| 2009 | Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Qazvin, Iran, all 168 on board are killed |
| 1996 | After 2,216 consecutive games at shortstop, Cal Ripkin goes to 3rd |
| 1996 | MSNBC begins Microsoft internet-NBC TV |
| 1996 | Prince Charles and Princess Di sign divorce papers |
| 1996 | Southern Mexico hit with 6.5 earthquake |
| 1995 | Birmingham Barracudas 1st CFL home game (vs Hamilton) |
| 1995 | Northern Virginia begins using new area code 540 |
| 1994 | Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary |
| 1994 | Israel and Jordan agree to talks in Washington D.C. on July 25th |
| 1994 | Sonia O'Sullivan runs 3K (8:21.64) |
| 1992 | Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 3 weeks to have tumor removed |
| 1991 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| 1991 | U.S. troops leave northern Iraq |
| 1991 | Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men's pro basketball (USBL) game, game between New Haven Skyhawks and Philadelphia Spirit |
| 1990 | 45th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
| 1987 | Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence |
| 1987 | John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings |
| 1987 | State of siege ends in Taiwan |
| 1986 | 57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston |
| 1986 | All star MVP: Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox |
| 1985 | Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe |
| 1984 | 39th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
| 1984 | John Lennon releases "I'm Stepping Out" |
| 1983 | 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France |
| 1983 | Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance" |
| 1982 | Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas |
| 1982 | Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0 |
| 1980 | Johnny Bench hits his 314th home run as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra's record |
| 1979 | 34th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jerilyn Britz |
| 1979 | Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India |
| 1978 | 107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St. Andrews |
| 1976 | 36-hour kidnap of 26 school children and their bus driver in California |
| 1975 | 46th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee |
| 1975 | All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pittsburgh Pirates) and John Matlock (New York Mets) |
| 1975 | Apollo 18 launched (will rendezvous with Soyuz) |
| 1975 | Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later |
| 1974 | Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees |
| 1973 | California Angel Nolan Ryan 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0 |
| 1973 | Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Paul Getty III kidnapped |
| 1973 | Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide |
| 1973 | Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 home runs |
| 1972 | 101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane |
| 1972 | Sandra Palmer/Jane Blalock wins Angelo's Four-Ball Golf Championship |
| 1971 | President Nixon announces he would visit China |
| 1970 | Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship |
| 1969 | Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 home runs in a doubleheader |
| 1969 | Rod Carew ties record with his 7th steal of home in a season |
| 1968 | "One Life to Live" premieres on TV |
| 1968 | Commercial air travel begins between U.S. and U.S.S.R. |
| 1968 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| 1968 | New Jersey Americans moved to Comack and become New York Nets (ABA) |
| 1968 | Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres |
| 1967 | "Sweet Charity" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 608 performances |
| 1967 | L.A. Wolves beat Washington Whips 6-5 in OT to be United Soccer Association champs |
| 1967 | Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1965 | "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars |
| 1965 | Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece |
| 1964 | Barry M. Goldwater nominated for president by Republicans |
| 1963 | KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | Algeria becomes member of Arab League |
| 1962 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open |
| 1962 | Netherlands and Indonesia accord over New-Guinea |
| 1961 | "Donnybrook!" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 68 performances |
| 1961 | 90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale |
| 1961 | Spain accept equal rights for men and women |
| 1960 | Baltimore Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle |
| 1958 | President Eisenhower sends U.S. troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months |
| 1957 | Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die |
| 1957 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1956 | Beverly Hanson/Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational |
| 1956 | Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8) |
| 1955 | WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | 110 degrees F (43 degrees C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record) |
| 1954 | 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707) |
| 1954 | KOCO TV channel 5 in Oklahoma City, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | WBOC TV channel 16 in Salisbury, MD (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins |
