| 2012 | The brother of Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1982 Nobel Prize of Literature recipient, announces he suffers from Dementia and can no longer write |
| 2012 | Tennis pro Serena Williams beats Agnieszka Radwanska in the Women's Singles final at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships |
| 2011 | In China, a fire in a coal mine in Shandong Province leaves at least 36 people trapped underground |
| 2011 | In efforts to avoid food shortages and political oppression, South Korea begins work on a new facility to house North Korean refugees |
| 2010 | A heat wave in the U.S. and Canada kills 9 people |
| 2005 | London's transit system is bombed by terrorists, 56 deaths, 700 injured |
| 2002 | Wimbledon Men's Finals, Lleyton Hewitt beat David Nalbandian |
| 2002 | Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Venus Williams and her sister Serena Williams Paola Suarez and Virginia Ruano |
| 2002 | Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Todd Woodbridge and Jonas Bjorkman beat Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor, |
| 2002 | Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Mahesh Bhupathi and Elena Likhovtseva beat Kevin Ullyett and Daniela Hantuchova |
| 2001 | Wimbledon Women's Finals, Venus Williams beat Justine Henin |
| 1998 | 69th All Star Baseball Game: at Coors Field, Denver |
| 1997 | Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open |
| 1997 | Tower Minnesota temps dip to 24 degrees F |
| 1996 | 110th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63) |
| 1996 | 17th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Dave Stockton |
| 1996 | Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic |
| 1996 | Space Shuttle STS-78, Columbia 20, lands |
| 1995 | Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game vs, BC Lions |
| 1995 | Space shuttle STS-71, Atlantis 14, lands |
| 1994 | "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo |
| 1994 | Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert |
| 1994 | North Yemenite troops occupy Aden |
| 1993 | Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia |
| 1993 | New York Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game, goes to 27 |
| 1993 | Philadelphia Phillies beat San Francisco Giants 7-6 in 20 innings |
| 1993 | Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers |
| 1993 | Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500 |
| 1991 | 105th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64) |
| 1991 | Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| 1991 | Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning |
| 1990 | 97th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Zina Garrison (64 61) |
| 1990 | New Jersey Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov and Sergei Starikov |
| 1988 | Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful) |
| 1988 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1987 | Alan and Colin Wells make 303* partnership for Sussex vs. Kent |
| 1987 | Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women |
| 1987 | Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing |
| 1987 | Yankees trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 and 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7 |
| 1986 | IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released |
| 1986 | It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction |
| 1986 | Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices |
| 1986 | Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law |
| 1986 | U.S. actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo |
| 1985 | 92nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (46 63 62) |
| 1985 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship |
| 1984 | 5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont |
| 1984 | 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62) |
| 1984 | Frankie Valli marries Randy Clohessy |
| 1983 | 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for U.S.S.R. |
| 1982 | David Moorcroft of U.K. sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41 |
| 1982 | Steve Scott of U.S. runs mile in a record 3:47.69 |
| 1981 | 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel |
| 1981 | Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court |
| 1980 | Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours |
| 1980 | Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1980 | Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe |
| 1980 | Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Universe) as 29th Miss USA |
| 1979 | 93rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64) |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | 85th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (26 64 75) |
| 1978 | Solomon Islands declares independence from U.K. |
| 1977 | 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City |
| 1976 | E. Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 1976 | Vernon A. Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| 1976 | Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars |
| 1975 | TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres |
| 1974 | Brewer Don Money sets record of consec errorless games at 3rd, 78 |
| 1974 | Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic |
| 1974 | West Germany beats Netherlands 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich |
| 1973 | 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river, India |
| 1973 | 80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert, 60 75 |
| 1973 | 87th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli, 61 98 63 |
| 1973 | All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels |
| 1973 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 4th triple play, 5-4-3 vs Oakland |
| 1973 | Glenda Reiser, Canada, sets record women's mile, 4:34.9 |
| 1973 | Shoelace Park in the Bronx named |
| 1973 | 1st all - U.S. women's Wimbledon, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert |
| 1972 | 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley and Joanne E Pierce) |
| 1972 | 79th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63) |
| 1972 | Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage |
| 1969 | Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English lang |
| 1969 | Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal |
| 1968 | 23rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning |
| 1968 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1968 | Rock group "Yardbirds" disband |
| 1967 | 81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61) |
