| 2000 | 129th British Golf Open: at Royal Lytham |
| 2000 | 55th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship |
| 1997 | Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin and Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them |
| 1995 | "Hamlet" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 121 performances |
| 1995 | 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St. Andrews Scotland |
| 1995 | Miguel Indurains wins his 5th Tour de France |
| 1995 | Tracy Kerdyk wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
| 1994 | All 40,000 ceiling tiles in Kingdome must be replaced |
| 1994 | Amy Osmond, of Utah, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| 1994 | Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke |
| 1994 | Don Mattingly becomes 6th New York Yankee to get 2,000 hits |
| 1994 | Goodwill Games open in St. Petersburg |
| 1994 | Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in New York City |
| 1994 | Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 minutes |
| 1993 | Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley |
| 1993 | British Aerospace 147 crash at Yinchuan, 55 killed |
| 1993 | Chinese B737 crash at Yinchuan, at least 66 killed |
| 1993 | New York Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st |
| 1992 | Emperor Haile Selassie, Ras Tafari Makonnen, of Ethiopia's, funeral |
| 1991 | James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession |
| 1991 | Rob Dibble back from 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at and hitting Cubs baserunner Doug Dascenzo Cubs win, 8-5 |
| 1990 | Rosie Jones, (St. Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America |
| 1990 | South Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested |
| 1989 | 118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon |
| 1989 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| 1989 | FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC and CBS for 1st time, America's Most Wanted |
| 1989 | Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas |
| 1988 | Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton |
| 1987 | Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record) |
| 1987 | Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last years World Series |
| 1987 | Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39) |
| 1986 | Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson |
| 1986 | King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres |
| 1984 | Kansas City Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save |
| 1984 | Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984 |
| 1984 | Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude |
| 1982 | FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo |
| 1982 | International Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985) |
| 1980 | Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya |
| 1980 | River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter |
| 1980 | Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6 |
| 1979 | George Brett gets his 1,000th hit |
| 1978 | 33rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
| 1978 | Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas |
| 1978 | Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200 |
| 1978 | Reggie Jackson returns and helps Yankees win their 5th straight |
| 1977 | Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges |
| 1976 | 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895) |
| 1976 | Baltimore Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game |
| 1976 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1976 | Wings release "Let 'em In" |
| 1975 | Alan Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends," premieres in London |
| 1975 | Los Angeles Dodgers W Crawford and Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch home runs |
| 1974 | 45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pitts |
| 1974 | Greek military dictatorship collapses |
| 1973 | Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St. Louis-36 die |
| 1973 | Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan and Prime Minister of Oman |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1973 | President Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation |
| 1972 | 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched |
| 1972 | Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France |
| 1972 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic |
| 1969 | 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Washington D.C. |
| 1969 | All star MVP: Willie McCovey for the San Francisco Giants |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1968 | Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt |
| 1968 | PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane |
| 1968 | Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed |
| 1967 | 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires) |
| 1966 | Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens |
| 1966 | John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m) |
| 1966 | Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!" |
| 1965 | Beatles "Help" is released in UK |
| 1965 | Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park |
| 1964 | A's Bert Campaneris home runs on 1st pitch, hits a 2nd home run on 2nd at bat |
| 1964 | Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage |
| 1961 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
| 1961 | Bricusse and Newley's musical "Stop the world I want to ...," premieres |
| 1960 | 15th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
| 1959 | Vice President Richard Nixon begins visit on U.S.S.R. |
| 1958 | 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords |
| 1956 | Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph |
| 1956 | Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame |
| 1955 | New York Yankees Bob Cerv and E Howard are 1st to hit consecutive pinch home runs |
| 1952 | General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day) |
| 1949 | Test Cricket debut of Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days |
| 1948 | Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President |
| 1947 | 1st (U.S. Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island |
| 1946 | Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel |
| 1945 | Marshal Henri Petain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial |
| 1944 | Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 home runs in a doubleheader |
| 1944 | Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin |
| 1944 | Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland |
| 1944 | U.S. forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II |
| 1944 | U.S. troops occupy Pisa, Italy |
| 1943 | Battle of Koersk, U.S.S.R. ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks) |
| 1943 | U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini |
| 1942 | German troops conquer Rostow |
| 1942 | Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad |
| 1940 | "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins |
| 1938 | Bradman scores 103 in 178 minutes on a Headingley sticky, 3rd Test |
| 1937 | Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University) |
| 1934 | Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 minutes, 43 fours 2 sixes |
| 1931 | Ashmore and Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia |
| 1931 | France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics |
| 1930 | Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed |
| 1930 | Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with home runs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th) |
| 1926 | Belgian NMBS/SNCFB forms |
| 1926 | France government of Poincare, forms |
| 1925 | New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers |
| 1921 | Chinese Communist Party forms under Henk Sneevliet |
| 1921 | Edward Gourdin of U.S., sets then long jump record at 25' 2 3/4" |
| 1920 | British East Africa renamed Kenya and becomes a British crown colony |
| 1917 | Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes |
| 1914 | Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I |
| 1913 | Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine |
| 1907 | 7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2) |
| 1906 | Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa |
| 1904 | Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo |
| 1903 | Ford Motor sells 1st Model A car |
| 1900 | Pan-African Congress meets in London |
| 1890 | Jack Barrett carries his cricket bat for Australia at Lord's (67) |
| 1888 | John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire |
| 1886 | Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge |
| 1880 | 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| 1877 | 1st U.S. municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations |
| 1877 | 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed |
| 1870 | Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugenie as Regent of France |
| 1866 | Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms |
| 1864 | Battle of Woodstock, Virginia |
| 1863 | Alexandra Park opens in North London |
| 1858 | Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament |
| 1852 | 1st interment in U.S. National Cemetery at Presidio |
| 1851 | Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and U.S. |
| 1850 | 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of New York takes office |
| 1848 | Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts |
| 1840 | Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada |
| 1834 | HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso |
| 1829 | William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter) |
| 1827 | 1st U.S. swim school opens (Boston Mass) |
| 1812 | Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napolean fights Czar Alexander I |
| 1803 | Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin |
| 1798 | Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt |
| 1764 | James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation |
| 1745 | Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides |
| 1726 | Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia |
| 1664 | 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of New York, arrive in Boston |
| 1645 | Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar |
| 1599 | Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings |
| 1594 | Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis |
| 1572 | Willem van Oranges troops occupy Roermond on the Spanjaarden |
| 1558 | Battle at Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France |
| 1540 | Turkey recognizes Janos Sigismund Zapolyai as vassal-king of Hungary |
| 1532 | Karel I and evangelical monarchy signs Peace of Neurenberg |
| 1453 | Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion |
| 1431 | Council of Basel opens |
| 1431 | G Cesarini opens Counsel of Basel (Ferrara/Florence) |
| 1403 | Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV |
| 1298 | Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany |
| 1298 | Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community Wurzburg Germany annihilated |
| 1253 | Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III |
| 1215 | Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king |
| 1148 | Crusaders attack Damascus |
| 685 | John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 636 | Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire |
