| 2012 | Over 300 million people are left without power in Delhi, India, due to a power grid failure |
| 2012 | A truth commission created by Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff convenes to investigate the country's military dictatorship |
| 2011 | Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter, Zara Phillips marries Mike Tindall, an England rugby union international |
| 2011 | NATO announces it destroyed three television distribution facilities in Tripoli, Libya |
| 2010 | Two U.S. embassy cars are set on fire in Kabul after a U.S. vehicle collides with a civilian vehicle |
| 1997 | Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14 |
| 1996 | Tommy Lasoda retires as Los Angeles Dodger manager |
| 1995 | Becky Iverson wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic |
| 1995 | Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win vs. WI |
| 1995 | Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford |
| 1995 | Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball's Hall of Fame |
| 1994 | Record 103.8 degrees F (39.9 degrees C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany |
| 1992 | Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65) |
| 1991 | MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993 |
| 1991 | Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd) |
| 1990 | 5 Bank of Credit and Commerce members found guilty of money |
| 1990 | Graham Gooch scores 123 vs. India to follow up 1st innings 333 |
| 1990 | Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die |
| 1990 | George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of New York Yankees |
| 1989 | Chile amends its constitution |
| 1989 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic |
| 1988 | Cincinnati Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month |
| 1988 | Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m |
| 1988 | James Ogilvy, under English princess Alexandra, marries Julia Rawlinson |
| 1988 | John Franco saves record 13th game of July |
| 1988 | Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO |
| 1988 | King Hussein dissolves Jordan's House of Representatives |
| 1988 | Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes) |
| 1985 | Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-51-I mission |
| 1985 | Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| 1984 | Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil |
| 1984 | Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant |
| 1984 | Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV |
| 1983 | Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California |
| 1983 | Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of U.S.S.R. jerks a record 261 kg |
| 1982 | Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test |
| 1981 | Belgian Senate accept laws against racism |
| 1981 | Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms," premieres in London |
| 1980 | Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke |
| 1980 | Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain and France |
| 1978 | Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits and NL-record-tying 8 home runs |
| 1978 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
| 1976 | Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy |
| 1976 | Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball |
| 1975 | Simon Gray's "Otherwise Engaged," premieres in London |
| 1975 | Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit |
| 1974 | House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up |
| 1973 | Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0 |
| 1972 | "Ain't Supposed to Die Death" closes at Barrymore New York City after 325 performances |
| 1972 | Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open |
| 1971 | 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289) |
| 1971 | George Harrison releases "Bangladesh" |
| 1971 | Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162 |
| 1971 | U.S. Apollo 15 (Scott and Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon |
| 1970 | 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, Connecticut |
| 1969 | Astros Denis Menke and Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets |
| 1969 | Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas |
| 1969 | KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos) |
| 1968 | Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away |
| 1968 | Washington Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years |
| 1967 | Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies' Team Golf Champ |
| 1967 | Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed) |
| 1966 | Beatles' "Yesterday... and Today," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks |
| 1966 | England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London |
| 1966 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open |
| 1966 | U.S. airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam |
| 1965 | Charles Ives' "From the Steeples and the Mountains," premieres |
| 1965 | Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown and the Green Apple," premieres |
| 1965 | Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966 |
| 1965 | Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants |
| 1964 | U.S. naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam |
| 1963 | British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow |
| 1962 | 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago |
| 1962 | All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels) |
| 1961 | 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL |
| 1961 | Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
| 1960 | 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7) |
| 1959 | In his major league debut, San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4 |
| 1956 | U.S. motto, In God We Trust, authorized |
| 1955 | Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France |
| 1954 | Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles |
| 1954 | Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71 |
| 1952 | Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid |
| 1951 | Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players |
| 1949 | British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff |
| 1948 | Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6) |
| 1948 | Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont) |
| 1947 | Cincinnati Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to New York Giants 5-4 |
| 1946 | 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico |
| 1945 | Philippines Sea: U.S. cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die |
| 1944 | Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire and Villebaudon Normandy |
| 1944 | U.S. 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy |
| 1943 | Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy) |
| 1943 | U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano |
| 1942 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES) |
| 1942 | German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia |
| 1942 | German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands |
| 1941 | German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU and SGP in Netherlands |
| 1939 | Belgium Sylvere Maes wins 33rd Tour de France |
| 1938 | General Metaxas names himself premier of Greece |
| 1937 | Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base and registers no put outs |
| 1935 | 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution |
| 1933 | 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2) |
| 1932 | 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles |
| 1930 | 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio |
| 1930 | Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo |
| 1928 | George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures |
| 1926 | Albanian boundaries deduced |
| 1923 | New Zealand claims Ross Dependency |
| 1917 | Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting |
| 1916 | German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey |
| 1914 | Austrian-Hungary and Russia proclaim general mobilization |
| 1914 | French troops withdraw 10 km from German border |
| 1914 | John French appointed British supreme commander |
| 1913 | Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War |
| 1909 | John A. Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 1909 | Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army |
| 1908 | Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris |
| 1905 | Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms |
| 1902 | Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (New York City) |
| 1898 | Will Kieth Kellogg invents Corn Flakes |
| 1889 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty" |
| 1878 | German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election |
| 1878 | Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties |
| 1874 | 1st baseball teams to play outside U.S., Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles |
| 1870 | Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100 |
| 1866 | Race riot in New Orleans |
| 1865 | Pope Pius IX visits Suriname |
| 1864 | Battle of the Crater: General Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg |
| 1864 | Confederate troops attack Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in fire |
| 1863 | President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot |
| 1844 | 1st U.S. yacht club organized, New York Yacht Club |
| 1839 | Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad |
| 1836 | 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii |
| 1826 | Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed |
| 1824 | Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris |
| 1822 | James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church |
| 1809 | English invasion army lands in Walcheren |
| 1792 | 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time |
| 1775 | Captain Cook with Resolution returns to England |
| 1739 | Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, New Jersey |
| 1733 | Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston |
| 1729 | City of Baltimore founded |
| 1715 | Spanish gold and silver fleet disappears off St. Lucie, Florida |
| 1678 | English troops lands in Flanders |
| 1655 | Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram |
| 1653 | Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland |
| 1650 | Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam |
| 1646 | English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions |
| 1626 | Earthquake hits Naples; 10,000 die |
| 1619 | House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective U.S. governing body |
| 1618 | Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht |
| 1601 | Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius |
| 1537 | Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire |
| 1419 | Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague and throw Catholic councillors out the windows |
| 1178 | Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy |
| 657 | St. Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I |
| 579 | Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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