| 2005 | IRA issues a statement ordering the end to the armed campaign against the British |
| 2004 | Democrats nominate John Kerry as their Presidential candidate |
| 1998 | After months of wrangling, Lewinsky and Starr announce a full immunity agreement for Lewinsky and her parents |
| 1997 | Mark Messier signs with Vancouver Canucks |
| 1997 | Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion |
| 1996 | New York Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th home run |
| 1996 | Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Micelob Light Heartland Golf Classic |
| 1995 | Art Modell's rep begins secrets talks to move team to Baltimore |
| 1994 | Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994 |
| 1994 | Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| 1994 | Texas Ranger Kenny Rogers pitches baseball's 12th perfect game |
| 1993 | Mariner Ken Griffey, Jr. is 3rd to hit home runs in 8 straight games |
| 1992 | Ground breaking of Florida Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium |
| 1991 | "Gypsy" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 105 performances |
| 1991 | 12th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus |
| 1991 | 29th Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Nottingham England (2-1) |
| 1991 | Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley |
| 1991 | Dennis Martinez pitches the 15th perfect game in baseball history |
| 1991 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA Bay State Golf Classic |
| 1991 | Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race |
| 1990 | Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru |
| 1989 | Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run home runs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 home runs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning |
| 1989 | Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50 |
| 1989 | NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz |
| 1988 | IBM announces price hike on older models |
| 1988 | Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years |
| 1988 | Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank |
| 1988 | Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson |
| 1988 | Yankees' Tommy John makes 3 errors on 1 play yet beats Brewers 16-3 |
| 1987 | 42nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Laura Davies |
| 1987 | Angel Cordero, Jr. becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races |
| 1986 | Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed |
| 1986 | NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated |
| 1985 | 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley |
| 1985 | Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru |
| 1985 | L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, and H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame |
| 1984 | 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles |
| 1983 | AL President Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision and allows |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1983 | George Brett's 2 run home run against Yankees on July 24 (pine tar game) |
| 1983 | NASA launches Telstar-3A |
| 1980 | Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaunde Terry becomes president |
| 1979 | Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 home run game |
| 1979 | France performs nuclear Test |
| 1978 | 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in New York |
| 1978 | At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees |
| 1978 | Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1977 | 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska |
| 1977 | Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks |
| 1977 | Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham vs. Australia Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings |
| 1976 | 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake |
| 1976 | 8.2 and 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die) |
| 1976 | Eldon Joersz and Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph |
| 1976 | White Sox John Odom (5 inn) and Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's |
| 1974 | 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck, Belem, Brazil |
| 1974 | Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic |
| 1973 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| 1973 | Jane Blalock/Sandra Palmer wins Lady Angelo's 4-Ball Golf Tournament |
| 1973 | Skylab 3's astronauts, Bean, Garriott and Lousma, launched |
| 1972 | 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162) |
| 1971 | 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning |
| 1971 | Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie" |
| 1965 | Lyndon Baines Johnson sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam |
| 1964 | England all out 611 in reply to Australia's 8-656 Match a draw |
| 1964 | Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures |
| 1963 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
| 1962 | 19 die in a train crash in Steelton, Pennsylvania |
| 1962 | Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean |
| 1960 | Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate |
| 1959 | Great Britain starts using postal codes |
| 1959 | Hawaii's 1st U.S. election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress |
| 1958 | Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship |
| 1957 | Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance, Steve Allen Show |
| 1957 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
| 1957 | White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game |
| 1954 | Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres |
| 1952 | Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell, as Cincinnati Reds manager |
| 1951 | "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 1077 performances |
| 1951 | Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released |
| 1948 | I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die |
| 1947 | Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania |
| 1945 | Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building |
| 1945 | Japanese premier Suzuki disregards U.S. ultimatum to surrender |
| 1945 | U.S. Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Building, 14 die |
| 1945 | U.S. Senate ratifies United Nations charter 89-2 |
| 1944 | Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy |
| 1944 | U.S. 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France |
| 1943 | Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns |
| 1943 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces end of coffee rationing in U.S. |
| 1942 | Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto |
| 1942 | Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland |
| 1940 | Radio Orange, London begins |
| 1940 | Yankee Charlie Keller hits 3 home runs to beat White Sox 10-9 |
| 1939 | 5th Dutch government of Colijn falls |
| 1938 | 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead |
| 1938 | Bradman scores 202 Australia vs. Somerset, 225 minutes, 32 fours |
| 1937 | Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex |
| 1937 | Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire |
| 1935 | Belgium's Romain Maes, wins Tour de France |
| 1934 | 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Orofino, Idaho (state record) |
| 1933 | 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), New York City |
| 1933 | NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions |
| 1933 | Spain recognizes the U.S.S.R. |
| 1932 | Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die |
| 1932 | President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment |
| 1931 | Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem |
| 1931 | White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12 |
| 1930 | 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record) |
| 1929 | Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Michigan) |
| 1928 | 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam |
| 1926 | U.S. and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal |
| 1919 | Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam |
| 1917 | Silent Parade in New York City to protest murders of blacks in race riots |
| 1915 | 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (New York City) protesting lynchings |
| 1915 | U.S. forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924 |
| 1914 | Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox) |
| 1914 | Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow |
| 1914 | World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia |
| 1913 | 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2) |
| 1911 | 96 degrees F (35.6 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands |
| 1906 | Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4 |
| 1900 | Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut |
| 1898 | Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender |
| 1898 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Retired Colourman" |
| 1896 | City of Miami incorporated |
| 1886 | English Salisbury government forms |
| 1883 | Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000 |
| 1882 | Opera "Parsifal" is produced (Beirut) |
| 1868 | 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves |
| 1866 | Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S. |
| 1864 | 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia |
| 1864 | Battle of Atlanta Georgia (Ezra Church)-second sortie US700 CS4642 |
| 1862 | Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo |
| 1858 | Nadar takes 1st airborne photo, in a balloon |
| 1858 | William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India |
| 1851 | Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph |
| 1849 | Memmon is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of New York |
| 1830 | Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe |
| 1821 | Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day) |
| 1808 | Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey |
| 1742 | Prussia and Austria sign peace treaty |
| 1741 | Captain Bering discovers Mount St. Elias, Alaska |
| 1717 | Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs |
| 1708 | Monarch Amengkurat II [Sunan Mas] of Mataram gives himself up to VOC |
| 1696 | De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance |
| 1683 | Anne Stuart marries prince Georges of Denmark |
| 1635 | Spanish marshal Piccolomini conquerors Schenkenschans |
| 1609 | Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I |
| 1586 | Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe |
| 1579 | Cardinal Granvelle returns to Madrid |
| 1540 | English King Henry VIII marries Catharine Howard, his 5th wife |
| 1434 | Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon |
| 1402 | Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur Lenk beats sultan Bajezid I |
| 1148 | Crusaders attack Damascus |
| 754 | Pope Stephen II, III, makes Pippin de Korte, King of France |
| 388 | Battle at Aquileja: Emperor Theodosius beats emperor Magnus Maximis |
