| 2012 | A biblical picture of Samson and a Hebrew inscription is discovered in an ancient synagogue in the Galilee region of northern Israel |
| 2012 | Standard and Poor's credit rating agency increases the rating of the Philippines to BB+ |
| 2011 | Famed 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling leaves her agent, Christopher Little, ending their 15-year working relationship |
| 2011 | UK Researchers report a study showing that the use of drugs during vitro fertilization may increase the risk of Down syndrome for their baby |
| 2010 | An Iranian woman convicted of adultery is sentenced to death by stoning; Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi tries to stop this barbaric act |
| 2007 | BBC journalist Alan Johnston is freed by Palestinian kidnappers |
| 2004 | Wimbledon Men's Finals, Roger Federer beat Andy Roddick |
| 2004 | Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Todd Woodbridge and Jonas Bjorkman beat Julian Knowles and Nenad Zimonjic |
| 2004 | Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs beat Ai Sugiyama and Liezel Huber |
| 2004 | Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Cara Black and her brother Wayne Black beat Todd Woodbridge and Alicia Molik |
| 2001 | Vladivostokavia flight 352 crashes near Burdakovka, killing 145 |
| 1999 | Wimbledon Men's Finals, Pete Sampras beat Andre Agassi |
| 1999 | Wimbledon Women's Finals, Lindsay Davenport beat Steffi Graf |
| 1999 | Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes beat |
| 1999 | Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Lindsay Davenport and Corina Morariu beat Mariaan de Swardt and Elena Tatarkova |
| 1999 | Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Leander Paes and Lisa Raymond beat |
| 1998 | Wimbledon Women's Finals, Jana Novotna beat Nathalie Tauziat |
| 1998 | Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis beat Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde |
| 1997 | U.S. space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars |
| 1996 | HotMail, a free internet E-mail service begins |
| 1995 | Birmingham Barracudas play 1st CFL game (vs Winnipeg) |
| 1994 | Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands |
| 1994 | Rwandese Patriot Front occupies Kigali |
| 1994 | U.S. loses to Brazil 1-0 in 1994 World Cup quarter finals |
| 1993 | 107th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Courier (76 76 36 63) |
| 1993 | Brandie Burton wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| 1993 | Dave Winfield hits 442nd home run to move into 19th place |
| 1993 | Pilar Fort, crowned 25th Miss Black America |
| 1993 | Pizza Hut blimp deflates and lands safely on W 56th street in New York City |
| 1992 | 99th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (62 61) |
| 1992 | John Phillips, rocker (Mamas and Papas), undergoes a liver transplant |
| 1992 | U.S. actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone |
| 1990 | 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minn |
| 1990 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1990 | Wrestler Brutus Beefcake injured during para-sailing |
| 1990 | 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner and Gettysburg Address |
| 1989 | 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide |
| 1989 | Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies) |
| 1989 | Red's Tom Browning is 3 outs away from his 2nd career perfect game when Phillie Dickie Thon doubles |
| 1988 | 102nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Becker (46 76 64 62) |
| 1988 | KC releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the 4th most |
| 1988 | U.S. Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290 |
| 1987 | 94th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (75 63) |
| 1987 | Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission |
| 1987 | Imran Khan takes 300th Test Cricket wicket, only Pakistani to do so |
| 1987 | Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France |
| 1985 | Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins |
| 1984 | Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki |
| 1984 | Kallicharran gets 206 and 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game |
| 1984 | New York Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000 |
| 1984 | Yuri Sedykh of U.S.S.R. throws hammer a record 86.33 m |
| 1983 | New York Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox |
| 1982 | 10th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Sandra Haynie |
| 1982 | 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB |
| 1982 | 96th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Connors beats J McEnroe (36 63 67 76 64) |
| 1982 | Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1982 | Yankees bat out of order against Indians in 1st inning |
| 1981 | 95th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats B Borg (46 76 76 64) |
| 1981 | Clive Rice 105* out of 143 all out, Notts vs. Hants at Bournemouth |
| 1980 | Nolan Ryan is 4th to strikeout 3,000 |
| 1979 | Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed |
| 1978 | Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order |
| 1977 | Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher |
| 1977 | Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie |
| 1977 | Red Sox wallop a major league-record 8 home runs beating Toronto 9-6 |
| 1976 | Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt., New York |
| 1976 | Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers |
| 1976 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Bloomington Golf Classic Bicentennial |
