| 1997 | Korean Air 747 with 331 aboard crashes in Guam, 29 survive |
| 1997 | Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial |
| 1997 | Soyuz TM-26 crew of Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov, launched |
| 1996 | Dallas Cowboys play Kansas City Chiefs in Monterrey Mexico |
| 1994 | Antonov-12 crash down at Boda, East-Siberia, 47 killed |
| 1994 | Rocker Billy Idol admitted to the hospital after drug overdose |
| 1992 | 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge |
| 1991 | Sergeo Bubka of U.S.S.R. sets pole vault record (20'") in Malmo Sweden |
| 1990 | Barb Mucha wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| 1990 | Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan inducted into hall of fame |
| 1988 | Mario Biaggi, Representative-D-New York, convicted of racketeering resigns seat |
| 1986 | Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 5k woman's record (14:37.33) |
| 1986 | Steve Carlton is 2nd to pitch 4,000 strikeout |
| 1986 | U.S. Senate votes for SDI-project, Star Wars |
| 1986 | It's revealed Andrew Wyeth had, secretly created 240 drawings and paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania |
| 1985 | Baseball players go on strike for 2 days |
| 1985 | Establishment of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is announced |
| 1985 | Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor |
| 1984 | Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1984 | Joan Benoit (U.S.) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52) |
| 1984 | Lou Pinella Day at Yankee Stadium |
| 1984 | Toronto's Cliff Johnson hits record 19th career pinch home run |
| 1982 | Stephabue Hix, of Alabama, 18, crowned Miss National Teen-Ager |
| 1982 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1981 | President Regan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers |
| 1981 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1980 | Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager |
| 1980 | New York Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game |
| 1979 | "But Never Jam Today" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| 1979 | Government of Mauretania signs peace treaty with Polisario |
| 1979 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate European Golf Open |
| 1979 | Phillies Pete Rose collects NL record 2,427th career single |
| 1979 | Varetta Shankle (Miss), crowned 12th Miss Black America |
| 1979 | Willie Mays, Warren Giles, and Hack Wilson inducted in Hall of Fame |
| 1978 | New Orlean Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City (NFL expo) |
| 1975 | Phillies 1st 8 batters get hits for a record, beat Cubs 13-5 |
| 1975 | Stevie Wonder signs $13M contract with Motown |
| 1974 | Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways |
| 1974 | President Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in |
| 1973 | Arab terrorists open fire at Athens airport, kills 3 injures 55 |
| 1973 | Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro no-hits San Diego Padres, 9-0 |
| 1973 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 6 |
| 1972 | Moody Blues release "Nights in White Satin" |
| 1972 | Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians |
| 1972 | Detroit shortstop Ed Brinkman errors ends record streak of 72 games and 331 total chances without a miscue |
| 1971 | WNPE TV channel 16 in Watertown, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | Robert Morley's "How the Other Half Loves," premieres in London |
| 1970 | U.S. Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail |
| 1969 | Mariner 7 flies past Mars |
| 1969 | Pirate Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium |
| 1968 | WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, Tennessee (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1967 | 1st time an AFL team beats an NFL team, Broncos beats Detroit 13-7 |
| 1967 | Bobby Gentry releases her only hit "Ode to Billy Joe" |
| 1966 | 33rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0 (72,000) |
| 1966 | Beatles' "Revolver" album is released |
| 1966 | Jose Torres beats Eddie Cotton to retain light-HW boxing title |
| 1966 | Martin Luther King, Jr. stoned during Chicago march |
| 1966 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1966 | Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" and "Eleanor Rigby" in UK |
| 1965 | Dave Marr wins PGA title |
| 1964 | Actress Anne Bancroft and comedian Mel Brooks wed |
| 1964 | Beatles record "Leave My Kitten Alone" |
| 1964 | Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyville |
| 1964 | Ford Frick says he will not run for another term as commissioner |
| 1964 | U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam |
| 1963 | Britain, U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign nuclear test ban treaty |
| 1963 | Craig Breedlove sets world auto speed record at 407.45 MPH |
| 1963 | U.S., U.S.S.R. and Great Britain agree to discuss banning nuclear testing |
| 1962 | 1st quasar located by radio |
| 1962 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
| 1962 | Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and illeagally leaving South Africa |
| 1962 | U.N. command forbids flights to Katangese airports |
| 1961 | 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record) |
| 1961 | Chicago Bears (NFL) beat Montreal Alouettes (CFL) 34-16 in Montreal |
| 1960 | Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France |
| 1960 | Detroit trades manager Jimmy Dykes for Cleveland's manager Joe Gordon |
| 1959 | 42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record) |
| 1959 | Chicago Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto |
| 1958 | Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole |
| 1958 | Philip Kapleau, Zen teacher, 1st awakening under Yasutani Roshi |
| 1957 | "American Bandstand," begins network TV (ABC) |
| 1957 | Comic strip "Andy Capp" made its debut |
| 1957 | WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions |
| 1957 | Bkln Sports Authority gets an engineering report on 50,000-seat stadium in downtown area for estimated $207 million |
| 1956 | KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Golf Open |
| 1956 | WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | After playing 274 straight games at 2nd base, Nellie Fox is given a day off he comes back next 798 consecutive games |
| 1954 | Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern and 15 pioneers |
| 1954 | Patty Berg wins LPGA World Golf Championshio |
| 1953 | Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom |
| 1951 | Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg |
| 1950 | Ezzard Charles KOs Freddie Beshore to retain HW boxing title |
| 1950 | Florence Chadwick swims English Canal (13:23) |
| 1949 | 6.75 Earthquake hits Quito; about 6000 die |
| 1948 | Cleveland Indians set club record for most double plays in a game (6) |
| 1947 | Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to United Nations pressure |
| 1945 | Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan) |
| 1944 | U.S. 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne |
| 1944 | U.S. troops occupy Vannes Bretagne |
| 1943 | Sicily: 3 U.S. A-36's bomb British headquarter |
| 1943 | Soviet forces reconquer Orel and Bjelgorod |
| 1942 | British government cancels agreement of Munich |
| 1942 | German troops cross Kuban River |
| 1940 | "Acquaintance" blows-up Zandvoortse synagouge |
| 1940 | St. Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings |
| 1938 | 33rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (3-2) |
| 1937 | Ranger (U.S.) beats Endeavour II (England) in 17th America's Cup |
| 1936 | At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal |
| 1931 | Det Tiger Tommy Bridges perfect game is broken up with 2 outs in 9th |
| 1927 | Phillies Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats |
| 1926 | 1st talkie movie "Don Juan" at Warner Theatre, New York |
| 1926 | French and German trade agreement signed |
| 1926 | Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1 hours |
| 1924 | Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts |
| 1923 | 1st American to swim English Channel, Henry Sullivan |
| 1921 | 1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts) |
| 1921 | Treaty of Berlin: U.S. and Germany sign separate peace treaty |
| 1917 | British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium |
| 1915 | German troops over run Warsaw |
| 1915 | Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans |
| 1914 | 1st traffic light installed, Euclid Ave and E 105th St, Cleveland |
| 1914 | Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina proclaim neutrality in WW I |
| 1914 | Dutch Cort Van de Linden government issues silver bonds as money |
| 1914 | Massive German assault on forts around Luik |
| 1914 | Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I |
| 1914 | U.S. beats Australia, 3-2, to win Davis Cup |
| 1914 | U.S., Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to U.S. |
| 1914 | Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium |
| 1901 | Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4" |
| 1891 | 1st travelers checks issued, American Express |
| 1890 | British and French accord to divide African colonization |
| 1884 | Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (New York City) |
| 1877 | Henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo |
| 1864 | Battle of Mobile Bay Al-Farragut is given rank of Vice-Admiral |
| 1864 | Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati |
| 1862 | Battle of Baton Rouge, LA |
| 1861 | Enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years |
| 1861 | Naval Engagement at Fernandina, FL-USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade |
| 1861 | U.S. Army abolishes flogging |
| 1861 | U.S. levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800) |
| 1858 | Cyrus W. Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable |
| 1846 | Oregon country divided between U.S. and Britain at 49th parallel |
| 1837 | 1st ascent of Mount Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, New York |
| 1781 | Battle at Doggers Bank: Dutch fleet vs English fleet |
| 1775 | 1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters San Francisco Bay |
| 1772 | 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia |
| 1745 | Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots |
| 1716 | Battle at Peterwardein: Eugenius van Savoye beats Turks |
| 1667 | State of Holland obtain Eternal Edict |
| 1666 | English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel the Ruyter |
| 1654 | French troops occupy Stenay |
| 1587 | Spanish troops conquer Lock |
| 1583 | Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America) |
| 1543 | French and Turkish troops occupy Nice |
| 1435 | Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Aragon captured by Genuezen |
| 1420 | Duke John VI of Bavaria visits "Christ's bride"/virgin Liduina |
| 1399 | Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians and Litouwers |
| 1391 | Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed |
| 1391 | Jews are massacred in Toledo and Barcelona Spain |
| 1264 | Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany |
| 1071 | Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe |
| 135 | Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome |
