| 2012 | Academy award-winning actor Ernest Borgnine, dies at the age of 95 |
| 2012 | At the 2012 Wimbledon Championships, tennis pro Roger Federer beats Andy Murray three sets to one at the Men's Singles final |
| 2011 | Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off to conduct the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program |
| 2011 | U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announces an inquiry into News of the World, allegedly involved in a phone hacking scandal |
| 2010 | At least 70 people are killed and 300 wounded in a series of bombings over the three-day Shia pilgrimage to the Musa Kadhim mausoleum in Iraq |
| 2007 | Boeing launches it's newest aircraft, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner |
| 2003 | Sudan Airways flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan, killing 116 |
| 2001 | Wimbledon Men's Finals, Goran Ivanisevic beat Pat Rafter |
| 2001 | Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Donald Johnson and Jared Palmer beat Jiri Novak and David Rikl |
| 2001 | Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs beat Kim Clijsters and Ai Sugiyama |
| 2000 | Wimbledon Women's Finals, Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport |
| 2000 | Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde beat Paul Haarhuis and Sandon Stolle |
| 1997 | 68th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Jacobs Field, Cleveland |
| 1997 | NATO invites Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic to join |
| 1995 | 102nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Graf beats Arantxa S Vicario (46 61 75) |
| 1995 | 1st CFL game between 2 U.S. teams, Las Vegas Posse vs. Sacramento Gold |
| 1994 | Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try O. J. Simpson |
| 1994 | Sonia O'Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36) |
| 1994 | Space shuttle STS-65 (Columbia 17), launches |
| 1994 | St. Maarten "Godfather" Claude Wathey sentenced to 1 years |
| 1992 | Florida Marlins unveil their uniform |
| 1992 | Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria |
| 1991 | Pittsburgh Pirate President Carl Barger becomes 1st President of Florida Marlins |
| 1991 | Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed |
| 1990 | 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890) |
| 1990 | Brewers beat Angels 20-7, including 13 in 5th inning |
| 1990 | Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup at Rome |
| 1990 | Greg Lemond wins his 3rd Tour de France (90:43:20 avg 23.3 mph) |
| 1990 | Italy beats England in soccer's World Cup consolation game |
| 1990 | Tina Purtzer wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| 1990 | Trailing 7-0, Brewers tie Angels and then score 13 in 5th to win 20-7 |
| 1989 | Carlos Saul Menum becomes President of Argentina |
| 1989 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1988 | Indians' Bud Black sets club record for most batters hit in inning (3) |
| 1988 | Miami Arena opens |
| 1988 | Rockers Jonathan "Chico" and Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking |
| 1988 | Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992 |
| 1987 | Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years |
| 1986 | Farthest thrown object-an "Aerobie" flying ring, 383 m (1,257') |
| 1986 | NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain and Quality Assurance |
| 1986 | Zimbabwe beats Netherlands by 25 runs to win ICC Trophy |
| 1985 | 99th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats K Curren (63 67 76 64) |
| 1985 | Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red |
| 1984 | 98th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats J Connors (61 61 62) |
| 1984 | Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| 1983 | Rudi Koopmans retains European middleweight title |
| 1982 | "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1982 | Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager |
| 1981 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1981 | Prime Minister Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France |
| 1981 | Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0) |
| 1980 | 51st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-2 at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles |
| 1980 | All star MVP: Ken Griffey (Cincinnati Reds) |
| 1979 | Congo adopts constitution |
| 1979 | Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles |
| 1979 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| 1979 | Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14) |
| 1978 | 92nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Jimmy Connors (62 62 63) |
| 1978 | Alessandro Pertini elected President of Italy |
| 1978 | Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus |
| 1977 | Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hours) |
| 1976 | Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break |
| 1975 | Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany |
| 1975 | President Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for president |
| 1975 | Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated |
| 1974 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1974 | Yank shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 inn game |
| 1973 | Mary Lou Crocker wins LPGA MARC Equity Golf Classic Crocker |
| 1973 | New York Mets are 12 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant |
| 1972 | English prince Richard marries Birgitte of Deurs (Henriksen) |
| 1972 | U.S. sells grain to U.S.S.R. for $750 million |
| 1971 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1970 | San Francisco Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th) |
| 1969 | Thor Heyerdahl and reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco |
| 1969 | U.S. troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam |
| 1968 | Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal |
| 1967 | 74th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats A Jones (63 64) |
| 1967 | Helen Weston of Detroit rolls a record 4,585 in 24 games |
| 1966 | U.S. airline strike, until Aug 19th |
| 1965 | Joe Morgan is 1st Houston player with 6 hits in a game |
| 1963 | Reports of Charlie Finley's intention to move Kansas City A's to Oakland |
| 1963 | U.S. bans all monetary transactions with Cuba |
| 1962 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kelly Girls Golf Open |
| 1961 | Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies |
| 1961 | Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die |
