| 2012 | India elects Pranab Mukherjee as its new President |
| 2012 | After placing first in the 2012 Tour de France, Bradley Wiggins becomes the first British cyclist to win the famous competition |
| 2011 | An extremist explodes a car bomb in Oslo, Norway, killing at least seven people; he then opens fire at a Labour Party youth camp in Utoya, Norway, killing 84 |
| 2011 | The International Monetary Fund approves a new three-year loan for Haiti worth $60 million, canceling Haiti's $268 million debt |
| 2010 | The Stonehenge World Heritage Site announces the discovery of a possible new henge, the biggest discovery at a major monument in over 50 years |
| 2009 | A solar eclipse, the longest in history, lasts up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean |
| 1997 | Fire breaks out at Palais de Chaillot in Paris |
| 1995 | Space shuttle STS-70, Discovery 20, lands |
| 1995 | Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her 2 children in South Carolina |
| 1994 | 23rd and last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter, since July 16th |
| 1994 | Doc Gooden admitted to Betty Ford Center |
| 1994 | Mariners play Red Sox as home team at Fenway, as Kingdome is repaired |
| 1994 | Military coup in Gambia: President Dawda Jawara flees |
| 1994 | O. J. Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder |
| 1994 | William Sigei runs world record 10k (26:52.53) |
| 1993 | New York Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th home run |
| 1993 | Soyuz TM-17 lands |
| 1992 | Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison |
| 1992 | Soyuz TM-15 launches |
| 1991 | Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978 |
| 1990 | 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St. Andrews Scotland |
| 1990 | 90th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson |
| 1990 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament |
| 1990 | Greg LeMond of U.S. wins his 3rd Tour de France |
| 1989 | Kristin Huxhold, 18, of Missouri, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| 1988 | 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research |
| 1987 | Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome |
| 1987 | Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian) |
| 1987 | U.S. began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf |
| 1986 | House of Representatives impeaches Judge Harry E. Claiborne on tax evasion |
| 1984 | 113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St. Andrews |
| 1984 | 22nd Tennis Fed Cup: Czechoslovakia beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1) |
| 1984 | Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win) |
| 1984 | Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France |
| 1983 | -128.6 degrees F (-89.2 degrees C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record) |
| 1983 | Angels OF Brian Downing error ends his record streak at 244 games |
| 1983 | Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world |
| 1983 | Poland's Prime Minister Januzelski lifts martial law |
| 1982 | Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle |
| 1982 | Biggest mass wedding, Reverend Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in New York City |
| 1981 | Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life |
| 1979 | Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
| 1976 | "Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 106 performances |
| 1975 | House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee |
| 1973 | 28th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning |
| 1972 | 10.84" (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hour record) |
| 1972 | Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus |
| 1971 | Sudan military counter coup under premier Numeiry |
| 1969 | Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 50 and Molniya 1-12 communications satellite |
| 1967 | Atlanta Braves use a record 5 pitchers in 9th inning |
| 1967 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1967 | Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour |
| 1965 | Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of British Cons party |
| 1964 | Seve Ballesteros wins British Golf Open |
| 1963 | Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles" |
| 1963 | Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1962 | 1st U.S. Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off |
| 1962 | 44th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 278 at Aronimink Golf Club Pennsylvania |
| 1962 | Chicago White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles) |
| 1962 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Tournament |
| 1961 | WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | Cuba nationalizes all U.S. owned sugar factories |
| 1959 | Benjamin Britten's "Missa Brevis" in D, premieres |
| 1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island |
| 1955 | 1st Vice President to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon |
| 1955 | Phillies longest win streak since 1892 hits 11 |
| 1954 | Virgin Islands (U.S.) adopts constitution (Revised Organic Act) |
| 1954 | WTHI TV channel 10 in Terre Haute, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution |
| 1951 | General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal |
| 1950 | Frank Worrell completes 261 vs. England at Trent Bridge |
| 1950 | King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium |
| 1947 | -8 degrees F (-13 degrees C), Charlotte Pass, NSW (Australian record) |
| 1946 | Estelle Bennett, rocker (Ronettes) |
| 1946 | Menachen Begin's opposition group surprise attack on King David hotel |
| 1944 | Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation |
| 1943 | U.S. forces led by General George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily |
| 1942 | 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks |
| 1942 | Gasoline rationing using coupons begins |
| 1942 | Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp |
| 1940 | Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks |
| 1939 | 1st black woman judge, Jane Matilda Bolin, New York City |
| 1937 | Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections |
| 1937 | Senate rejects Franklin D.. Roosevelt proposal to enlarge Supreme Court |
| 1936 | Phillies John Moore hits 3 consecutive home runs |
| 1935 | Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia |
| 1933 | Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight |
| 1926 | 105 degrees F (41 degrees C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record) |
| 1926 | 108 degrees F (42 degrees C), Troy, New York (state record) |
| 1926 | Cincinnati Red Curt Walker ties record of 2 triples in an inning |
| 1925 | Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher |
| 1923 | Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508) |
| 1922 | Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St. Louis teams are on top |
| 1921 | 25th U.S. Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia CC in MD |
| 1919 | De Falla and Massine's "Three-cornered Hat," premieres in London |
| 1918 | Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park |
| 1917 | Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM |
| 1917 | British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades |
| 1916 | A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco killing 10 |
| 1912 | 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes |
| 1905 | Philadelphia Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St. Louis Browns, 6-0 |
| 1901 | Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro |
| 1898 | Belgica crew see 1st sunrise in 1600 hours, 1st to endure Antarct winter |
| 1893 | Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful," in Colorado |
| 1865 | V E Walker takes 10-104 in an innings for Middlesex vs. Lancs |
| 1864 | Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman, 8449 Confederate, 3641 U.S. die |
| 1859 | V E Walker takes 10-74 in an innings for England vs. Surrey |
| 1812 | Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain |
| 1796 | Cleveland, Ohio, founded by General Moses Cleaveland |
| 1775 | George Washington takes command of U.S. troops |
| 1739 | Turks defeats Holy Roman Emp at Crocyka Yugoslavia and threaten Belgrade |
| 1731 | Spain signs Treaty of Vienna |
| 1729 | Diamonds found in Minas Geras, Brazil |
| 1691 | Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France |
| 1686 | City of Albany, New York chartered |
| 1648 | 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre |
| 1632 | Foundation laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro-palace for king Philip IV |
| 1587 | 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC |
| 1582 | Willem van Orange moves from Antwerp to Delft |
| 1535 | Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Admiral Barbarossa |
| 1515 | Anna of Bohemia (12) marries Karel van Ferdinand of Austria |
| 1515 | Louis of Hungary (9) marries Maria of Bohemia and succession to Hungarian throne |
| 1515 | Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire |
| 1489 | "Tractate Niddah" a talmudic edition, 1st printed |
| 1489 | Treaty of Frankfurt |
| 1456 | Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad II |
| 1306 | King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France |
| 1298 | English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk |
| 260 | St. Dionysius begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 259 | Dionysius elected as bishop of Rome, succeeding Sixtus II |
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