| 2012 | Jon Lord, an English composer and pianist and co-founder of the heavy rock group, Deep Purple, dies after suffering a pulmonary embolism |
| 2012 | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves of Truvada, the first drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection |
| 2011 | U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet the Dalai Lama in Washington, D.C. despite a warning from the People's Republic of China |
| 2011 | The funeral for the final heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Otto von Habsburg, occurs in Vienna, attended by monarchs and members of the political elite |
| 2010 | U.S.-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is placed on the U.S. 'terror blacklist' |
| 2009 | The parliament of Iceland votes to pursue joining the European Union |
| 2007 | Earthquake in Japan damages nuclear power plan releasing 300 gallons of radioactive water |
| 2005 | 6th Harry Potter book by J. K. Rowling is released: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
| 1997 | Jerold Mackenzie awarded $266M for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harrassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker |
| 1995 | "Buttons on Broadway" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 40 performances |
| 1995 | "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" closes at Plymouth New York City after 55 performances |
| 1995 | 13th Seniors Players Golf Championship: J. C. Snead |
| 1995 | 50th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam |
| 1994 | "Sisters Rosensweig" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 556 performances |
| 1994 | 1st parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter (until July 22nd) |
| 1994 | 3 tenors-Placid Domingo, Luciano Parvoti, Jose Carreras, perform in Los Angeles |
| 1994 | Anna Nicole Smith (26) weds billionaire J. Howard Marshall II (89) |
| 1994 | Baseball Night in America premieres, no Saturday day games |
| 1994 | Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter |
| 1994 | Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL home game (vs Toronto Argonauts) |
| 1994 | Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights |
| 1994 | Sweden shuts out Bulgaria 4-0, to finish 3rd in the World Cup |
| 1993 | President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville |
| 1993 | S van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for 705,500 pounds in London |
| 1993 | San Francisco outfielder Darren Lewis sets record of 267 consec errorless games |
| 1990 | 400 die in a, 7.7, earthquake in Philippines |
| 1990 | Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA |
| 1990 | New York City's Empire State Building catches fire - no fatalities |
| 1990 | Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premieres on ABC-TV |
| 1990 | Ukraine declares independence |
| 1989 | 44th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
| 1988 | Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec |
| 1988 | Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds |
| 1988 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts |
| 1988 | Michael J. Fox marries Tracy Pollan |
| 1988 | San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings |
| 1988 | Wayne Gretzky (NHL) and Janet Jones (Police Academy 5) wed in Edmonton |
| 1987 | Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1987 | Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81) |
| 1987 | Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season and ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8) |
| 1985 | 56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minn |
| 1985 | All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (San Diego Padres) |
| 1985 | Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent |
| 1983 | 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident |
| 1982 | George P. Shultz sworn in as minister of Foreign affairs |
| 1982 | NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth |
| 1982 | Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud |
| 1981 | India performs nuclear Test |
| 1981 | Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously |
| 1980 | Polish railway workers block railway to Russia |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan nominated for President by Republicans in Detroit |
| 1979 | Premier/president al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein |
| 1978 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
| 1977 | Janelle Commissiong, of Trinidad and Tobago, crowned 26th Miss Universe |
| 1976 | Rock duo Loggins and Messina break-up after 6 years |
| 1975 | Commissioner Bowie Kuhn is reelected for a 7-year term |
| 1973 | During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes |
| 1972 | Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople |
| 1972 | Smokey Robinson and Miracles final live performance |
| 1971 | Franco points prince Juan Carlos as deputy in Spain |
| 1970 | Iraq's constitution goes into effect |
| 1970 | Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, 3-2 |
| 1969 | Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on Moon, launched |
| 1967 | Mickey Wright wins Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 1967 | Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida) |
| 1966 | "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 512 performances |
| 1965 | Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France and Italy opens |
| 1964 | Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as President candidate |
| 1963 | Amazon carries 190,000 m3/sec (record) |
| 1962 | NASA civilian Test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m |
| 1961 | Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Tippecanoe Golf Open |
| 1961 | Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 27' 2" |
| 1960 | 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer |
| 1960 | George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit home runs with a runner on |
| 1957 | Marine Major John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08) |
