| 2012 | The Rolling Stones, English rock band, celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its first performance at the Marquee Club in Oxford Street, London |
| 2012 | An estimated 90 - 115 people die when an oil tanker in Okobge, Rivers State Nigeria crashes and explodes |
| 2011 | According to Moody's, Ireland's debt rating has been reduced to 'junk' status |
| 2011 | In Britain, a ticket holder wins 161,653,000 pounds, the largest EuroMillions jackpot in history |
| 2010 | A new long-range unmanned plane named Taranis is unveiled by the U.K. Ministry of Defense |
| 2006 | Israel invades Lebanon in response to Hezbollah's kidnapping of Israeli soldiers |
| 1998 | 16th Seniors Players Golf Championship: |
| 1998 | Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Pirates Francisco Cordova and Ricardo Rincon no-hit Astros 3-0 in 10 inn |
| 1996 | Kirby Puckett, retires from Minnesota Twins |
| 1996 | Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million |
| 1996 | Start of 1st "Super 8's" tournament in Kuala Lumpur |
| 1994 | 65th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-8 at 3 Rivers Stad, Pitts |
| 1994 | All star MVP: Fred McGriff (Atlanta Braves) |
| 1994 | Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins |
| 1993 | 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed |
| 1993 | Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Sunset Promenade" opens in London |
| 1993 | Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM) |
| 1992 | 13th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Larry Laoretti |
| 1992 | Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St. Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert |
| 1992 | Betsy King wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament |
| 1990 | "Les Miserables," opens at National Theatre, Washington |
| 1990 | Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party |
| 1990 | Chicago White Sox Melido Perez no-hits Yankees 8-0 in a rain shortened 6 inning game at Yankee Stadium (7th no-hitter of 1990) |
| 1989 | New York Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA) |
| 1988 | 59th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin |
| 1988 | All star MVP: Terry Steinbach for the Oakland A's |
| 1988 | Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's had an affair with her |
| 1988 | U.S.S.R. launches Phobos II for Martian orbit |
| 1987 | 15th du Maurier Golf Classic: Jody Rosenthal |
| 1987 | 1st time in 20 years a delegation from U.S.S.R. lands in Israel |
| 1987 | 50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar |
| 1987 | 8th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player |
| 1987 | Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief |
| 1985 | "Singin' in the Rain" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 367 performances |
| 1985 | Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon |
| 1985 | STS-51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown |
| 1984 | Geraldine Ferraro, New York becomes 1st woman major-party Vice Presidential candidate |
| 1983 | Chad government troops reconquer Abeche |
| 1982 | Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs |
| 1981 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| 1979 | Ian Palce joins Whitesnake |
| 1979 | Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from U.K. |
| 1979 | "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild and causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers |
| 1978 | Sun Bank Building opens |
| 1978 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1977 | 1st free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise |
| 1977 | John Edrich scores his 100th 100, Surrey vs. Derbyshire at The Oval |
| 1976 | Ian Dury and Kilburns disband |
| 1975 | 104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie |
| 1975 | Bob Taylor catches 7 in an innings, Derbyshire vs. Yorkshire |
| 1975 | Sao Tome e Principe gains independence from Portugal (National Day) |
| 1974 | John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights |
| 1971 | Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders |
| 1970 | 99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St. Andrews |
| 1970 | Blues-Rock singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky |
| 1970 | Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway |
| 1969 | 98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham |
| 1968 | Couve de Murville forms government in France |
| 1968 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1967 | 23 die in Newark race riot |
| 1967 | 5th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 4-0 |
| 1967 | Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested |
| 1967 | Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship |
| 1966 | 10.51" (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record) |
| 1966 | 37th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stad, St. Louis |
| 1966 | All star MVP: Brooks Robinson for the Baltimore Orioles |
| 1966 | Race riot in Chicago |
| 1966 | U.S. Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints |
| 1964 | 19th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright |
| 1962 | 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (U.S.S.R.) |
| 1962 | Rolling Stones 1st performance, Marquee Club, London |
| 1960 | Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence |
| 1960 | Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched |
| 1960 | Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament |
| 1960 | U.S.S.R.'s Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs |
| 1960 | XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1959 | NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game |
| 1958 | "Li'l Abner" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 693 performances |
| 1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| 1957 | 1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower |
| 1957 | U.S. Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer |
| 1955 | 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stad, Milw |
| 1955 | Christian Democratic Party forms in Argentina |
| 1954 | Major League Baseball Players Association founded |
| 1954 | President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system |
| 1953 | KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, Idaho (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | East German SED decides to form East Germany army |
| 1951 | New York Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleveland Indians, 8-0 |
| 1950 | ILTF re-admit Germany and Japan in Davis Cup, Poland and Hungary withdraws |
| 1950 | Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death |
| 1949 | 16th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-7 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn |
| 1949 | Baseball owners agree to erect warning paths before each fence |
| 1949 | Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die |
| 1949 | Los Angeles Rams sign Norm Van Brocklin |
| 1948 | 1st jets to fly across Atlantic, 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires |
| 1946 | Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park home run |
| 1945 | Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games |
| 1944 | Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased |
| 1944 | U.S. government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle |
| 1943 | Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula) |
| 1943 | National Committee Freies Deutschland forms |
| 1943 | Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker |
| 1943 | Russian offensive at Orel |
| 1943 | Tank battle at Prochorowka - Russians beat Nazis, about 12,000 die |
| 1935 | Belgium recognizes Soviet Union |
| 1934 | U.S. Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned |
| 1934 | Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (5:16.0) |
| 1933 | Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour) |
| 1931 | 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St. Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game and 21 in 2nd game for 32 |
| 1930 | 34th U.S. Golf Open: Robert T "Bobby" Jones wins |
| 1930 | Bradman out for 334 in Test Cricket at Headingley, 383 minutes, 46 fours |
| 1930 | Hedley Verity takes 10 for 10 vs. Notts (19 4-16-10-10) at Leeds |
| 1928 | 1st televised tennis match |
| 1927 | Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 home runs |
| 1926 | Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu |
| 1926 | Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2) |
| 1921 | Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs |
| 1921 | Indians (9) and Yankees (7) combine for an AL record 16 doubles |
| 1920 | Lithuania and U.S.S.R. sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent rep |
| 1918 | Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed |
| 1914 | Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for Red Sox |
| 1912 | 1st foreign feature film exhibited in U.S. - "Queen Elizabeth" - New York City |
| 1909 | 16th Amendment approved, power to tax incomes |
| 1906 | Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France |
| 1902 | Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage |
| 1901 | Cy Young wins his 300th game |
| 1900 | 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Basin, Wyoming (state record) |
| 1898 | Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda, Sudan |
| 1882 | 1st ocean pier in U.S. completed, Washington, D.C. |
| 1878 | Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500 |
| 1874 | Ontario Agricultural College founded |
| 1874 | Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "Gloria Scott" |
| 1862 | Congress authorizes Medal of Honor |
| 1862 | Federal troops occupy Helena, Arkansas |
| 1859 | Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Massachusetts |
| 1850 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States |
| 1843 | Mormon leader Joseph Smith say God OKs polygamy |
| 1817 | 1st flower show held, Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland |
| 1812 | U.S. forces led by General Hull invade Canada, War of 1812 |
| 1801 | Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French and Spanish |
| 1785 | 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands |
| 1776 | Captain Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean |
| 1774 | Citizens of Carlisle Penn, pass a declaration of independence |
| 1774 | Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan |
| 1771 | James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs England |
| 1745 | Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle |
| 1730 | Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII |
| 1704 | Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes king of part of Poland |
| 1700 | Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar; yesterday is June 30, 1700 |
| 1691 | Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII |
| 1691 | Battle of Aughrim (Aghrim) England, William III beats James II |
| 1690 | Battle of Boyne-King William III defeats catholic king James II |
| 1689 | Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland |
| 1679 | Britain's King Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act |
| 1630 | New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island |
| 1575 | Willem van Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon |
| 1549 | English boer army occupies Norwich |
| 1543 | England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th and last wife) |
| 1542 | French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders |
| 1442 | King Alfonso V of Aragon becomes king of Naples |
| 1290 | Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I |
| 1191 | Richard Coeur de Lion and Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine |
| 1109 | Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli |
| 526 | St. Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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