| 2012 | U.S. pastor Billy Graham is hospitalized for several days at Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina due to bronchitis; he recently suffered pneumonia in November, 2011 |
| 2012 | The winner of U.S. PGA Championship at Kiawah Island is Northern Ireland's professional golfer, Rory McIlroy |
| 2011 | A recent crash on the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway prompts a halt in service and an inspection of all sections of the track |
| 2011 | President Obama's health insurance mandate from his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is struck down by the U.S. court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit |
| 2010 | Northern Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army is accused of abduction and forced recruitment of 697 people in the past year and a half |
| 2010 | Director of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, announces plans to release remaining Afghan War Diary documents from War in Afghanistan |
| 2005 | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launches |
| 1995 | Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge |
| 1994 | 1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - San Francisco vs Denver) |
| 1994 | Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike |
| 1994 | Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed |
| 1994 | Stephen G. Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
| 1993 | Pope John Paul II begins visit of U.S. |
| 1991 | Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan |
| 1991 | Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon and Marshall |
| 1990 | 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania |
| 1990 | 72nd PGA Championship: Wayne Grady shoots a 282 at Shoal Creek Ala |
| 1990 | Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1990 | Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories |
| 1988 | Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23 |
| 1988 | Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released |
| 1988 | Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital |
| 1988 | Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home |
| 1988 | Richard Thornburgh becomes U.S. Attorney General |
| 1987 | Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock |
| 1986 | Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season |
| 1986 | Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single |
| 1985 | 7th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 1985 | Baltimore Orioles W Gross and L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch home runs |
| 1985 | Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll) |
| 1984 | 23rd Olympic games close at Los Angeles, California |
| 1984 | Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls and 19 ejections |
| 1984 | Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, and Luis Aparicio inducted into Hall of Fame |
| 1984 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| 1983 | General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army |
| 1982 | Heavy Israeli bombardement of Beirut |
| 1981 | IBM introduces PC and PC-DOS version 1.0 |
| 1981 | Jon Erikson (U.S.) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27) |
| 1979 | "Whoopee!" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 204 performances |
| 1979 | Iran press censors start massive book burnings |
| 1979 | Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin |
| 1978 | Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours |
| 1978 | China and Japan sign peace treaty |
| 1977 | For 2nd straight day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid |
| 1977 | High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit |
| 1977 | Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight |
| 1976 | Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed |
| 1974 | Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 and walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2 |
| 1974 | Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day |
| 1973 | 55th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 277 at Canterbury, Cleveland |
| 1973 | Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child and Family Service Golf Opens |
| 1973 | WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris |
| 1972 | "Funny Thing Happened..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 156 performances |
| 1972 | "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 1316 performances |
| 1972 | Ian and Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings |
| 1972 | Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam |
| 1971 | Syriam President Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan |
| 1970 | Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball |
| 1969 | Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million |
| 1967 | New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St. Louis 23-14 |
| 1965 | Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice |
| 1965 | Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise |
| 1964 | 10th time Mantle switch-hits home run in a game, one goes 502 feet |
| 1964 | Mickey Mantle switch-hits home run record 10th and final time in a game |
| 1963 | Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization |
| 1963 | Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year |
| 1962 | 1st time 2 people in space |
| 1962 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament |
| 1962 | Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15 |
| 1960 | 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000) |
| 1960 | Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched |
| 1960 | Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 26' 11" |
| 1960 | USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m |
| 1959 | 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island |
| 1959 | Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa |
| 1956 | KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
| 1955 | 22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000) |
| 1955 | President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour |
| 1955 | WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row |
| 1953 | Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami |
| 1953 | Heavy earthquake strikes Isotope islands, 435 killed |
| 1953 | Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb |
| 1952 | Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan |
| 1951 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
| 1950 | New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa |
| 1950 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis |
| 1949 | 16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780) |
| 1948 | Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game |
| 1944 | Churchill and Tito meet in Naples |
| 1944 | Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating |
| 1942 | British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin |
| 1942 | German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe |
| 1942 | Lieutenant-general Montgomery arrives in Cairo |
| 1941 | French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany |
| 1940 | Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts |
| 1940 | Netherlands starts rationing textile |
| 1936 | 120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Seymour, Texas (state record) |
| 1936 | Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats U.S., 6-5 |
| 1936 | Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d) |
| 1935 | Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand |
| 1933 | Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup |
| 1931 | Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China |
| 1928 | 9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam |
| 1927 | "Wings," the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens |
| 1925 | KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions |
| 1923 | Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances |
| 1923 | Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward |
| 1922 | Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Washington D.C. as national shrine |
| 1916 | Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz and Paquerette photographed in Paris |
| 1915 | "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published |
| 1914 | Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle der Zilveren Helmen") |
| 1914 | German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Luik |
| 1914 | Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary |
| 1914 | Russian troops take East-Prussia and occupy Marggrabowa |
| 1905 | King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp |
| 1901 | Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony |
| 1898 | Hawaii formally annexed to U.S. |
| 1898 | Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed |
| 1896 | Gold discovered at Klondike River at Dawson |
| 1896 | Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg |
| 1888 | Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour |
| 1886 | W G Grace made his highest Test Cricket score, vs. AuAustraliast, The Oval |
| 1884 | Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval |
| 1879 | 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago) |
| 1877 | Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device |
| 1876 | Madeline (U.S.) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup |
| 1867 | President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton |
| 1863 | 1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area) |
| 1862 | General John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Texas-rebels are attacked by Apache Indians |
| 1856 | Anthony Fass patents accordion |
| 1851 | 1st America's Cup-U.S. schooner America beats British yacht Aurora |
| 1851 | Isaac Singer patents sewing machine |
| 1831 | Dutch troops conquer Leuven |
| 1831 | Netherlands and Belgium sign peace treaty |
| 1812 | Duke of Wellington's troops enter Madrid |
| 1759 | Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians |
| 1687 | Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders |
| 1687 | Ottoman invaders of Hungary routed at Battle of Mohacs |
| 1676 | 1st war between American colonists and Indians ends in New England |
| 1665 | English fleet beat Dutch fleet |
| 1658 | 1st U.S. police corps forms (New Amsterdam) |
| 1588 | Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army |
| 1553 | Pope Julius III orders confiscation and burning of Jewish Talmud |
| 1549 | French troops occupy Ambleteuse England |
| 1530 | Florence surrenders for emperor Karel I |
| 1508 | Juan Ponce de Leon arrives in Puerto Rico |
| 1336 | English King Edward III endswool export to Flanders |
| 1332 | Battle of Dupplin Moor; Scottish dynastic battle |
| 1099 | Battle at Ascalon: Godfried of Broth beats Egyptians |
| 1099 | Crusaders are victorious at Battle of Ascalon |
| 1071 | Alp Arslan beat Byzantines, emperor Romanos IV Diogenes |
| 1071 | Battle at Manzikert Armenia, Venetian Byzantine brings islam to Europe |
| 3 | Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem |
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