| 2008 | Radovan Karadzic arrested on war crimes after a 12 year manhunt |
| 1997 | New York Yankee Mike Whiton held in Milwaukee on charges of sexual assault |
| 1996 | 125th British Golf Open: Tom Lehman shoots a 271 at Royal Lytham |
| 1996 | Dottie Pepper wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic |
| 1996 | Wayne Gretzky signs a 2 year deal with New York Rangers |
| 1995 | Brian Lara completes a pair for West Indians vs. Kent |
| 1995 | Kansas City Royals set club-record of 22 singles in 15 innings |
| 1993 | Angela Kennedy swims world record 50 m butterfly stroke (26.93) |
| 1991 | 120th British Golf Open: Ian Baker-Finch shoots 272 at Royal Birkdale |
| 1991 | Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
| 1991 | Sharmell Sullivan (Gary, Indiana), 20, crowned 23rd Miss Black America |
| 1991 | Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, and Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York |
| 1990 | Goodwill Games opens in Seattle, Washington |
| 1990 | Pink Floyds' "Wall" is performed where Berlin Wall once stood |
| 1989 | Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors |
| 1989 | Greg LeMond wins Tour de France in fastest time |
| 1989 | Mike Tyson KOs Carl Williams in 1:33 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1988 | ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian) |
| 1987 | Kristi Addis, of Mississippi, crowned 5th Miss Teen USA |
| 1986 | Barbara Palacios Teyde, 22, of Venezuela, crowned 35th Miss Universe |
| 1985 | "Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 120 performances |
| 1985 | 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St. George |
| 1985 | Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America |
| 1985 | Bernard Hinault wins his 5th and last Tour de France |
| 1985 | Judy Clark wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| 1984 | 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S. |
| 1984 | Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test |
| 1983 | Polish government ends 19 months of martial law |
| 1983 | Storm cuts short free Diana Ross concert in New York's Central Park |
| 1983 | U.S. announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge |
| 1982 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| 1981 | Australia set 130 to win, all out 111 at Headingley Willis 8-43 |
| 1980 | Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hours 18 minutes |
| 1979 | 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham |
| 1979 | National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, New York) dedicated |
| 1978 | Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees |
| 1978 | U.S. Postal Service and unions agree on a contract averting mail strike |
| 1978 | World's strongest dog, 80-kg St. Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m |
| 1977 | Libyan-Egyptian border fights |
| 1977 | Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election |
| 1976 | "Guys and Dolls" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 239 performances |
| 1976 | 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia |
| 1975 | Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager |
| 1975 | New York Met Felix Milan hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays |
| 1974 | 29th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Haynie |
| 1974 | Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France |
| 1974 | House Judiciary approves 2 Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon |
| 1973 | Braves Hank Aaron hits Ken Brett's fastball for his 700th home run |
| 1973 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet |
| 1972 | 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76, Seville, Spain |
| 1972 | 27.5 cm rainfall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota, state record |
| 1972 | Bloody Friday: 22 IRA-bombs explode in Belfast |
| 1972 | Dodgers release and end career of pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm |
| 1972 | In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours |
| 1971 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1970 | Huge Aswan Dam opens in Egypt |
| 1970 | Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1970 | Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack Baldschun gives up 3 hits and Padres lose, 3-0 |
| 1969 | Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM, GMT |
| 1969 | Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits |
| 1968 | 50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley, Texas |
| 1968 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
| 1968 | Jan Janssen wins Tour de France: 1st Dutchman |
| 1966 | Gemini X returns to Earth |
| 1966 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1965 | Pakistan, Iran and Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact |
| 1964 | Arnold Long takes 11 catches in the match for Surrey vs. Sussex |
| 1964 | Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33) |
| 1964 | Netherlands last whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan |
| 1963 | 45th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 279 at Dallas AC Dallas |
