| 2012 | London's West End closes it's longest-run musical, 'Chicago' which ran for 15 years |
| 2012 | Following an avalanche that swept away nine climbers, Italian and French rescue crews recover the bodies of two climbers on Mont Blanc in the Alps |
| 2011 | Neptune completes its first orbit of the sun since the planet was discovered in 1846 |
| 2011 | In Borneo a previously extinct rainbow toad is rediscovered by scientists; the sighting is the first since its extinction was declared in 1924 |
| 2010 | Senior Rwandan opposition politician Andre Kagwa Rwisereka is found, after reported missing, with his head nearly severed off |
| 1997 | Bomb in Algiers kills 21 and wounds 40 |
| 1996 | "How To Succeed in Business..." closes at R Rodgers New York City after 548 perf |
| 1996 | "Thousand Clowns" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 32 performances |
| 1996 | 14th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Raymond Floyd |
| 1996 | Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1996 | New York Yankee John Weteland sets record of 24 consecutive saves |
| 1996 | New York Yankees sweep complete season series in Baltimore for 1st time |
| 1995 | Los Angeles Dodger Ramon Martinez no-hits the Florida Marlins 7-0 |
| 1995 | Ramon Martinez pitches a 7-0 no-hitter against the Marlins |
| 1994 | Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 killed |
| 1993 | Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY |
| 1992 | 63rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, SD |
| 1992 | Actress Nell Carter undergoes brain surgery |
| 1992 | All star MVP: Ken Griffey, Jr., Seattle Mariners |
| 1991 | 46th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Meg Mallon |
| 1991 | Failed military coup in Mali |
| 1990 | "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premieres on WWOR-TV in New York City |
| 1990 | Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| 1989 | 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premieres |
| 1988 | 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak |
| 1988 | Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th home run into 7th place |
| 1988 | WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive |
| 1987 | 58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland-Alameda Stad |
| 1987 | All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos) |
| 1987 | Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million |
| 1987 | Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony |
| 1987 | Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson |
| 1987 | Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
| 1987 | Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law |
| 1986 | 10 killed and 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid |
| 1986 | 2nd government of Lubbers sworn in |
| 1986 | 41st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jane Geddes |
| 1986 | Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide |
| 1986 | NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission |
| 1986 | Paul McCartney releases "Press" |
| 1986 | Richard W. Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage |
| 1986 | Shalamar's Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges |
| 1985 | 40th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker |
| 1985 | Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb |
| 1985 | Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24 |
| 1984 | STS-41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1981 | Kevin Wade's "Key Exchange," premieres in London |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test |
| 1978 | Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation |
| 1978 | Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls |
| 1978 | Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado |
| 1977 | North Korea shoots down U.S. helicopter, killing 3 |
| 1977 | U.S. House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence |
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter wins Democratic President nomination in New York City |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R. banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands |
| 1975 | Disney EPCOT Center, Florida, plans announced |
| 1974 | Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day |
| 1974 | Sharon Miller wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
| 1973 | 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon |
| 1973 | Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers |
| 1972 | Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test |
| 1972 | Plate ump and catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is ump and Tom Haller is Tigers catcher, Kansas City Royals win 1-0 |
| 1970 | 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin |
| 1970 | All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox) |
| 1969 | "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins |
| 1969 | Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead) |
| 1969 | WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1968 | Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th home run off San Francisco Giant Mike McCormick |
| 1968 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic |
| 1968 | Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1 |
| 1968 | WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th home run off San Francisco Giant Juan Marichal |
| 1967 | Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing |
| 1967 | The Who, opening for Herman's Hermits begin a U.S. tour |
| 1965 | Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4) |
| 1965 | Israeli/Jordanian border fights |
| 1965 | U.S. Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km) |
| 1964 | Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France |
| 1964 | Oriole Bob Johnson's 6th straight hit as a pinch hitter |
| 1963 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open |
| 1962 | Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | Astro's Eddie Matthews hits home run #500 |