| 1956 | Detroit Tigers and Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million |
| 1956 | Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR |
| 1956 | King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England |
| 1956 | Last Ringling Bros, Barnum and Bailey Circus under a canvas tent |
| 1955 | "Golden Horseshoe Revue" 1st of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland |
| 1953 | KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, MN (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1951 | 1st Dutchman to win Tour de France (Wim Van Est) |
| 1951 | King Leopold III, of Belgium, abdicates |
| 1951 | Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorks vs. Surrey at The Oval |
| 1951 | Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published |
| 1950 | Single day 16 team home run record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12) |
| 1950 | Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro |
| 1948 | Eddie Sawyer replaces Ben Chapman in Philadelphia, New York Giants Leo Durocher replaces Mel Ott and Burt Shotton replaces Durocher as Dodger manager |
| 1947 | Bobo Newsom wins 200th game, 1st as a Yankee and Yankees 18th straight In nightcap Vic Rashi extends streak to 19 |
| 1946 | Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in San Francisco history) |
| 1946 | U.S. court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau |
| 1945 | 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico |
| 1945 | Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets |
| 1945 | Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb |
| 1944 | Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 and break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row |
| 1942 | French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris |
| 1942 | Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp |
| 1941 | 100 degrees F (38 degrees C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash |
| 1941 | Joe Dimaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game |
| 1940 | NSB'er Woudenberg appointed as NVV-trustee |
| 1938 | 21st PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Shawnee CC Shawnee-on-Del Pa |
| 1936 | 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, New York |
| 1936 | New York Giants are 10 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant |
| 1935 | 1st automatic parking meter in U.S. installed, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| 1934 | Bradman scores 140 Australia vs. Yorkshire, 120 minutes, 22 fours 2 sixes |
| 1927 | Augusto Sandino begins 5 -year war against U.S. occupation of Nicaragua |
| 1926 | Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc |
| 1926 | National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos |
| 1924 | Conference over German recovery payments begins in London |
| 1924 | New York Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit home runs in 6 cons games |
| 1920 | 15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0) |
| 1920 | China joins the League of Nations |
| 1920 | General Amos Fries appointed 1st U.S. Army chemical warfare chief |
| 1920 | Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54 |
| 1914 | Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski and Rosa Luxemburg) |
| 1912 | Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B. A. Fiske |
| 1909 | Detroit and Washington play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings |
| 1904 | Islands of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to U.S. by their chiefs |
| 1902 | John McGraw named manager of New York Giants |
| 1902 | Test Cricket debut of K S Ranjitsinhji vs. Australia, at Old Trafford |
| 1895 | Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs vs. Somerset at Taunton |
| 1894 | Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan and England |
| 1867 | Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam |
| 1867 | D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint |
| 1867 | Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete |
| 1863 | Utrecht-Swells railway opens |
| 1862 | David G Farragut is 1st rear Admiral in U.S. Navy |
| 1861 | Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought |
| 1857 | Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore |
| 1856 | Statue of Laurens Jansz Coster unveiled in Haarlem |
| 1845 | New York Yacht Club holds its 1st regatta |
| 1801 | Pope Pius VII and 1st consul Napoleon sign concord |
| 1798 | U.S. Public Health Service forms and U.S. Marine Hospital authorized |
| 1790 | Congress establishes District of Columbia |
| 1782 | Mozart's opera "Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail," premieres in Vienna |
| 1775 | John Adams graduates Harvard |
| 1769 | Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in California |
| 1683 | Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna |
| 1661 | 1st banknotes in Europe were issued by Bank of Stockholm |
| 1659 | Princess Henriette C of Orange-Nassau weds monarch Johan George II |
| 1618 | Captain John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain |
| 1573 | Alva demands submission of Zealand/Holland |
| 1548 | La Paz, Bolivia is founded |
| 1519 | Public debate between Martin Luther and theologist John Eck |
| 1439 | Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading) |
| 1429 | Army entered Reims |
| 1429 | Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans |
| 1338 | German monarch signs Treaty of Rense |
| 1251 | The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stork a haircut (legend) |
| 1212 | Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain |
| 1099 | Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue and set it afire |
| 1054 | Michael Caerularius excommunicated of Constantinople |
| 622 | Moslem Era begins-Mahomet begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hejira) |
| 622 | Origin of Islamic Era (Muharram 1, 1 AH) |
| 463 | Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius |
| 390 | Brennus and Gauls defeat Romans at Allia |
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