| 1999 | 20th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: at Des Moines GC, W Des Moines, Iowa |
| 1995 | 66th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 at Ballpark at Arlington, Texas |
| 1995 | All star MVP: Jeff Conine (Florida Marlins) |
| 1993 | 14th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus |
| 1993 | Nancy Lopez wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1992 | President candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people" |
| 1991 | Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy |
| 1991 | Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Saudi-Arabia, 261 die |
| 1991 | Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii |
| 1990 | New York City police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts) |
| 1989 | 60th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim All star MVP: Bo Jackson (Kansas City Royals) |
| 1989 | President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game |
| 1988 | Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor |
| 1987 | Heart's "Alone," single goes #1 for 3 weeks |
| 1987 | Orioles Cal Ripkin becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal |
| 1986 | Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000 m in world record 30:13.74 |
| 1986 | Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women) |
| 1986 | Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara |
| 1985 | Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep) |
| 1985 | Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden |
| 1985 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1984 | 55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco |
| 1984 | All star MVP: Gary Carter, Mont Expos |
| 1984 | England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe |
| 1984 | Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989 |
| 1984 | Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana |
| 1983 | Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of New Zealand, crowned 32nd Miss Universe |
| 1982 | "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1982 | 3rd U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Miller Barber |
| 1982 | Hollis Stacy wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid |
| 1981 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1981 | Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony |
| 1981 | Sebastian Coe of U.K. sets record for 1K (2:12.18) |
| 1980 | American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran |
| 1979 | U.S. Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia and disintegrates |
| 1978 | 49th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at San Diego Stadium |
| 1978 | All star MVP: Steve Garvey, Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1978 | Auto with liquid gas crashes and explodes in Spain, 160 killed |
| 1977 | Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 1976 | 1st U.S. football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American) |
| 1976 | 31st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner |
| 1976 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1976 | In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks and Wedlocks" |
| 1975 | Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC |
| 1974 | House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry |
| 1974 | World Football League plays 1st games |
| 1973 | Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed |
| 1971 | Chilean parliament nationalizes U.S. copper mines |
| 1971 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
| 1971 | Phillies Deron Johnson 3 home runs caps his 4 in a row |
| 1969 | David Bowie releases 'Space Oddity' |
| 1969 | Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman" |
| 1968 | Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles |
| 1968 | Start of Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to do so |
| 1967 | 38th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 15 at Anaheim Stadium, CA |
| 1967 | All star MVP: Tony Perez (Cincinnati Reds) |
| 1967 | Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition |
| 1965 | Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion |
| 1965 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Midwest Golf Open |
| 1963 | South African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested |
| 1962 | 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I) |
| 1962 | Brothers Hank and Tommie Aaron homer in same inning |
| 1962 | Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days |
| 1962 | Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba) |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | 30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Pk, SF |
| 1961 | Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
| 1960 | 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC |
| 1960 | Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution |
| 1960 | Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger declare independence |
| 1960 | Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence |
| 1955 | Congress authorizes all U.S. currency to say "In God We Trust" |
| 1955 | New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets |
| 1954 | 1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss |
| 1952 | General Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate |
| 1950 | 17th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 in 14 at Comiskey Park, Chicago Ted Williams breaks his elbow; 1st extra inning All Star Game |
| 1948 | 1st air bombing of Jerusalem |
| 1946 | Kingman Douglass, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| 1944 | 12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh |
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt says he would run for a 4th term |
| 1943 | 7th day of battle at Kursk |
| 1943 | Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily |
| 1943 | U.S. 45th Division occupies airport Comiso, Sicily |
| 1943 | U.S. 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily |
| 1941 | German troops attack Dnjepr |
| 1940 | British and German dogfight above Lyme Bay |
| 1939 | 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York New York Yankee/AL maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees |
| 1936 | Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx and Queens opens |
| 1934 | Franklin D. Roosevelt became 1st President to travel through Panama Canal |
| 1931 | New York Giants beat Phillies 23-8 |
| 1930 | Bradman scores 309 in a day vs England at Leeds, goes on to 334 |
| 1925 | Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of government |
| 1924 | Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi |
| 1923 | Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M |
| 1921 | Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day) |
| 1919 | Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day/No Sunday work |
| 1916 | 1st federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted |
| 1916 | Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act |
| 1915 | Germany cruiser Konigsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam |
| 1914 | Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleveland 4-3 |
| 1905 | Black intellectuals and activists organize Niagara movement |
| 1905 | Niagara Movement founded by W. E. B. Dubois |
| 1902 | British premier Lord Salisbury resigns |
| 1900 | Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys and Lincolns |
| 1897 | Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole |
| 1895 | Auguste and Louis Lumiere show film for scientists |
| 1892 | U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp |
| 1889 | Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city |
| 1888 | 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Bennett, Colorado (state record) |
| 1888 | Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall |
| 1882 | British fleet bombs Alexandria |
| 1864 | Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early's Raid, Tennallytown, MD) |
| 1864 | Confederate forces led by General J Early begin invasion of Washington D.C. |
| 1863 | Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4 |
| 1862 | Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief |
| 1861 | Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - General Morris forces retreat of rebels |
| 1861 | Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender |
| 1859 | Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published |
| 1848 | Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent vs. England) |
| 1848 | London's Waterloo Station opens |
| 1818 | Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," and "Gadfly" |
| 1812 | U.S. invades Canada (Detroit frontier) |
| 1801 | French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet |
| 1792 | Prussia army moves into French territory |
| 1789 | U.S. Marine Corps created by an act of Congress |
| 1781 | Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US |
| 1740 | Czarina Anne of Little Russia, expels Jews |
| 1740 | Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne |
| 1708 | Battle at Oudenaarde: Great Alliance beats France |
| 1690 | Battle of Drogheda Boyne (Willem III (Netherlands-England) beat Jacobus II (Ire) |
| 1673 | Netherlands and Denmark signs defense treaty |
| 1635 | Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan |
| 1588 | French king Henri III accept demands of Catholic League |
| 1533 | Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII |
| 1525 | Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague |
| 1423 | Arnold van Egmont becomes duke of Gelre |
| 1376 | English "Good Parliament" meets |
| 1347 | Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV |
| 1302 | Battle of Kortrijk Belgium (France vs Flanders) |
| 1302 | Guldensporen battle of Belgium |
| 1244 | Chwarizneense Turken defeats Jerusalem |
