| 2009 | Dozens are killed and injured when wildfires spread across France, Spain, Sardinia and Greece |
| 2000 | A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers |
| 1999 | 54th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship |
| 1997 | Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby |
| 1997 | Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian |
| 1997 | Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas, Texas |
| 1997 | Quarterback Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs |
| 1997 | Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling |
| 1997 | Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in New York City |
| 1996 | Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs. United States |
| 1994 | Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war (Washington D.C.) |
| 1993 | 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) |
| 1993 | 48th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten |
| 1993 | Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44) |
| 1993 | Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon |
| 1993 | Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France |
| 1992 | 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain |
| 1992 | Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr. Mudd |
| 1991 | Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles) |
| 1991 | Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' home run in Yankee Stadium |
| 1991 | Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use |
| 1990 | "Les Miserables," opens at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver |
| 1990 | Kansas City Royal George Brett hits for the cycle |
| 1990 | Nadezhda Ryashkina of U.S.S.R. sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23) |
| 1990 | Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game |
| 1990 | U.S. Ambassador tells Iraq, U.S. won't take sides in Iraq - Kuwait dispute |
| 1990 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1989 | Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA |
| 1988 | Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA |
| 1988 | Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France |
| 1987 | Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt |
| 1987 | U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite |
| 1986 | Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India |
| 1985 | Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS |
| 1985 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1985 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1985 | Uganda suspends constitution following coup |
| 1984 | Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space |
| 1983 | 1st non-human primate, baboon, conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio |
| 1983 | Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion |
| 1982 | 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0) |
| 1982 | 37th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson |
| 1982 | France performs nuclear Test |
| 1981 | Voyager 2 encounters Saturn |
| 1980 | Train crash at Winsum, 9 die |
| 1980 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1979 | 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record) |
| 1978 | Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager |
| 1978 | Cincinnati Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games |
| 1978 | John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image |
| 1976 | Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01) |
| 1976 | Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1975 | "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres |
| 1973 | George Harrison pays 1,000,000 pounds tax on his Bangladesh concert and album |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 5 |
| 1972 | 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad |
| 1972 | All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cincinnati Reds) |
| 1971 | Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open |
| 1970 | "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1 |
| 1969 | 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Fillmore East, New York) |
| 1969 | 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival |
| 1969 | Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne |
| 1968 | Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth |
| 1967 | Construction begins on San Francisco MUNI METRO (Market Street subway) |
| 1966 | Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone |
| 1966 | Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..." |
| 1966 | Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River |
| 1966 | Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love" |
| 1966 | Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1965 | Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar |
| 1965 | Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival |
| 1965 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament |
| 1964 | "Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 338 performances |
| 1964 | Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 14 weeks |
| 1964 | Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford |
| 1964 | Race riot in Rochester, New York |
| 1963 | Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations |
| 1963 | U.S., Russia and England sign nuclear Test ban treaty |
| 1962 | House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex |
| 1961 | Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 and 40 in a doubleheader |
| 1960 | Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels |
| 1960 | U.S. Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate |
| 1957 | Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic |
| 1957 | Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England vs. WI Headingley |
| 1957 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1956 | 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston |
| 1956 | Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm |
| 1956 | Jordan attacks United Nations Palestine force |
| 1954 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open |
| 1953 | New York City transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens |
| 1952 | Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day) |
| 1952 | Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing U.S. commonwealth |
| 1949 | St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Brooklyn 14-1 |
| 1947 | U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense |
| 1947 | U.S. Department of Army created |
| 1946 | 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show |
| 1946 | U.S. detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini, 5th atomic explosion |
| 1944 | Japanse banzai-attack on Guam |
| 1944 | 1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262 |
| 1944 | Allied jailbreak at St-Lo, behind German lines |
| 1944 | U.S. troop march into Guam |
| 1944 | USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-Lo |
| 1943 | 1st warship named for a Black person, USS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched |
| 1943 | Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II |
| 1943 | Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl |
| 1943 | RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam |
| 1942 | German troops occupy Rostov |
| 1942 | German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja |
| 1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan |
| 1941 | Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory) |
| 1940 | John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 minutes in the Mississippi River |
| 1939 | 5th and last Dutch government of Colijn, forms |
| 1939 | New York Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win |
| 1938 | Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany |
| 1938 | Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet) |
| 1936 | 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx |
| 1934 | Failed nazi coup in Austria |
| 1933 | 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington |
| 1930 | Philadelphia Athletics triple steal in 1st and 4th innings vs Cleveland |
| 1923 | German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1 |
| 1922 | AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA and WFAN) |
| 1920 | Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th home run leads Yankees to 8-2 win |
| 1918 | Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of U.S., California |
| 1918 | Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks and 2 whites killed) |
| 1916 | Explosion at Lake Erie and Cleveland Waterworks |
| 1914 | Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant" |
| 1914 | Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69 |
| 1913 | Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game |
| 1913 | Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies |
| 1912 | Comoros proclaimed a French colonies |
| 1909 | France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel |
| 1903 | Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes |
| 1902 | James J. Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1900 | Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match |
| 1898 | 1st U.S. troops land and occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay |
| 1871 | Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa |
| 1868 | U.S. Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah and Idaho) |
| 1866 | 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office |
| 1866 | David Faragut appointed as 1st Admiral of U.S. Navy |
| 1866 | U.S. Grant named 1st general of Army |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia |
| 1861 | Washington D.C. - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union and uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Terr - Rebels attack Union troops |
| 1860 | 1st U.S. intercollegiate billiard match, Harvard vs. Yales |
| 1850 | Gold discovered in Oregon, Rogue River |
| 1848 | 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian |
| 1835 | Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine |
| 1832 | 1st railroad accident in U.S., Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies |
| 1822 | General Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico |
| 1814 | Battle of Niagara Falls, Lundy's Lane, ; Americans defeat British |
| 1814 | George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive |
| 1799 | French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir |
| 1792 | Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion" |
| 1775 | Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta |
| 1759 | British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War) |
| 1729 | North Carolina becomes a royal colony |
| 1689 | France declares war on England |
| 1670 | Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna |
| 1670 | Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes Governor-General of Southern Netherlands |
| 1670 | Vienna Austria expels Jews |
| 1652 | Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church |
| 1593 | France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic |
| 1585 | Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics |
| 1570 | Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army |
| 1564 | Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC emperor |
| 1521 | About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent |
| 1519 | San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba |
| 1511 | Portugese assault on city Malakka attack |
| 1360 | Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia |
| 1261 | Byzantium Emperor Michael VIII recaptures Constantinople |
| 1215 | Frederik II (20) crowned king of German |
| 1139 | Count Alfonso I of Portugal becomes king |
| 841 | Battle at Fontenay: Louis and Charles beat their brother Lotharius I |