| 1960 | Fidel Castro ends Havana's International League team, Sugar Kings move to New Jersey |
| 1958 | 25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Balt |
| 1957 | Baeball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick |
| 1957 | CDC incorporates |
| 1957 | Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders |
| 1956 | Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Syracuse Golf Open |
| 1956 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| 1954 | KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1954 | Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala |
| 1953 | U.S. stops aid to Persia |
| 1952 | 19th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 in 5 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia |
| 1951 | Yankee Joe DiMaggio and manager Casey Stengel feud |
| 1950 | 33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record) |
| 1950 | 57th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats M duPont (61 36 61) |
| 1950 | General Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, United Nations forces in Korea |
| 1950 | Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea |
| 1949 | Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for New York Giants |
| 1948 | 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow |
| 1947 | 14th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Wrigley Field, Chicago |
| 1947 | Demolition begins for United Nations HQ in New York City |
| 1946 | "Tidbits of 1946" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1946 | Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary |
| 1944 | British troops march into Caen |
| 1944 | Japanese kamakize attacks on U.S. lines at Saipan |
| 1943 | 4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve |
| 1943 | British air raid sinks U-232 |
| 1943 | U.S. invasion fleet passes Bizerta, Tunisia |
| 1941 | 9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit |
| 1941 | All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star |
| 1939 | 59th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bobby Riggs beats E Cooke (26 86 36 63 62) |
| 1938 | Would be start of Eng/Australia Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout |
| 1935 | 3rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland |
| 1933 | 46th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats D Round (64 68 63) |
| 1933 | Public Works Administration becomes effective |
| 1932 | Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22 |
| 1932 | Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire vs. Gloucs |
| 1928 | Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader |
| 1923 | Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla) |
| 1923 | Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland |
| 1922 | 35th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats M Mallory (62 60) |
| 1919 | President Wilson returns to New York City from Versailles Peace Conference |
| 1918 | Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over Cleveland, prevailing rules reduce Babe's Hhome runR to a triple |
| 1912 | G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles vs. Cambridge |
| 1912 | Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight |
| 1911 | Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse |
| 1909 | 1st pro baseball game, minor league, played under lights |
| 1907 | Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st 'Follies' on New York Theater roof |
| 1905 | Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center |
| 1902 | John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore and Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles |
| 1900 | 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids) |
| 1898 | Phillies Red Donahue no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 |
| 1898 | U.S. battle fleet under Admiral Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila |
| 1897 | Harbor Hospital formally opens |
| 1896 | William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Dem convention |
| 1895 | Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South Africa |
| 1892 | American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Massacgysetts |
| 1891 | 61 degrees F, highest temp for July 1891, in Baltimore and Philadelphia |
| 1891 | Future president Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio |
| 1889 | John L. Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout) |
| 1889 | Wall Street Journal begins publishing |
| 1876 | White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina, killing 5 |
| 1870 | Congress authorizes registration of trademarks |
| 1870 | Governor Holden of North Carolina declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection |
| 1862 | Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret |
| 1861 | CS General Sibley is given command of rebel troops in New Mexico territory |
| 1853 | Commodore Matthew Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay |
| 1849 | St. Paul's Place in the Bronx named |
| 1838 | Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed |
| 1836 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Saint-Helena |
| 1835 | Liberty Bell cracks, again |
| 1833 | Russia and Turkey sign defense treaty |
| 1816 | Frost in Waltham, Massachusetts |
| 1805 | American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England |
| 1800 | Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox |
| 1797 | 1st U.S. senator, William Blount of Tennessee, expelled by impeachment |
| 1796 | U.S. State Department issues 1st American passport |
| 1792 | France declares war on Prussia |
| 1778 | George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army |
| 1777 | Vermont becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage |
| 1776 | John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Decleration of Independence in Philadelphia |
| 1758 | English and Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, New York |
| 1709 | Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes |
| 1693 | New York City authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies |
| 1672 | Willem II becomes captain-/admiral-general |
| 1663 | King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island |
| 1654 | 1st Jewish colonist arrive in U.S. (Jacob Barsimson in Manhattan) |
| 1551 | Willem of Orange weds countess Anna van Egmond and Buren |
| 1497 | Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India |
| 951 | Paris is founded |
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