| 2009 | Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has 4,000 prisoners death sentences commuted to life imprisonment |
| 1997 | "Keenan Ivory Wayan Show," premieres on Fox TV |
| 1996 | 24th du Maurier Golf Classic: Laura Davies |
| 1996 | 26th Olympic games close at Atlanta, Georgia (sched) |
| 1996 | J Bunning, E Weaver, B Foster, and N Hanlon inducted in Hall of Fame |
| 1995 | Darryl Strawberry joins the New York Yankees |
| 1994 | Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered |
| 1994 | Howard Stern drops out of New York gubernatorial race |
| 1994 | Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on New York parkway |
| 1993 | Angolese air force bombs Huambo |
| 1993 | Rwandian Hutu's and Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha |
| 1993 | Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits |
| 1991 | 1st time Seattle Mariners are 9 games over .500 |
| 1991 | Deb Richard wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament |
| 1990 | 95.5 degrees F (35.3 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands (highest Aug temp in Neth) |
| 1990 | European community proposes a boycott of Iraq |
| 1989 | Blue Jays Dave Steib's perfect game broken up in 9th with 2 outs by New York Yankee Roberto Kelly |
| 1988 | Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II |
| 1988 | Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case |
| 1987 | At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker |
| 1987 | FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters |
| 1986 | OPEC lowers oil production 20% |
| 1985 | "Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 1522 performances |
| 1985 | California Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit |
| 1985 | Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| 1985 | Phil Rizzuto Day, Yankees retire #10 |
| 1985 | Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits |
| 1985 | White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees |
| 1984 | Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics |
| 1984 | Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit home run |
| 1984 | Prince's "Purple Rain," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 24 weeks |
| 1984 | Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day) |
| 1983 | Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy |
| 1983 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1983 | Revolution in Burkina |
| 1983 | While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull |
| 1982 | New York Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, he is traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game |
| 1981 | Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank for STS-2 mission |
| 1981 | Oliver North is assigned to White House duty |
| 1980 | Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas and Caribbean |
| 1980 | John and Yoko begin recording "Double Fantasy" |
| 1980 | Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills |
| 1979 | Italian government of Cossiga begins |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1977 | President Carter establishes Department of Energy |
| 1977 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1975 | Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes |
| 1974 | Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor |
| 1974 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
| 1972 | Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Governor Wallace |
| 1971 | U.S. launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft |
| 1970 | Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness |
| 1969 | Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a home run outside of Dodger Stadium |
| 1968 | 100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, California |
| 1968 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open |
| 1968 | WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, New York (UNI) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | 34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934) |
| 1967 | Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago) |
| 1967 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1965 | Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand |
| 1964 | Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam |
| 1964 | North Vietnamese torpedos U.S. ships Gulf of Tonkin |
| 1963 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
| 1962 | Nelson Mandela captured by South African police |
| 1961 | 108 degrees F, Spokane, WA |
| 1961 | 28th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000) |
| 1960 | Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH |
| 1959 | "Billy Barnes Revue" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 87 performances |
| 1958 | Dumont TV Network crumbles |
| 1956 | 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph) |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog" |
| 1956 | Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands |
| 1955 | Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters |
| 1954 | Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning |
| 1953 | Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago |
| 1953 | Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs and wins 15-0 |
| 1949 | NBL and NBAA merge into National Basketball Association |
| 1948 | 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax |
| 1945 | Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season |
| 1945 | Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th) |
| 1944 | Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis |
| 1944 | British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy |
| 1943 | British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada |
| 1943 | Russian units reach suburbs of Orel |
| 1943 | USAF bombs Germans in Troina |
| 1942 | 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz |
| 1942 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo |
| 1942 | Colonel General Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev |
| 1942 | German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed |
| 1941 | Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd) |
| 1941 | Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to U.S. |
| 1936 | Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece |
| 1934 | New York Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game and beats Phillies 21-4 |
| 1930 | Child labor laws established in Belgium |
| 1929 | 60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich |
| 1929 | Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yankees 14-6 |
| 1929 | Jones Beach in New York opens |
| 1927 | Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada opens |
| 1925 | 1st Dutch Colijn government forms |
| 1925 | U.S. Marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation |
| 1922 | Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team |
| 1917 | Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests and officers |
| 1916 | Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the U.S. for $25 million |
| 1914 | German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice |
| 1914 | German fleet under Admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast |
| 1914 | Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany |
| 1914 | King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army |
| 1914 | Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War |
| 1914 | U.S. declares neutrality in WW I |
| 1910 | A's Jack Coombs and White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie |
| 1909 | Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment |
| 1903 | Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X |
| 1897 | Henry A. Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia |
| 1892 | Queen Wilhelmina and Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine |
| 1892 | Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass |
| 1886 | Colombia adopts constitution |
| 1881 | 122 degrees F (50 degrees C), Seville, Spain (European record) |
| 1879 | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris |
| 1870 | British Red Cross Society forms |
| 1864 | Land and naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas |
| 1862 | U.S. government collects its 1st income tax |
| 1855 | John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations" |
| 1830 | Plans for city of Chicago laid out |
| 1821 | 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969) |
| 1791 | Austria and Turkey sign Peace of Sistova |
| 1790 | U.S. Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service |
| 1789 | French National Meeting ending feudal system |
| 1777 | Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus |
| 1760 | Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria and Russia |
| 1753 | George Washington becomes a master mason |
| 1735 | Jury acquits John Zenger (New York Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of New York (victory for Freedom of press) |
| 1730 | Crown prince Frederik of Prussia escapes to England |
| 1704 | War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar |
| 1695 | French garrison of surrenders to Willem III |
| 1666 | Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Christopher; thousands die |
| 1666 | Sea battle between Netherlands and England |
| 1636 | Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil |
| 1598 | London's head office of Hanze closed |
| 1578 | Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed |
| 1558 | 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah) |
| 1351 | Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen and English |
| 1347 | English troops conquer Ft. Calais |
| 1265 | Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort |
| 1181 | Supernova seen in Cassiopia |
