| 2012 | After his decision not to context charges of doping by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Lance Armstrong learns the organization has banned him for life and recommended he be stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles |
| 2012 | A California state jury rules that Samsung electronics owes Apple Inc. over $1 billion for patent infringement |
| 2011 | Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs resigns over poor health issues; Tim Cook takes over as CEO |
| 2011 | With weak economic prospects and significant levels of public debt, Japan is downgraded to Aa3 by Moody's credit rating agency |
| 2010 | The U.S. Department of Justice plans to appeal the decision to block President Obama's executive order to expand embryonic stem cell research |
| 2008 | 2008 Summer Olympics come to a close in Beijing, China |
| 2006 | Pluto is demoted to a 'dwarf planet' |
| 1997 | 97th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel |
| 1997 | Colleen Wakjer wins Star Bank LPGA Classic |
| 1997 | Greg Norman wins World Series of Golf shooting 273 |
| 1997 | Mark Calcavecchia wins Greater Vancouver Golf Open shooting 265 |
| 1997 | Saint Luke's Senior Golf Classic |
| 1995 | Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island |
| 1995 | Windows 95 debuts |
| 1994 | Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66) |
| 1994 | Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00) |
| 1994 | Israel and PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare and tourism |
| 1993 | Mars Observer comes closest to Mars |
| 1993 | Padres scores 14 in 1st vs. Cardinals |
| 1992 | 1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field) |
| 1992 | Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings |
| 1992 | Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die |
| 1992 | Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint |
| 1991 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 1991 | Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R. Communist Party |
| 1991 | Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway |
| 1991 | Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0 |
| 1991 | Ukraine declares independence from U.S.S.R. |
| 1990 | 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia |
| 1990 | Iraqi troops surround U.S. and other embassies in Kuwait City |
| 1989 | British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain |
| 1989 | Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling |
| 1989 | Voyager 2 flies past Neptune |
| 1987 | Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes |
| 1986 | Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1985 | STS-51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather |
| 1984 | Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver |
| 1983 | Cincinnati Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745 |
| 1982 | KC's John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record |
| 1981 | American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel |
| 1981 | Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon's murder |
| 1980 | Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1980 | Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch |
| 1979 | Cars play concert in New York Central Park |
| 1979 | NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new |
| 1979 | U.N.'s Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1976 | Soyuz 21 returns to Earth |
| 1975 | Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing |
| 1975 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| 1975 | Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens |
| 1975 | San Francisco Giant Ed Halick no-hits New York Giants, 6-0 |
| 1975 | Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup |
| 1974 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| 1973 | John Adams and his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleveland Stadium |
| 1972 | 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 2-1 |
| 1972 | Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 vs. Australia |
| 1972 | Gordie Howe and Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame |
| 1971 | India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms |
| 1970 | Bomb kills 1 at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison |
| 1969 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament |
| 1969 | Peru nationalizes U.S. oil interests |
| 1968 | France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa |
| 1966 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon |
| 1964 | 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 6-4 |
| 1963 | 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58) |
| 1963 | John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17' |
| 1962 | Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms |
| 1961 | Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...) |
| 1960 | -127 degrees F (-88 degrees C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record) |
| 1960 | 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil |
| 1959 | England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India |
| 1959 | Hiram Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii) |
| 1958 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
| 1958 | Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR) |
| 1957 | British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea |
| 1956 | 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Washington D.C. |
| 1954 | Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party |
| 1954 | International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China |
| 1954 | William Heatherton's "Reluctant Debutante," premieres in London |
| 1951 | Bill Veeck's "Fans Managers' Night," Browns defeat A's 5-3; Browns coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on |
| 1950 | Edith Sampson named 1st black U.S. delegate to U.N. |
| 1950 | Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews |
| 1949 | NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, goes into effect |
| 1945 | Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy and strike out 12 |
| 1944 | General LeClercs troops open assault on Paris |
| 1943 | Philadelphia A's drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game |
| 1942 | Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands |
| 1942 | Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1940 | Luftwaffe bombs London |
| 1940 | Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams pitches the last 2 innings in a 12-1 loss to Detroit Tigers, Williams allows 3 hits and 1 run |
| 1939 | Germany and U.S.S.R. sign 10-year non-aggression pact |
| 1938 | England beat Australia by an innings and 579 runs at The Oval |
| 1938 | Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game |
| 1937 | Republican offensive near Belchite Spain |
| 1936 | Australian Antarctic Territory created |
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists and communists |
| 1932 | 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart |
| 1931 | France and U.S.S.R. sign neutrality/no attack treaty |
| 1929 | 43rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62) |
| 1929 | Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem |
| 1929 | Turkey and Persia signs friendship treaty |
| 1925 | 39th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane (36 60 62) |
| 1923 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2) |
| 1922 | 1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams) |
| 1921 | Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey and Greece |
| 1921 | British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die |
| 1919 | Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning |
| 1918 | Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2) |
| 1918 | Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players |
| 1914 | Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops |
| 1914 | German troops occupy Namur Belgium |
| 1914 | Jerome Kern and Michael E Rourles musical premieres in New York City |
| 1912 | New York City ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe and victorious U.S. olympians |
| 1912 | Territory of Alaska organizes |
| 1912 | U.S. passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition government |
| 1911 | Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal |
| 1909 | Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal |
| 1908 | Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1908 | New York Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at MSG |
| 1906 | Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game |
| 1905 | Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings |
| 1904 | 24th U.S. Mens Tennis: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (108 64 97) |
| 1904 | Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian |
| 1893 | Tornado destroys coast of Savannah and Charleston, about 1000 die |
| 1891 | Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera |
| 1876 | Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed |
| 1869 | Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron |
| 1858 | Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning |
| 1854 | National emigration convention meets in Cleveland |
| 1853 | 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs New York) |
| 1847 | Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre" |
| 1833 | HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina |
| 1831 | John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle |
| 1828 | Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea |
| 1826 | Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens |
| 1814 | British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned down many landmarks |
| 1787 | Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526 |
| 1751 | Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch |
| 1704 | Sea battle at Malaga |
| 1690 | Job Charnock founds Calcutta India |
| 1682 | Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn |
| 1662 | Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer |
| 1658 | Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish |
| 1654 | Louis II Conde disbands ends of Atrecht |
| 1608 | 1st English convoy lands at Surat India |
| 1572 | King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants |
| 1561 | Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon |
| 1542 | Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain |
| 1516 | Battle at Aleppo: Turks beat Syria |
| 1511 | Portugese troops under Afonso the Albuquerque occupy Malakka |
| 1391 | Jews of Palma Majorca massacred |
| 1349 | 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz |
| 1349 | Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism |
| 1217 | Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France |
| 1215 | Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid |
| 410 | Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire |
| 79 | Mount Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die |
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