| 2008 | Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages are rescued from FARC by Colombia |
| 1995 | "Rose Tattoo" closes at Circle in the Square New York City after 80 performances |
| 1995 | 16th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf |
| 1995 | Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1995 | Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election |
| 1994 | 101st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: C Martinez beats Navratilova (64 36 63) |
| 1994 | 37 dies in U.S. Air DC-9 crash in NC |
| 1994 | John Wayne Bobbitt and Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery |
| 1994 | Richard Johnson takes 10-45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire |
| 1994 | U.S. Air DC-9 crash in North Carolina, 37 killed |
| 1993 | Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die |
| 1993 | F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die |
| 1993 | Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder |
| 1993 | Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36 |
| 1993 | New York Met Anthony Young loses a record 25th straight game (goes to 27) |
| 1993 | Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test |
| 1992 | Braniff Airlines goes out of business |
| 1991 | Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St. Louis |
| 1990 | Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering |
| 1990 | Panic in tunnel of Mecca, 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death |
| 1989 | 10th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Orville Moody |
| 1989 | 17th du Maurier Golf Classic: Tammie Green |
| 1988 | 95th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Navratilova (57 62 61) |
| 1987 | Jim Eisenreich, comeback after nervous disorder in 1984 |
| 1986 | After 14 wins, Roger Clemens suffer his 1st loss of year |
| 1986 | General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile |
| 1986 | Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings |
| 1985 | Andrei Gromyko appointed president of U.S.S.R. |
| 1985 | European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby) |
| 1983 | 90th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats A Jaeger (60 63) |
| 1982 | Larry Walters using lawn chair and 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000' |
| 1982 | Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth |
| 1980 | Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement |
| 1980 | Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Year |
| 1979 | Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued, 1st U.S. coin to honor a woman |
| 1978 | Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start |
| 1977 | 91st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64) |
| 1976 | 83rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats E Goolagong (63 46 86) |
| 1976 | Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam |
| 1976 | Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual |
| 1974 | Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81) |
| 1973 | James R. Schlesinger, ends term as 9th director of CIA |
| 1973 | Nation Black Network begins operation on radio |
| 1972 | "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 3242 performances |
| 1972 | 27th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning |
| 1972 | Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m |
| 1972 | India and Pakistan sign peace accord |
| 1971 | 78th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats M Smith (64 61) |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1970 | 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam and Brussels |
| 1970 | New York Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for 3rd time in 28 days |
| 1969 | Ireland bowl out WI for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts |
| 1969 | Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain |
| 1967 | 22nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Catherine Lacoste |
| 1967 | Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) and 1st amateur to U.S. Women's open golf tournament |
| 1966 | 73rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Frasier (63 36 61) |
| 1966 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1965 | 79th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (62 64 64) |
| 1964 | Cilla Black records Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano |
| 1964 | Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers |
| 1964 | President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law |
| 1963 | Giant Willie Mays' HR in 16th inning gives them a 1-0 win over Braves |
| 1963 | Juan Marichal (Giants) beats Warren Spahn (Braves), 1-0 in 16 innings |
| 1962 | Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Raul Castro arrives in Moscow |
| 1962 | Fidel Castro visits Moscow |
| 1961 | Maris hits 29th and 30th en route to 61 homers |
| 1960 | "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 460 performances |
| 1959 | "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres |
| 1959 | Prince Albert marries Princess Paola in Brussels |
| 1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| 1957 | 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback |
| 1957 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pelerinage De Lourdes |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" |
| 1956 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
| 1955 | "7th Heaven" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 44 performances |
| 1955 | "Almost Crazy" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| 1955 | "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC |
| 1955 | 10th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Fay Crocker |
| 1955 | 62nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats B Fleitz (75 86) |
| 1955 | Desmond Tutu marries Leah Nomalizo Shinxani |
| 1954 | 68th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Drobny beats K Rosewall (13-11 46 62 97) |
| 1954 | Denis Compton scores 278 in 290 minutes vs. Pakistan |
| 1952 | Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam |
| 1952 | Zulu-leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi marries Irene Mzila |
| 1951 | Bill Veeck buys St. Louis Browns from Bill and Charlie DeWitt |
| 1951 | Bob and Ray show premieres on NBC radio |
| 1951 | Hugo Yarnold stumps 6 at Dundee, Worcester vs. Scotland |
| 1951 | Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system |
| 1950 | Indian Bob Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit |
| 1949 | "High Button Shoes" closes at Century Theater New York City after 727 performances |
| 1949 | "Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV |
| 1949 | 56th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: L Brough beats M duPont (10-8 16 10-8) |
| 1948 | 62nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Falkenburg beats Bromwich (75 06 62 36 75) |
| 1947 | Military coup discovered in France |
| 1946 | Dutch Beel government forms |
| 1946 | Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam and Amsterdam |
| 1944 | Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt |
| 1943 | Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126 |
| 1943 | Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning and beat Yankees 12-0 |
| 1943 | Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane |
| 1941 | DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56) |
| 1941 | Earthquake hits Palestine |
| 1941 | Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead) |
| 1941 | Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," premieres in London |
| 1940 | Dutch Prime Minister Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory) |
| 1940 | Hitler orders invasion of England |
| 1940 | Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated |
| 1938 | 51st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (64 60) |
| 1937 | 57th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats G von Cramm (63 64 62) |
| 1937 | Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean |
| 1935 | Great Britain boxers beat U.S. team in 1st International Golden Gloves |
| 1934 | General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico |
| 1933 | Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk |
| 1932 | 52nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (64 62 60) |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech |
| 1928 | British parliament accept female sufferage |
| 1927 | 40th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 64) |
| 1927 | Earthquake hits Palestine |
| 1921 | 41st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Tilden beats B Norton (46 26 61 60 75) |
| 1921 | Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier) |
| 1917 | Riots in East St. Louis Mo |
| 1916 | Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism |
| 1916 | Russian offensive in Armenia |
| 1906 | Yankees win by forfeit, for their 1st time |
| 1903 | AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later |
| 1903 | Pitcher Jack Doscher, 1 son of a major leaguer debuts with Cubs |
| 1902 | John J McGraw becomes manager of New York Giants (stays for 30 years) |
| 1901 | Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner Montana |
| 1900 | Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1st airship LZ-1, flies |
| 1900 | Sibelius' "Finlandia," premieres in Helsinki |
| 1894 | Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers |
| 1890 | Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act |
| 1885 | Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear |
| 1881 | President Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker |
| 1867 | 1st U.S. elevated railroad begins service, New York City |
| 1865 | William Booth founds Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation) |
| 1864 | General Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington D.C. |
| 1864 | Statuary Hall in U.S. Capitol forms |
| 1863 | Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day) |
| 1862 | Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges |
| 1861 | Battle of Hoke's Run, West Virginia - small Union victory |
| 1858 | Partial emancipation of Russian serfs |
| 1850 | Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus |
| 1849 | Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike |
| 1847 | Envelope bearing 1st U.S. 10 cents stamps, still exists today |
| 1843 | An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston South Carolina thunderstorm |
| 1808 | Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam |
| 1794 | 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria |
| 1787 | De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered |
| 1777 | Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery |
| 1776 | Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States" |
| 1687 | King James II disbands English parliament |
| 1681 | Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high-treason |
| 1644 | Battle of Marston Moor: Parliamentary forces defeat royalists |
| 1600 | Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army |
| 1576 | Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea |
| 1298 | Battle on Hasenbuhl (Gollheim) between German kings Adolf and Albrecht I |
| 1214 | Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers) |
| 1214 | English king John begins siege around Lille France |
| 1140 | Hartbert becomes bishop of Utrecht |
| 311 | St. Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
