| 2005 | John G. Roberts, Jr. is nominated to the United States Supreme Court |
| 1998 | 127th British Golf Open: at Royal Birkdale |
| 1998 | JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
| 1996 | Ireland beats Netherlands in 1st European Championship Final |
| 1996 | Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 minutes for Lancashire vs. Derbyshire |
| 1996 | XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta, Georgia |
| 1994 | 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles) |
| 1994 | Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon, Panama, 21 killed |
| 1994 | Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president |
| 1993 | Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes |
| 1993 | Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham |
| 1993 | President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions |
| 1992 | "Price" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 47 performances |
| 1992 | 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1) |
| 1992 | Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife |
| 1992 | Ebony P. Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America |
| 1992 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
| 1992 | New York City Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife |
| 1991 | Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game |
| 1991 | With New York Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better |
| 1990 | BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 person dies |
| 1990 | Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion |
| 1990 | Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California |
| 1990 | Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a New York Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a New York Yankee |
| 1989 | Cleveland Indian Joe Carter has his 4th 3 home run game |
| 1989 | United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112 |
| 1987 | 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane |
| 1987 | Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games |
| 1987 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| 1986 | Caroline Kennedy (28) marries Edwin Schlossberg (41) |
| 1986 | Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with |
| 1986 | Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1985 | Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle |
| 1985 | Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die |
| 1984 | 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer) |
| 1984 | Geraldine Ferraro, Representative-D-New York 1979 - 1985, wins Democratic Vice Presidential nomination |
| 1982 | 1st Old Timer's All star classic - AL wins 7-2 in Washington D.C. |
| 1982 | Bolivian government resigns |
| 1982 | David S. Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon |
| 1982 | 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot home run off Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2 |
| 1981 | 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St. George |
| 1981 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic |
| 1980 | 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott |
| 1980 | David Bowie appears in role of 'Elephant Man' in Denver |
| 1979 | 2 supertankers collide off Tobago - 260,000 TONS of oil spill |
| 1979 | Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe |
| 1979 | Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza |
| 1978 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| 1978 | Yankees start 14 game comeback with 2-0 win |
| 1977 | 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, New York |
| 1977 | All star MVP: Don Sutton (Los Angeles Dodgers) |
| 1977 | Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76 |
| 1976 | Rock group Deep Purple disbands |
| 1976 | Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony |
| 1975 | Apollo and Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate |
| 1975 | New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single and RBI are |
| 1974 | Cleveland Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0 |
| 1974 | David Bowie's 'Diamond Dog' tour ends in New York City |
| 1974 | Soyuz 14 lands |
| 1973 | Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial) |
| 1971 | Sudan military coup under Major Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees |
| 1970 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open |
| 1969 | Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit |
| 1967 | 1st air conditioned New York City subway car (R-38 on the F line) |
| 1967 | Race riots in Durham, North Carolina |
| 1967 | U.S. launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km) |
| 1966 | 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas |
| 1966 | France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island |
| 1966 | Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland, race riot |
| 1965 | Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" |
| 1964 | 46th PGA Championship: Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus CC Ohio |
| 1964 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open |
| 1964 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1963 | NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km |
| 1963 | Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits home run # 300 |
| 1962 | Hungarian Communist Party expels Rakosi and Gero |
| 1961 | 1st in-flight movie shown, TWA |
| 1960 | Italian Government Tambroni, resigns |
| 1960 | San Francisco Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies |
| 1959 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance |
| 1958 | "Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 192 performances |
| 1958 | Charly Gaul wins Tour de France |
| 1957 | 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada |
| 1957 | Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7) |
| 1957 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1956 | U.S. refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam |
| 1955 | Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 and becomes a floating museum |
| 1955 | Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel |
| 1953 | KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | "Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 289 performances |
| 1952 | 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland |
| 1952 | Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford |
| 1952 | India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day |
| 1951 | "2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 276 performances |
| 1950 | French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh |
| 1950 | New York Yankees obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard and Frank Barnes |
| 1950 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris |
| 1949 | Laos becomes associated state within French Union |
| 1948 | French government of Schuman, resigns |
| 1945 | Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy |
| 1945 | USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue |
| 1944 | 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany |
| 1944 | 500 15th Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity |
| 1944 | Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen |
| 1944 | Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen |
| 1944 | Democratic convention opens in Chicago |
| 1944 | Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem |
| 1944 | General Bradley flies to England |
| 1944 | Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas |
| 1944 | New York archbishop Spellman flies to Europe |
| 1944 | Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann |
| 1943 | 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II |
| 1942 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 7th Symphony, premieres in US |
| 1942 | German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and Hague |
| 1941 | 1st U.S. Army flying school for black cadets dedicated |
| 1941 | BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven |
| 1941 | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign |
| 1941 | President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee |
| 1940 | Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders |
| 1940 | Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald |
| 1940 | Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid anti-nazi films |
| 1939 | 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R P Scholz, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1939 | Dr. Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures |
| 1937 | Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich |
| 1937 | Joris Ivens' "Spanish Earth" premieres in Hollywood |
| 1936 | Indians' Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief |
| 1936 | Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral |
| 1933 | 1st time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox |
| 1928 | King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament |
| 1926 | 2nd French government of Herriot, forms |
| 1923 | WRC-AM in Washington D.C. begins radio transmissions |
| 1918 | German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I) |
| 1918 | Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary of War Newton D. Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt |
| 1915 | Dutch accidents at sea law enforced |
| 1915 | Washington Nationals steal record 8 bases vs. Cleveland Indians in the 1st inning |
| 1914 | Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL |
| 1913 | Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1 |
| 1910 | Cy Young registers his 500th career victory |
| 1909 | Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play |
| 1908 | Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam |
| 1904 | Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber |
| 1902 | New York Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw |
| 1900 | Michel Theato wins 2nd olympics marathon (2:59:45.0-40,260k) |
| 1899 | National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms |
| 1880 | SF Public Library starts lending books |
| 1877 | 1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64) |
| 1875 | Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, New York City |
| 1870 | France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins |
| 1867 | Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
| 1867 | Dutch Red Cross forms |
| 1867 | Reconstruction enacted |
| 1866 | Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights |
| 1863 | Battle of Buffington's Island (St. George Creek), Ohio |
| 1862 | Forrest's 1st raid |
| 1860 | 1st railroad reaches Kansas |
| 1850 | Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die) |
| 1848 | 1st U.S. women's rights convention (Seneca Falls New York) |
| 1848 | German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg |
| 1836 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reache Ascension |
| 1816 | Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days |
| 1702 | Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Crackow |
| 1688 | Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo |
| 1674 | Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer |
| 1639 | French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan |
| 1599 | Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java |
| 1590 | King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail |
| 1575 | Spanish viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater |
| 1572 | Battle at Saint-Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis' mercenaries |
| 1553 | 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days |
| 1551 | Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as king of Hungary/Transsylvania |
| 1545 | King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die |
| 1525 | Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau |
| 1524 | Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest |
| 1510 | 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia |
| 1425 | Duke John VI van Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good |
| 1380 | Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais |
| 1195 | Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia |
| 532 | Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle |
| 64 | Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire |
