| 1997 | Dow Jones drops 192.25 pts |
| 1996 | "Tartuffe: Born Again" closes at Circle in Sq New York City after 29 performances |
| 1996 | Dottie Pepper wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament |
| 1996 | Nintendo 64 goes on sale in Japan |
| 1994 | South Africa reclaims its seat in U.N. |
| 1994 | Replay shows A's Bobby Witt beat KC's Gagne to 1st in 6th but ump Gary Cedarstrom calls him safe, runing Witt's perfect game |
| 1993 | Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman) files for divorce from Lawrence Mortorff |
| 1993 | U.N. authorizes worldwide oil embargo against Haiti |
| 1992 | "Tin Bigha Day" protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh |
| 1992 | Emmy 19th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 13th time |
| 1992 | Rabin wins Israeli parliamentary election |
| 1991 | "Odd Couple" opens and closes at Belasco Theater New York City |
| 1991 | "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Babalu Music" |
| 1991 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| 1991 | Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race |
| 1990 | A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Statue of Liberty |
| 1990 | Moldavia declares independence |
| 1990 | Police find marijuana at Chuck Berry's home |
| 1990 | TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of year |
| 1990 | Zimbabwe beat the Netherlands by 6 wickets to win ICC Trophy |
| 1989 | Movie "Batman" premieres |
| 1988 | Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft |
| 1988 | Yank manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager |
| 1986 | Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84) |
| 1986 | Tip O'Neill, Representative-D-Massachusetts, refuses to let Reagan address House |
| 1985 | Alice Miller wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| 1985 | Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die |
| 1985 | Laffit Pincay, Jr. becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million |
| 1983 | Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat |
| 1983 | U.S. Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions |
| 1982 | "Cleavage" opens and closes at Playhouse Theater New York City |
| 1982 | -117 degrees F; All time low at South Pole |
| 1982 | Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb) |
| 1982 | Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200) |
| 1982 | Mary Hart joins Entertainment Tonight |
| 1981 | "This Was Burlesque" opens at Princess Theater New York City for 28 performances |
| 1981 | 33 inning game ends, Pawtucket 3, Rochester 2 |
| 1981 | Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition |
| 1981 | French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists |
| 1981 | New York City mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy |
| 1981 | Dave Koza scores Marty Barrett with bases-loaded single in bottom of 33rd inning, Pawtucket beats Rochester 3-2 |
| 1980 | "David Letterman Show," debuts on NBC-TV daytime |
| 1980 | 1st solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation |
| 1980 | West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium) |
| 1979 | Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia" |
| 1979 | Rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona" |
| 1979 | West Indies beat England by 92 runs to win Cricket World Cup |
| 1978 | 33rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
| 1977 | 13th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 6-4 |
| 1976 | CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure, 555 m, opens |
| 1975 | 75th U.S. Golf Open: Lou Graham shoots a 287 at Medinah CC ILL |
| 1975 | Rocker Alice Cooper falls off stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs |
| 1974 | 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space |
| 1974 | 20th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie |
| 1973 | "Cyrano" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 49 performances |
| 1973 | "Sugar" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 506 performances |
| 1973 | Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game home run in which he pitched |
| 1972 | Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history |
| 1972 | Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate |
| 1972 | President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports |
| 1971 | Phillies Rick Wise no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 4-0 |
| 1971 | WTVP TV channel 47 in Peoria, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | "Red Skelton Show," last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV |
| 1970 | Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary |
| 1970 | Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession |
| 1969 | French government of Couve de Murville resigns |
| 1969 | Joe Frazier TKOs Jerry Quarry in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1969 | Warren E. Burger sworn in as Supreme Court Chief Justice |
| 1967 | Jim Ryun sets mile record (3:51.1, Bakersfield CA) |
| 1967 | John Entwistle of rock group Who weds Alison Wise |
| 1967 | Lyndon Baines Johnson and Alexei Kosygin hold 1st of 2 summit meetings in Glassboro, New Jersey |
| 1967 | U.S. Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds |
| 1964 | General Maxwell Taylor appointed U.S. ambassador in South Vietnam |
| 1963 | 63rd U.S. Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 293 at The Country Club Mass |
| 1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
| 1963 | New York Mets Jimmy Piersall, hits his 100th home run, he circles bases backwards |
| 1963 | President Kennedy tours West-Europe |
| 1962 | "Subways Are after Sleeping" closes at St. James New York City after 205 performances |
| 1962 | Laos Suvanna Phuma forms government |
| 1962 | Larry Doby, retires from Cleveland Indians to play in Japan |
| 1961 | Antarctic Treaty goes into effect |
| 1961 | Cubs Ernie Banks ends his 717 consecutive-games-played streak |
| 1961 | Phillies overcome 9-0, losing 11-2 they score 4 in 8th and 6 in 9th |
| 1961 | USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m |
| 1960 | "Pat Boone Show," last airs on ABC-TV |
| 1960 | Japan signs security treaty with the U.S. |
| 1958 | Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers |
| 1958 | Federal judge rules race separation must end in 2 years in Little Rock |
| 1958 | Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established |
| 1956 | "Jimmy Durante Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1956 | "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvous peaks at #8 |
| 1956 | Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt |
| 1955 | Walt Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" released |
| 1954 | 122 degrees F (50 degrees C), Overton, Nevada (state record until June 29, 1994) |
| 1953 | Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Women Golf Tournament |
| 1952 | U.S. airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu, Korea |
| 1951 | British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to U.S.S.R. |
| 1951 | Most expensive U.S. hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage and $14M property-Kansas) |
| 1950 | Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women |
| 1950 | Yankees and Tigers hit record 11 home runs, Tigers win 10-9 |
| 1950 | Indians' Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck, Section 4 |
| 1949 | 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School |
| 1949 | Dutch Constellation plunge at Bari in sea, 33 die |
| 1947 | Compton and Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt vs. South Africa |
| 1947 | Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress |
| 1945 | 77th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Pavot wins in 2:30.2 |
| 1945 | Last organized Japanese defiance broken, Tarakan |
| 1944 | 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153 |
| 1944 | Russian offensive in central front sector |
| 1944 | Thomas Mann becomes a U.S. citizen |
| 1943 | Dutch artsens protest against nazis |
| 1943 | RAF discovers Werner von Brauns V1/V2-base in Peenemunde |
| 1941 | Germany occupies Telz Lithuana |
| 1940 | Marcel Louette seeks opposition group "White Brigade" on Antwerp |
| 1939 | Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz in Houston, to become wrestling champ |
| 1939 | France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (Hatay) to Turkey |
| 1938 | Civil Aeronautics Authority (U.S.) established |
| 1938 | Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium |
| 1938 | New York City Mayor LaGuardia assigns 21 cops to patrol subway |
| 1935 | Anthony Eden offers Mussolini, Somalian harbor |
| 1933 | Don McNeill's Pepper Pot (Breakfast Club) begins 35 year run on NBC |
| 1932 | Lou Gehrig plays 1,103rd successive game in a New York uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with one team (Cleveland) |
| 1931 | Wiley Post and Harold Catty took off for flight around world |
| 1930 | Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8 |
| 1927 | Lou Gehrig hits 3 home runs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox |
| 1926 | 8th government of Briand van France forms |
| 1926 | Commencement of the West Indies' 1st Test cricket match, at Lord's |
| 1925 | British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers |
| 1925 | Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming) |
| 1924 | 8 month Twenste textile strike ends |
| 1922 | 57th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 300 at Royal St. George |
| 1919 | Nitti government forms in Italy |
| 1918 | Boston Red Sox Dutch Leonard's 2nd no-hitter beats Tigers, 5-0 |
| 1917 | 31st U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beat Marion Vanderhoef (46 60 62) |
| 1917 | Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000 |
| 1917 | Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out and retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game |
| 1915 | Yankees get record 16 walks and 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0 |
| 1915 | Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag) |
| 1909 | Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections |
| 1902 | Gioacchino Rossini's unveils monument to Santa-Croce |
| 1888 | Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for president |
| 1868 | Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer" |
| 1865 | At Ft. Towson, General Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable Confederate army |
| 1863 | Tullahoma campaign, Tennessee |
| 1860 | Congress establishes Government Printing Office |
| 1860 | U.S. Secret Service created |
| 1854 | Antwerp-Roosendaal railway goes into use |
| 1848 | Antoine Joseph Sax patents Saxophone |
| 1848 | Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris |
| 1821 | Dutch troops conquer Palembang |
| 1810 | John Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co (Astoria, Oregon) |
| 1794 | Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev |
| 1784 | 1st U.S. balloon flight, 13 year old Edward Warren |
| 1776 | Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to U.S. Congress |
| 1775 | 1st regatta held on Thames, England |
| 1760 | Battle of Landshut Silesia: Austria beats Prussia |
| 1757 | Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal |
| 1724 | Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople |
| 1683 | William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken" |
| 1661 | Marriage contract for Charles II of England and Catharina of Portugal |
| 1658 | Dutch troops occupy last Portugese Fort Jafnapatnam Ceylon |
| 1611 | Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery and never seen again |
| 1585 | Spanish army under Tassis beats Amerongen Staatse troops |
| 1532 | Henry VIII and Francois I signs secret treaty against emperor Karel V |
| 1305 | French-Flemish peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge |
| 1298 | Duke Albrecht von Habsburg chosen Roman Catholic German king |
| 1295 | Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome |
| 930 | World's oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established |
