| 1998 | Russia buries tsar Nicholas II and family, 80 years after they died |
| 1997 | STS-94 (Columbia 23), lands |
| 1996 | 230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of New York City |
| 1996 | Yank John Weteland blows save after record 24 consecutive saves |
| 1995 | Forbes Mag announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world, worth$12.9 billion dollars |
| 1994 | 123rd British Golf Open: Nick Price shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland |
| 1994 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
| 1994 | Brazil beats Italy in a shoot out, for their 4th soccer world cup |
| 1994 | French youngster (4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalou Rinpoche |
| 1994 | Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win WCW wrestling championship |
| 1992 | Slovak parliament asks for self rule |
| 1990 | Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq |
| 1990 | New York Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer |
| 1990 | PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis |
| 1990 | Minn Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0 |
| 1989 | 1st Test flight of U.S. stealth-bomber |
| 1989 | Paul McCartney releases "This One" |
| 1989 | Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances |
| 1988 | 117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham |
| 1988 | 4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute |
| 1988 | Colleen Walker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| 1988 | Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman's record (10.49) |
| 1988 | Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103 degrees F (39 degrees C) |
| 1987 | "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo |
| 1987 | 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood, Comfort, Texas |
| 1987 | Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit home runs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8) |
| 1987 | Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time |
| 1987 | Iran and France breaks diplomatic relations |
| 1986 | Emmy 13th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 7th time |
| 1984 | Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France |
| 1984 | Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7 |
| 1983 | 112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale |
| 1983 | 1st USFL championship, Michigan Panthers beats Philadelphia Stars 24-22 |
| 1983 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic |
| 1981 | "This is Burlesque" closes at Princess Theater New York City after 28 performances |
| 1981 | Humbar Estuary Bridge, U.K., world's longest span, 1.4 km, opens |
| 1981 | Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut |
| 1981 | Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured |
| 1981 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1981 | Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B. William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta |
| 1980 | Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president |
| 1980 | Zenko Suzuki becomes premier of Japan |
| 1979 | 50th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle |
| 1979 | All star MVP: Dave Parker (Pittsburgh Pirates) |
| 1979 | David Gower 200* in England score of 5-633 vs. India at Edgbaston |
| 1979 | Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza flees to Miami |
| 1979 | Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo |
| 1979 | Simone Veil becomes chairman of European Parliament |
| 1978 | Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes manager Billy Martin to suspend him |
| 1977 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
| 1976 | 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal |
| 1976 | Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor |
| 1975 | Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 make 1st US/U.S.S.R. linkup in space |
| 1975 | Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox divorce |
| 1974 | 1st quadrophonic studio in U.K. is open by Moody Blues |
| 1974 | Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo) |
| 1974 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| 1974 | John Lennon is ordered to leave U.S. in 60 days |
| 1973 | Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees |
| 1971 | Kathy Whitworth/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Four-Ball Golf Championship |
| 1970 | 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, New York City |
| 1968 | Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London |
| 1967 | Monkees perform at Forest Hills, New York, Jimi Hendrix is opening act |
| 1967 | Race riots in Cairo, Illinois |
| 1966 | "It's a Bird... It's Superman" closes at Alvin New York City after 129 performances |
| 1966 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 1966 | Indians set club record by hitting 7 home run in 15-2 win over Detroit |
| 1966 | Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3) |
| 1966 | Pioneer 7 launched |
| 1965 | WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St. Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (ABC) begins |
| 1964 | Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph) |
| 1964 | Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1963 | Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden |
| 1962 | East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall |
| 1962 | Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft) |
| 1962 | Senate rejects medicare for aged |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | John Chancellor becomes news anchor of Today Show |
| 1961 | Roger Maris loses a home run (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th |
| 1959 | 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis |
| 1959 | Dr. Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old) |
| 1959 | Tibet abolishes serfdom |
| 1959 | River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana) |