| 1975 | 82nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (60 61) |
| 1974 | Mike Marshall goes 9-0 with 3 saves in 20 appearances in 30 days |
| 1973 | Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular," premieres in London |
| 1973 | CARICOM - Caribbean Community and Common Market, forms |
| 1973 | In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth" |
| 1971 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1970 | 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park, New Jersey |
| 1970 | 84th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Newcombe beats K Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61) |
| 1970 | Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio |
| 1970 | Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons |
| 1969 | "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in U.K. |
| 1969 | 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep and Janis Joplin |
| 1969 | 76th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Ann Jones beats Billie J King (36 63 62) |
| 1969 | Italian Rumor government resigns |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1968 | Arthur Kopit's "Indians," premieres in London |
| 1968 | Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched (o 450 m) |
| 1967 | Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center |
| 1967 | Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader |
| 1966 | Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos |
| 1966 | Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Freedom of Information Act |
| 1965 | 20th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Carol Mann |
| 1964 | 71st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats M Court (64 79 63) |
| 1964 | Beachboy's "I Get Around" reaches #1 |
| 1962 | Island Records begins |
| 1962 | KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1960 | 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright |
| 1960 | America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled |
| 1960 | Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 home runs |
| 1959 | 66th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (64 63) |
| 1959 | America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled |
| 1959 | Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony |
| 1958 | 72nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A Cooper beats N Fraser (36 63 64 13-11) |
| 1957 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase |
| 1956 | Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia |
| 1956 | U.S. most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville, Maryland |
| 1954 | WMSL (WYUR, now WAFF) TV channel 48 in Huntsville, AL (ABC) begins |
| 1954 | West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern |
| 1953 | 60th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats D Hart (86 75) |
| 1953 | Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rakosi as premier of Hungary |
| 1952 | 66th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats J Drobny (46 62 63 62) |
| 1952 | Canadain Currency, Mint and Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted |
| 1950 | Braves Sid Gordon ties season grand slam record with 4 |
| 1950 | Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution) |
| 1947 | 61st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom P Brown (61 63 62) |
| 1946 | Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die |
| 1946 | Philippines gains independence from U.S. |
| 1944 | 1,100 U.S. guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy |
| 1944 | 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, U.S. fleet near Iwo Jima |
| 1944 | Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen |
| 1944 | Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber |
| 1942 | 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II) |
| 1942 | U.S. air offensive against nazi-Germany begins |
| 1941 | Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead |
| 1941 | Politburo of Yugoslav Communist Party reorganizes |
| 1941 | Howard Florey and Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin |
| 1940 | British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die |
| 1940 | German occupiers forbids anti-nazis speeches |
| 1939 | Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game |
| 1939 | Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day |
| 1938 | 1st game at Shribe Park, Philadelphia; Braves beat Phillies 10-5 |
| 1938 | France-Turkish friendship treaty |
| 1936 | 49th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Hull Jacobs beats H Sperling (62 46 75) |
| 1936 | League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy |
| 1934 | Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment |
| 1933 | Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge |
| 1932 | Bradman scores 260, a North American record, vs. Western Ontario |
| 1931 | 1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium |
| 1931 | 1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks |
| 1930 | 43rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Elizabeth Ryan (62 62) |
| 1929 | AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down |
| 1927 | Ir Sukarno forms PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia |
| 1926 | Baronie soccer team forms in Breda, Netherlands |
| 1926 | NSDAP-party forms in Weimar |
| 1925 | 44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses |
| 1925 | 45th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats J Borotra (63 63 46 86) |
| 1925 | Yankees Lefty Grove beats A's Herb Pennock 1-0 in 15 innings |
| 1923 | Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1919 | ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms |
| 1919 | Cincinnati Reds are 10 games back in NL, and win World Series |
| 1919 | Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship |
| 1918 | Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa |
| 1914 | 1st U.S. motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks) |
| 1913 | 37th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A F Wilding beats McLoughlin (86 63 10-8) |
| 1912 | Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St. Louis Browns, 7-0 |
| 1912 | Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1911 | 105 degrees F (41 degrees C) at Vernon, Vermont (state record) |
| 1911 | 106 degrees F (41 degrees C) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record) |
| 1911 | Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 and ends a 40 game hit streak |
| 1911 | White Sox Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak |
| 1910 | Jack Johnson KOs James J Jeffries in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1908 | New York Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn |
| 1907 | Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1906 | Great Britain, France and Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia |
| 1905 | Philadelphia A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game |
| 1903 | Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, President TR sends message |
| 1898 | French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die |
| 1898 | U.S. flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War) |
| 1895 | Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful" |
| 1894 | Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st U.S. autos at 6 MPH |
| 1894 | Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B. Dole as president |
| 1892 | James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house |
| 1889 | Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting |
| 1888 | 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Arizona |
| 1886 | 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC |
| 1884 | 1st U.S. bullfight held (Dodge City Ks) |
| 1884 | Statue of Liberty presented to U.S. in Paris |
| 1883 | Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr |
| 1882 | Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in San Francisco |
| 1881 | Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute in Alabama |
| 1879 | Africaner Union forms by Reverend SJ du Toit at Cape colony |
| 1879 | Battle at Rorkes Drift: Britain ends attack on Zulus |
| 1876 | 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco |
| 1876 | Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty |
| 1875 | White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg |
| 1874 | Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed |
| 1873 | Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens |
| 1868 | Battle at Ueno: last Tokugawa armies defeated |
| 1866 | Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying of Portland, Me |
| 1865 | 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published |
| 1864 | Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia |
| 1863 | Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho) |
| 1863 | Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties) |
| 1863 | General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Smithburg, Tennessee |
| 1863 | Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces |
| 1862 | Battle at Green River Kentucky (Morgan's Ohio Raid) |
| 1862 | Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P. Liddell |
| 1862 | Battle of Port Royal, South Carolina (Port Royal Ferry) |
| 1861 | In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia |
| 1845 | Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond |
| 1845 | Texas Congress votes for annexation to U.S. |
| 1836 | Wisconsin Territory forms |
| 1832 | "America" 1st sung publicly in Boston |
| 1829 | Cornerstone laid for 1st U.S. mint (Chestnut and Juniper St, Philadelphia) |
| 1828 | Construction begins on B and O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st U.S. passenger RR |
| 1827 | Slavery abolished in NY |
| 1819 | William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet |
| 1817 | Construction on Erie Canal begins |
| 1810 | French troops occupy Amsterdam |
| 1802 | U.S. Military Academy officially opens at West Point, New York |
| 1796 | 1st Independence Day celebration is held |
| 1789 | 1st U.S. tariff act |
| 1779 | French fleet occupies Grenada |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence - U.S. gains independence from Britain |
| 1754 | George Washington gives Ft. Necessity to France |
| 1708 | Swedish King Karel XII beats Russians |
| 1693 | Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army |
| 1672 | States of Holland declares "Eternal Edict" void |
| 1653 | British Barebones Parliament goes into session |
| 1652 | Prince of Conde starts blood bath in Paris |
| 1636 | City of Providence, Rhode Island form |
| 1610 | Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russian and Sweden |
| 1453 | 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau |
| 1415 | Angelo Correr becomes Pope Gregory XII |
| 1301 | Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs Lichtenberg |
| 1187 | Battle of Hittin (Tiberias): Saladin defeats Reinoud of Chatillon |
| 1054 | Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days) |
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