| 1961 | Finland's Miettunen government forms |
| 1961 | Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate |
| 1960 | Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| 1960 | Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300 |
| 1959 | 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Massachusetts |
| 1958 | General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq |
| 1958 | Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th and last encyclical Meminisse juvat |
| 1958 | Saddam Hussein and Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy |
| 1957 | Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270 |
| 1956 | Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0 |
| 1955 | 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England |
| 1954 | 117 degrees F (47 degrees C), East St. Louis, Illinois (state record) |
| 1954 | 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Warsaw and Union, Missouri (state record) |
| 1953 | 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati |
| 1953 | Communist offensive in Korea |
| 1952 | SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward) |
| 1951 | "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater New York City after 37 performances |
| 1951 | "Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 102 performances |
| 1951 | 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race) |
| 1951 | Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races |
| 1951 | George Washington Carver monument unveiled |
| 1950 | RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea |
| 1949 | U.S.S.R. explodes their 1st atom bomb |
| 1948 | Israel bombs Cairo |
| 1946 | Dr. Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" published |
| 1946 | Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland |
| 1946 | Cleveland Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles and a home run but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 home runs with 8 RBIs |
| 1945 | Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st U.S. ship to bombard Japan |
| 1944 | Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested |
| 1944 | U.S. assault on Coutances, Cotentin |
| 1942 | 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork |
| 1942 | Riots against Jews in Amsterdam |
| 1941 | 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp |
| 1941 | Cease fire of Joan of Arc, ends combat in Lebanon and Syria |
| 1941 | Jam rationed in Holland |
| 1940 | Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps |
| 1940 | Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR |
| 1938 | Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifest |
| 1936 | 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government |
| 1936 | 116 degrees F (47 degrees C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record) |
| 1934 | 116 degrees F (47 degrees C), Orogrande New Mexico (state record, broken on June 27, 1994) |
| 1934 | New York Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 home run record to stand for all time |
| 1934 | Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0 |
| 1934 | Ruth hits 700th career home run |
| 1933 | Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness |
| 1933 | NSDAP becomes only party in Germany |
| 1933 | Verity bowls out Essex twice in a day, 8-47 and 9-44, at Leyton |
| 1932 | Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders |
| 1927 | 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii |
| 1921 | Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Massachusetts, of killing their shoe company's paymaster |
| 1918 | Dutch government reclaims South seas |
| 1916 | 33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham South Carolina (state record) |
| 1916 | St. Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston |
| 1914 | 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted, Dr. Robert Goddard |
| 1914 | NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep |
| 1912 | Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8) |
| 1911 | 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines |
| 1909 | Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns |
| 1891 | John T. Smith patents corkboard |
| 1877 | General strike brings U.S. railroad to a stand still |
| 1868 | Alvin J. Fellows patents tape measure |
| 1865 | 1st ascent of Matterhorn |
| 1865 | Whymper, Hudson, Croz, Douglas and Hadow 1st to climb Matterhorn |
| 1864 | Gold is discovered in Helena, Montana |
| 1863 | Battle of Falling Waters, MD (Beaver Creek) |
| 1863 | Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality |
| 1861 | General McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia with 40,000 troops |
| 1861 | Naval Engagement at Wilmington North Carolina - USS Daylight establishes blockade |
| 1853 | 1st U.S. World's fair opens, Crystal Palace New York |
| 1853 | Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan |
| 1850 | 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration |
| 1845 | 1st postmasters' provisional stamps issued, New York City |
| 1845 | Fire in New York City destroys 1,000 homes and kills many |
| 1832 | Opium exempted from federal tariff duty |
| 1823 | Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives |
| 1798 | 1st direct federal tax on states-on dwellings, land and slaves |
| 1798 | Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous and malicious" writing against U.S. government |
| 1789 | Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille |
| 1771 | Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California |
| 1714 | Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet |
| 1682 | Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London |
| 1581 | English jesuit Edmund Campion arrested |
| 1544 | English troops attack The Canal |
| 1535 | Emperor Charles V conquerors Tunis |
| 1520 | Battle of Otumba Mexico: Hernan Cortes and Tlascala's vs Aztecs |
| 1420 | Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia |
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