| 2012 | Hearings are delayed for the U.S. extradition of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom over concerns about the search and seizure of documents |
| 2012 | France O'Grady is appointed the first female General Secretary by Britain's Trade Union Congress |
| 2011 | Australia's Prime Minster Julia Gillard introduces details of plan to implement a carbon tax |
| 2011 | In the Volga River near Bolgar, Russia, cruise ship Bulgaria sinks; 110 people drown and 80 are rescued alive |
| 2010 | The largest manhunt in U.K. recent history ends when gunman Raoul Moat shoots and kills himself in a 6-hour standoff with police |
| 2005 | Luxembourg accepts a referendum on the E.U. constitution |
| 1997 | Hideki Irabu makes his debut as a New York Yankee, he beats Tigers 10-3 |
| 1997 | Louise Woodward's trial begins in Massachusetts, Nanny murder trial |
| 1997 | RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads |
| 1994 | "Hedda Gabler" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 33 performances |
| 1994 | Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian weds Debbie Leavitt |
| 1994 | Fred Norris, from the Howard Stern Show, marries Allison Furman |
| 1994 | Kelly Robbins wins Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic by Owens-Corning |
| 1994 | Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns |
| 1994 | Sonia O'Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36) |
| 1993 | Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi president/Sylvie Kinigi, PM |
| 1993 | Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38) |
| 1992 | John Ellis becomes CEO of Seattle Mariners |
| 1992 | Spaceship Giotto, Halley 1986, approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup |
| 1992 | SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival |
| 1992 | U.S. Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons |
| 1991 | Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep |
| 1991 | L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13 |
| 1990 | 61st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago |
| 1990 | All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers) |
| 1990 | Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show |
| 1990 | Last day of Test Cricket for Richard Hadlee |
| 1989 | Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61) |
| 1988 | Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| 1985 | Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke |
| 1985 | French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior |
| 1985 | Playboy publishes full frontal nude pictures of Madonna |
| 1982 | Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze |
| 1982 | Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week |
| 1982 | Samuel Morses "Gallery of the Louvre" sells for $3,250,000 |
| 1982 | Zimbabwe beats Bermuda by 5 wickets to win ICC Trophy |
| 1981 | CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV) |
| 1981 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1980 | Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen |
| 1980 | Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5 degrees C temp |
| 1979 | Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion |
| 1978 | Bloodless military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees |
| 1977 | "Happy End" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 75 performances |
| 1977 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic |
| 1976 | 105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale |
| 1976 | Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud) |
| 1975 | Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman, 10 days after they married |
| 1975 | Gladys Knight and Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1975 | Test Cricket debut of Graham Gooch, vs. Australia, out for a pair |
| 1974 | OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands |
| 1974 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1973 | Bahamas declares Independence from U.K. and adopts constitution |
| 1972 | Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida, McGovern |
| 1972 | Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India |
| 1971 | 100th British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale |
| 1971 | Failed attempt on King Hassan II Shirat Morocco, 101 killed |
| 1969 | Chilean Association of Librarians created |
| 1968 | NL announces break into 2 divisions for 1969 |
| 1967 | Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe" |
| 1966 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
| 1966 | U.S. launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon |
| 1965 | Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks |
| 1965 | Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" |
| 1964 | Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game |
| 1964 | Moise Tsjombe becomes premier of Congo |
| 1962 | 32nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington |
| 1962 | All star MVP: Maury Wills (Los Angeles Dodgers) |
| 1962 | Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia |
| 1962 | Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 1960 | Belgium sends troops to Congo |
| 1960 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open) |
| 1958 | 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed) |
| 1958 | Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia |
| 1956 | 23rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Washington D.C. |
| 1956 | 650,000 U.S. steel workers go on strike |
| 1956 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| 1953 | 82nd British Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees |
| 1953 | Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist] |
| 1951 | 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit |
| 1951 | Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong |
| 1950 | "Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV |
| 1949 | 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh |
| 1949 | WJAR TV channel 10 in Providence, RI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | "Allegro" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 318 performances |
| 1948 | "Ballet Ballads" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 62 performances |
