| 2012 | The Egan-Jones Ratings Company projects Italy has a one-year default probability of 22%, downgrading the country to CCC+ from B+ |
| 2012 | Ivica Dacic is officially sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia |
| 2011 | Former Cuban President Fidel Castro makes his first appearance outside of Havana since leaving office in 2006, visiting a mausoleum in Artemisa |
| 2011 | Cyclist Alberto Contador wins the 2010 Tour de France while seven-time winner of the event, Lance Armstrong, makes his final appearance |
| 2010 | U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner declares his interest in allowing the set of tax cuts in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to expire at the end of 2010 |
| 2009 | Dozens are killed and injured when wildfires spread across France, Spain, Sardinia and Greece |
| 2000 | A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers |
| 1999 | 54th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship |
| 1997 | Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby |
| 1997 | Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian |
| 1997 | Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas, Texas |
| 1997 | Quarterback Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs |
| 1997 | Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling |
| 1997 | Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in New York City |
| 1996 | Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs. United States |
| 1994 | Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war |
| 1993 | 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) |
| 1993 | 48th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten |
| 1993 | Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44) |
| 1993 | Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon |
| 1993 | Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France |
| 1992 | 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain |
| 1992 | Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr. Mudd |
| 1991 | Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles) |
| 1991 | Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' home run in Yankee Stadium |
| 1991 | Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use |
| 1990 | "Les Miserables," opens at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver |
| 1990 | Kansas City Royal George Brett hits for the cycle |
| 1990 | Nadezhda Ryashkina of U.S.S.R. sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23) |
| 1990 | Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game |
| 1990 | U.S. Ambassador tells Iraq, U.S. won't take sides in Iraq - Kuwait dispute |
| 1990 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1989 | Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA |
| 1988 | Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA |
| 1988 | Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France |
| 1987 | Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt |
| 1987 | U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite |
| 1986 | Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India |
| 1985 | Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS |
| 1985 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1985 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1985 | Uganda suspends constitution following coup |
| 1984 | Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space |
| 1983 | 1st non-human primate, baboon, conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio |
| 1983 | Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion |
| 1982 | 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0) |
| 1982 | 37th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson |
| 1982 | France performs nuclear Test |
| 1981 | Voyager 2 encounters Saturn |
| 1980 | Train crash at Winsum, 9 die |
| 1980 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1979 | 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record) |
| 1978 | Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager |
| 1978 | Cincinnati Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games |
| 1978 | John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image |
| 1976 | Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01) |
| 1976 | Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1975 | "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres |
| 1973 | George Harrison pays 1,000,000 pounds tax on his Bangladesh concert and album |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 5 |
| 1972 | 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad |
| 1972 | All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cincinnati Reds) |
| 1971 | Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open |
| 1970 | "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1 |
| 1969 | 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Fillmore East, New York) |
| 1969 | 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival |
| 1969 | Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne |
| 1968 | Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth |
| 1967 | Construction begins on San Francisco MUNI METRO (Market Street subway) |
| 1966 | Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone |
| 1966 | Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..." |
| 1966 | Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River |
| 1966 | Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love" |
| 1966 | Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1965 | Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar |
| 1965 | Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival |
| 1965 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament |
| 1964 | "Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 338 performances |
| 1964 | Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 14 weeks |
| 1964 | Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford |
| 1964 | Race riot in Rochester, New York |
| 1963 | Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations |
| 1963 | U.S., Russia and England sign nuclear Test ban treaty |
| 1962 | House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex |
| 1961 | Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 and 40 in a doubleheader |
| 1960 | Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels |
| 1960 | U.S. Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate |
| 1957 | Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic |
| 1957 | Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England vs. WI Headingley |
| 1957 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1956 | 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston |
| 1956 | Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm |
| 1956 | Jordan attacks United Nations Palestine force |
| 1954 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open |
| 1953 | New York City transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens |
| 1952 | Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day) |
| 1952 | Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing U.S. commonwealth |
| 1949 | St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Brooklyn 14-1 |
| 1947 | U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense |
| 1947 | U.S. Department of Army created |
| 1946 | 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show |
| 1946 | U.S. detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini, 5th atomic explosion |
| 1944 | Japanse banzai-attack on Guam |
| 1944 | 1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262 |
| 1944 | Allied jailbreak at St-Lo, behind German lines |
| 1944 | U.S. troop march into Guam |
| 1944 | USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-Lo |
| 1943 | 1st warship named for a Black person, USS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched |
| 1943 | Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II |
| 1943 | Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl |
| 1943 | RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam |
| 1942 | German troops occupy Rostov |
| 1942 | German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja |
| 1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan |
| 1941 | Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory) |
| 1940 | John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 minutes in the Mississippi River |
| 1939 | 5th and last Dutch government of Colijn, forms |
| 1939 | New York Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win |
| 1938 | Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany |
| 1938 | Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet) |
| 1936 | 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx |
| 1934 | Failed nazi coup in Austria |
| 1933 | 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington |
| 1930 | Philadelphia Athletics triple steal in 1st and 4th innings vs Cleveland |
| 1923 | German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1 |
| 1922 | AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA and WFAN) |
| 1920 | Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th home run leads Yankees to 8-2 win |
| 1918 | Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of U.S., California |
| 1918 | Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks and 2 whites killed) |
| 1916 | Explosion at Lake Erie and Cleveland Waterworks |
| 1914 | Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant" |
| 1914 | Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69 |
| 1913 | Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game |
| 1913 | Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies |
| 1912 | Comoros proclaimed a French colonies |
| 1909 | France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel |
| 1903 | Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes |
| 1902 | James J. Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1900 | Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match |
| 1898 | 1st U.S. troops land and occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay |
| 1871 | Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa |
| 1868 | U.S. Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah and Idaho) |
| 1866 | 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office |
| 1866 | David Faragut appointed as 1st Admiral of U.S. Navy |
| 1866 | U.S. Grant named 1st general of Army |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia |
| 1861 | Washington D.C. - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union and uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Terr - Rebels attack Union troops |
| 1860 | 1st U.S. intercollegiate billiard match, Harvard vs. Yales |
| 1850 | Gold discovered in Oregon, Rogue River |
| 1848 | 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian |
| 1835 | Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine |
| 1832 | 1st railroad accident in U.S., Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies |
| 1822 | General Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico |
| 1814 | Battle of Niagara Falls, Lundy's Lane, ; Americans defeat British |
| 1814 | George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive |
| 1799 | French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir |
| 1792 | Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion" |
| 1775 | Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta |
| 1759 | British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War) |
| 1729 | North Carolina becomes a royal colony |
| 1689 | France declares war on England |
| 1670 | Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna |
| 1670 | Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes Governor-General of Southern Netherlands |
| 1670 | Vienna Austria expels Jews |
| 1652 | Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church |
| 1593 | France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic |
| 1585 | Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics |
| 1570 | Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army |
| 1564 | Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC emperor |
| 1521 | About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent |
| 1519 | San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba |
| 1511 | Portugese assault on city Malakka attack |
| 1360 | Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia |
| 1261 | Byzantium Emperor Michael VIII recaptures Constantinople |
| 1215 | Frederik II (20) crowned king of German |
| 1139 | Count Alfonso I of Portugal becomes king |
| 841 | Battle at Fontenay: Louis and Charles beat their brother Lotharius I |
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