| 1997 | Boston shortstop Nomar Garciaparra is 6th unanimous AL Rookie of Year |
| 1997 | California law ends affirmative-action |
| 1997 | David Duval wins Championship at the Champions Golf Club |
| 1997 | Phillies 3rd baseman Scott Rolen selected unanimous Rookie of Year |
| 1996 | "It's a Slippery Slope," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City |
| 1996 | 26th New York City Women's Marathon won by Anuta Catuna of Romania in 2:28:18 |
| 1996 | 27th New York City Marathon won by Giacomo Leone of Italy in 2:09:54 |
| 1996 | Mayumi Hirase wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup |
| 1996 | Toray Japan Queens Cup |
| 1995 | 1st NBA game at FleetCenter, Boston Celtics lose to Mil Bucks, 101-100 |
| 1995 | 1st NBA game at Rose Garden, Port Trailblazers lose to Grizzlies 92-80 |
| 1995 | 1st NBA game at Skydome, Toronto Raptors beat New Jersey Nets 94-79 |
| 1994 | Atlantis 13 launched |
| 1994 | Dutch and British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1 |
| 1994 | Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches |
| 1994 | Susan Smith who claimed her 2 kids were carjacked arrested for murder |
| 1994 | Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s) |
| 1993 | Ken Daneyko sets New Jersey Devil 'Ironman' record by playing 322nd cons game |
| 1992 | Bill Clinton wins U.S. presidential election over President Bush |
| 1992 | Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in U.S. Senate |
| 1991 | 21st New York City Women's Marathon won by Liz McColgan of Scotland in 2:27 |
| 1991 | 22nd New York City Marathon won by Salvador Garcia of Mexico in 2:09:28 |
| 1991 | Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps) |
| 1990 | Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway |
| 1989 | 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights |
| 1989 | Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose |
| 1989 | Minn Timberwolves' 1st NBA game, loses to Seattle, 106-94 |
| 1988 | Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane |
| 1988 | Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill |
| 1988 | Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew |
| 1988 | Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping |
| 1987 | Oakland 1st baseman Mark McGwire wins AL Rookie of Year |
| 1987 | On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56 |
| 1986 | Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US |
| 1986 | Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique |
| 1986 | John Lennon releases "Menlove Avenue" album |
| 1986 | Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret U.S. arms sales to Iran |
| 1986 | Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US |
| 1985 | Argentine President Alfonsins Radical Burgerunie wins elections |
| 1985 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament |
| 1984 | 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India |
| 1984 | Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated |
| 1983 | Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency |
| 1983 | Nashville Network begins on cable TV |
| 1982 | Detroit blocks 20 Cleveland Cav shots tying NBA regulation game record |
| 1982 | Pete Vuckovich becomes Milwaukee's 2nd consecutive AL Cy Young |
| 1981 | Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers wins AL Cy Young Award |
| 1980 | Ianford Wilsons "5th of July," premieres in New York City |
| 1980 | Walter Hass, Jr. becomes CEO of Oakland A's |
| 1979 | 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC |
| 1979 | 63 Americans taken hostage at U.S. Embassy (Teheran, Iran) |
| 1979 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mizuno Japan Golf Classic |
| 1979 | Marocco offensive against Polisario |
| 1978 | 1st broadcast of "Diff'rent strokes" on NBC TV |
| 1978 | Dominica gains independence from U.K. and adopts constitution |
| 1978 | Michiko Okada wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. and Vietnam sign peace and friendship treaty |
| 1977 | Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic |
| 1976 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA/Japan Mizuno Golf |
| 1974 | "Lorelei" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 320 performances |
| 1974 | Chako Higuchi wins Japan LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman and Nancy Dussault) |
| 1973 | Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury |
| 1971 | "Play Misty For Me" premieres |
| 1970 | "President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 72 performances |
| 1970 | Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award |
| 1970 | President Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam |
| 1970 | Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile |
| 1969 | Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium |
| 1968 | Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon |
| 1968 | Ex-premier Papandreou buried/300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta |
| 1968 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Canyon Ladies Golf Classic |
| 1968 | New York Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21 |
| 1967 | Boston's Jim Lonborg wins AL Cy Young |
| 1965 | Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously |
| 1964 | Lyndon Baines Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for president |
| 1964 | Philadelphia voters approve $25 million to build a new sports stadium |
| 1963 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Cavern City Golf Open |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1962 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 72 points vs Los Angeles Lakers |
| 1961 | General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general |
| 1960 | "Unsinkable Molly Brown" opens at Winter Garden New York City for 532 performances |
| 1960 | Ivory Coast adopts constitution |
| 1960 | Pittsburgh Pirates' Vern Law wins Cy Young Award |
| 1960 | Tammy Grimes' "Unsinkable Molly Brown," premieres in New York City |
| 1959 | Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit |
| 1956 | "Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV) |
| 1955 | 1st virus crystallized (announced) |
| 1955 | Alabama woman bruised by a meteor |
| 1955 | Argentine ex-president Peron arrives in Nicaragua |
| 1955 | Australia takes control of Cocos Islands |
| 1955 | Bernardus J Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht |
| 1954 | Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize |
| 1954 | Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born and Walter Bothe |
| 1953 | 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly |
| 1953 | 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (New York City) |
| 1952 | Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas |
| 1952 | Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel |
| 1948 | 2nd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Chicago |
| 1948 | Chicago Tribune reports: "Dewey beats Truman" |
| 1946 | Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution |
| 1945 | Lindsay Hassett scores 187 and 124* for Australia Services at Delhi |
| 1944 | Allied commando's lands at Westkapelle Walcheren |
| 1944 | German troops in Vlissingen surrenders |
| 1944 | Pro-German government of Hungary flees |
| 1944 | U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald |
| 1943 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
| 1943 | P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North-Holland |
| 1942 | 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault |
| 1942 | Despite Ted Williams wins Triple Crown, Yankees Joe Gordon wins AL MVP |
| 1942 | Mort Cooper wins NL MVP |
| 1942 | William L. Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago |
| 1941 | Hirohiti's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails |
| 1939 | Clare Booth's "Margin for Error," premieres in New York City |
| 1937 | Archambaud bicycles world record time (45,796 km) |
| 1937 | NHL Howie Morenz Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 6-5 in Mont |
| 1936 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins landslide victory over Alfred M. Landon |
| 1935 | George II returns to Greece and regains monarchy |
| 1935 | Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42) |
| 1934 | Although Lou Gehrig wins Triple Crown, Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP |
| 1934 | Dizzy Dean chosen as NL MVP |
| 1931 | 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured |
| 1930 | 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country, Detroit - Windsor, opens |
| 1930 | Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America |
| 1928 | Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet |
| 1927 | 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record) |
| 1927 | Rodgers and Hart's musical "Connecticut Yankee," premieres in New York City |
| 1927 | Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt) |
| 1926 | 15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins |
| 1926 | Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager |
| 1922 | Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life |
| 1920 | "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater |
| 1918 | Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves |
| 1918 | Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I |
| 1917 | 1st class mail now costs 3 cents per ounce |
| 1916 | Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar |
| 1908 | William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan |
| 1903 | Colombia grants Panama independence |
| 1900 | 1st U.S. automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (New York City) |
| 1899 | James J. Jeffries beats Tom Sharkey in 25 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1896 | J. H. Hunter patents portable weighing scales |
| 1896 | Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator |
| 1896 | William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president |
| 1889 | Chaplain Ariens founds 1st roman catholic workers group |
| 1888 | Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes |
| 1886 | Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curaeao |
| 1885 | Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes and businesses |
| 1883 | Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed) |
| 1883 | U.S. Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans |
| 1874 | James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti |
| 1871 | Henry M. Stanley in Tanganyka say "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" |
| 1869 | Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms |
| 1868 | 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana) |
| 1868 | Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D) |
| 1867 | Battle at Mentana: French/pontifical troops beat Garibaldi |
| 1863 | Battle of Grand Coteau, Louisiana |
| 1862 | Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche, Louisiana |
| 1862 | Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun (Indianapolis) |
| 1848 | Johan Thorbeckes revises Great Force |
| 1839 | 1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks |
| 1839 | Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed |
| 1820 | Cuenca Ecuador declares independence |
| 1813 | U.S. troops under General Coffee destroy indian village at Talladega Ala |
| 1796 | John Adams elected president |
| 1794 | French troops conquer Maastricht |
| 1791 | Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St. Clair/killed 637 soldiers |
| 1783 | Washington orders Continental Army disbanded |
| 1762 | England and Spain signs Treaty of Paris |
| 1762 | Spain acquires Louisiana |
| 1760 | Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria |
| 1752 | Georg Friedrich Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation |
| 1716 | Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Czar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August I's Polish kingdom |
| 1679 | Great panic occurs in Europe over close approach of a comet |
| 1676 | Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Koprulu as Turkish grand vizier |
| 1656 | Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant |
| 1655 | England and France sign miltary and economic treaties |
| 1640 | English Long Parliament forms |
| 1629 | Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague |
| 1620 | Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony |
| 1534 | English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader |
| 1527 | Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary |
| 1493 | Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica |
| 1394 | Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI |
| 644 | Kalief Omar I injured during assassination attempt |