| 1958 | King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan/Iraqi federation |
| 1958 | Peter Shaffer's "Five Finger Exercise," premieres in London |
| 1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak |
| 1955 | Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County |
| 1955 | Arco, Idaho becomes 1st U.S. city lit by nuclear power |
| 1954 | 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers) |
| 1954 | Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany |
| 1952 | Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier |
| 1951 | King Leopold II of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I |
| 1950 | Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka |
| 1948 | Israeli army captures Nazareth |
| 1948 | Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea |
| 1945 | Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting |
| 1944 | 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322 |
| 1944 | Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland |
| 1943 | RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde |
| 1942 | 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15 |
| 1942 | Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record) |
| 1942 | Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1941 | New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland |
| 1939 | 22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok CC Flushing NY |
| 1938 | Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves New York for LA, wound up in Ireland |
| 1936 | Carl Hubbell begins winning streak, beating Pittsburgh 6-0, |
| 1936 | Military uprising under General Franco/begins Spanish civil war |
| 1935 | Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix" |
| 1934 | Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland |
| 1929 | U.S.S.R. drops diplomatic relations with China |
| 1926 | Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4) |
| 1925 | Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits |
| 1924 | St. Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 |
| 1923 | Carl Mays gave up 13 runs and 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians |
| 1922 | Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto |
| 1922 | Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year |
| 1919 | Finland adopts constitution |
| 1919 | Yankees 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play |
| 1918 | Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings |
| 1917 | British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor |
| 1915 | Italian offensive at Isonzo |
| 1914 | Giants outfielder Red Murray is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball, ending 21 inning game, Giants win 3-1 |
| 1912 | IAF (International Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden |
| 1911 | Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army |
| 1902 | Orioles forfeit to St. Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL |
| 1900 | New York Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Brooklyn Superbas |
| 1898 | Spanish American War-Spaniards surrender to U.S. at Santiago Cuba |
| 1897 | 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon |
| 1893 | Arthur Shrewsbury is 1st to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket |
| 1890 | Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony |
| 1879 | 1st railroad opens in Hawaii |
| 1867 | 1st U.S. dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established |
| 1866 | Italian fleet under Admiral Persano capture Austrian Fort Lissa |
| 1864 | CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood |
| 1863 | Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory |
| 1862 | Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition |
| 1862 | U.S. Army authorized to accept blacks as laborers |
| 1862 | United army officially divides corps |
| 1862 | R John Hunt Morgan:Cynthiana, Kentucky CS24 US17 Skirmish at Columbia, Tennessee |
| 1861 | Congress authorizes paper money |
| 1861 | Manassas, Virginia General Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, General Johnston is ordered to Manassas |
| 1850 | Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star, Vega |
| 1841 | British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published |
| 1821 | Spain cedes Florida to U.S. |
| 1794 | African Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated |
| 1794 | Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church |
| 1788 | Russian fleet destroys Swedish |
| 1775 | 1st military hospital approved |
| 1774 | Captain Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata) |
| 1740 | Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV |
| 1727 | Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor |
| 1603 | Sir Walter Ralegh arrested |
| 1596 | At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya |
| 1585 | English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against queen Elizabeth I |
| 1583 | Spanish and Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk |
| 1552 | Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun |
| 1549 | Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium |
| 1509 | Venice recaptures Padua |
| 1473 | Charles the Stout conquerors Nijmegen |
| 1453 | 1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops |
| 1429 | Dauphin crowned king of France |
| 1393 | Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria |
| 1245 | Pope bans emperor Frederik II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time |
| 1203 | Venetianen conquer Constantinople, emperor Alexius III flees |
| 1070 | Arnulf III the Hapless becomes earl of Flanders |
| 1054 | Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV king |
| 855 | St. Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 561 | John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I |
| 180 | Christenen Cittinus/Donatus/Natzalus/Secunda/Speratus/Vestia sentenced to death in Carthago |
