Electric self-starter for automobile patented |
| 1879 | Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company |
| 1877 | Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos |
| 1877 | Phobos (Martian satellite) discovered (A Hall) |
| 1876 | Opera "Gotterdammerung" premieres in Bayreuth |
| 1870 | 1st ascent of Mount Rainier, Washington |
| 1869 | 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard) |
| 1866 | Bathe and Prussia signs peace treaty |
| 1863 | Federal batteries and ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee |
| 1862 | Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky |
| 1859 | 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind |
| 1858 | 1st bank in Hawaii opens |
| 1846 | U.S. fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California |
| 1836 | British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death |
| 1836 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time |
| 1835 | Solymon Merrick patents wrench |
| 1834 | Charles Darwin reaches top of Campana, Chile |
| 1827 | Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord |
| 1808 | Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain |
| 1807 | Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River |
| 1796 | English beat Bataafs Navy in Saldanha Bay |
| 1788 | Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded |
| 1787 | Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups |
| 1743 | Sweden and Russia sign peace treaty |
| 1717 | France, Russia and Prussia sign agreement |
| 1648 | Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish |
| 1585 | Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma |
| 1579 | Francois van Anjou visits English queen Elizabeth I |
| 1577 | Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots |
| 1563 | King Charles IX of France (13) declared an adult |
| 1544 | Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France |
| 1498 | Cardinal Borgia renounced his vows and office to marry a French princess |
| 1180 | Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against emperor Kiyomori Taira |
| 682 | St. Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
