| 1997 | U.S. Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields Golf Club Illinois |
| 1995 | Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis |
| 1995 | Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14 |
| 1994 | 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin |
| 1994 | Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8 year jail sentenced |
| 1994 | H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election |
| 1994 | India army kills 27 Moslem militants |
| 1994 | Parliamentary election in Aruba |
| 1993 | Cincinnati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession |
| 1993 | Walter Koenig, Checkov-Star Trek, suffers a mild heart attack |
| 1993 | Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible |
| 1992 | "Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 18 performances |
| 1992 | Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record/OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00) |
| 1992 | Ray Sharkey, actor, Wiseguys, arrested for narcotic possession |
| 1991 | 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium, Mets beat Cubs 6-0 |
| 1991 | Yankee Stadium fans throw cups and blowup dolls at Jose Canseco |
| 1990 | 26th Curtis Cup: U.S. wins 14-4 |
| 1990 | 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats U.S.S.R. in Atlanta Georgia (2-1) |
| 1990 | 36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel |
| 1990 | Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game |
| 1990 | South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference |
| 1989 | Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan |
| 1989 | Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32 |
| 1989 | Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases |
| 1989 | White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher and Sam Sosa |
| 1988 | FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion |
| 1988 | Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989 |
| 1988 | Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit |
| 1988 | Last U.S. Playboy Club, Lansing, Michigan, closes |
| 1988 | South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom" |
| 1988 | Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling |
| 1988 | Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home |
| 1987 | Ben and Jerry's and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia |
| 1986 | Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed |
| 1986 | Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire vs. Lancashire |
| 1986 | New York jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages |
| 1985 | 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched |
| 1984 | 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster |
| 1984 | 23rd Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles |
| 1983 | "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV |
| 1983 | Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak |
| 1982 | Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson |
| 1981 | Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated |
| 1981 | Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris |
| 1981 | Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer |
| 1979 | 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott |
| 1978 | 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, New York |
| 1978 | Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h 40m |
| 1978 | Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings |
| 1978 | On Old Timer's Day, New York Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as New York Yankee manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become General Manager |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test |
| 1975 | Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz |
| 1975 | Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired |
| 1974 | 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee |
| 1974 | Episcopal Church ordained female priests |
| 1974 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| 1974 | St. Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base |
| 1973 | $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from New York, Hilton |
| 1973 | Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy |
| 1972 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| 1970 | 6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1969 | Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars |
| 1968 | Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1 |
| 1968 | Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa |
| 1968 | Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption |
| 1968 | Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited |
| 1968 | Washington D.C. Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs. Cleveland |
| 1967 | Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134 |
| 1967 | Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage |
| 1966 | Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York |
| 1966 | Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup |
| 1965 | Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends |
| 1965 | Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s |
| 1965 | Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10) |
| 1965 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games |
| 1961 | Wallis and Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory |
| 1958 | President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958 |
| 1958 | Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running |
| 1957 | Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1957 | International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N. |
| 1957 | Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres |
| 1956 | 11th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius |
| 1956 | Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record) |
| 1956 | WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | Smokey Burgess hits 3 home runs to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5 |
| 1955 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test |
| 1953 | U.S. bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok |
| 1952 | 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet |
| 1950 | Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run |
| 1949 | Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends |
| 1949 | BBC radio begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London |
| 1947 | Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg, Virginia |
| 1945 | After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine |
| 1944 | Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours |
| 1944 | Frank McCormick (Reds) home run off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH |
| 1944 | U.S. 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches |
| 1943 | 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg |
| 1943 | Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam |
| 1942 | Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd |
| 1940 | Urk soccer team forms |
| 1938 | Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears |
| 1938 | Olympic National Park forms |
| 1937 | Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin |
| 1936 | RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road and comedy) |
| 1934 | 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY |
| 1930 | 115 degrees F (46 degrees C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record) |
| 1930 | Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada |
| 1929 | Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France |
| 1928 | Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released |
| 1928 | Cleveland Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yankees 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game |
| 1927 | 1st iron lung installed, Bellevue hospital, New York |
| 1927 | Bellevue Hospital in New York installs 1st iron lung |
| 1927 | Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire vs. Northants |
| 1924 | Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship |
| 1923 | Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin |
| 1923 | KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany |
| 1921 | Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 innings |
| 1921 | New rules of language assumed, equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium |
| 1920 | 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to SF |
| 1920 | Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders |
| 1916 | Postal check and Girodienst establishes |
| 1915 | Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam home run |
| 1914 | 1st transcontinental phone link made between New York City and SF |
| 1914 | Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade |
| 1914 | British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover |
| 1914 | Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary |
| 1913 | Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied |
| 1911 | Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St. Louis Browns, 5-0 |
| 1910 | JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory |
| 1908 | St. Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia Athletics |
| 1907 | Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England |
| 1902 | Union of Orthodox Rabbis of U.S. and Canada forms |
| 1899 | 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, New York |
| 1899 | Southern California Golf Association forms |
| 1874 | Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court |
| 1864 | 3rd and last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia |
| 1864 | Battle of Macon, Georgia (Stoneman's Raid) |
| 1858 | 1st commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed |
| 1858 | U.S. citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan |
| 1844 | New York Yacht Club forms |
| 1786 | 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette |
| 1783 | Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000 |
| 1773 | 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH |
| 1751 | 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 minutes in England |
| 1715 | 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane |
| 1696 | French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace |
| 1693 | Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army |
| 1676 | Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians |
| 1655 | Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam |
| 1634 | Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao |
| 1588 | Attacking Spanish Armada defeated and scattered by English defenders |
| 1588 | Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England |
| 1585 | Friese academy opens |
| 1579 | Antwerp request union with of Utrecht |
| 1579 | King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez and princess van Eboli |
| 1565 | Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley |
| 1563 | League of High Nobles routes King Philip II |
| 1560 | Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden |
| 1179 | Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)pope Innocent III |
| 1030 | Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim) |
| 1014 | Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies |
| 626 | Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople |
| 362 | Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws |
