| 2012 | Egypt's state news organization states that their President, Mohammed Morsi is going to Iran at the end of August to attend the Non-Aligned Movement meeting |
| 2012 | The United Kingdom's Treasury Committee of the House of Commons releases the first of two volumes reporting on the LIBOR fixing scandal |
| 2011 | In an effort to stop the growth of household debt, South Korean banks temporarily stop making household loans |
| 2011 | Gold hits a record price of $1,826 per ounce |
| 2010 | Santiago, Nuevo Leon's mayor, Edelmiro Cavazos is found dead, handcuffed and blindfolded after being abducted Sunday night |
| 2010 | Iceland lowers its interest rate to 7 percent |
| 2008 | Pervez Musharraf resigns as President of Pakistan |
| 2005 | Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, receives 10 consecutive life sentences |
| 1996 | Emilee Klein wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open |
| 1996 | Record 6,654 tap at Macy's Tap-o-mania in New York City |
| 1995 | Cards reliever Tom Henke earns his 300th career save |
| 1994 | 5.6 earthquake in Algeria, kills 171 |
| 1993 | Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern, Switzerland, destroyed by fire |
| 1992 | "Real Inspector Hound" opens at Criterion New York City for 61 performances |
| 1991 | Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic |
| 1991 | Hurricane Bob hits North Carolina with 115 MPH wind |
| 1991 | Pan Am games closes in Havana |
| 1989 | Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin |
| 1989 | Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as New York Yankee manager |
| 1988 | FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment |
| 1988 | Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million |
| 1988 | Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket |
| 1987 | Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL |
| 1987 | Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24) |
| 1987 | Philip Rush of New Zealand, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it |
| 1987 | Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47) |
| 1986 | Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness |
| 1986 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on WYSP 94.1 FM |
| 1986 | Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years) |
| 1986 | John Tesh's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight |
| 1986 | WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show |
| 1985 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf |
| 1985 | Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn |
| 1985 | Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby) |
| 1984 | Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire |
| 1983 | Hurricane Alicia battered Houston and Galveston, Texas |
| 1983 | Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1983 | Royals defeat Yankees, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out and Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order |
| 1982 | Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17) |
| 1982 | NYSE sets trading record of 132,690,000 shares traded |
| 1982 | Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance |
| 1982 | Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, ends after 22 innings - before Los Angeles Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th) |
| 1981 | "My Fair Lady" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 119 performances |
| 1981 | Jerry Lee Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons |
| 1981 | Football running back, Herschel Walker, of University of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million |
| 1980 | Kansas City Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400 |
| 1979 | Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds |
| 1979 | Nick Lowe marries singer Carlene Carter |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | Memphis, Tennessee settles with striking police officers and firefighters |
| 1977 | 2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland |
| 1977 | Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his NL record tying 5th one-hitter |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R.'s Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon |
| 1974 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA St. Paul Keller Golf Open |
| 1973 | Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet |
| 1973 | Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record |
| 1972 | Police fine Paul and Linda McCartney 800 pounds in Sweden cannabis possession |
| 1969 | Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly" |
| 1968 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic |
| 1967 | Red Sox Tony Conigliaro is beaned by Angels Jack Hamilton |
| 1967 | Rolling Stones release "We Love You" |
| 1967 | WCBS radio in New York City goes all-news |
| 1965 | Hank Aaron loses a home run, because he hit it out of batter's box |
| 1965 | Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler) |
| 1964 | Beatles arrive in San Francisco, 2nd U.S. visit |
| 1964 | Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon |
| 1964 | South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies |
| 1964 | U.S.S.R. launch 3 Kosmos satellites |
| 1963 | James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi |
| 1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament |
| 1962 | Peter, Paul and Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer" |
| 1961 | Construction on Berlin Wall completed |
| 1960 | 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie, Illinois |
| 1960 | 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
| 1960 | Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg) |
| 1960 | Lew Burdette pitches to just 27 for a 1-0 no-hitter against Phillies |
| 1959 | Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be President of Continental League |
| 1958 | "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published |
| 1958 | Betsy Palmer joins Today Show panel |
| 1958 | Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1958 | Great Britain issues regional stamps for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales |
| 1958 | Perez Prado "Mambo King," receives one of the 1st gold records |
| 1958 | TV game show scandal investigation starts |
| 1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| 1958 | Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| 1957 | Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4 ") |
| 1957 | Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open |
| 1957 | Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46 |
| 1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1956 | Cincinnati Reds (8) and Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 home runs in a 9 inning game |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1 |
| 1955 | Hurricane Diane, kills 400 in US |
| 1955 | 46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record) |
| 1955 | Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria |
| 1954 | James E. Wilkins is 1st black to attend a U.S. cabinet meeting |
| 1951 | Cricket 1st-class debut of Raymond Illingworth |
| 1949 | Hungary adopts constitution |
| 1949 | Ralph Flanagan and his orchestra records "You're Breaking My Heart" |
| 1947 | Naval torpedo and mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300 |
| 1946 | Golf Writers Associaton of America forms |
| 1945 | Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off |
| 1944 | Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers |
| 1944 | U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris |
| 1944 | U.S. 20th Army corp conquers Chartres |
| 1943 | Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd and final game, all with Giants |
| 1943 | Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz |
| 1943 | Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia |
| 1942 | Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japanese |
| 1941 | Concentration camp Amersfoort opens |
| 1941 | Phillies commit 8 errors in a game |
| 1940 | 71 German aircrafts shot down above England |
| 1938 | Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting U.S. and Canada |
| 1937 | 1st FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston MA) |
| 1936 | 106.5 degrees F-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa |
| 1934 | 48th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H Cooke (61 64) |
| 1934 | Bradman scores 244 in 5th Test Cricket, 316 minutes, 32 fours 1 six |
| 1934 | Ponsford and Bradman make 451 partnership in 316 minutes vs. Eng |
| 1932 | Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon |
| 1932 | Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic |
| 1931 | Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game |
| 1930 | Eastern Airlines begins passenger service |
| 1926 | England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0 |
| 1926 | Weather map televised for 1st time |
| 1925 | Belgian and U.S. sign treaty about war debts |
| 1925 | Cardinal Mercier warns Belgians against socialism/liberalism |
| 1924 | France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied |
| 1923 | 37th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61) |
| 1920 | 1st class debut of Walter Hammond |
| 1920 | Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right |
| 1919 | Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois |
| 1917 | Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD) |
| 1915 | Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1 |
| 1914 | Belgian army withdraws to Antwerp |
| 1914 | French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg |
| 1914 | President Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality" |
| 1896 | Adolph Ochs (39) buys New York Times |
| 1894 | Congress creates Bureau of Immigration |
| 1891 | Hurricane hits Martinique, about 700 die |
| 1886 | Carr Baker Neel and Samuel Neel win U.S. Lawn Tennis Association doubles |
| 1873 | 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, California, 14,494' |
| 1872 | 1st mail-order catalog issued by A. M. Ward |
| 1870 | Battle at Gravelotte Privat: Prussia beat France, 32,000 casualties |
| 1868 | Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse |
| 1864 | 6th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia: Confederate assault |
| 1864 | Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days |
| 1862 | General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured |
| 1862 | Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota |
| 1858 | Netherlands and Japan sign trade agreement |
| 1846 | General Stephen W Kearney's U.S. forces captures Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 1840 | Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded in New York |
| 1838 | 1st U.S. marine expedition |
| 1835 | Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago |
| 1834 | Mount Vesuvius erupts |
| 1817 | Gloucester, Massachusetts, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore |
| 1795 | Curacao governor De Veer sends miltia to stop rebellious slaves |
| 1769 | Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000 |
| 1759 | 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France |
| 1735 | Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass) |
| 1700 | Swedish, English and Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark |
| 1698 | Russian czar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam |
| 1686 | Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus |
| 1674 | Jean Racine's "Iphigenie," premieres in Versailles |
| 1605 | Spanish army under of general Spinola conquerors Lingen |
| 1572 | King Navarra Henri de Bourbon marries Margaretha van Valois |
| 1564 | Spanish king Philip II joins Council of Trente |
| 1289 | Pope Nicolaus IV publishes degree "Supra montem" |
| 410 | King Alarik I's Visigoten occupies and plunders Rome |
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