| 1995 | FBI agent Lon Horiuchi shoots at Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho |
| 1994 | DNA testing links O. J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman |
| 1994 | Wim Cook government forms in Netherlands |
| 1993 | "In the Summer House" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 25 performances |
| 1993 | Hiromi Kobayash wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1992 | Matthews and Warne spin Australia to a famous win vs. Sri Lanka |
| 1991 | Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100 m backstroke (1:00.31) |
| 1990 | President Bush calls up military reserves |
| 1989 | 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered |
| 1989 | Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson) |
| 1988 | Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala) |
| 1988 | NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee) |
| 1988 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1987 | Madonna's "Who's That Girl," single goes #1 |
| 1986 | NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics |
| 1985 | 30th Walker Cup: U.S. wins 13-11 |
| 1985 | Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at airport of Manchester, 55 killed |
| 1984 | Evelyn Ashford of U.S. ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec |
| 1984 | Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced |
| 1984 | Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200 |
| 1984 | Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Reagan and Vice President Bush |
| 1984 | South African election for parliament boycvotted |
| 1982 | General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence |
| 1982 | Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peace |
| 1982 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf |
| 1980 | Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale |
| 1979 | 200 black leaders, meet in New York, to support Andrew Young |
| 1978 | Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua Nicaragua |
| 1976 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| 1975 | Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford |
| 1975 | McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens |
| 1973 | Chilean parliament accuses President Allende violating laws |
| 1973 | Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as Minister of Foreign affairs |
| 1972 | International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia |
| 1971 | Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, President Torres driven out |
| 1971 | Pam Barnett wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open |
| 1969 | Beatles record a video for "Long and Winding Road" |
| 1969 | Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America |
| 1968 | 1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota) |
| 1968 | Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultry |
| 1968 | Pope Paul VI opens Eucharistic congress in Bogota |
| 1966 | Beatles arrive in New York City |
| 1965 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open |
| 1964 | Guinee, Liberia and Ivory Coast form joint market |
| 1964 | Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go," reaches #1 |
| 1963 | NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km) |
| 1962 | Failed assassination on president De Gaulle |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1962 | Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga |
| 1961 | Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers |
| 1960 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Asheville Golf Open |
| 1960 | Gil Hodges set NL righty home run record with #352 |
| 1959 | Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive home runs |
| 1958 | Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return |
| 1958 | Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 1957 | Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley begins filming "The Reno Brothers" (Love Me Tender) |
| 1956 | President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco |
| 1954 | WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, Florida (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | France closes jail on Devil Island |
| 1953 | John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union |
| 1953 | Shah of Persia returns to Teheran |
| 1951 | Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052 |
| 1950 | Abdel Rehim swims English Channel (10:50) |
| 1950 | Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competetor in national tennis competition |
| 1950 | Rotterdam harbor strike end |
| 1947 | 14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chi Bears 0 (105,840) |
| 1946 | Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it |
| 1946 | Mikko Hietanen wins Oslo marathon (2:24:55) |
| 1945 | Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Australia Services at Old Trafford |
| 1945 | England defeat Australia Services by 6 wkts in 5th Victory Test Cricket |
| 1945 | Noel Coward's revue "Sigh no More," premieres in London |
| 1945 | Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup |
| 1944 | Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1943 | Soviet troops free Karkov |
| 1942 | Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy |
| 1941 | Nazi troops reach Lenningrad |
| 1939 | Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion |
| 1939 | Premier De Geer recalls Dutch vacationers in Black Forest |
| 1934 | Australia beat England by 562 runs to regain Cricket Ashes |
| 1934 | Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 home runs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12 |
| 1933 | Bill Veeck, urges midsummer inter-league games and a split season |
| 1933 | International Zionists Congress opens in Prague |
| 1932 | BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts |
| 1930 | Australia regain Ashes on 6th day of 5th Cricket Test |
| 1927 | Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers |
| 1926 | Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 1926 | Greek dictator General Pangulos driven out |
| 1923 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record mile (4:10.4) |
| 1921 | J. Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI |
| 1917 | Pittsburgh Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers |
| 1914 | Battle at Charleroi: General von Bulows troops beat French |
| 1914 | 1st encounter between British and German troops (in Belgium) |
| 1914 | Battle in Ardennen: Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny and Virton |
| 1914 | Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent |
| 1914 | General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg East Prussia |
| 1914 | German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines Belgium |
| 1914 | Von Ludendorff and von Hindenburg move into E Prussia enroute to Russia |
| 1913 | Robert Martineau, bishop of Blackburn |
| 1912 | England defeat Australia to win the Triangular Tournament |
| 1912 | Richard Catling, commissioner of police (Kenya) |
| 1911 | Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre (Recovered in 1913) |
| 1911 | Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris |
| 1910 | Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate |
| 1907 | Colin Buchanan, town planner |
| 1907 | Cyril Astley Clarke, British geneticist |
| 1906 | 1st Victor Victrola manufactured |
| 1902 | President Teddy Roosevelt became 1st U.S. chief executive to ride in a car |
| 1901 | Cadillac Co forms |
| 1900 | Gabriel Faures opera "Promethee," premieres in Beziers |
| 1877 | Nez Perce-indians flee into to Yellowstone National Park |
| 1867 | Fisk University forms, 1867 |
| 1864 | Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations |
| 1864 | International Red Cross forms |
| 1862 | Battle of Catlett's Station VA |
| 1862 | Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely |
| 1851 | Gold fields discovered in Australia |
| 1851 | Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup) |
| 1846 | U.S. annexes New Mexico |
| 1826 | Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah |
| 1818 | Grand duchy of Bathe forms |
| 1791 | Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman |
| 1788 | Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves |
| 1787 | John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton |
| 1780 | Resolution, without Captain Cook, returns to England |
| 1775 | King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion |
| 1762 | 1st female (Ann Franklin) U.S. newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury |
| 1717 | Spanish troops lands on Sardinia |
| 1715 | Handels "Watermusic" premieres on Thames |
| 1707 | Prince Eugenius van Savoye siege of Toulon |
| 1707 | Sweden and Prussia sign military treaty |
| 1654 | 1st Jewish immigrant to U.S., Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam |
| 1642 | Civil War in England began between Royalists and Parliament |
| 1632 | Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht |
| 1614 | Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase and plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt |
| 1603 | 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk Amsterdam |
| 1582 | King James IV of Scotland captured |
| 1572 | Failed assassination on Admiral De Coligny |
| 1559 | Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza arrested as heretic |
| 1543 | Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren |
| 1485 | Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry VII's forces defeat Richard III |
| 1454 | Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus |
| 1138 | English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard |
| 565 | St. Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness |
