| 2012 | In an attempt to encourage people to buy from their local bookstores, novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo boycotts e-books |
| 2012 | Wangdue Phodrang Dzong, the four thousand year-old ridge-top monastery in Bhutan catches fire and is destroyed; no relics were lost in the fire because the monastery was under renovation |
| 2011 | The E.coli strain that caused 46 deaths in Germany reportedly resurfaced in france, with eight people hospitalized in Bordeaux |
| 2011 | The ash cloud from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordon Caulle eruption closes 39 flights in Chile and Argentina |
| 2010 | Leaders of the twenty largest economies meet for the 2010 G-20 Summit in Toronto, Canada |
| 1997 | Galileo, Ganymede Observations, Orbit 9 |
| 1997 | Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law |
| 1997 | Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban |
| 1995 | Gunmen ambush Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed |
| 1994 | "Broken Glass" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 73 performances |
| 1994 | "Medea" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 82 performances |
| 1994 | 104 degrees F (40 degrees C) at Denver Colorado |
| 1994 | 107 degrees F (41.6 degrees C) at Albuquerque New Mexico |
| 1994 | 112 degrees F (44.4 degrees C) at El Paso Texas |
| 1994 | 122 degrees F (50 degrees C) at Laughlin Nevada |
| 1994 | 126 degrees F (52.2 degrees C) in Death Valley California |
| 1994 | Actor Brandon Cruz (32) weds Elizabeth Finkelstein (26) |
| 1994 | Air Ivory Fokker's-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives) |
| 1994 | Donna Andrews wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1994 | Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader |
| 1994 | PLO-leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years |
| 1994 | U.S. loses to Romania 1-0 in 1994 soccer world cup |
| 1993 | "Late Night with David Letterman" airs for last time on NBC-TV |
| 1993 | Actress Julia Roberts and country singer Lyle Lovett wed |
| 1993 | New York Met Eddie Murray is 20th to get 1,600 RBIs |
| 1993 | Rebecca Jones, of Georgia, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| 1993 | Clinton orders cruise missle strike on Iraqi secret service in Baghdad |
| 1992 | India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh |
| 1992 | New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority votes to ban cigarette ads on Jan 1, 1993 |
| 1992 | Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports |
| 1991 | "Getting Married" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 70 performances |
| 1991 | ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress |
| 1991 | Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| 1991 | Charlotte Hornets make Larry Johnson of UNLV, NBA's #1 draft pick |
| 1990 | 122 degrees F in Phoenix, Arizona |
| 1990 | 8 KS and OK radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad |
| 1990 | New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg release from hospital after fall |
| 1989 | Canada updates coins with a new potrait of the Queen |
| 1989 | Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson marry for 2nd time |
| 1988 | Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| 1987 | Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yankees score 11 in 3rd and win 12-11 in 10 inn |
| 1987 | Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. announces his retirement |
| 1986 | South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested |
| 1984 | 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4 |
| 1984 | Barbra Streisand records "Here We Are at Last" |
| 1983 | "Show Boat" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 73 performances |
| 1983 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| 1982 | Carlos Lopes runs Europe record 10k (27:34.39) |
| 1982 | Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig |
| 1982 | U.S. vetos United Nations Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces |
| 1981 | "For Your Eyes Only" premieres in U.S. |
| 1979 | Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final |
| 1979 | Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, crashes and kills a driver |
| 1978 | Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France |
| 1978 | First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched |
| 1977 | 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tennessee |
| 1977 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
| 1977 | Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, last performance of his career |
| 1976 | WS shortstop Toby Harrah plays DH without touching a batted ball |
| 1975 | Cher divorces Sonny Bono |
| 1975 | Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency |
| 1974 | Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton) |
| 1973 | London production of "Grease" premieres |
| 1972 | Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 and 8-53) on Test cricket debut vs. Eng |
| 1972 | IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland |
| 1971 | "Man of La Mancha" closes at ANTA Washington Square Theater New York City after 2329 performances |
| 1971 | Angels suspend Alex Johnson (after 5 benchings and 29 fines) |
| 1970 | Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2 |
| 1968 | Executive Council decides both AL and NL to divide into 2 divisions |
| 1968 | Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US |
| 1967 | Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals |
| 1966 | "Time for Singing" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 41 performances |
| 1966 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational |
| 1966 | Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland |
| 1965 | Wallon party forms in Belgium |
| 1964 | Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album |
| 1964 | Blacks and Whites riot over racial segregation in St. Augustine |
| 1964 | Moise Tsjombe forms government in Congo |
| 1963 | Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government |
| 1963 | Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV |
| 1963 | Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) |
