| 1997 | A's trade Mark McGwire to St. Louis Cardinals07940601 |
| 1994 | 102.7 degrees F (39.3 degrees C) in Pleschen, East-Germany |
| 1994 | 28th Curtis Cup: Draw, 9-9 |
| 1994 | Arcen Limburg averages 71.6 degrees F (22.0 degrees C) in July: record |
| 1994 | Helen Alfredss wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship |
| 1994 | Netherlands averages 21.4 degrees C; their warmest July since 1783 |
| 1994 | Phil Rizzuto (Yankees) and Steve Carlton enter the Hall of Fame |
| 1994 | Sergei Bubka ploe vaults his 35th world record (6.14 m) |
| 1994 | Stockholms avgs 21.5 degrees C; their warmest July since 1855 |
| 1994 | U.N. votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti |
| 1993 | A's trade Rickey Henderson to Blue Jays |
| 1993 | Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops |
| 1993 | Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg |
| 1993 | Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned king of Uganda |
| 1992 | Jeff Rouse swims world record/OR 100m backstroke (53.86 sec) |
| 1992 | Kieren John Perkins swims world record/OR 1500m free style (14:43.4) |
| 1992 | Tamas Darnyi swims world record/Olympics 200m backstroke (1:59.36) |
| 1992 | Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die |
| 1992 | Yang Wenyi swims world record/OR 50m freestyle (24.79 sec) |
| 1991 | Russia and U.S. sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact |
| 1991 | Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft |
| 1990 | Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence |
| 1990 | Nolan Ryan becomes 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games |
| 1989 | Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets |
| 1988 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open |
| 1988 | Jose Canseco is 1st to hit 30 home runs in 1st 3 years |
| 1988 | Miami Dolphins beat San Francisco 49ers 27-21 in London |
| 1988 | Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 1987 | "Living Daylights" premieres in U.S. |
| 1987 | Battle between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed |
| 1987 | Eddie Murray hits his 300th home run |
| 1987 | Guns and Roses song "Appetite for Destruction" is released |
| 1987 | Oriole Eddie Murray hits his 299th and 300th career home runs |
| 1987 | Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle |
| 1984 | Leeza Gibbon's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight |
| 1984 | U.S. men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics |
| 1984 | Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed |
| 1983 | 38th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jan Stephenson |
| 1983 | B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, and W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame |
| 1983 | Dutch July avg temp is 20.1 degrees C; warmest July since 1852 |
| 1982 | 46 kids and 7 adults die as 2 buses and several cars collide in France |
| 1982 | Car/bus collision near Beaune, France, 53 die |
| 1982 | Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF) |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test |
| 1981 | 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends |
| 1981 | Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Association |
| 1980 | John Phillips of Mamas and Papas is arrested on drug charges |
| 1980 | Rangers snap Orioles pitcher Steve Stone's 14-game winning streak |
| 1980 | Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36 |
| 1980 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1979 | "But Never Jam Today" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| 1978 | Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris |
| 1978 | New York Yankees now 7 out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks |
| 1978 | Pete Rose ties NL record hitting streak at 44 |
| 1977 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA Pocono Northeast Golf Classic |
| 1977 | E Henry Knoche, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| 1977 | John F. Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA |
| 1976 | Seychelles Independence, Independence day |
| 1976 | Waldemar Cierpinski runs Olympic marathon (2:09:55.0) |
| 1973 | ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to New York Nets |
| 1973 | Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later |
| 1973 | Frank Hayes scores 106 on Test Cricket debut vs. WI as England lose |
| 1972 | Dick Allen is 7th to hit 2 inside-the-park homers in a game |
| 1972 | Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic Vice Presidential candidate |
| 1971 | Apollo 15 astronauts take 6 hour electric car ride on Moon |
| 1971 | Deventer Soccer team Go Ahead Eagles forms |
| 1970 | 37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940) |
| 1970 | Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report" |
| 1969 | KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Mariner 6 flies past Mars |
| 1969 | National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| 1968 | Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free |
| 1967 | Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence |
| 1966 | Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark |
| 1966 | Charles Whitman wounds 46 and kills 5 at University of Texas |
| 1965 | Cigarette Ads banned on British TV |
| 1964 | Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor |
| 1964 | George Lascelles marries Patricia Tuckwell |
| 1964 | Rolling Stone concert in Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot |
| 1964 | U.S. Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon |
| 1963 | Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina |
| 1963 | Cleveland ties record of 4 consecutive home runs (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown) |
| 1963 | Indians' Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona, and Larry Brown hit consecutive home runs in one inning (vs California Angels) |
| 1962 | Federation of Malaysia forms |
| 1962 | Statham is Test crickets' leading wkt-taker (229), beating Lindwall |