| 1948 | "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 188 performances |
| 1948 | Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army |
| 1947 | 200 die when train derails and fell into a river in Canton, China |
| 1947 | Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Philadelphia A's, 3-0 |
| 1946 | Belgian government of Acker, resigns |
| 1945 | Lieutenant Admiral Marc Mitscher named chief of U.S. Navy staff |
| 1943 | 6th day of battle at Kursk |
| 1943 | U.S. and Britain invade Sicily in WW II, Operation Husky |
| 1942 | Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp |
| 1942 | Netherland's government in exile, London, recognizes Soviet Union |
| 1940 | Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air, 114 days |
| 1940 | German planes attack British ships in the Canal |
| 1938 | "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic |
| 1938 | Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours |
| 1937 | Dutch Django Reinhardts "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club" |
| 1936 | 109 degrees F (43 degrees C) Cumberland and Frederick, Maryland (state record) |
| 1936 | 110 degrees F (43 degrees C) at Runyon, New Jersey (state record |
| 1936 | 111 degrees F (44 degrees C) Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record) |
| 1936 | 112 degrees F (44 degrees C) at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record |
| 1936 | New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles |
| 1936 | Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 home runs in a game |
| 1934 | 1st sitting U.S. president to visit South America, Franklin D. Roosevelt in Colombia |
| 1934 | 2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York |
| 1934 | Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig and Foxx in All star game |
| 1933 | 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, New York |
| 1932 | Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job |
| 1929 | In game between Pirates and Phillies 9 home runs hit 1 in each inning |
| 1929 | U.S. issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency |
| 1928 | Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout |
| 1926 | 30th U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto CC in Ohio |
| 1926 | Lake Denmark, New Jersey arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage |
| 1925 | Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial |
| 1925 | U.S.S.R.'s official news agency TASS forms |
| 1924 | Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim |
| 1924 | Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam |
| 1923 | 2-pound hailstones kill 23 and many cattle, Rostov, Russia |
| 1923 | All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy |
| 1920 | Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary |
| 1919 | Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage |
| 1919 | President Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate |
| 1918 | Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms |
| 1917 | Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft |
| 1915 | British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa |
| 1914 | Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles |
| 1913 | 134 degrees F (57 degrees C), Greenland Ranch, California (U.S. record) |
| 1913 | Romania declares war on Bulgaria |
| 1912 | Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6) |
| 1911 | 105 degrees F (41 degrees C) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record) |
| 1910 | Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0 |
| 1908 | H Kamerlingh Onnes makes helium liquid (-269 degrees C) |
| 1905 | Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court |
| 1898 | Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo |
| 1892 | 1st concrete-paved street built, Bellefountaine, Ohio |
| 1890 | Wyoming becomes 44th state of U.S., 1st with female suffrage |
| 1886 | George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company |
| 1886 | Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink and white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand) |
| 1884 | 1st Test Cricket to be played at Old Trafford 1st day washed out |
| 1873 | French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol |
| 1866 | Indelible pencil patents by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass |
| 1862 | U.S. begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad |
| 1861 | Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia and says Union troops will not enter that state |
| 1850 | Vice President Fillmore becomes President following Zachary Taylor's death |
| 1847 | Urbain J J Leverrier and John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel |
| 1832 | President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US |
| 1810 | Emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France |
| 1797 | 1st U.S. frigate, the "United States," is launched in Philadelphia |
| 1775 | Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army |
| 1762 | Roubiliacs monument for Handel unveiled at Westminster Abbey |
| 1746 | Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye |
| 1690 | Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet |
| 1690 | Netherlands-French sea battle at Beachy Head (Cornelis Evertsen) |
| 1652 | England declares war on Netherlands |
| 1645 | Battle at Langport Somerset: Cromwell's New Model-army beats Royalists |
| 1629 | 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in U.S. founded (Salem, MA) |
| 1627 | English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle |
| 1609 | Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League |
| 1598 | Spanish theater plays "Moros y Los Cristianos" in Rio Grande |
| 1584 | Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium |
| 1568 | Battle on Eems: Dutch Water garrison beats Spanish |
| 1553 | Lady Jane Grey becomes queen of England |
| 1520 | King Charles V and King Henry VIII signs treaty of Calais |
| 1460 | Wars of Roses: Richard of York defeats King Henry VI at Northampton |
| 1040 | Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes |
| 552 | Origin of Armenian calendar |
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