| 2012 | At the National Convention in Tampa, Florida, the U.S. Republican Party nominates Mitt Romney as its candidate in the 2012 presidential election |
| 2012 | Typhoon Bolaven hits South Korea. leaving at least four Chinese fishermen dead and another twelve missing |
| 2011 | Tony Tan Keng Yam wins Singapore's presidential election, becoming President-elect |
| 2011 | Musician Katy Perry wins the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards for Video for the Year award for her song 'Firework' |
| 2010 | A crowd of 500,000 people attend a 'Restoring Honor' rally hosted by Glenn Beck at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. |
| 2010 | Microsoft cofounder, Paul Allen's company Interval Licensing LLC, files a patent infringement suit against Google, Apple, eBay, Facebook and others |
| 1997 | 32nd Ryder Cup: at Sotogrande Spain |
| 1997 | Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes |
| 1996 | Liam Botham takes 5-67 on 1st-class debut Hants vs. Middlesex |
| 1995 | Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson |
| 1995 | Northants 7-781 decl defeat Nottinghamshire 527 and 157 |
| 1994 | 1st Japanese gay pride parade |
| 1994 | 22nd du Maurier Golf Classic: Martha Nause |
| 1994 | 94th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods |
| 1993 | Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed |
| 1993 | Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed |
| 1993 | Long Beach, California beats Panama for little league world championship |
| 1993 | Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president |
| 1992 | Test Cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo |
| 1991 | Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die |
| 1991 | Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher |
| 1990 | Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 home runs, consecutively |
| 1990 | Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov |
| 1989 | 1st regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners |
| 1989 | Frank Viola and Mets outduel Orel Hershiser and Dodgers 1-0 |
| 1988 | 40th Emmy Awards: 30something, Wonder Years and Richard Kiley |
| 1988 | 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany |
| 1988 | 88th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks |
| 1988 | Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50 |
| 1988 | Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open |
| 1988 | Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship |
| 1987 | Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams and Willie McCovey with 522 home runs |
| 1986 | Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege |
| 1986 | Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium |
| 1986 | Tina Turner's star unveiled in Hollywood |
| 1986 | U.S. Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1983 | "Mame" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 41 performances |
| 1983 | Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 home runs onto roof at Comiskey Park |
| 1983 | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announces resignation |
| 1983 | Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour |
| 1983 | Pat Bradley wins Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
| 1982 | "Sugar Babies" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 1208 performances |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1981 | John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan |
| 1981 | Sebastian Coe of U.K. sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken) |
| 1981 | National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men |
| 1979 | IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market |
| 1979 | Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die |
| 1978 | Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph |
| 1978 | Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran |
| 1977 | Bonnie Lauer wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| 1977 | New York Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men and beats Texas Rangers 1-0 |
| 1977 | Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year |
| 1977 | N.Y. Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland, Oregon, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship |
| 1976 | N.Y. Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1974 | Soyuz 15 returns to Earth |
| 1973 | "Monster Mash" goes gold |
| 1973 | "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple goes gold |
| 1973 | 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527 |
| 1973 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1973 | India and Pakistan sign POW accord |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1970 | Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970 |
| 1968 | Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem National Conven |
| 1967 | Asif Iqbal and Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt vs. Eng |
| 1967 | Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus |
| 1966 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic |
| 1964 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1964 | U.S. weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched |
| 1964 | WEWS-TV Channel 5's "Upbeat" debuts in Cleveland |
| 1963 | 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, D.C. |
| 1963 | Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle and Bellevue opens |
| 1963 | Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial |
| 1962 | 55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana, state record |
| 1962 | Dr. Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid |
| 1962 | Tony Sheridan and Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)" |
| 1960 | White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run home run is disallowed as ump called time |
| 1958 | Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98) |
| 1957 | Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill |
| 1956 | England retain cricket Ashes, Jim Laker 46 wickets in the series |
| 1955 | 1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17 |
| 1955 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament |
| 1953 | "Me and Juliet" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 358 performances |
| 1952 | German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments |
| 1952 | Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister |
| 1951 | Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000 |
| 1951 | Pirates snap New York Giants 16 game win streak |
| 1950 | Earle and Roy Mack, purchase 54% of A's from Connie Mack Jr |
| 1949 | 38th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1) |
| 1949 | Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill, New York |
| 1944 | Last German troops in Marseille surrendered and Toulon cleared |
| 1944 | U.S. air raid on Ambon |
| 1943 | Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers |
| 1943 | Mussolini transfered from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso |
| 1942 | 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100) |
| 1942 | Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2) |
| 1942 | Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1941 | 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203) |
| 1941 | Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves |
| 1940 | French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support General De Gaulle |
| 1939 | "Monty" becomes commandant of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division |
| 1939 | Netherland mobilizes |
| 1939 | Sammy Fain/Jack Yellen's musical "George White's Scandals" premieres |
| 1938 | Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria |
| 1938 | Northwestern U awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy |
| 1938 | On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader |
| 1929 | Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred |
| 1926 | Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox) |
| 1925 | Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island |
| 1922 | 1st Walker Cup: U.S. beats England 8-4 |
| 1922 | Albert von Tilzer and Neville Fleesons musical premieres in New York City |
| 1922 | WEAF in New York City airs 1st radio commercia, Queensboro Realty, $100 for 10 minutes |
| 1921 | 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels and Paris) |
| 1921 | Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games |
| 1920 | 19th amendment acknowledges women's rights |
| 1919 | General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa |
| 1918 | Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly |
| 1917 | 10 suffragists arrested as they picket White House |
| 1916 | Germany declares war on Romania |
| 1916 | Italy declares war against Germany during WW I |
| 1914 | 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German/Russian battles |
| 1914 | Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed |
| 1914 | John French evacuate Amiens |
| 1913 | Queen Wilhelmina opens Peace Palace (The Hague) |
| 1911 | 45.7 cm rainfall at St. George, Georgia (state record) |
| 1908 | 14th U.S. Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass |
| 1907 | United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle |
| 1884 | 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota |
| 1884 | Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces |
| 1883 | Slavery banned throughout British Empire |
| 1879 | Battle at Ulundi: Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz |
| 1867 | U.S. occupies Midway Islands in Pacific |
| 1862 | Battle of Thoroughfare Gap VA |
| 1862 | Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C. |
| 1861 | Battle of Fort Hatteras NC |
| 1850 | Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar Germany |
| 1849 | Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, after been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence |
| 1840 | 9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails |
| 1837 | Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce |
| 1830 | 1st locomotive in U.S., "Tom Thumb," runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill |
| 1789 | Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus |
| 1655 | New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service |
| 1637 | WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquerors Fort Elmina, West Africa |
| 1632 | Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe |
| 1619 | Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor |
| 1609 | Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay |
| 1565 | Oldest city in the U.S., St. Augustine Fla, established |
| 1521 | Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade |
| 476 | German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia |
| 476 | West Roman Empire formally disbands/emperor Romulus August ousted |
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