| 1996 | 96th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods |
| 1996 | Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1995 | Andrew Symonds scores 254 Gloucs vs. Glam, world record 16 x 6 |
| 1995 | Indians' Jose Mesa fails in save attempt after 38th consecutive saves |
| 1992 | Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA |
| 1991 | "Getting Married" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 70 performances |
| 1991 | 43rd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley and Patricia Wettig |
| 1991 | 91st U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Mitch Voges |
| 1991 | Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds |
| 1991 | Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games |
| 1991 | Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62) |
| 1991 | Martha Nause wins LPGA Chicago Sun-Times Shoot-Out Golf Tournament |
| 1991 | Norway and Denmark recognize independence of former U.S.S.R. Baltic reps |
| 1991 | Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53) |
| 1990 | Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8 ") |
| 1990 | U.N. security council authorizes military action against Iraq |
| 1989 | After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps |
| 1988 | Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston |
| 1988 | Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon |
| 1988 | Iran and Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war |
| 1988 | NASA launches space vehicle S-214 |
| 1987 | Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42 |
| 1986 | A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run |
| 1985 | Met Dwight Goodin becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d) |
| 1985 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| 1985 | STS-51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem |
| 1984 | French airship capsizes |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1983 | Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark |
| 1983 | U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign $10 billion grain pact |
| 1981 | Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09) |
| 1981 | Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years |
| 1981 | Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km) |
| 1980 | "42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 3486 performances |
| 1980 | Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street," premieres in New York City |
| 1980 | Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs |
| 1979 | "Madwoman of Central Park West" closes at 22 Steps New York City after 86 performances |
| 1979 | California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2 |
| 1979 | Somali adopts constitution |
| 1978 | Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike |
| 1976 | Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion |
| 1976 | Yankees beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings |
| 1974 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1974 | L.A. Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup |
| 1973 | Butch Trucks drummer of Allman Brothers, breaks leg in a car crash |
| 1973 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1973 | Guitarist Henry McCullough quits Wings |
| 1973 | Zambia adopts constitution |
| 1970 | Elton John's 1st U.S. appearance, Los Angeles |
| 1969 | Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo) |
| 1968 | Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win U.S. singles championship |
| 1968 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf |
| 1968 | New York Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings and beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in 2nd game and homered |
| 1967 | Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
| 1967 | Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1 |
| 1967 | Paraguay accepts its constitution |
| 1967 | Train crash at Beesd, 2 die |
| 1964 | Singapore limits imports from Netherlands due to Indonesian aggression |
| 1963 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1963 | Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds and his license is suspended for one year for speeding |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns |
| 1960 | 17th summer olympics opens in Rome |
| 1960 | AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies |
| 1960 | Demonstrations against premier Lumumba |
| 1957 | Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao |
| 1956 | To make room for Enos Slaughter, New York Yankees release Phil Rizzuto |
| 1955 | Last Soviet forces leave Austria |
| 1954 | Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m) |
| 1952 | Det Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0 |
| 1952 | Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. commonwealth |
| 1951 | Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game |
| 1950 | President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike |
| 1950 | Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title |
| 1948 | Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's |
| 1947 | Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speed record, 1,047 kph |
| 1946 | 28th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland Golf Club Portland, Oregon |
| 1945 | Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine |
| 1944 | France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame |
| 1944 | General De Gaulle returns to Paris/walks Champs Elysees Paris |
| 1944 | Paris liberated from Nazi occupation, Freedom Tuesday |
| 1944 | U.S. 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes |
| 1943 | 10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471) |
| 1943 | German occupiers impose 72-hour work week |
| 1943 | Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia |
| 1943 | Red Army under General Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka |
| 1943 | U.S. forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II |
| 1942 | SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht, Netherlands |
| 1941 | English and Russian troops attack pro-German Iran |
| 1941 | German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad |
| 1940 | 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin) |
| 1940 | 1st parachute wedding |
| 1940 | Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union |
| 1937 | Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast |
| 1936 | 3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each |
| 1932 | Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight |
| 1929 | Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco for LA after trans-Pacific voyage |
| 1928 | Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg |
| 1926 | Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece |
| 1925 | Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem New York) |
| 1925 | Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg |
| 1924 | International maritime treaty drawn |
| 1924 | Washington Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 innings |
| 1922 | Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game |
| 1921 | U.S. signs peace treaty with Germany |
| 1921 | Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record |
| 1920 | 1st U.S. woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey) |
| 1919 | 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London) |
| 1917 | 37th U.S. Mens Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (57 86 63 63) |
| 1916 | Department of Interior forms National Park Service |
| 1915 | Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage |
| 1914 | Belgian offensive at Antwerp |
| 1914 | Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium |
| 1914 | German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp Belgium, 10 die |
| 1914 | German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan |
| 1912 | 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin |
| 1912 | Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia |
| 1910 | 30th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (61 57 60 68 61) |
| 1908 | Allen Winter wins U.S. 1st $50,000 trotting race |
| 1908 | National Association of Colored Nurses, forms |
| 1904 | James J Jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1894 | Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed |
| 1890 | Would be start of England/Australia Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout |
| 1888 | 8th U.S. Mens Tennis: Henry W Slocum, Jr. beats Howard A Taylor (64 61 60) |
| 1886 | 1st International polo meet, U.S. vs England |
| 1875 | Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel, 21h 45m |
| 1864 | Combination rail and ferry service available from San Francisco to Alameda |
| 1864 | Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station |
| 1862 | Secretary of War authorizes General Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves |
| 1835 | N.Y. Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel |
| 1830 | Belgium revolts against Netherlands |
| 1829 | President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses |
| 1825 | Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day) |
| 1814 | British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books |
| 1804 | Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England) |
| 1802 | Toussaint L'Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France |
| 1795 | Curacao slaves opponents returns to St. Christopher |
| 1768 | Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth with Endeavour to Pacific Ocean |
| 1758 | Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russians: 1000s killed |
| 1718 | Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found |
| 1704 | Battle at Malaga: French vs English and Dutch fleet |
| 1698 | Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe |
| 1689 | Battle at Charleroi: Spanish and English armies chase French |
| 1689 | Montreal taken by Iroquois |
| 1628 | Assault on sultan of Mantarams of Batavia |
| 1609 | Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers |
| 1580 | Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal |
| 1566 | Iconoclastic fury begins in Dutch province Utrecht |
| 1540 | Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River |
| 1499 | Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians |
| 1485 | Battle at Bosworth Fields: Henry Tudor beats king Richard III |
| 1425 | Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail |
| 1330 | AntiPope Nicolaas V overthrows himself |
| 1212 | Children's cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa |
| 357 | Battle at Straatsburg: Julianus beats Alamannen, Chonodomarius caught |
| 325 | Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity |
