| 2012 | In London, the Olympic Torch arrives, signaling the final stages of the U.K.-wide relay ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics |
| 2012 | A long-term deal made between Viacom and DirecTV allows DirecTV to carry Viacom channels |
| 2011 | In Guinea, up to 80 people, including soldiers, are arrested for a failed assassination attempt on President Alpha Conde, which occurred July 19 |
| 2011 | Following an outbreak of Hendra virus, Maylaysia delcares a ban the import of horses from Australia |
| 2010 | U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague says British soldiers should be out of Afghanistan by 2014 |
| 2005 | Canada becomes the 4th country to permit same-sex marriage |
| 1997 | 126th British Golf Open: Billy Ray Brown shoots a 271 at Royal Troon |
| 1997 | American Justin Leonard wins the British Open shooting at 272 |
| 1997 | Burnet Senior Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Michele Redman wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Classic |
| 1994 | Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd) |
| 1994 | O. J. Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's klller |
| 1993 | Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium |
| 1993 | Joe Petruzzi files for divorce from Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever) |
| 1992 | 121st British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 272 at Muirfield Gullane |
| 1992 | Round World Air Race begins in Paris |
| 1991 | Kirk Cameron marries Growing Pains co-star Chelsea Noble in upstate New York |
| 1991 | Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant |
| 1990 | Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years |
| 1989 | 93 degrees F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix, Arizona |
| 1989 | Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest |
| 1988 | Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee |
| 1987 | Don Mattingly ties 1st base fielding record with 22 put-outs |
| 1986 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| 1985 | Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha |
| 1984 | Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m |
| 1984 | Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America |
| 1983 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| 1982 | Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks |
| 1982 | IRA bomb attacks in London |
| 1982 | T Macauly and D Vosburghs musical "Windy City," premieres in London |
| 1981 | England set for innings loss vs. Australia, Botham hits 100 in 87 balls |
| 1981 | Irene Saez, of Venezuela, crowned 30th Miss Universe |
| 1980 | 109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane |
| 1980 | Joop Zoetemelk wins Tour de France |
| 1980 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
| 1979 | 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash |
| 1977 | Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80 and causing $350 mil damage |
| 1976 | Last U.S. troops leave Thailand |
| 1976 | U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing |
| 1975 | 30th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer |
| 1974 | Heng Yo and Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage |
| 1974 | Turkey invades Cyprus |
| 1973 | Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ |
| 1973 | Chic's Wilbur Wood starts and loses both games of a doubleheader with New York Yankees, 12-2, and 7-0 |
| 1972 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1970 | Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks |
| 1969 | 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11 |
| 1969 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Danbury Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 1969 | Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France |
| 1968 | Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV |
| 1968 | Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117 |
| 1967 | Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes |
| 1967 | Race riots in Memphis, Tennessee |
| 1965 | 18.18" (46.18 cm) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hour record) |
| 1965 | New York Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam |
| 1964 | 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan and Dean's "Surf City" |
| 1964 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 10th String quartet |
| 1963 | 17 African states and Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC |
| 1963 | 18th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mary Mills |
| 1963 | Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
| 1962 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 13th Symphony |
| 1962 | France and Tunisia recover diplomatic relations |
| 1960 | 1st submerged submarine, George Washington, to fire Polaris missile ( |
| 1960 | Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon |
| 1960 | U.S.S.R. recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space |
| 1958 | 40th PGA Championship: Dow Finsterwald shoots a 276 at Llanerch CC PA |
| 1958 | Betty Jameson/Mary Lena Faulk wins Homestead 4-Ball Golf Tournament |
| 1958 | King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR |
| 1956 | France recognizes Tunisia's independence |
| 1956 | Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam |
| 1956 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island |
| 1956 | Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs |
| 1954 | Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North and South |
| 1954 | Tennis champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident |
| 1954 | West German secret service head Otto John defects to East Germany |
| 1953 | U.S.S.R./Israel recover diplomatic relations |
| 1952 | Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0) |
| 1952 | Fausto Coppi wins Tour de France |
| 1950 | "Arthur Murray Party" premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC) |
| 1949 | Israel's 19 month war of independence ends |
| 1949 | Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria |
| 1948 | Lou Thesz beats Bill Longson, to become NWA wrestling champ |
| 1948 | Syngman Rhee elected president of South-Korea |
| 1948 | U.S. Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested |
| 1947 | 1st political action of Netherlands Army on Java and Sumatra |
| 1944 | British/Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy |
| 1944 | Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs |
| 1944 | Canadian Cameroon Highlanders conquer St-Andre |
| 1944 | Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins |
| 1944 | Field Marshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen |
| 1944 | Flying Fortresses of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau |
| 1944 | General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy |
| 1944 | Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen |
| 1944 | Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sinks by U.S. air attack |
| 1944 | July 20th Plot-Failed assassination attempt on Hitler |
| 1944 | Liberators of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach |
| 1944 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention |
| 1944 | U.S. 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen |
| 1944 | U.S. 9th AF bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux |
| 1944 | U.S. invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II |
| 1944 | Violent battles in Verrieres-hill (Normandy) |
| 1943 | Joint Chiefs of Staff question Admiral Nimitz (landing Gilbert Island) |
| 1942 | 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training |
| 1942 | Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8 |
| 1942 | Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress |
| 1942 | Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich on its cover |
| 1942 | Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines |
| 1941 | Yankees beat Tigers 12-6 in 17 |
| 1940 | Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands |
| 1940 | Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist |
| 1940 | Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart (#1 is "I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey) |
| 1938 | Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws |
| 1935 | 1st broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio |
| 1934 | 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record) |
| 1933 | Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler |
| 1930 | 106 degrees F (41 degrees C), Washington, D.C. (district record) |
| 1927 | Lindbergh begins New York flight (Spirit of St. Louis) |
| 1925 | Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France |
| 1925 | Italian-Serbian/Croatian/Slav treaty about Dalmatie |
| 1924 | Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) forms in Paris |
| 1923 | Yankees hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2 |
| 1922 | Togo made a mandate of League of Nations |
| 1920 | Heerenveen soccer team forms |
| 1917 | Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes form Yugoslavia |
| 1917 | WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn |
| 1916 | Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cincinnati Reds |
| 1914 | Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster |
| 1913 | Turkish troop take Adrianopel and Erdine from Bulgaria |
| 1912 | Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game |
| 1911 | Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St. Louis Browns, 5-0 |
| 1911 | Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany |
| 1910 | Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption |
| 1906 | Bkln Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 2-0 |
| 1903 | Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X |
| 1894 | 2000 federal troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike |
| 1890 | "Gibbons Stamp Monthly" begins publishing |
| 1890 | Snow and hail in Calais, ME |
| 1881 | Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops |
| 1878 | 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii |
| 1877 | Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9 |
| 1876 | 1st U.S. intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, New York; Princeton wins |
| 1872 | Mahlon Loomis patents wireless radio |
| 1871 | British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province |
| 1868 | 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes |
| 1866 | Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy |
| 1864 | Battle at Stephenson's Depot Virginia: 200 killed or injured |
| 1864 | Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign |
| 1861 | Confederate state's congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Virginia |
| 1858 | Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents ) (New York beats Brooklyn 22-18) |
| 1858 | Gathering of Plombieres - Napoleon III meets Cavour |
| 1855 | 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands |
| 1849 | Start of 1st Lancashire-Yorkshire clash at Hyde Park, Sheffield |
| 1847 | German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf |
| 1836 | Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension |
| 1810 | Colombia declares independence from Spain |
| 1808 | Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names |
| 1801 | Elisha Brown, Jr. pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm |
| 1773 | Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada) |
| 1749 | Earl of Chesterfield says "Idleness is only refuge of weak minds" |
| 1654 | Anglo-Portuguese treaty, Portugal comes under English control |
| 1627 | English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle |
| 1619 | Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader |
| 1609 | Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion |
| 1608 | Reynier van Oldenbarnevelt marries Anna Weytzen in Delft |
| 1553 | Prime Minister John Dudley captured in Cambridge |
| 1498 | Emperor Maximilian names Albrecht governor of Netherlands |
| 1495 | French viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders |
| 1031 | Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France |
| 514 | St. Hormisdas elected as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus |
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