| 2012 | Ban Ki-moon, U.N. Secretary-General, urges countries to work together to reach an agreement to control international arms sales; no agreement is reached |
| 2012 | Salvatore J. Cordileone is appointed the ninth Metropolitan Archbishop of San Francisco by Pope Benedict XVI |
| 2011 | Higher than expected consumer price index figures and U.S. default concerns cause the Australian dollar to reach a post-float record against the U.S. dollar |
| 2011 | The U.K. government recognizes the National Transitional Council and expels Libyan diplomats loyal to Muammar Gaddafi |
| 2010 | Photographic negatives purchased at a garage sale prove to be early works by American photographer Ansel Adams |
| 1997 | "Candide," closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 103 performances |
| 1997 | "Victor/Victoria" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 738 performances |
| 1997 | Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16 |
| 1997 | Franklin Quest Senior Golf Championship |
| 1997 | Stewart Cink wins golfs Greater Hartford Open (267) |
| 1997 | Tammie Green wins Giant Eagle LPGA Classic |
| 1996 | Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured |
| 1996 | David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants vs. Worcs |
| 1993 | Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees |
| 1993 | Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high |
| 1993 | Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed |
| 1993 | NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million |
| 1993 | New York Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games |
| 1992 | Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep National Convention |
| 1992 | Dimitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychenko, Veniamin Taianovitch and Evgueni |
| 1992 | Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95) |
| 1991 | Rocker Jani Lane, Warrant-Cherry Pie, marries model Bobbie Brown |
| 1991 | TV Guide publishes it's 2000th edition |
| 1990 | Graham Gooch scores 333 vs. India at Lord's |
| 1990 | Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 minutes in county cricket, world record |
| 1990 | Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop |
| 1989 | Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th) |
| 1988 | Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years |
| 1988 | General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma |
| 1988 | Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer |
| 1988 | Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yankees rout Brewers 16-3 |
| 1987 | John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel |
| 1987 | Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive |
| 1986 | 14th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley |
| 1986 | 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague, Czechoslovakia (3-0) |
| 1986 | Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France |
| 1984 | Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single vs. Philadelphia |
| 1983 | 104 degrees F (40.3 degrees C) in Garmersdorf (German record) |
| 1983 | Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal |
| 1982 | California catches A's Rickey Henderson stealing 3 times |
| 1982 | Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 1st visit to U.S. in almost 11 years |
| 1982 | Menken and Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors," premieres in New York City |
| 1980 | Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead |
| 1980 | Sally Little wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic |
| 1979 | "Broadway Opry '79" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 6 performances |
| 1979 | France performs nuclear Test |
| 1978 | Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd to hit 2 bases-loaded triples (vs Yankees) |
| 1978 | Portuguese President Eanes fires premier Soares |
| 1977 | John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in U.S. |
| 1976 | 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese |
| 1976 | Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested, Lockheed Affair |
| 1975 | Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic |
| 1974 | House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment |
| 1974 | Kanhai and Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire vs. Gloucs |
| 1973 | 40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103) |
| 1973 | Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners |
| 1972 | NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques |
| 1970 | Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game |
| 1970 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| 1970 | L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, and Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame |
| 1969 | 15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
| 1969 | Pioneer 10 launched |
| 1968 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open |
| 1968 | Race Riot in Gary, Indiana |
| 1967 | Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns |
| 1967 | Helmond Sport soccer team forms |
| 1967 | Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up commission to study cause of urban violence |
| 1967 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1965 | Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government |
| 1965 | President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking |
| 1963 | Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| 1963 | General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria |
| 1962 | Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission |
| 1962 | Martin Luther King, Jr. jailed in Albany, Georgia |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | Vice President Nixon nominated for President at Republican convention in Chicago |
| 1959 | Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India vs. England on debut |
| 1959 | William Shea announces he plans to have a baseball team in New York City in 1961 |
| 1958 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open |
| 1957 | St. James' Theater in London closes |
| 1956 | Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings at Manchester |
| 1955 | Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation |
| 1955 | Bulgaria shoots down a plane heading for Israel (58 die) |
| 1955 | Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die |
| 1954 | 36th PGA Championship: Chick Herbert at Keller Golf Club St. Paul Minnesota |
| 1954 | Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries |
| 1953 | 1st insulin isolated by F Banting and C Best in Toronto |
| 1953 | North Korea and United Nations sign armistice |
| 1953 | Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory |
| 1953 | Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, and Bill Klem and Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame |
| 1952 | Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2) |
| 1950 | President Truman promises aid to Taiwan |
| 1949 | 1st jet-propelled airline, De Havilland Comet, flies |
| 1948 | Australia set 404 to win vs. England at Headingley |
| 1948 | Bradman's 29th and last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404 |
| 1948 | Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt |
| 1947 | Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak |
| 1946 | Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs |
| 1945 | Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from New York Yankees |
| 1945 | U.S. Communist Party forms |
| 1944 | 1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor |
| 1944 | Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp |
| 1944 | U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese |
| 1944 | U.S. troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy |
| 1943 | 772 British bombers attack Hamburg |
| 1941 | 103 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July |
| 1941 | German army enters Ukraine |
| 1941 | Japanese forces land in Indo-China |
| 1940 | Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts |
| 1940 | Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare" |
| 1937 | 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1) |
| 1935 | Floods at Yangtzee Jiang and Hoangh, kills 200,000 |
| 1934 | French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms |
| 1932 | Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death |
| 1931 | Chilean president Carlos Ibanez forced out |
| 1931 | Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr and SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops |
| 1930 | Andre Leducq wins Tour de France |
| 1929 | Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished |
| 1928 | AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms |
| 1927 | Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver |
| 1927 | Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park) |
| 1924 | 8th Olympic games closes in Paris |
| 1922 | International Geographical Union forms in Brussels |
| 1921 | 2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms |
| 1921 | Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolates insulin at University of Toronto |
| 1920 | Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation |
| 1920 | Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup |
| 1919 | Chicago race riot, 15 whites and 23 blacks killed, 500 injured |
| 1918 | Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in U.S., launched to carry oil, New York |
| 1914 | Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade |
| 1913 | Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France |
| 1909 | Orville Wright tests 1st U.S. Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s |
| 1898 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dancing Men" |
| 1897 | 14.75" (37.5 cm) of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hhourr record) |
| 1897 | Dutch government of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns |
| 1891 | Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as Governor of Suriname |
| 1888 | Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile |
| 1880 | A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil |
| 1880 | Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr. Watson is wounded, breaks out |
| 1866 | Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long) |
| 1864 | Battle of Darbytown, Virginia (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains) |
| 1862 | Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die |
| 1862 | Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico |
| 1861 | Battle of Mathias Point, Virginia - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing |
| 1861 | Battle of St. Augustine Springs, New Mexico Terr |
| 1861 | Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico |
| 1861 | Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army |
| 1844 | Fire destroys U.S. mint at Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 1839 | Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England |
| 1837 | U.S. Mint opens in Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 1836 | Adelaide, South Australia founded |
| 1830 | Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X |
| 1816 | U.S. troops destroy Ft. Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves |
| 1809 | Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army |
| 1795 | Spain and France sign peace treaty |
| 1794 | Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris |
| 1789 | Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs, State Department |
| 1714 | Battle at Hango (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet |
| 1714 | English Queen Anne fires premier Robert Haley |
| 1713 | Russia and Turkey sign peace treaty |
| 1694 | Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament |
| 1689 | Battle of Killicrankie, Viscount Dundee defeats Whig General MacKay |
| 1689 | Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie |
| 1663 | English parliament accepts Staple Act |
| 1661 | Parliament confirms Navigation Act |
| 1655 | Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery |
| 1655 | Netherlands and Brandenburg sign military treaty |
| 1643 | Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough |
| 1641 | Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep |
| 1586 | Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia |
| 1563 | French army recaptures Le Havre |
| 1501 | Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral |
| 1365 | Isabella of England marries Enguerrand of Coucy at Windsor |
| 1360 | Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland |
| 1298 | Albert I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor |
| 1298 | Roman Catholics German King Albrecht I von Habsburg installed |
| 1280 | Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China |
| 1230 | Treaty of San-Germano between Emperor Frederik II and Pope Gregory IX |
| 1214 | 1st battle of Bouvines - King Philips II vs Emperor Otto IV |
| 432 | St. Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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