| 1952 | Gerald D. Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Angela Dowding |
| 1949 | "Miss Liberty" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 308 performances |
| 1949 | Czechoslovakian tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny and Vladimir Cernik, defect to US |
| 1949 | WBTV TV channel 3 in Charlotte, North Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain |
| 1948 | President Truman nominated for another term |
| 1946 | British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown |
| 1945 | 27th PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Morraine CC Dayton, Ohio |
| 1944 | Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb |
| 1942 | 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz |
| 1942 | Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps" |
| 1941 | Florey and Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures, Penicillin |
| 1940 | 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Ilinois |
| 1940 | Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam |
| 1939 | Clara Adams, New York City, is 1st woman to complete round world flight |
| 1938 | Arthur Fagg completes 244 and 202 in the same cricket game for Kent |
| 1937 | Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens |
| 1937 | Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China |
| 1936 | Dutch 2nd Chamber agree to temporarily increase defense budget |
| 1933 | Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world |
| 1932 | President Hoover cuts own salary 15% |
| 1929 | 1st airport hotel opens - Oakland, California |
| 1927 | 62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St. Andrews |
| 1926 | VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms |
| 1923 | 27th U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 296 at Inwood CC in New York |
| 1923 | Italian parliament accepts new constitution |
| 1922 | 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in U.S., at New York zoo |
| 1922 | 26th U.S. Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 288 at Skokie CC in Ill |
| 1920 | Ruth ties his record of 29 home runs in a season |
| 1918 | 2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I |
| 1916 | 22.22" (56.4 cm) of rain falls in Altapass North Carolina (state record) |
| 1916 | Boeing Co (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle Wash |
| 1914 | Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe |
| 1912 | British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect |
| 1911 | 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Philippines |
| 1909 | Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park home runs |
| 1906 | Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam |
| 1904 | 1st Buddhist temple in U.S. forms, Los Angeles |
| 1902 | Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch, for Sussex vs. Surrey |
| 1901 | New York Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St. Louis, 5-0 |
| 1900 | President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin |
| 1893 | Commodore Perry arrives in Japan |
| 1888 | Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years |
| 1876 | Baseball's 1st no-hitter, St. Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford |
| 1870 | Georgia becomes last confederate to be readmitted to U.S. |
| 1870 | Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province and NW Territories created |
| 1870 | Hudson's Bay and Northwest Territories transferred to Canada |
| 1869 | Margarine is patents by Hippolye Mega-Mouries for use by French Navy |
| 1867 | San Francisco Merchant's Exchange opens |
| 1864 | Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard |
| 1863 | President Davis orders service duty for confederate army |
| 1862 | CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet and Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R |
| 1856 | Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony |
| 1850 | John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North vs. South at Lord's |
| 1840 | England, Russia, Austria and Prussia signs Quadruple Alliance |
| 1830 | 3 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk and Fox, signs a treaty giving the U.S. most of Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri |
| 1815 | Napoleon surrendered and is later exiled on St. Helena |
| 1808 | French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples |
| 1806 | Zebulon Pike began his journey to explore the Southwest |
| 1795 | "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem |
| 1787 | Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes |
| 1783 | 1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France |
| 1779 | U.S. troops under General A Wayne conquer Ft. Stony Point, New York |
| 1755 | French ambassador recalled from London |
| 1662 | England's King Charles II charters Royal Society in London |
| 1538 | Peace talks between Karel and King Francois I |
| 1524 | Emperor Karel I bans German national synode |
| 1501 | Explorer Pedro Cabral back in Lisbon |
| 1500 | Duke Albrecht of Saxon beats Friese rebellion |
| 1500 | "Blood Wedding" of Astorre Baglione and Lavinia Colonna in Perugia family Baglione massacre |
| 1410 | Battle of Tannenburg-Teutonic Knights vs King Ladislas II of Poland |
| 1307 | Duke Henrik van Karinthie chosen king of Bohemia |
| 1205 | Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitude and subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus |
| 1099 | 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Jerusalem |