| 1962 | 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany, Georgia |
| 1962 | Battles on Chinese and Indies boundary |
| 1961 | Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom |
| 1960 | Country of Katanga forms in Africa |
| 1960 | In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM |
| 1960 | Francis Chichester arrive in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing |
| 1959 | 1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, christened, Camden, New Jersey |
| 1959 | Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green) |
| 1957 | 1st black to win a major U.S. tennis tournament, Althea Gibson |
| 1957 | 39th PGA Championship: Lionel Hebert at Miami Valley Golf Club Dayton Ohio |
| 1957 | Marilynn Smith/Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament |
| 1956 | Cincinnati Red pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins |
| 1956 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak |
| 1955 | 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf |
| 1954 | At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North and South Vietnam |
| 1952 | 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed |
| 1952 | Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns |
| 1951 | Dalai Lama returns to Tibet |
| 1949 | Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO) |
| 1948 | WSPD TV channel 13 in Toledo, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | Indonesia begins 1st political election |
| 1946 | Jesus T. Pinerol becomes 1st native born Puerto Rican governor |
| 1945 | Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie |
| 1944 | British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery |
| 1944 | General Koiso becomes premier of Japan |
| 1944 | U.S. forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders |
| 1944 | Von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy |
| 1942 | 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Virginia |
| 1941 | 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine |
| 1941 | Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp |
| 1940 | Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania |
| 1940 | VARA-management accepts Rost of Tonningens demands |
| 1938 | Paul Hindemith and Leonide Massines ballet premieres in London |
| 1934 | 113 degrees F (45 degrees C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record) |
| 1933 | Haifa Harbor in Palestine opens |
| 1931 | Reno race track, becomes 1st in U.S. to use daily double wagering |
| 1930 | 110 degrees F (43 degrees C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record) |
| 1930 | U.S. Veterans Administration forms |
| 1928 | 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal - Halina Knonpacka of Poland |
| 1925 | Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism |
| 1923 | Phillies score 12 in 6th and beat Cubs 17-4 |
| 1921 | Indians (9) and Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles |
| 1919 | Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg and Amsterdam |
| 1919 | Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill) |
| 1904 | After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed |
| 1904 | Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH |
| 1900 | Pope Leo XIII encyclical to Greek-Melkite rite |
| 1898 | Spain cedes Guam to U.S. |
| 1897 | Tate Gallery opens in England |
| 1896 | National Federation of Afro-American Women and Colored Women's |
| 1884 | 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord's |
| 1880 | Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, New York |
| 1877 | U.S. Army breaks railroad strike |
| 1873 | Jesse James and James Younger gang's 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa) |
| 1867 | City Gardens on Folsom opens |
| 1866 | Cholera-epidemic kills hundreds in London |
| 1861 | 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins |
| 1846 | Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley) |
| 1836 | 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie and St. John, Quebec |
| 1831 | Belgium gains independence from Netherlands, Leopold I made king |
| 1825 | Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics |
| 1798 | Napoleon Bonaparte wins Battle of Pyramids in Egypt |
| 1774 | Peace of Kutsjuk Kainardji (end Russian-Turkish War) |
| 1773 | Pope Clemens XIV bans Jesuits |
| 1749 | Pieter Steyn becomes pension advisor of Holland |
| 1730 | States of Holland put death penalty on "sodomy" |
| 1669 | John Lockes Constitution of English colony Carolina approved |
| 1595 | Alvara Mendana discovers Marquesas Island |
| 1588 | English fleet defeats Spanish armada |
| 1579 | Mechelen surrenders to duke of Parma |
| 1568 | Battle at Jemmingen: Alva's troops beat Dutch rebellion |
| 1542 | Pope Paul III begins inquisition against Protestants (Sactum Officium) |
| 1320 | Count Louis of Nevers marries 8-year old daughter of Philips V |
| 976 | Emperor Otto II gives earl Leopold I, East Bavaria |
| 905 | Holy Roman Catholic emperor Louis III captured |
| 866 | John appointed bishop of the kingdom |
| 365 | Alexandria hit by Earthquake; about 50,000 die |
| 230 | St. Pontianus begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
