| 1995 | "Arcadia" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City after 204 performances |
| 1995 | 23rd du Maurier Golf Classic: Jenny Lidback |
| 1995 | 95th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods |
| 1995 | Worst fire in New York in 80 years ends after 4 days |
| 1994 | "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at R Rodgers New York City after 320 performances |
| 1993 | Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives |
| 1992 | CFL revokes BC Lions franchise |
| 1992 | Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent and Ryan Thompson |
| 1991 | Moldavia declares independence from U.S.S.R. |
| 1990 | 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq |
| 1990 | Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats |
| 1990 | Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27) |
| 1990 | WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude |
| 1989 | 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings |
| 1989 | 89th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton |
| 1989 | Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship |
| 1989 | Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open |
| 1988 | Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Philadelphia, 4-2 |
| 1986 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1985 | 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched |
| 1985 | Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years and 8 days old is youngest to win a U.S. Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round) |
| 1984 | President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1983 | Haiti adopts constitution |
| 1983 | U.S. performs nuclear test |
| 1982 | Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark |
| 1982 | Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth |
| 1981 | Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria |
| 1981 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1980 | Chon Doo Hwan elected President of South Korea |
| 1979 | 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland |
| 1978 | Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion |
| 1978 | Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 home runs and have 500 stolen bases |
| 1978 | Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| 1978 | Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978 |
| 1977 | "Chicago" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 947 performances |
| 1977 | Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee |
| 1977 | Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2 |
| 1976 | Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1975 | 1st night match at U.S. Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith) |
| 1975 | Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world |
| 1974 | New York Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat |
| 1972 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| 1972 | U.S. bombs Haiphong North Vietnam |
| 1969 | Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes |
| 1969 | Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs) |
| 1967 | Naomi Sims is 1st black model on U.S. cover (Fashion of the Times) |
| 1967 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1966 | Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world |
| 1966 | Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak |
| 1966 | Race riot in Waukegan, Illinois |
| 1966 | Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world |
| 1965 | Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley |
| 1965 | Bob Dylan booed off stage in New York's Forest Hills |
| 1965 | WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line" |
| 1961 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open |
| 1960 | Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5) |
| 1960 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open |
| 1958 | Calvin Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard |
| 1957 | Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes |
| 1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1956 | Curt Robert of Columbus (International League) hits 4 home runs in 7 inning game |
| 1955 | Guinness Book of World Records 1st published |
| 1955 | Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts |
| 1952 | Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2) |
| 1950 | 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC |
| 1950 | General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist |
| 1948 | 102 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August |
| 1945 | U.S. troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender |
| 1944 | 200 Halifax bombers attack oil-installations in Homburg |
| 1942 | Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy |
| 1941 | Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi |
| 1940 | Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan) |
| 1939 | Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178) |
| 1939 | Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion |
| 1939 | Nazi Germany demands Danzig and Polish corridor |
| 1939 | Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech |
| 1938 | Yankees Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples |
| 1937 | Bkln Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game |
| 1937 | George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH |
| 1934 | Arlen, Ira Gershwin and Harburgs musical premieres in New York City |
| 1933 | Earl Averill becomes 2nd Cleveland ballplayer to hit for cycle Moody defaults in 3rd set, trailing 3-0 |
| 1932 | 200,000 English textile workers strike |
| 1932 | International anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam |
| 1928 | 16 die in a New York City subway's 2nd worst accident |
| 1928 | 42nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen W Moody beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 61) |
| 1928 | Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war |
| 1927 | Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens |
| 1922 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6) |
| 1921 | J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise |
| 1918 | Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army |
| 1918 | Dr. Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia |
| 1917 | Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game |
| 1916 | Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary |
| 1914 | 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau |
| 1914 | U.S. war reporter Richard H. Davis visits Leuven |
| 1913 | Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane) |
| 1912 | Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes" |
| 1911 | Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0 |
| 1910 | Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park |
| 1910 | Washington Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit |
| 1909 | Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game |
| 1908 | Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as the Tigers |
| 1903 | 23rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Hugh L Doherty beats William A Larned (60 63 108) |
| 1900 | Battle at Bergendal: General Buller beats Boer general Botha |
| 1897 | Roger Bresnahan debuts as Washington Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher) |
| 1896 | England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM) |
| 1895 | 15th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (63 62 64) |
| 1894 | Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court |
| 1892 | New York City Metropolitan Opera House catches fire |
| 1883 | Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons |
| 1881 | Hurricane hits Florida and Carolinas; about 700 die |
| 1861 | Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft. Clark |
| 1859 | 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake |
| 1832 | Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up |
| 1828 | Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talk |
| 1816 | Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates |
| 1813 | Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians |
| 1799 | English invasion army lands in North-Holland |
| 1798 | Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English |
| 1789 | French National Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen" |
| 1788 | Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance |
| 1783 | 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude |
| 1776 | British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island |
| 1667 | Earliest recorded hurricane in U.S., Jamestown, Virginia |
| 1665 | "Ye Bare and Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in North America (Acomac, Va) |
| 1634 | Battle of Nordingen-Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, loses Duchy of Francomia |
| 1628 | Java sultan Agung van Mataram attacks Batavia |
| 1626 | Battle at Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV |
| 1619 | Monarch Frederik van Palts chosen king of Bohemia |
| 1610 | Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia |
| 1601 | Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world |
| 1585 | Duke van Parma's troops occupy Antwerp |
| 1569 | Pope Pius names Cosimo I de' Medici, grand duke of Toscane |
| 1549 | Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army |
| 1232 | Kioto Staatsraad accept Joei Legislation |