| 1961 | 31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston |
| 1961 | Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant |
| 1960 | Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state |
| 1960 | KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1960 | Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
| 1959 | 1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens |
| 1958 | Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet |
| 1956 | Laker takes 10-53 in Australia's 2nd innings, 19-90 for match |
| 1955 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Battle Creek Golf Open |
| 1955 | KRNT (now KCCI) TV channel 8 in Des Moines, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1955 | WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, WV (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1954 | Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 home runs, 1 double) |
| 1953 | Department of Health, Education and Welfare created |
| 1949 | Lightning strikes a baseball field in Florida, kills SS and 3rd baseman |
| 1948 | "Brigadoon" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 581 performances |
| 1948 | President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), New York |
| 1944 | Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz |
| 1944 | Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1944 | U.S. troops occupy Sansapor New-Guinea |
| 1943 | Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany |
| 1942 | German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia |
| 1942 | U boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton |
| 1941 | U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton |
| 1940 | 38 U boats sinks this month (196,000 ton) |
| 1940 | Riech's commissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals |
| 1938 | New York Yankees suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over head with a club" |
| 1937 | Politburo enables Operative Order 00447: execute 193,000 Russians |
| 1936 | Tokyo, Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics, later cancelled |
| 1935 | 3rd Dutch government of Colijn sworn in |
| 1934 | 29th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats USA in Wimbledon (4-1) |
| 1934 | St. Louis Cardinals defeat Cincinnati Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean and Tony Freitos go the distant |
| 1932 | 27th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2) |
| 1932 | Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Philadelphia A's beat Indians 1-0 |
| 1932 | George Washington quarter goes into circulation |
| 1932 | German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%) |
| 1930 | Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yankees beat Red Sox 14-13 |
| 1929 | Aristide Briand becomes premier of France |
| 1925 | Last allied occupying troops leave Ruhrgebied |
| 1925 | Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England |
| 1923 | Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University |
| 1922 | 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn) |
| 1922 | Italy's general strike against fascist violence |
| 1919 | Germany accepts Weimar Constitution |
| 1917 | 3rd battle of Ypres begins |
| 1914 | German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize |
| 1914 | Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo |
| 1912 | RBC soccer team forms in Roosendaal |
| 1912 | U.S. government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights |
| 1911 | Hungarian education is only taught in German |
| 1910 | Chicago Cub King Cole no-hits St. Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game |
| 1910 | Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration |
| 1909 | Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th |
| 1905 | Matumbi rebellion at Samanga German East Africa |
| 1901 | Abraham Kuyper becomes premier of Netherlands |
| 1900 | Boer Generals Prinsloo and Roux surrenders in Brandwater Basin |
| 1899 | Albert Trott hits Monty Noble over the Pavilion at Lord's |
| 1893 | Henry Perky patents shredded wheat |
| 1876 | U.S. Coast Guard officers' training school established New Bedford, Massachusetts |
| 1874 | Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as President of Georgetown U |
| 1864 | Ulysses S. Grant is named General of Volunteers |
| 1861 | 9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam: world record |
| 1855 | Hottest July in Stockholm since at least 1756 (21.4 degrees C avg) |
| 1852 | Hottest July in Netherlands since at least 1783 (68.4 degrees F (20.2 degrees C) avg) |
| 1849 | Benjamin Chambers patents breech loading cannon |
| 1830 | Charles X of France resigns by force |
| 1813 | British invade Plattsburgh, New York |
| 1809 | 1st practical U.S. railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Philadelphia |
| 1794 | All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem |
| 1792 | Cornerstone laid for 1st U.S. government building: U.S. Mint in Philadelphia |
| 1790 | 1st U.S. patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process |
| 1777 | Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army |
| 1774 | Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen |
| 1751 | Fire in Stockholm destroys 1,000 houses |
| 1737 | Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court |
| 1718 | Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish |
| 1667 | Peace of Breda: 2nd English war-Suriname vs New-Netherlands ends |
| 1664 | Pierre Corneille's "Othon," premieres in Paris |
| 1658 | Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor |
| 1653 | Fronde-leaders surrender in Bordeaux |
| 1620 | Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America |
| 1588 | English fleet beats Spanish Armada |
| 1498 | Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad |
| 1291 | Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine |
| 904 | Saraceens hijacker Leo van Tripoli occupies and plunders Thessalonica |
| 768 | [Philip] begins and ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 432 | St. Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
