| 2012 | Sequoia, IMB's Blue Gene/Q system installed at the Department of Energy becomes the world's fastest supercomputer |
| 2012 | Following the death of Crown Prince, Nayef bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz becomes Saudi Arabia's heir apparent |
| 2011 | Oil prices hit $93 per barrel, a four-month low |
| 2011 | The NOAA declares 2011 one of the most extreme weather years on record |
| 2010 | Roza Otunbayeva, interim leader of Kyrgyzstan, estimates the death toll from the country's worst ethnic battle in decades could be as many as 2,000 people |
| 2009 | The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS is launched by NASA to probe the Moon |
| 2000 | 100th U.S. Golf Open: at Pebble Beach Golf Links California |
| 1995 | 95th U.S. Golf Open: Corey Pavin shoots a 280 at Shinnecock Hills NY |
| 1995 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament |
| 1994 | Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec) |
| 1994 | Gay Games open in New York City |
| 1994 | U.S. ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup |
| 1993 | Expo's Dennis Martinez is 92nd to win 200 games |
| 1993 | Toru Takemitsu's "Archipelago" premieres in Aldeburgh England |
| 1992 | Actor Jameson Parker weds actress Darleen Carr |
| 1992 | Ottawa Senators make goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz their 1st draft |
| 1992 | Tampa Bay Lightning make goalie Wendell Young their 1st draft |
| 1991 | Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in U.S. |
| 1991 | Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80 |
| 1991 | San Francisco Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated |
| 1991 | Yankee pitchers pick-off 3 Toronto Blue Jays |
| 1990 | 1st ever loss for Cameroon in Soccer World Cup, U.S.S.R. - 4 Cameroon - 0 |
| 1990 | 1st sudden death U.S. Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin |
| 1989 | "Starmites" closes at Criter Ctr SR Theater New York City after 60 performances |
| 1989 | 89th U.S. Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Oak Hill CC New York |
| 1989 | Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion |
| 1989 | John Wayne Bobitt marries Lorena L Gallo |
| 1989 | Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1988 | Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run |
| 1987 | Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon |
| 1986 | 52 die in plane and helicopter collision over Grand Canyon |
| 1986 | De Havilland Twin Otter and Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25 |
| 1986 | Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games |
| 1986 | Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55) |
| 1986 | Papua New Guinea score 9-455 in 60 overs vs. Gibraltar, ICC Trophy |
| 1985 | Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs |
| 1984 | 84th U.S. Golf Open: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot Golf Club New York |
| 1983 | "Pump Boys and Dinettes" closes at Princess Theater New York City after 573 performances |
| 1983 | 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st U.S. woman |
| 1983 | IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in New York City |
| 1982 | ABC's All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations |
| 1982 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote |
| 1981 | Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| 1981 | Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires, replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court |
| 1981 | Test cricket debut of Terry Alderman, vs. England at Trent Bridge |
| 1981 | Vaccine to prevent hoof and mouth disease announced |
| 1980 | "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd and John Belushi premieres |
| 1980 | Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa |
| 1980 | Mrs. Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec |
| 1979 | Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon |
| 1979 | President Carter and Leonid I Brezhnev sign SALT 2 treaty |
| 1979 | Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset |
| 1978 | 78th U.S. Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 285 at Cherry Hill CC in Denver |
| 1978 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic |
| 1978 | Victor de la Torre wins Peru election |
| 1977 | Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation |
| 1977 | Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten and Paul Cook, beaten and robbed by London pub |
| 1977 | Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747 |
| 1976 | Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for 340,000 pounds |
| 1976 | St. Louis Cardinals Lou Brock and Hector Cruz hit inside-the-park home runs |
| 1976 | Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, and Vida Blue to Yankees |
| 1975 | Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers |
| 1975 | Gary Gilmour takes 6-14 in Cricket World Cup semi vs. England |
| 1975 | NBC News and Information Service, a 24 hour news service, premieres on radio |
| 1974 | Gaston Thorn forms Luxembourg government |
| 1973 | NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants |
| 1972 | 72nd U.S. Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 290 at Pebble Beach California |
| 1972 | BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118 |
| 1972 | West Germany wins soccer world championship |
| 1972 | U.S. Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws |
| 1968 | Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing |
| 1967 | 67th U.S. Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 275 at Baltusrol Golf Club New Jersey |
| 1967 | Houston Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0 |
| 1967 | Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California |
| 1967 | Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
| 1964 | African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar |
| 1963 | 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school |
| 1961 | CBS radio cancels "Gunsmoke" |
| 1961 | KBMT TV channel 12 in Beaumont, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
| 1960 | "Destry Rides Again" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 472 performances |
| 1960 | 60th U.S. Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver |
| 1960 | Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66) |
| 1960 | Real Madrid wins 5th Europe Cup 1 |
| 1959 | 1st telecast transmitted from England to U.S. |
| 1957 | John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as Prime Minister of Canada |
| 1956 | Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal |
| 1955 | "3 for Tonight" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 85 performances |
| 1954 | Pierre Mendes-France forms French government |
| 1953 | Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president |
| 1953 | USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen |
| 1953 | Eugene Stephens is 1st to get 3 hits and Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat Detroit 23-3 |
| 1951 | De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election |
| 1950 | Cleveland Indians score 14 runs in 1st inning, beat A's 21-2 |
| 1949 | "Along Fifth Avenue" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 180 performances |
| 1948 | American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights |
| 1948 | National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time |
| 1948 | Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates |
| 1948 | U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights |
| 1947 | Cincinnati Red Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0 |
| 1945 | William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) British radio traitor charged with treason |
| 1944 | Farewell concert of Willem Mengelberg in Paris |
| 1943 | SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau |
| 1942 | Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m |
| 1941 | Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1941 | Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany |
| 1940 | General Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers |
| 1940 | German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs and chickens |
| 1940 | Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour" |
| 1938 | Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season |
| 1936 | 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, Wisconsin |
| 1936 | Polish parliament gives President Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power |
| 1934 | U.S. Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized |
| 1927 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6 |
| 1926 | Theodor Lessing laid-off "because he is a Jew" in Hanover |
| 1924 | Pope Pius XI's encyclical Maximam gravissimamque |
| 1916 | Yankees score in every inning but 8th beat Indians 19-3 |
| 1915 | 21st U.S. Golf Open: John Travers shoots a 297 at Baltusrol Golf Club New Jersey |
| 1914 | Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km) |
| 1910 | 16th U.S. Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 298 at Philadelphia Cricket Club PA |
| 1909 | Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women |
| 1903 | 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in San Francisco; arrives New York 3-months later |
| 1900 | Empress Douairiere orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners |
| 1900 | General Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy |
| 1898 | 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| 1898 | 4th U.S. Golf Open: Fred Herd shoots a 328 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass |
| 1894 | Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate |
| 1892 | Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii |
| 1879 | W. H. Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage |
| 1873 | Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President |
| 1872 | Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall |
| 1864 | At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults |
| 1863 | After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg |
| 1839 | Dutch prince Willem Alexander PFL weds niece Princess Sophia |
| 1837 | Spain gets new Constitution |
| 1822 | Part of US-Canadian boundary determined |
| 1821 | Opera "Der Freischutz" is produced (Berlin) |
| 1815 | Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington and Blucher |
| 1812 | War of 1812 begins as U.S. declares war against Britain |
| 1779 | French fleet occupies St. Vincent |
| 1778 | British Redcoats evacuate Philadelphia |
| 1757 | Battle at Kolin Bohemia: Austrian army beats Prussia |
| 1682 | William Penn founds Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1643 | Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies |
| 1639 | Treaty of Berwick: End 1st Bishop war |
| 1629 | Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn vs Dunkerk Cape |
| 1583 | Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on William Gibbons, premium was 383 pounds |
| 1580 | States of Utrecht forbid catholic worship |
| 1574 | Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland |
| 1541 | Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland |
| 1538 | Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V and King French I |
| 1529 | Blackfriars begin: Henry VIII and Catharina of Aragon |
| 1316 | Peace of Fexhe: prince-bishop Adolf II of Mark and Luikse towns |
| 1178 | Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno |
| 1178 | 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on moon (only known observation) |
| 1155 | Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor |
| 860 | Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople |
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