| 2012 | Tropical Storm Khanun left 16,000 people homeless in South Korea |
| 2012 | President of France, Francois Holland finalizes a deal with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara to forgive $4.7 billion dollars in debt incurred by the Ivory Coast when it was a French Colonial Power |
| 2011 | Vietnam re-elects Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung |
| 2011 | The Hendra virus is detected in a dog in Queensland, Australia near the Beaudesert; the virus has never before been detected in anything other than flying foxes, horses or humans |
| 2010 | Over 92,000 classified documents detailing incidents related to the war in Afghanistan are released by Wikileaks; this is the largest leak in U.S military history |
| 2005 | Shuttle Discovery STS-114 launches, first flight since Columbia disaster |
| 1998 | 19th U.S. Senior Golf Open ends at Riviera CC, Pacific Palisades, California |
| 1998 | Giant Eagle LPGA Classic |
| 1994 | Cambodia's Red Khmer surprise attack on train, kills 13 |
| 1994 | Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed |
| 1993 | Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed |
| 1993 | Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km |
| 1992 | "Man of La Mancha" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 108 performances |
| 1992 | 47th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
| 1992 | England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war |
| 1992 | Kiss Guitarist Paul Stanley weds Pamela Bowen |
| 1992 | Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for 23rd consecutive seasons |
| 1992 | Rocker Paul Stanley (Kiss) weds model Pamela Bowen |
| 1991 | CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders |
| 1991 | Expo's Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th |
| 1990 | General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode |
| 1990 | President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act |
| 1990 | Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Reds-Padres game |
| 1990 | U.S. beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games |
| 1988 | Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies and New York Mets end that game at 2:13 AM |
| 1987 | Catfish Hunter Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball HOF |
| 1987 | Stephen Roche wins Tour de France |
| 1986 | Lebanese kidnappers released Reverend Lawrence Martin Jenco |
| 1984 | Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single |
| 1984 | Kuhn announces Vida Blue is suspended due to cocaine conviction |
| 1984 | Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use |
| 1983 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8 |
| 1983 | Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czechoslovakia sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28) |
| 1983 | Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io |
| 1982 | Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by U.S. Delta rocket |
| 1982 | Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe |
| 1981 | 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela |
| 1981 | 36th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley |
| 1981 | New York Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant |
| 1979 | Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, Texas (national record) |
| 1978 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| 1978 | Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run |
| 1977 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test |
| 1975 | Soyuz 18B returns to Earth |
| 1974 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| 1974 | U.S.S.R.'s Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3 |
| 1973 | Peter Shaffers "Equus," premieres in London |
| 1971 | Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon |
| 1970 | Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive home runs of Phillies Steve Carlton |
| 1969 | Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific |
| 1967 | Twins beat Yankees 3-2 in 18 |
| 1966 | WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, New Hampshire (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1964 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open |
| 1964 | Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy |
| 1964 | Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die |
| 1963 | Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+ |
| 1963 | U.S. Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched |
| 1962 | Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba |
| 1962 | Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets home run record of 31 by a pitcher |
| 1960 | Italian government of Fanfani forms |
| 1959 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| 1958 | Army launches 4th U.S. successful satellite, Explorer IV |
| 1957 | Mickey Mantle hits career home run # 200 |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile |
| 1956 | Egypt seizes Suez Canal |
| 1955 | 37th PGA Championship: Doug Ford at Meadowbrook CC Detroit |
| 1955 | Last day as Test Cricket umpire for Frank Chester |
| 1955 | Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers |
| 1954 | WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime |
| 1952 | King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday] |
| 1952 | Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer |
| 1951 | Netherlands ends state of war with Germany |
| 1950 | Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits home runs twice in a game |
| 1950 | KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites |
| 1949 | WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | "Babe Ruth Story," premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance |
| 1948 | 1st black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show |
| 1948 | Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as a New York Giant |
| 1948 | President Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in armed forces |
| 1947 | Department of Defense forms |
| 1947 | National Security Act establishes CIA |
| 1946 | President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces |
| 1945 | After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM |
| 1945 | Declaration of Potsdam: US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender |
| 1945 | Japanese government disregards U.S. ultimatum |
| 1945 | U.S. cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb |
| 1945 | Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister |
| 1944 | Japanese suicide attack on U.S. lines in Guam |
| 1944 | Russian troops arrive in Weichsel |
| 1944 | U.S. offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St. Gilles |
| 1943 | 120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record) |
| 1943 | Otto Skorzeny's commando group arrives in Rome |
| 1942 | RAF bombs Hamburg |
| 1942 | RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism |
| 1941 | "Camp Amersfoort" opened by Germany occupiers |
| 1941 | 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague |
| 1941 | U.S. embargo on oil-export to Japan |
| 1939 | Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive home runs |
| 1938 | 1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC |
| 1933 | Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League |
| 1928 | Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1928 | Yankees score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1 |
| 1926 | National Bar Association incorporates |
| 1926 | Philippines government asks U.S. to plebiscite for independence |
| 1918 | Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites and 1 black killed) |
| 1917 | J. Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice |
| 1915 | International School for Wijsbegeerte forms |
| 1914 | Austrian-Hungary condemns Serbian ultimatum |
| 1914 | German chief of staff/General von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium |
| 1908 | Predecessor of the FBI is created by the Department of Justice |
| 1902 | Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford |
| 1897 | 37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record) |
| 1891 | Henry James' "American," premieres in London |
| 1887 | 1st Esperanto book published |
| 1881 | French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax |
| 1866 | Canoe Club opens in England |
| 1865 | Patrick Francis Healy is 1st black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium) |
| 1864 | Riot at McCook's to Lovejoy Station GA, US600 CS--- |
| 1864 | Riot at Stoneman's to Macon GA, US1000 CS--- |
| 1864 | Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood's Third Sortie] |
| 1863 | Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender |
| 1858 | Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament |
| 1848 | 1st Woman's Rights Convention, Senecca Falls, New York |
| 1847 | Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society |
| 1847 | Moses Garrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride |
| 1835 | 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii |
| 1832 | HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo |
| 1826 | Vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews |
| 1822 | Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin |
| 1805 | Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die |
| 1790 | U.S. passes Assumption bill making U.S. responsible for state debts |
| 1788 | New York becomes 11th state to ratify constitution |
| 1788 | Sydney, Australia settled by British colonists |
| 1775 | 1st Postmaster General: Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office |
| 1760 | Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz Silezie |
| 1759 | French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY |
| 1758 | British battle fleet under General James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg |
| 1757 | Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats duke of Cumberland |
| 1678 | England and Netherlands signs treaty: sending ultimatum to France |
| 1663 | France annexes Venaissin |
| 1656 | Rembrandt declares he is insolvent |
| 1588 | John Hawkins becomes a knight |
| 1579 | Francis Drake leaves San Francisco to cross Pacific Ocean |
| 1576 | Muitende Spanish troops conquer Aalst |
| 1529 | Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru |
| 1524 | James I (12) becomes king of Scotland |
| 1519 | Pizarro receives royal charter for South American west coast |
| 1499 | Alonso dhe Ojeda discovers Curacao Island |
| 1497 | "Edward IV's son" Perkin Warbecks army lands in Cork |
| 1267 | Inquistion forms in Rome under pope Clement IV |
| 811 | Battle at Pliska: Bulgarian under monarch Krum beat Byzantine |
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