| 2012 | Europe's tallest, habitable, free-standing structure, The Shard, which stands at 1,016 feet (309.6 metres) officially opens in London, England |
| 2012 | At a meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Panama City, South Korea announces it's plans to begin 'scientific' whaling of minke whales |
| 2011 | Venezuelans celebrate 200 years of independence from Spain with a military parade and parties in the streets |
| 2011 | A large dust storm strikes Phoenix, Arizona, leaving thousands without power and grounding flights at the Phoenix Airport |
| 2010 | Israel restricts a blacklist of weapons, construction materials and other items but drops all other restrictions on the free flow of consumer goods into the Gaza strip |
| 2003 | Wimbledon Women's Finals, Serena Williams beat her sister Venus Williams |
| 2003 | Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Todd Woodbridge and Jonas Bjorkman beat Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi |
| 1998 | 53rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship at Blackwolf Run GC, Kohler WI |
| 1998 | Wimbledon Men's Finals, Pete Sampras beat Goran Ivanisevic |
| 1998 | Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Martina Hingis and Jana Novotna beat Lindsay Davenport and Natasha Zvereva |
| 1998 | Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Max Mirnyi and Serena Williams beat Mahesh Bhupathi and Mirjana Lucic |
| 1997 | 104th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Jana Novotna |
| 1997 | New York Yankees withdraw Kenny Rogers and Mariano Duncon deal for SD Padre |
| 1996 | A's scores 13 in 1st vs Angels |
| 1996 | New York Yankee John Weteland ties Lee Smith's record of 19 consecutive saves |
| 1995 | Columbia U beats Hartferd College to be 1st U.S. to win Henley Regatta |
| 1994 | Boxer Buster Douglas comes out of a diabetic coma |
| 1994 | U.S. changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back |
| 1993 | A's Rickey Henderson is 2nd to hit leadoff homers in doubleheader |
| 1993 | Kurd guerrilla's murder 32 villagers in East Turkey |
| 1993 | Richard Chelimo run world record 10 km (27:07.91) |
| 1992 | 106th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Agassi beats Ivanisevic (67 64 64 16 64) |
| 1992 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| 1992 | Sixto Duran Ballen elected president of Ecuador |
| 1991 | Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins given final approval by owners |
| 1991 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1991 | Lillian Cucuzza wins name Florida baseball team contest (Marlins) |
| 1990 | Zina Garrison upsets Steffi Graf in Wimbledon semi-finals |
| 1989 | Barry Bond's home run sets father-son (Bobby) home run record at 408 |
| 1989 | Mark McGwire's gets 100th home run, 2nd fastest (1400 at bats) (to Kiner) |
| 1989 | Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage and knocks himself out |
| 1989 | South African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela |
| 1989 | Toronto Blue Jays are 10 games back in AL, and go on to win AL East |
| 1988 | Malcolm Marshall takes 7-22 at Old Trafford, England all out 93 |
| 1987 | 101st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pat Cash beats Ivan Lendl (76 62 75) |
| 1987 | A's Mark McGwire is 1st rookie to hit 30 home runs before All Star break |
| 1987 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| 1986 | 93rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats H Mandlikova (76 63) |
| 1986 | Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 10K woman's record (30:13.74) |
| 1986 | Nancy Reagan cuts red, white and blue ribbon; reopens Statue of Liberty |
| 1986 | Statue of Liberty is reopened after it is refurbished |
| 1985 | 117 degrees F (47 degrees C), St. George, Utah (state rec) (103 degrees spread, UT 1985) |
| 1985 | Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections |
| 1985 | Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hours, 30 minutes |
| 1984 | Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials |
| 1983 | France invades Algeria |
| 1983 | New Jersey Devils purchase AHL Maine Mariners as their farm team |
| 1983 | Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death in Roanoke, Virginia |
| 1982 | Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas |
| 1982 | ICC Trophy record p/ship, 257 Schoonheim/Liffman, Hol vs. Malay |
| 1981 | 9th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Jan Stephenson |
| 1981 | Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections |
| 1981 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1980 | 87th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats C Evert (61 76) |
| 1980 | 94th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats McEnroe (16 75 63 67 86) |
| 1978 | Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1977 | Pakistan's army, led by General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power |
| 1975 | 89th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats J Connors |
| 1975 | Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule |
| 1974 | 81st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Olga Morzova (60 64) |
| 1973 | "Live and Let Die," James Bond film premieres |
| 1973 | Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps |
| 1973 | Major General Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda |
| 1973 | Rwanda military coup under general-major Habyalimana |
| 1973 | Test Cricket umpiring debut of H D "Dickie" Bird vs. New Zealand at Leeds |
| 1972 | Pierre Messmer appointed French premier |
| 1971 | 26th amendment certified, reduces voting age to 18 |
| 1971 | Simon Gray's "Butley," premieres in London |
| 1970 | 25th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
| 1970 | Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109 |
| 1969 | 83rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats J Newcombe (64 57 64 64) |
| 1969 | Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park |
| 1968 | "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague |
| 1968 | 82nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche (63 64 62) |
| 1968 | John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce |
| 1968 | Philadelphia 76'ers trade Wilt Chamberlain to Los Angeles Lakers |
| 1967 | Congo uprising under Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme |
| 1966 | New York City transit fare rises from 15 cents to 20 cents |
| 1966 | National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting |
| 1966 | Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy |
| 1963 | 1st Beatle tune to hit U.S. charts, Del Shannon "From Me to You" at #87 |
| 1962 | 96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria |
| 1962 | Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule |
| 1962 | Mantle hits 2 homers en route to 4 consecutive homers |
| 1961 | 80 die in collisions in Algiers |
| 1961 | KUSD TV channel 2 in Vermillion, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | St. Louis Cardinal Bill White hits 3 home runs and a double |
| 1960 | Mongolia adopts constitution |
| 1959 | Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns |
| 1959 | Indonesia restores constitution |
| 1959 | Jack Gelber's "Connection," premieres in New York City |
| 1958 | 65th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Mortimer (86 62) |
| 1958 | J Pengel forms government/Emanuels premier of Suriname |
| 1957 | 71st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ashley J Cooper (62 61 62) |
| 1957 | Tom Graveney scores 258 vs. West Indies at Trent Bridge |
| 1956 | France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria |
| 1955 | English harbor strike ends |
| 1954 | B-52A bomber made its maiden flight |
| 1954 | Last day of Test Cricket for Khalid Hassan aged 16 yrs, 356 days |
| 1953 | Jackie Pung wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| 1953 | WANorth Carolina TV channel 21 in Asheville, North Carolina (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | "Of Thee I Sing" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 72 performances |
| 1952 | 59th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (75 63) |
| 1951 | Dodgers sweep the Giants and lead by 7 games (Giants will win pennant) |
| 1951 | Dr. William Shockley invents junction transistor at Murray Hill, New Jersey |
| 1950 | Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel |
| 1949 | New York Giants purchase Monty Irvin and Henry Thompson, their 1st blacks |
| 1948 | Britain's National Health Service Act begins |
| 1947 | "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" closes at Martin Beck New York City after 108 performances |
| 1947 | 54th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne beat Doris Hart (62 64) |
| 1947 | Larry Doby signs with Cleveland Indians-1st black player in AL |
| 1946 | Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show |
| 1945 | Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
| 1944 | Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight |
| 1943 | Battle of Gulf of Kula |
| 1943 | Battle of Koersk, U.S.S.R. begins (6,000 tanks) |
| 1943 | Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biskaye |
| 1943 | U.S. invasion fleet of 96 ships sails to Sicily |
| 1942 | 1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Choros 6/9/11 |
| 1942 | Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada |
| 1941 | German occupiers disband political parties |
| 1940 | Diplomatic relations broken between Britain and Vichy government in France |
| 1938 | Herb Caen's 1st column in San Francisco Chronicle |
| 1937 | 117 degrees F (47 degrees C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record) |
| 1937 | Chicago Cub Frank Demaree gets 6 hits in 1st game and 2 in 2nd game |
| 1937 | Joe DiMaggio's 1st grand slammer |
| 1937 | Republican offensive by Brunete in Spain |
| 1936 | 120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Gannvalley, South Dakota (state record) |
| 1935 | 1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast |
| 1935 | 1st time brothers on opposing teams hit home runs, Tony and Al Cuccunello |
| 1935 | Chicago Cubs are 10 games back in NL, and go on to win the pennant |
| 1935 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs National Labor Relations Act |
| 1933 | German party Catholic Center disbands |
| 1932 | Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Portugal |
| 1930 | 50th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W Allison (63 97 64) |
| 1929 | 42nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (61 62) |
| 1929 | WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down |
| 1924 | Military revolt in Sao Paulo Brazil |
| 1922 | 1st general election in Netherlands |
| 1922 | Uprising of social righteousness in Rio de Janeiro |
| 1922 | Women 1st vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win |
| 1919 | 32nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Lenglen beats Chambers (10-8 46 97) |
| 1919 | Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 home runs in a game for his 1st of 72 times |
| 1914 | Boston Braves are 15 games back in NL, and win World Series |
| 1914 | Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia |
| 1913 | Queen Wilhelmina meets SDAP-leader Troelstra |
| 1904 | Giants 18-game winning streak ends as Phillies win 6-5 in 10 inn |
| 1902 | Australia won the one and only Test Cricket played at Sheffield |
| 1900 | Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber |
| 1891 | Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, SD |
| 1884 | German consul-general Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon |
| 1884 | U.S. Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act |
| 1871 | Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) and Big Tree, begins |
| 1865 | Great Britain delegate's world 1st maximum speed laws |
| 1865 | Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department |
| 1864 | Battle of Smith's Expedition, Mississippi (Tupelo, Harrisburg) |
| 1863 | Battle of Jackson, Mississippi and Battle of Birdsong Ferry, Mississippi |
| 1861 | Battle of Carthage, Missouri - U.S. General Sigel attacks pro-secessionist |
| 1859 | Captain N. C. Brooks discovers Midway Islands |
| 1843 | Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country |
| 1841 | Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency |
| 1834 | Provisional government forms in Oregon Country |
| 1832 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin depart Rio de Janeiro |
| 1830 | France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest |
| 1814 | Americans defeat British and Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario |
| 1811 | Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain |
| 1808 | Battle of Buenos Aires |
| 1791 | Jose Maria Narvaez discovers Point Grey (now Vancouver BC) |
| 1687 | Isaac Newton's 'Principia' published by Royal Society in England |
| 1643 | 1st recorded tornado in U.S. (Essex County, Massachusetts) |
| 1626 | Battle at Lenz: Rebel Austrian Boers defeated |
| 1596 | English fleet under the earl of Essex plunder Cadiz |
| 1450 | Pope Nicolas V names Walraven van Meurs bishop of Munster |
| 1436 | German emperor Sigismund signs peace with Hussieten |
| 1295 | Scotland and France sign anti-English covenant |
| 1294 | Pietro del Murrone elected as Pope Coelestinus V |
| 1054 | Brightest supernova (Crab Nebula) 1st reported |
| 767 | Duke of Nepi names his brother (leek) Pope Constantine II |
| 649 | St. Martin I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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