| 2012 | The Curiosity rover controlled by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, lands safely on the surface of Mars |
| 2012 | After a century of silence, Mount Tongariro in New Zealand erupts, spreading volcanic ash across the country's central North Island and affecting airports |
| 2011 | At least 20 Navy SEALs and 17 others die when a NATO Chinook helicopter crashes after being shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan |
| 2011 | In London, British rioters set police cars on fire in the suburb of Tottenham |
| 2010 | NATO airstrikes on August 5 resulted in the deaths of at least 32 Afghan civilians |
| 2010 | Russia's worst drought in history prompts Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to temporarily ban the export of flour and wheat |
| 2009 | A crowd of 50,000 people participate in a memorial service at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park |
| 1997 | Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc |
| 1997 | NHL Nashville, Tennessee names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach |
| 1996 | NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars |
| 1995 | "Damn Yankees" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 510 performances |
| 1995 | Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain |
| 1995 | Indians and Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition) |
| 1995 | Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb |
| 1994 | Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities |
| 1993 | Japan Hosokawa government begins |
| 1993 | Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical |
| 1992 | Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500 |
| 1991 | Debbie Doom (U.S.) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0 |
| 1990 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th home run in 1st 86 at bats |
| 1990 | President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan |
| 1990 | U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 to place economic sanctions against Iraq |
| 1989 | "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 5959 performances |
| 1989 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open |
| 1989 | Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8 |
| 1989 | Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia |
| 1989 | Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines |
| 1988 | Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases |
| 1988 | Rich Gossage 300th career save, beats Phillies |
| 1986 | Orioles, Dwyer and Sheets, and Rangers, Harrah, hit record 3 grand slams |
| 1986 | Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM |
| 1985 | 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB |
| 1985 | Major League Baseball Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day) |
| 1985 | STS-51-I vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1984 | 203.05 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 1984 | Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics |
| 1983 | Minnesota Vikings beat St. Louis Cardinals 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo) |
| 1983 | Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa |
| 1982 | 22nd Curtis Cup: U.S., 14 -3 |
| 1982 | California Doug DeCinces hits 3 home runs again in game |
| 1982 | WQXI, Atlanta, is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system |
| 1981 | Argentina ex-president Isabel Peron freed |
| 1981 | Due to strike, Yankees, A's, Philles and Dodgers declared 1st champs |
| 1981 | NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed |
| 1980 | University administraion declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles and post-season play due to transcript and curriculum abuses |
| 1979 | 61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills, Michigan |
| 1979 | Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel |
| 1978 | 60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC PA |
| 1978 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open |
| 1977 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate European Women's Golf Open |
| 1974 | 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice |
| 1974 | Explosion and fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Washington |
| 1973 | Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame |
| 1973 | Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma |
| 1972 | Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament |
| 1972 | Hank Aaron hits 660th and 661st home runs for Braves, record for 1 team |
| 1972 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic |
| 1970 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1969 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 3rd triple play, 5-4-3 vs Kansas City Royals |
| 1967 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 1967 | Minnesota Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings |
| 1967 | Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play |
| 1967 | Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane |
| 1966 | Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London |
| 1966 | Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1966 | Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe) |
| 1966 | U.S. citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam |
| 1965 | 32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000) |
| 1965 | Beatles release "Help" album in U.K. |
| 1965 | Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights |
| 1965 | Indian troops invade Pakistan |
| 1965 | Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks |
| 1964 | Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam |
| 1962 | Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule |
| 1961 | Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits) |
| 1961 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
| 1961 | 1st case of motion sickness in space reported |
| 1960 | Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto |
| 1958 | Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles |
| 1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| 1954 | WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military |
| 1952 | Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout |
| 1951 | Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria |
| 1949 | Luke Appling record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop |
| 1948 | Bob Mathias, U.S., wins decathlon at London Olympics |
| 1948 | Dreesgovt (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms |
| 1948 | Fanny Blankers-Koen (Netherlands) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics |
| 1947 | 1st performance of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8" |
| 1946 | U.S. officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court |
| 1945 | Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay" |
| 1945 | Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's |
| 1944 | All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died |
| 1944 | Anti-German attack at Avranches fails |
| 1944 | Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins |
| 1944 | U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes |
| 1943 | U.S. 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily |
| 1942 | Riots by Dutch Jews |
| 1942 | Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210 |
| 1942 | Churchill fires General Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant |
| 1942 | Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder" |
| 1941 | Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning |
| 1940 | Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire |
| 1939 | 1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio |
| 1937 | Franco-artillery fire on Madrid |
| 1937 | Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest |
| 1937 | U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign trade treaty |
| 1936 | 1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson and Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with home runs |
| 1934 | U.S. troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915 |
| 1930 | Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in New York City |
| 1930 | Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen |
| 1926 | New York's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel |
| 1926 | Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system |
| 1926 | Don Juan with John Barrymore shown |
| 1921 | Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins |
| 1919 | 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler) |
| 1919 | Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest |
| 1918 | Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France |
| 1918 | In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends |
| 1914 | Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia |
| 1914 | French cavalry enter Belgium |
| 1914 | German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed |
| 1914 | Serbia declares war against Germany |
| 1910 | New York City Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt |
| 1908 | St. Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn |
| 1905 | 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record) |
| 1896 | France annexes Madagascar |
| 1890 | Cy Young pitches and wins 1st game |
| 1870 | Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France |
| 1870 | White conservatives suppresed black vote and captured Tennessee legislature |
| 1864 | Rebels evacuate Ft. Powell, Mobile Bayd |
| 1862 | Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack |
| 1861 | Lexington Kentucky - Union military camp forms in neutral state |
| 1854 | Congress passes Confiscation Act |
| 1825 | Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day) |
| 1824 | Battle at Junan - Simon Bolivars army beats Spanish |
| 1821 | 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels |
| 1815 | U.S. flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli |
| 1787 | Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia begans debate |
| 1774 | Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY |
| 1726 | Emperor Karel VI and tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty |
| 1675 | Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut |
| 1661 | Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders |
| 1625 | Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen |
| 1623 | Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII |
| 1601 | Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius |
| 1600 | Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588 |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors |
| 1497 | John Cabot returns to Bristol from North-America |
| 1181 | Supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers |
| 939 | Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors |
| 768 | [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 523 | St. Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 258 | St. Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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