| 1967 | Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released |
| 1967 | Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1 |
| 1965 | Otis Redding records "Respect" |
| 1964 | 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York |
| 1964 | All star MVP: John Callison, Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1963 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open |
| 1962 | 69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64) |
| 1962 | Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | 75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64) |
| 1961 | James R. Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters |
| 1960 | Netherlands - U.S. cemetery Margraten official opens |
| 1960 | U.S.S.R. shoots down a U.S. aircraft over Barents sea |
| 1959 | 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh |
| 1958 | C A Milton scores 104* on Test Cricket debut, England vs. New Zealand Headingley |
| 1958 | President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood |
| 1958 | William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows New York |
| 1957 | Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast |
| 1956 | 63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61) |
| 1956 | Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres |
| 1956 | 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings |
| 1955 | 1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson |
| 1954 | T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania |
| 1953 | 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Michigan |
| 1952 | SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40 |
| 1951 | 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (61 60) |
| 1950 | 1st Farnborough airshow held |
| 1950 | 64th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (61 8-10 62 63) |
| 1950 | 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon |
| 1949 | "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway New York City for 76 performances |
| 1949 | "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 and 1967 |
| 1948 | 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular U.S. Navy |
| 1948 | Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige at 42 |
| 1946 | Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint |
| 1944 | Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France |
| 1944 | Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan |
| 1943 | Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java |
| 1943 | 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova |
| 1943 | Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk |
| 1943 | Liberator bombers sinks U-517 |
| 1942 | Germany troop march into Woronezj |
| 1942 | military all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0 |
| 1941 | Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania |
| 1941 | U.S. forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion |
| 1939 | 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60) |
| 1937 | 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash |
| 1937 | Japanese and Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II |
| 1936 | 4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston |
| 1934 | Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship |
| 1932 | Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal |
| 1930 | Construction begins on Boulder Dam |
| 1929 | Romania and Vatican sign concord |
| 1928 | 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63) |
| 1928 | Edward Hamm of U.S., sets then long jump record at 25' 11" |
| 1924 | Robert LeGendre of U.S., sets then long jump record at 25' 5 " |
| 1923 | 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61) |
| 1923 | Cleveland Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning |
| 1923 | University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne) |
| 1919 | Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game |
| 1914 | Baltimore Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore and Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty |
| 1913 | British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law |
| 1911 | 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (60 60) |
| 1911 | Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record |
| 1908 | Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay |
| 1905 | 127 degrees F (53 degrees C), Parker Ariz (state record) |
| 1900 | Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory |
| 1898 | U.S. annexes Hawaii |
| 1891 | Travelers checks patents |
| 1878 | Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam |
| 1875 | Jesse James robs train in Otterville, Missouri |
| 1874 | 27th Postmaster General: James W. Marshall of New Jersey takes office |
| 1868 | Ed Pooley takes 12 dismissals as keeper in match Surrey vs. Sussex |
| 1864 | S Middleton, MD -Early's Washington Raid- |
| 1863 | 1st military draft by U.S., exemptions cost $100 |
| 1863 | Orders barring Jews from serving under U.S. Grant are revoked |
| 1862 | Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land |
| 1861 | Battle of Laurel Hill, Virginia |
| 1850 | Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia |
| 1846 | U.S. annexs California |
| 1838 | Central American federation is dissolved |
| 1829 | Royal Military Chapel forms |
| 1814 | Walter Scott's "Waverley" published |
| 1807 | France, Russia and Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit |
| 1802 | 1st comic book "The Wasp," is published |
| 1801 | Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence |
| 1768 | Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel |
| 1754 | Kings College in New York City opens (renamed Columbia College) |
| 1753 | English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship |
| 1713 | 1st performance of Georg F Handel's "To Deum" and "Jubilate" |
| 1668 | Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge |
| 1647 | People's uprising against high prices and Spanish rule in Naples |
| 1607 | "God Save the King" is 1st sung |
| 1585 | King Henri III and Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots loose all freedoms |
| 1550 | Chocolate introduced |
| 1543 | French troops invade Luxembourg |
| 1498 | Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel |
| 1495 | King Ferdinand II returns to Naples |
| 1456 | Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted |
| 1438 | French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges |
| 1124 | Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders |
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