| 2012 | The 'immediate and severe' fiscal emergency declared by the U.S. city San Bernardino, California, allows it to declare bankruptcy without negotiating with creditors |
| 2012 | King Jong-un, son of King Jong-il, is announced the official Supreme Leader of North Korea; he also now holds the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army |
| 2011 | Command of the NATO forces in Afghanistan transfers from U.S. General David Petraeus to U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Genreal John R. Allen |
| 2011 | Phoenix, Arizona is hit by a dust storm, also known as a haboob |
| 2010 | The U.K. will increase aid to poor nations, including a 40% increase in Afghanistan, while reducing aid to 'powerhouses' like Russia, China and other eastern European countries |
| 1999 | 128th British Golf Open: at Camoustie Scot |
| 1995 | DC3 crashes at Antananarivo Madagaskar, 34 die |
| 1994 | Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed |
| 1994 | Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter |
| 1994 | Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights |
| 1994 | Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan, 22, weds Don Burton, 32 |
| 1994 | Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons |
| 1994 | Houston Astros tie NL comeback record, trailing 10-0, beat Cards 15-12 |
| 1994 | New York Jets sign USA soccer goalkeeper Tony Miola as a place kicker |
| 1993 | 122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St. George |
| 1993 | Afghanistan president Ishaq Khan and premier Nawaz Sharif resign |
| 1993 | Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (51,596 K) |
| 1993 | Hiromi Kobayash wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
| 1993 | Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election |
| 1992 | Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith |
| 1992 | Helen Windsor (daughter of English prince Edward) weds Timothy Taylor |
| 1992 | Sharon Belden, of Fla, 25, crowned Miss World USA |
| 1992 | Singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown marry |
| 1991 | Florida Marlins' logo unveiled |
| 1991 | Mike Tyson meets Miss Black America contestants |
| 1989 | 48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia, state record |
| 1988 | Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship |
| 1988 | Shooting begins on "License to Kill" |
| 1987 | Molly Yard elected new President of National Org for Women |
| 1987 | New York Yankees Don Mattingly ties record of home runs in 8 cons games |
| 1986 | 115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld |
| 1986 | Royals announce manager Dick Howser, 50, has a brain tumor |
| 1986 | Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains |
| 1985 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test |
| 1984 | James Huberty kills 21 McDonald's patrons in San Ysidro California |
| 1984 | Walter F. Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco |
| 1983 | Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales |
| 1982 | "Blues in the Night" closes at Rialto Theater New York City after 53 performances |
| 1982 | 111th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 284 at Royal Troon |
| 1982 | Sally Little wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| 1981 | Part of Hyatt Regency Hotel Kansas City caves in (113 killed) |
| 1981 | Poland Communist Party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek |
| 1980 | Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts |
| 1980 | Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly, France |
| 1980 | Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women |
| 1980 | Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana |
| 1980 | Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit |
| 1979 | Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | Egyptian and Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks |
| 1977 | Hugh Leonard's "Da," premieres in London |
| 1977 | Vietnam becomes member of U.N. |
| 1976 | "Something's Afoot" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 61 performances |
| 1976 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
| 1976 | Lucien van Impe wins Tour de France |
| 1976 | Stockhausens "Sirius," premieres in New York City |
| 1976 | Thiokol conducts 2-minute firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Utah |
| 1975 | Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play) |
| 1974 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1974 | World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed |
| 1972 | 200,000 attend Mount Pocono rock festival in Pennsylvania |
| 1972 | Egypt president Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out |
| 1972 | Mike Procter 8-73 with hat-trick, plus 51 and 102, Gloucs vs. Essex |
| 1971 | Eddy Merckx wins his 3rd Tour de France |
| 1970 | "Boy Friend" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 119 performances |
| 1970 | Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily |
| 1970 | Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time |
| 1970 | WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL |
| 1968 | Intel incorporates |
| 1967 | Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in New York |
| 1966 | Gemini 10 launched (John Young and Michael Collins) |
| 1965 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open |
| 1965 | Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit |
| 1963 | Failed military coup in Syria |
| 1962 | Minn Twins Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn and Harmon Killebrew connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning |
| 1961 | Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games |
| 1960 | 1st United Nations troops reach Congo |
| 1960 | Baseball's NL votes to add Houston and New York franchises |
| 1960 | Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns |
| 1959 | 1st black to win a major golf tournament, William Wright |
| 1956 | Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rakosi as party leader of Hungary |
| 1955 | 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially |
| 1955 | 280 mm rain in Martinstown, Dorset, UK-record |
| 1954 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Inverness Four-Ball Golf Tournament |
| 1954 | Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forfeit game |
| 1952 | KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | Uruguay accepts its constitution |
| 1951 | Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion |
| 1948 | "Marinka" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 168 performances |
| 1948 | Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 home runs in a game |
| 1947 | British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine |
| 1947 | King George VI signs Indian Independence Bill |
| 1947 | President Truman signs Presidential Succession Act |
| 1947 | Tigers shut out Yankees 2-0, end 19 game win streak |
| 1947 | U.S. begins administering Trust Territory of Pacific Islands |
| 1944 | Allies air raid railways at Vaires Paris |
| 1944 | Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6) |
| 1944 | British Mosquito's attack Cologne and Berlin |
| 1944 | British air raid on German convoy SW of Helgoland |
| 1944 | British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range Normandy |
| 1944 | Polish troops under General Anders occupy Ancona Italy |
| 1943 | British assault on Catania Sicily |
| 1943 | Giants and Phillies strand record 30 baserunners, New York wins, 10-6 |
| 1942 | 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens |
| 1942 | Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight |
| 1941 | SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia |
| 1940 | 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Connecticut |
| 1940 | British government signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure |
| 1940 | Democratic Convention nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for a 3rd term |
| 1938 | Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left New York for California |
| 1936 | Spanish Civil War begins, General Francisco Franco led uprising |
| 1935 | Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000 |
| 1932 | Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands sign Unity treaty |
| 1932 | U.S. and Canada sign a treaty to develop St. Lawrence Seaway |
| 1931 | 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched |
| 1930 | SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland |
| 1927 | Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit |
| 1925 | Hitler publishes Mein Kampf |
| 1924 | KPD points out Rote Frontkampferbund against Nazi |
| 1923 | England's House of Lords accepts new divorce law |
| 1921 | Black Sox trial begins in Chicago |
| 1918 | U.S. and French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I |
| 1915 | 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins and ends with loss of 280,000 men |
| 1915 | Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs |
| 1914 | U.S. Army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps |
| 1913 | After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk |
| 1912 | Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings |
| 1907 | Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907," premieres in New York City |
| 1907 | French troops occupy Casablanca |
| 1897 | 3rd U.S. Golf Open: James Foulis wins |
| 1897 | Cap Anson, is 1st to get 3,000 hits |
| 1896 | 2nd U.S. Golf Open: James Foulis shoots a 152 at Shinnecock Hills NY |
| 1896 | George Giffen is 1st to complete 1000/100 double, in 30th Test Cricket |
| 1896 | Ranjitsinhji completes 154* on Test Cricket debut vs. Australia, Old Trafford |
| 1893 | Harry Graham scores 107 on cricket debut Australia vs. England, Lord's |
| 1882 | Louisville Tony Mullane is 1st to pitch righty then lefty |
| 1872 | Britain introduces secret ballot voting |
| 1870 | Pontifical infalliability proclaimed |
| 1864 | President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service |
| 1863 | Battle of Fort Wagner, South Carolina - Second assault US1500 CS174 |
| 1862 | Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces |
| 1861 | Battle of Blackburn's Ford, Virginia US57 CS68 - Manassas - |
| 1853 | Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine and Montreal |
| 1814 | British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc) |
| 1768 | Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song," America's 1st patriotic song |
| 1766 | Society of the Dutch Literary forms |
| 1753 | Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham Mass |
| 1743 | 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (New York Weekly Journal) |
| 1737 | Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians |
| 1716 | Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels |
| 1696 | Czar Peter I's fleet occupies Azov at mouth of Don River |
| 1656 | Battle at Warsaw: Swedish king Karel X Gustaafbeats Johan II Kasimir and occupies Warsaw |
| 1630 | Spanish troops occupy Mantua |
| 1588 | Admiral Howard beats Spanish Armada |
| 1572 | Willem van Orange recognized as viceroy of Holland/Friesland/Utrecht |
| 1536 | Pope's authority declared void in England |
| 1330 | Battle of Velbuzd |
| 1290 | King Edward I of England orders expulsion of Jews |
| 64 | Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle) |
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