| 2013 | According to a report released by the U.S. Treasury Department, in June 2012 Japan surpassed China as the leading foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities |
| 2013 | The U.S. Army robot, BigDog from Boston Dynamics, is upgraded to include arm that can manipulate nearby objects with great force; it is able to hurl a cinderblock 15 feet |
| 2012 | The Euro zone experiences the highest unemployment level in its history: 10.7 per cent |
| 2012 | After losing power three days ago due to an engine room fire, the Costa Allegra cruise ship arrives at the Seychelles |
| 2011 | New Zealand honors victims of the 2011 Canterbury earthquake with two minutes of silence; 154 persons died, and the death toll is expected to reach 240 |
| 2011 | Archeologists working off the coast of Panama recover six cannons from ships owned by Welsh privateer Henry Morgan |
| 2010 | Ejup Ganic, former President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is stopped while trying to escape war crime charges, at London Heathrow airport |
| 2005 | The Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for people who committed crimes before age 18 |
| 1998 | "Art," opens at Royale Theater New York City |
| 1998 | Australian Ladies Masters Golf |
| 1997 | "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," opens at Lyceum Theater New York City |
| 1997 | 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV |
| 1996 | Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory |
| 1996 | New toll-free 888 area code introduced |
| 1995 | 37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelphia, Sheryl Crow |
| 1995 | Belgium ends military conscript |
| 1995 | Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland |
| 1995 | Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay |
| 1995 | Part of Houston begins using new area code 261 |
| 1995 | Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns |
| 1994 | 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins |
| 1994 | Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland |
| 1994 | Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution |
| 1993 | George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of New York Yankees |
| 1993 | New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks |
| 1992 | "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco New York City after 41 performances |
| 1992 | "Visit" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| 1992 | Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record (1:01.40) |
| 1992 | Nelson Diebel swims 100m freestyle U.S. record (54.48 seconds) |
| 1991 | U.S. Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens |
| 1990 | Benin nullifies its constitution |
| 1990 | Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay |
| 1989 | Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981 |
| 1989 | Comet du Toit at perihelion |
| 1989 | Julianne Philips and Bruce Springsteen divorce |
| 1988 | Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA |
| 1988 | Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran |
| 1988 | Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile |
| 1988 | Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist |
| 1987 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| 1985 | Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center |
| 1985 | Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks |
| 1985 | Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter |
| 1984 | Landsat 5 and ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. #3931 Batten, #4529 Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar, #5502 Brashear and #5943 Lovi |
| 1983 | Tamara McKinney becomes 1st U.S. woman skier to win the World Cup |
| 1983 | Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people |
| 1982 | 5 dies as ski lift malfunctions a Luz-Ardiden in Pyrenees |
| 1982 | 5th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 1982 | New York Times raises it's price from 25 cents to 30 cents |
| 1982 | Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data |
| 1981 | "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 767 performances |
| 1981 | Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison |
| 1981 | Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic |
| 1980 | CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established |
| 1980 | Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater |
| 1980 | Patti Smith and MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit |
| 1980 | Snow falls in Florida |
| 1979 | "Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 557 performances |
| 1978 | "Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 243 performances |
| 1978 | Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery |
| 1977 | Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards |
| 1977 | U.S. extends territorial waters to 200 miles |
| 1975 | 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win |
| 1975 | Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1 |
| 1974 | George Harrison announces his concert tour of U.S. in November |
| 1974 | Ian and Greg Chappell make 264 partnership vs. New Zealand cricket at Wellington |
| 1974 | Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides |
| 1973 | Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens |
| 1973 | Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race |
| 1972 | Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth" |
| 1972 | David Rabe's "Sticks and Bones," premieres in New York City |
| 1972 | KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma, LA (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1972 | Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points |
| 1971 | Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington D.C. |
| 1971 | Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM |
| 1970 | Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater |
| 1970 | Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released |
| 1970 | Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election |
| 1970 | White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain |
| 1969 | "Red, White, and Maddox" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 41 performances |
| 1969 | After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts |
| 1969 | Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium |
| 1969 | New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires |
| 1968 | NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return |
| 1968 | Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands |
| 1968 | Singers Johnny Cash (36) and June Carter (38) wed |
| 1968 | Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect |
| 1967 | Dominica and St. Lucia gain independence from Britain |
| 1967 | House of Representatives expels Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (307 to 116) |
| 1967 | Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London |
| 1967 | WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore, MD (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1966 | Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria |
| 1966 | Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus) |
| 1965 | Australia suspends champ swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-yrs for misconduct |
| 1965 | Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec) |
| 1965 | WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1963 | 200,000 French mine workers strike |
| 1962 | American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay New York killing 95 |
| 1962 | K-Mart opens |
| 1962 | U.S. / British nuclear test experiment in Nevada |
| 1962 | Uganda became a self-governing country |
| 1961 | Cellist Jacqueline du President debut in Wigmore Hall |
| 1961 | President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp |
| 1959 | Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years |
| 1959 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament |
| 1958 | Gary Sobers 365* vs. Pak, 614 min, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara |
| 1958 | Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260 |
