| 2012 | A letter written by Manal al Sharif, and signed by hundreds, urges Saudi King Abdullah to give women the right to drive |
| 2012 | Israel announces it is deporting its first planeload of South Sudanese illegal migrants |
| 2011 | Aftershocks from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand, leaving tens of thousands without power |
| 2011 | Michelle Bachmann announces she will seek the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States |
| 2010 | Ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan's city of Osh and Jalal-Abad left more than 100 people dead and over 1,400 injured after three days of four days of fighting |
| 2002 | Stanley Cup Finals, Detroit Red Wings beat Carolina Hurricanes 4 games to 1 |
| 1997 | 51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2 |
| 1997 | Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death |
| 1997 | Red Wings Vladimir Konstantinov and Slava Fetisov hurt in car crash |
| 1996 | Freeman in Montana give up to FBI after 81 days |
| 1995 | Indians' Dennis Martinez no-hits Baltimore 11-0 |
| 1995 | New Jersey Devils beat Philadelphia Flyers, to go to their 1st Stanley Cup finals |
| 1994 | Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract |
| 1994 | Don Mattingly plays 1st base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most) |
| 1993 | "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" closes at Booth New York City after 232 performances |
| 1993 | 39th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
| 1993 | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran |
| 1993 | YokoZuna beats Hulk Hogan to become WWF champ |
| 1991 | A spectator is killed by lightning at U.S. Open Golf tournament |
| 1991 | NHL owners present contract to players, leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike |
| 1991 | The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication |
| 1990 | "Les Miserables," opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary |
| 1990 | Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya |
| 1990 | Nelson and Winnie Mandela welcomed in New York City |
| 1990 | Washington D.C. mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term, |
| 1989 | 43rd NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons sweeps Los Angeles Lakers in 4 games |
| 1989 | Houston's Terry Puhl plays in his 1,403rd game, most by a Canadian |
| 1989 | Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| 1988 | 45th time opposing pitchers hit home runs, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow |
| 1988 | Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, and go on to win AL East |
| 1988 | George Harrison releases "This is Love" |
| 1988 | U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist |
| 1987 | Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina |
| 1986 | President Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency |
| 1986 | Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play |
| 1983 | Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System |
| 1982 | 28th LPGA Championship won by Jan Stephenson |
| 1982 | Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69 |
| 1981 | 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany |
| 1981 | Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II |
| 1981 | Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow" |
| 1980 | Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" hits #1 |
| 1980 | Deborah Harry/Meat Loaf film, "Roadie," premieres |
| 1980 | Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall" |
| 1980 | Rep John Jenrette, Jr. (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation |
| 1980 | U.N. Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela |
| 1979 | "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens at 22 Steps New York City for 86 performances |
| 1979 | Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota |
| 1977 | Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured |
| 1976 | 4th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Donna Caponi |
| 1976 | Bob Marley performs in Amsterdam |
| 1976 | Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04) |
| 1974 | Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives |
| 1973 | Garvey, Lopes, Cey and Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8 years (Los Angeles Dodgers) |
| 1971 | 17th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
| 1971 | New York Times began publishing "Pentagon Papers" |
| 1970 | "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK |
| 1970 | Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks |
| 1970 | Beatles' "Long and Winding Road," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks |
| 1969 | Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band and joins Rolling Stones |
| 1967 | "You Only Live Twice" premieres in U.S. |
| 1967 | Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice |
| 1966 | Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights |
| 1965 | 19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses and Fiddler on the Roof win |
| 1965 | Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| 1964 | Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55) |
| 1963 | Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut |
| 1962 | "Bob Newhart Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1961 | "Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1960 | "Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59 |
| 1960 | Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia |
| 1959 | "Sammy Kaye Show," last airs on ABC-TV |
| 1959 | 59th U.S. Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot Golf Club New York |
| 1959 | 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6 |
| 1958 | Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, California |
| 1957 | Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-home run games in a season |
| 1956 | "Shangri-La" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 21 performances |
| 1956 | After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control |
| 1956 | Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49 |
| 1956 | Real Madrid wins 1st Europe Cup |
| 1955 | Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans, France |
| 1954 | Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx |
| 1953 | 53rd U.S. Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont PA |
| 1953 | 85th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 2:28.6 |
| 1953 | Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 and 7-44) vs. Australia |
| 1953 | Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2) |
| 1953 | KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1952 | Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8 |
| 1951 | U.N. arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea |
| 1950 | South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act" |
| 1948 | Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th |
| 1947 | 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3) |
| 1946 | 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland |
| 1946 | King Umberto II of Italy abdicates |
| 1945 | Heerjansdam soccer team forms |
| 1945 | Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead |
| 1944 | German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy |
| 1942 | 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km |
| 1942 | Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head |
| 1942 | Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island |
| 1942 | OSS, Office of Strategic Services, forms |
| 1940 | Paris evacuates before German advance |
| 1938 | Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe vs. England at Trent Bridge |
| 1938 | Jews injured and property destroyed in Przemyal Poland |
| 1937 | Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive home runs against St. Louis Browns |
| 1937 | Stalin executes Rus officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna and Uberevitch |
| 1936 | 2nd Belgian government of Van Zealand forms |
| 1935 | Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs vs. Somerset |
| 1935 | James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1933 | 1st sodium vapor lamps installed, Schenectady, New York |
| 1933 | Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized |
| 1933 | German Secret State Police, Gestapo, established |
| 1932 | Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta |
| 1932 | Great Britain and France sign peace treaty |
| 1931 | 63rd Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6 |
| 1930 | 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista, Greece |
| 1927 | Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles Lindbergh to New York City |
| 1925 | 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8 |
| 1924 | Bene Berak Palestine founded |
| 1924 | Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier |
| 1924 | Yankees win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win |
| 1922 | Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops |
| 1921 | Yankees' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 home runs beating Tigers 11-8 |
| 1918 | Phillies and Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings |
| 1917 | Germany bombs London |
| 1914 | 28th U.S. Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner (62 16 61) |
| 1913 | 45th Belmont: Roscoe Troxler aboard Prince Eugene wins in 2:18 |
| 1913 | Yankees win 13th game of year after losing 36 games |
| 1912 | Albert Berry made the 1st parachute jump from an airplane |
| 1912 | New York Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game |
| 1910 | Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from New York to Philadelphia |
| 1910 | William D. Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia |
| 1908 | Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1907 | Lowest temp ever in 48 U.S. states for June, 2 degrees F in Tamarack California |
| 1905 | New York Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0 |
| 1902 | Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland |
| 1900 | China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Christians |
| 1898 | Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital |
| 1895 | Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph) |
| 1890 | Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out and named |
| 1889 | 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming |
| 1889 | 23rd Belmont: W Hayward aboard Eric wins in 2:47 |
| 1888 | Congress creates Department of Labor |
| 1886 | Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver |
| 1878 | Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization |
| 1874 | 8th Belmont: G Barbee aboard Saxon wins in 2:39 |
| 1871 | Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador |
| 1868 | Oscar J. Dunn, is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana |
| 1866 | House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks) |
| 1865 | President Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states |
| 1863 | Battle of Winchester, Virginia |
| 1863 | Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon," Christchurch, New Zealand |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Berryville Virginia |
| 1855 | Opera "Les Vapres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris) |
| 1837 | 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio |
| 1828 | Simon Bolivar proclaimed dictator |
| 1825 | Walter Hunt patents safety pin |
| 1798 | Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California |
| 1792 | King Louis XVI fires French government |
| 1789 | Mrs. Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington |
| 1777 | Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit |
| 1777 | Marquis de Lafayette lands in US |
| 1774 | Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves |
| 1753 | Austria, England and Modena sign secret military treaty |
| 1727 | Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris |
| 1721 | England signs Treaty of Madrid |
| 1707 | Hungary declares itself independent under Ferenc Rakoczi II |
| 1665 | Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch |
| 1655 | Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is 1st actress in Amsterdam theater |
| 1633 | Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore |
| 1625 | English king Charles I marries French princess Henriette |
| 1611 | John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication |
| 1547 | King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman |
| 1392 | Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France, fails |
| 1373 | Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance, world's oldest, signed in London |
| 1325 | Sheik Ibn Battuta begins 1st world trip, Tangiers to Mecca |
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