| 1962 | Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill |
| 1962 | Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0 |
| 1962 | WSEC (now WLRN) TV channel 17 in Miami, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain |
| 1960 | Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually |
| 1960 | Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian-administration |
| 1960 | Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France |
| 1959 | Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavywgt boxing title |
| 1959 | Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower open St. Lawrence Seaway |
| 1958 | Gaston Eyskens becomes premier of Belgium |
| 1958 | Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated |
| 1958 | Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
| 1955 | Actor Geoffrey Holder marries Carmen de Lavallade |
| 1955 | Freedom Charter signed in South Africa |
| 1955 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| 1954 | Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4 |
| 1953 | KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, Texas (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1953 | Russian vice-premier/interior minister Beria arrested |
| 1952 | Dutch social democratic party wins elections (29%) |
| 1952 | Nelson Mandela and 51 others infringe South Africa curfew |
| 1950 | President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence |
| 1949 | 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains) |
| 1948 | U.S. denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin |
| 1946 | Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years |
| 1946 | Fred Allen's last radio show, his guest is Jack Benny |
| 1945 | England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs |
| 1945 | U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in SF |
| 1944 | 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line |
| 1944 | Yankees, Dodgers and Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yankees-1 and Giants-0 |
| 1942 | German assault on British at Mersa Matruh |
| 1941 | Finland enters WW II against Russia |
| 1941 | Lithuanian fascist massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno |
| 1940 | End of U.S.S.R. experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27 |
| 1938 | Cincinnati Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader |
| 1937 | Test cricket debut of Len Hutton vs. New Zealand at Lord's, scores 0 and 1 |
| 1936 | 1st flight of Fw61 helicopter |
| 1936 | Everett Marshall beats Ali Baba in Columbus, to become wrestling champ |
| 1935 | Andrew Sandham's 100th FC hundred, 103 vs. Hants |
| 1935 | Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader |
| 1935 | SDAP and CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam |
| 1935 | Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany |
| 1934 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions |
| 1934 | Germany and Poland sign no-attack treaty |
| 1934 | W. E. B. Du Bois resigns position at NAACP |
| 1929 | ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union) |
| 1927 | Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth |
| 1924 | After 8 years of occupation, U.S. troops leave Dominican Republic |
| 1924 | Ziegfeld Follies opens on Broadway |
| 1919 | N.Y. Daily News begins publishing |
| 1917 | 1st U.S. Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I |
| 1916 | Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game) |
| 1915 | Germany suppresses its "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace |
| 1912 | Gustav Mahlers 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna |
| 1911 | Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph, 133 kph |
| 1910 | 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed |
| 1910 | 24th U.S. Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss Wightman beats L Hammond (64 62) |
| 1910 | Hazel Hotchkiss wins U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championship |
| 1909 | 23rd U.S. Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss beats Maud Barger-Wallach (60 61) |
| 1909 | Victoria and Albert Museum opens in London |
| 1907 | Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis |
| 1906 | Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France) |
| 1902 | Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII |
| 1902 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Garidebs" |
| 1900 | Dr. Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever |
| 1896 | 1st movie theater in U.S. opens, charging 10 cents for admission |
| 1894 | Karl Benz of Germany receives U.S. patent for gasoline-driven auto |
| 1879 | Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt |
| 1870 | 1st section of Atlantic City Boardwalk opens |
| 1870 | Wagner's opera "Valkyrie" premieres in Munich |
| 1862 | Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulses Confederacy in Virginia |
| 1862 | Day 2 of 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville Virginia (Meadow Bridge) |
| 1862 | U.S. Army of Virginia established under General John Pope |
| 1857 | 62 receive Victoria Cross |
| 1857 | Cawnpore England massacre |
| 1848 | 1st pure food law enacted in U.S. |
| 1844 | U.S. President John Tyler marries Julia Gardiner in New York City |
| 1843 | Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony |
| 1807 | Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die |
| 1797 | Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil! |
| 1794 | Battle of Colors: France under Jourdan beats Austrian army |
| 1721 | Dr. Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America |
| 1714 | Spain and Netherlands sign peace/trade agreement |
| 1630 | Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde |
| 1553 | Christ's Hospital in England granted a charter |
| 1498 | Toothbrush invented |
| 1483 | Duke of Gloucester appoints himself English king Richard III |
| 1483 | Richard III usurps English throne |
| 1409 | Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V |
| 1284 | Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away (actually happened) |
| 684 | St. Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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