| 1958 | West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 decl vs. Pakistan |
| 1957 | "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden New York City for 123 performances |
| 1957 | KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor |
| 1955 | Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48 |
| 1955 | KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks, AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1955 | Pakistan vs. India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw |
| 1954 | 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in U.S. House of Representatives injuring 5 representatives |
| 1954 | Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die |
| 1954 | U.S. explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll |
| 1954 | Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War |
| 1953 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
| 1953 | KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins |
| 1953 | WJZ-AM in New York City becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission |
| 1953 | WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns |
| 1952 | Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain |
| 1950 | Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa |
| 1950 | Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London) |
| 1950 | U.S.S.R. issues golden rubles |
| 1949 | Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ |
| 1949 | The Browns, owners of Sportsman's Park, move to evict the Cardinals |
| 1947 | International Monetary Fund begins operation |
| 1946 | British Government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years |
| 1946 | Panama accepts its new constitution |
| 1945 | British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten |
| 1945 | Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi |
| 1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt announces success of Yalta Conference |
| 1945 | Field Marshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander |
| 1945 | U.S. infantry regiment captures Monchengladbach |
| 1944 | Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns |
| 1944 | U-358 sinks in Atlantic |
| 1943 | Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided |
| 1942 | 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, U.S. suffers a major naval defeat |
| 1942 | Baseball decides that players in military can't play when on furlough |
| 1942 | J. Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3," premieres in Chicago |
| 1942 | Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java |
| 1942 | Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews |
| 1942 | Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia |
| 1941 | "Captain America" appears in a comic book |
| 1941 | 1st U.S. commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tennessee |
| 1941 | Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commissioner |
| 1941 | German troops invade Bulgaria |
| 1941 | Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp |
| 1940 | 12th Academy Awards 'Gone with the Wind', Robert Donat and Vovoem Leigh win |
| 1940 | Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published |
| 1937 | 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut) |
| 1937 | Governer Wouters inaugurates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles |
| 1937 | U.S. Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day |
| 1934 | Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria |
| 1934 | Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1933 | Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks |
| 1932 | Charles Lindbergh, Jr. (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey |
| 1928 | Paul Whiteman and orchestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records |
| 1927 | Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank |
| 1924 | Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted |
| 1923 | Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker |
| 1921 | Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England |
| 1921 | Rwanda ceded to England |
| 1921 | Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia |
| 1920 | Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Adm Horthy |
| 1919 | Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin |
| 1917 | 1st federal land bank chartered |
| 1916 | Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic |
| 1914 | Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum |
| 1913 | 1st state law requiring bonding of officers and state employees, ND |
| 1913 | Federal income tax takes effect, 16th amendment |
| 1912 | Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane |
| 1912 | Isabella Goodwin, 1st U.S. woman detective, appointed, New York City |
| 1910 | 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in U.S. history |
| 1909 | 1st U.S. university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota |
| 1904 | England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead vs. Australia |
| 1896 | Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians |
| 1893 | Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the U.S. rank of ambassador |
| 1890 | 1st U.S. edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published |
| 1879 | Library of Hawaii founded |
| 1876 | Guernsey Cattle Club forms in Farmington, Connecticut |
| 1875 | Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883 |
| 1872 | Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park |
| 1871 | J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia |
| 1869 | Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time |
| 1867 | Howard University, Washington D.C., chartered |
| 1867 | Most of Nebraska becomes 37th U.S. state (expanded later) |
| 1866 | Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana |
| 1864 | Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built) |
| 1864 | Rebecca Lee (U.S.) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree |
| 1859 | Present seal of San Francisco adopted (its 2nd) |
| 1854 | SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor and is never seen again |
| 1847 | Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state) |
| 1845 | President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas |
| 1815 | Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law |
| 1811 | Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500 |
| 1811 | French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel |
| 1809 | Embargo Act of 1807 repealed and Non-Intercourse Act signed |
| 1803 | Ohio becomes 17th state |
| 1796 | 1st National Meeting in the Hague |
| 1792 | U.S. Presidential Succession Act passed |
| 1790 | 1st U.S. census authorized |
| 1785 | Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized |
| 1784 | E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain |
| 1781 | Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation |
| 1780 | Pennsylvania becomes 1st U.S. state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only) |
| 1711 | "The Spectator" begins publishing (London) |
| 1692 | Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem, Massachusetts) |
| 1642 | Georgeana (York) Maine became the 1st incorporated American city |
| 1634 | Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians |
| 1591 | Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV |
| 1587 | English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower |
| 1565 | Spanish occupier Estacio de Sa founds Rio de Janeiro |
| 1562 | Blood bath at Vassy: General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder |
| 1434 | Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank van Borselen |
| 1420 | Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten |
| 1382 | French Maillotin uprises against taxes |
| 1260 | Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus |
| 918 | Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht |
| 743 | Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited |
| 705 | John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 492 | St. Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 492 | St. Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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