| 2010 | A 28-year old Somali male is shot for breaking into Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoonist Jurt Westergaard's home and threatening his family with an axe |
| 2008 | Oil reaches $100 per barrel for the first time |
| 1998 | Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates and cocaine |
| 1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus, Ohio on WBZX 99.7 FM |
| 1995 | Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed |
| 1995 | Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21 |
| 1995 | Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away) |
| 1994 | "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" closes at Beaumont New York City after 40 performances |
| 1994 | "Shakespeare after My Father" closes at Helen Hayes New York City after 266 perf |
| 1994 | Battles between army and rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57 |
| 1993 | "Gypsy Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 55 performances |
| 1992 | Test debut of Shane Warne, vs. India at Sydney |
| 1991 | Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll |
| 1990 | Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15) |
| 1990 | Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson) |
| 1989 | Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship |
| 1989 | UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game |
| 1988 | Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn |
| 1988 | Mulroney and Reagan sign Canada-U.S. free trade agreement |
| 1987 | Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ |
| 1987 | Troops of Chad President Habre conquer Fada oasis |
| 1986 | 191.66 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 1986 | New York Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal |
| 1985 | 90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter |
| 1985 | Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts |
| 1985 | Egyptian President Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III |
| 1985 | Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score |
| 1985 | Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions |
| 1984 | Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his 1st first-class cricket century |
| 1984 | Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship |
| 1984 | Riot in Tunis kills over 100 |
| 1984 | Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia's 1st black mayor |
| 1983 | "Annie" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 2,377 performances |
| 1983 | "Sophisticated Ladies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 767 performances |
| 1983 | Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ |
| 1983 | Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing "Doonesbury" |
| 1983 | Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes |
| 1982 | "Camelot" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| 1982 | 70th Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats S Denton (62 76 67 64) |
| 1982 | Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins |
| 1982 | San Diego Chargers beat Miami Dolphins, 41-38 in 13:52 of OT |
| 1981 | Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 m butterfly (2:05.65) |
| 1981 | Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, WI vs. Pakistan |
| 1980 | 68th Australian Men Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beat John Sadri (76 63 62) |
| 1979 | 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver |
| 1979 | Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI) |
| 1979 | Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins |
| 1978 | Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey |
| 1978 | Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania" |
| 1977 | Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing |
| 1975 | U.S. Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species |
| 1974 | 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon |
| 1974 | Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres |
| 1972 | "Rothschilds" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 505 performances |
| 1972 | Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco '49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game |
| 1972 | Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars |
| 1972 | Miami Dolphins beat Baltimore Colts 21-0 in AFC championship game |
| 1971 | A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66 |
| 1970 | Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam |
| 1970 | U.S. population is 203,302,031 |
| 1969 | "Fig Leaves Are Falling" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| 1969 | "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy |
| 1969 | Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted and Black," premieres in New York City |
| 1968 | "Zizi" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 49 performances |
| 1968 | Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant |
| 1968 | KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion |
| 1966 | Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game |
| 1965 | Martin Luther King, Jr. begins a drive to register black voters |
| 1965 | New York Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath |
| 1965 | Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day |
| 1964 | Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
| 1964 | Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana |
| 1962 | Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS |
| 1961 | 1st AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16 |
| 1961 | Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14 degrees F recorded atop Haleakale |
| 1960 | 1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax) |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy announces run for U.S. Presidency |
| 1960 | John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years |
| 1960 | Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres |
| 1960 | Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president |
| 1959 | Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees |
| 1959 | U.S.S.R. launches Mechta, Luna 1, for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit |
| 1958 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY |
| 1957 | San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge |
| 1956 | Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections |
| 1955 | 1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS) |
| 1954 | Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny," premieres in New York City |
| 1953 | NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak |
| 1952 | "Pal Joey" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 542 performances |
| 1951 | Philip Barry's "Second Threshold," premieres in New York City |
| 1949 | KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, New York (PBS) begins |
| 1947 | Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali |
| 1945 | Allied air raid on Neurenberg |
| 1945 | Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955 |
| 1945 | Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion |
| 1944 | 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol) |
| 1942 | 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace |
| 1942 | German troops in Bardia surrender |
| 1942 | Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines |
| 1939 | Bradman scores 107 SA vs. Victoria, his 4th consecutive century |
| 1938 | Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded |
| 1936 | 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1936 | Bradman scores 357 for SA vs. Vic, 424 minutes, 40 fours |
| 1935 | Bruno Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap and murder of Lindbergh baby |
| 1934 | 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania |
| 1934 | Bradman scores 253 NSW vs. Queensland, 204 minutes, 29 fours 4 sixes |
| 1933 | Bradman scores 103* against the Bodyline attack in the 2nd Test |
| 1933 | Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th) |
| 1933 | U.S. troops leave Nicaragua |
| 1932 | Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri |
| 1929 | U.S. and Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls |
| 1925 | Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR) |
| 1921 | 1st religious service radio broadcast in U.S., KDKA-Pittsburgh |
| 1921 | DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens |
| 1920 | 10,000 U.S. union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids) |
| 1919 | Anti-British uprising in Ireland |
| 1919 | Lithuania gains independence |
| 1918 | Dodgers trade Casey Stengel and Cutshaw to Pitts for Grimes and Mamaux |
| 1918 | NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down |
| 1917 | Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank |
| 1914 | Philips installs research department in Eindhoven |
| 1913 | National Woman's Party forms |
| 1911 | Brooklyn Dodgers President Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000 |
| 1910 | 1st junior high schools in U.S. opens (Berkeley California) |
| 1909 | 1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50) |
| 1908 | Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa |
| 1905 | Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine |
| 1905 | Japanese troops capture Port Arthur |
| 1903 | President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black |
| 1900 | E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montreal) |
| 1900 | Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris |
| 1896 | Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr. Jamesons troops) |
| 1893 | 1st U.S. commemoratives and 1st U.S. stamp to picture a woman issued |
| 1890 | Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer |
| 1890 | Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny |
| 1885 | General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum |
| 1882 | Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust |
| 1881 | Camille Saint-Saens' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres |
| 1879 | 1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG |
| 1879 | British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die |
| 1879 | Dr. Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education |
| 1879 | Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill |
| 1871 | King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25 |
| 1870 | Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins |
| 1863 | Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends |
| 1861 | South Carolina seizes inactive Ft. Johnson in Charleston Harbor |
| 1861 | Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia |
| 1843 | Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Hollander" premieres, Dresden |
| 1842 | 1st U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn |
| 1839 | 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) |
| 1832 | 1st Curling club in U.S. (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens |
| 1831 | Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston |
| 1818 | Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto) |
| 1814 | Lord Byron completes "The Corsair" |
| 1811 | U.S. Senator Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the U.S.) |
| 1800 | Free black community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slave |
| 1790 | Mozart's opera "Cosi fan tutti" premieres, Vienna |
| 1788 | Georgia is 4th state to ratify U.S. constitution |
| 1776 | 1st revolutionary flag displayed |
| 1776 | Austria ends interregation torture |
| 1757 | British troops occupy Calcutta India |
| 1678 | Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva" |
| 1602 | Battle at Kinsale, Ireland: English army beats Spanish |
| 1602 | Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale |
| 1585 | Spain and Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville |
| 1570 | Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins |
| 1492 | Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day) |
| 1235 | Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names |
| 533 | John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 69 | Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor |
