| 2009 | Two previously unknown works by Mozart - a concerto movement and a prelude, are performed in Salzburg, Austria |
| 2004 | Former President Gerald Ford suffers a stroke during the Republican National Convention |
| 1998 | 26th du Maurier Golf Classic |
| 1994 | Congressional hearings begin on White Water |
| 1994 | Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed |
| 1994 | New York Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure |
| 1994 | Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11) |
| 1993 | New York City radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes |
| 1993 | Peter Angelos and William DeWitt purchase Orioles |
| 1993 | Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed |
| 1993 | Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 and WHK-AM/1420 |
| 1992 | "Death and the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 159 performances |
| 1992 | Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Welch's Golf Classic |
| 1992 | Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick |
| 1992 | Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, and B McGowan enter Hall of Fame |
| 1991 | Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges |
| 1991 | Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in Los Angeles |
| 1991 | Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since 1972 |
| 1991 | Space shuttle STS-43 (Atlantis 9) launched |
| 1990 | Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia |
| 1990 | Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in just 77 at bats |
| 1989 | NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24 |
| 1988 | Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo |
| 1988 | System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC) |
| 1987 | 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1) |
| 1987 | Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am |
| 1987 | Cincinnati Red Eric Davis becomes 7th and earliest 30 home run - 30 steal man |
| 1987 | Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yards 1'3") |
| 1987 | Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in one season |
| 1987 | Kevin Seitzer (Kansas City Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game |
| 1987 | Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) |
| 1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1986 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee (U.S.) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts) |
| 1985 | 5 die in a train crash in Westminster, Colorado |
| 1985 | Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport, 137 die |
| 1985 | NASA launches space vehicle S-209 |
| 1984 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1983 | STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1983 | U.S. District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination |
| 1982 | Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season |
| 1982 | Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network |
| 1981 | Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in 14 overs |
| 1981 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| 1980 | Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed |
| 1980 | U.S. swimmers set 3 world records at National championships |
| 1979 | "Broadway Opry '79" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 6 performances |
| 1979 | Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway |
| 1975 | 104 degrees F (40 degrees C) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record) |
| 1975 | 107 degrees F (42 degrees C) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record) |
| 1972 | Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London |
| 1970 | Baltimore defeats Kansas City 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals |
| 1970 | France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
| 1970 | Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in California |
| 1969 | Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minnesota 10th reunion |
| 1969 | President Nixon visits Romania |
| 1968 | 35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17 (69,917) |
| 1967 | New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to Los Angeles Rams 16-77 |
| 1967 | U.S.'s Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5 |
| 1966 | Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting |
| 1965 | Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing |
| 1964 | Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees |
| 1964 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
| 1964 | North Vietnam fires on a U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin |
| 1964 | Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey |
| 1963 | 30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17 (65,000) |
| 1962 | NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m |
| 1961 | Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club |
| 1961 | Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo |
| 1961 | St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto |
| 1959 | 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC |
| 1959 | Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples |
| 1959 | San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 home runs |
| 1958 | Jordan and Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months |
| 1955 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1954 | Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia |
| 1953 | Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash |
| 1953 | KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1945 | Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman and Churchill |
| 1944 | Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts |
| 1944 | Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker |
| 1944 | Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany |
| 1943 | Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka |
| 1943 | Lt. John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands |
| 1943 | RAF bombs Hamburg |
| 1943 | Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 and U-106 |
| 1943 | Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed) |
| 1942 | 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp |
| 1942 | Colonel General Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo |
| 1941 | German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman |
| 1941 | Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia |
| 1940 | Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death |
| 1940 | KL-House of saxon and commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia |
| 1939 | Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers |
| 1938 | 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals) |
| 1934 | 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it |
| 1934 | Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany |
| 1934 | William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour |
| 1932 | Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs |
| 1931 | Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status |
| 1929 | Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a home run |
| 1928 | Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia, Ethiopia |
| 1924 | Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game |
| 1922 | China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die |
| 1921 | Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox |
| 1920 | Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in New York City |
| 1914 | Belgian government receives German ultimatum |
| 1914 | German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg |
| 1914 | German troops overthrows Luxembourg |
| 1914 | Germany and Turkey signs secret treaty |
| 1914 | Great Britain mobilizes |
| 1914 | Postdam Conference ended |
| 1914 | Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia |
| 1914 | Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place |
| 1912 | 18th U.S. Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY |
| 1911 | Haiti's dictator Simon flees on U.S. warship near Jamaica |
| 1909 | 1st Lincoln head pennies minted |
| 1909 | Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers |
| 1907 | Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington and loses 3-2 to Detroit |
| 1906 | Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak |
| 1903 | Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey |
| 1894 | Death duties 1st introduced in Britain |
| 1894 | Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter |
| 1892 | Charles A. Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator |
| 1887 | Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire |
| 1884 | Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent |
| 1877 | San Francisco Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes |
| 1875 | World 1st roller skating rink opens in London |
| 1873 | 1st trial run of San Francisco cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones |
| 1865 | Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
| 1865 | Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps and is lost |
| 1858 | 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and New York City streets |
| 1858 | Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown |
| 1832 | 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac and Fox indians, end Black Hawk War |
| 1832 | Black Hawk defeated in Iowa |
| 1832 | Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisconsin |
| 1831 | Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium |
| 1819 | 1st parachute jump in U.S. |
| 1802 | Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life" |
| 1798 | British under Admiral Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile |
| 1791 | Samuel Briggs and his son, patent nail-making machine |
| 1787 | Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc |
| 1786 | Utrechtse Vroedschap flees |
| 1782 | George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction |
| 1776 | Formal signing of Declaration of Independence |
| 1738 | France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey |
| 1718 | Austrian joins Triple Alliance |
| 1704 | Duke of Marlborough beats French and Bavarians at Blenheim |
| 1665 | French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers |
| 1610 | Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay |
| 1581 | Leiden University names Snellius math professor |
| 1578 | Battle of Rijmenam |
| 1552 | Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion |
| 1542 | French troops leave Flanders |
| 1492 | Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella |
| 257 | St. Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
