| 2006 | Italy wins the World Cup 5-3 vs. France |
| 2001 | Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Leos Friedl and Daniela Hantuchova beat Mike Bryan and Liezel Huber |
| 2000 | Wimbledon Men's Finals, Pete Sampras beat Pat Rafter |
| 2000 | Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Julie Halard-Decugis and Ai Sugiyama beat Venus Williams and Serena Williams |
| 2000 | Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Donald Johnson and Kimberly Po beat Lleyton Hewitt and Kim Clijster |
| 1997 | Baseball's triple A Anerican Association (formed in 1902) votes to disband |
| 1997 | Mike Tyson is banned from boxing, for biting Holyfield's ear |
| 1996 | 67th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia |
| 1996 | All star MVP: Mike Piazza, Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1996 | U.S. Senate approves 90 cents raise to $4.25 minimum wage |
| 1995 | "Play's the Thing" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 75 performances |
| 1995 | 109th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats B Becker (67 62 64 62) |
| 1995 | Jack Nicklaus wins Golf's British Open, 4th to win all 4 majors |
| 1995 | Kathryn Marshall wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| 1995 | U.S. international postage rates rise to 60 cents per ounce |
| 1994 | 11,000th home run in New York Yankees history, Matt Nokes |
| 1994 | Sonia O'Sullivan runs world record 2k (5:25.36) |
| 1994 | Soyuz TM-19 lands |
| 1992 | Kim Basinger gets 1,959th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
| 1992 | Space Shuttle STS-50 (Columbia 13) lands |
| 1991 | "Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| 1991 | 62nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at SkyDome, Toronto |
| 1991 | All star MVP: Cal Ripken, Jr. for the Baltimore Orioles |
| 1991 | South Africa readmitted to Olympics |
| 1990 | 104th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats B Becker (62 62 36 36 64) |
| 1990 | Richard Hadlee takes 5-53 to end his Test Cricket career with 431 wkts |
| 1989 | 103rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Becker beats Stefan Edberg (60 76 64) |
| 1989 | 96th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Graf beats M Navratilova (62 67 61) |
| 1989 | Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| 1988 | "Facts of Life," Lisa Whelchel weds Steve Cauble |
| 1988 | Chris Speier hits for the cycle and Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant home run |
| 1988 | Jessye Norman begins recording Bizets "Carmen" |
| 1988 | Nolan Ryan is 7th to win 100 game on 2 teams, as Astro beat Mets 6-3 |
| 1987 | 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime |
| 1987 | Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence |
| 1986 | Atlanta's Dale Murphy doesn't play ending consecutive streak at 740 |
| 1986 | Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson |
| 1985 | South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong |
| 1984 | 12th minster of York destroyed in lightening storm |
| 1984 | Yvonne Ryding, of Sweden, crowned 33rd Miss Universe |
| 1982 | Botham scores 208 in 225 balls, England vs. India at The Oval |
| 1982 | Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster |
| 1982 | Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing 153 |
| 1981 | Jacksons begin a 36-city tour |
| 1980 | 7 die in a stampede to see Pope in Brazil |
| 1980 | Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years |
| 1980 | Walt Disney's "Fox and The Hound," released |
| 1979 | Dr. Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab |
| 1979 | Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter |
| 1978 | "Hello, Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 152 performances |
| 1978 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
| 1978 | Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Washington D.C. for ERA |
| 1977 | 106th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland |
| 1976 | England all out for 71 vs. WI at Old Trafford, Holding 14 5-7-17-5 |
| 1976 | Houston Astro Larry Dierker no-hits Montreal Expos, 6-0 |
| 1976 | Uganda asks United Nations to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe |
| 1974 | Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election |
| 1973 | 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 1972 | 1st tour of Paul McCartney and Wings, France |
| 1972 | 86th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Smith beats I Nastase (46 63 63 46 75) |
| 1972 | Kathy Ahern wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1971 | Henry Kissinger visits China PR |
| 1970 | In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn |
| 1969 | Tom Seaver's no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th |
| 1968 | 15.68" (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Miss (state 24-hour record) |
| 1968 | 39th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 1-0 at Astrodome, Houston |
| 1968 | All star MVP: Willie Mays for the San Francisco Giants |
| 1967 | 13th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
| 1967 | WRET TV channel 36 in Charlotte, North Carolina (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | 95th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 282 at Muirfield Gullane |
| 1965 | 94th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale |
| 1965 | John Edrich completes 310* vs. New Zealand in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes |
| 1965 | Senators Frank Howard ties record with 7 strikeouts in DH |
| 1963 | 34th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland |
| 1963 | All star MVP: Willie Mays for the San Francisco Giants |
| 1963 | Crusher Lisowski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
| 1963 | Federation of Malaysia forms |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| 1959 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Open |
| 1959 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament |
| 1958 | Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain |
| 1957 | Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced |
| 1956 | Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand |
| 1955 | "Rock Around Clock" hits #1 on Top 100 chart |
| 1955 | 1st black executive on White House staff, E. Frederic Morrow |
| 1955 | Bill Haley and Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops billboards chart |
| 1955 | Strike in Belgium for 5 day work week |
| 1953 | 1st helicopter passenger service, New York City |
| 1953 | Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games |
| 1951 | President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany |
| 1950 | 13.15" (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record) |
| 1949 | Benjamin Britten's Jump Symphony, premieres |
| 1948 | Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inn for Cleveland |
| 1947 | Britain's Princess Elizabeth and Lt Philip Mountbatten's engagement |
| 1947 | Spain votes for Franco monarchy |
| 1946 | 13th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 12-0 at Fenway Park, Boston |
| 1944 | In World War II, U.S. troops secure Saipan as Japan fell |
| 1944 | World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum and Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn) |
| 1943 | 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje |
| 1943 | British air raid sinks U-435 |
| 1942 | Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family and 4 other Jews |
| 1940 | 8th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-0 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis |
| 1940 | German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms |
| 1940 | RAF bombs Germany |
| 1934 | SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps |
| 1933 | Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1932 | Washington Redskins, then Boston Braves, forms |
| 1932 | Yankees' Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park home runs, tying record |
| 1927 | William T. Francis named minister to Liberia |
| 1926 | Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander |
| 1926 | Coup under General Sinel de Cordes in Portugal |
| 1922 | Johnny Weissmuller swims 1st 100 m free style under 1 minute |
| 1918 | 101 killed and 171 injured in worst U.S. train wreck, Nashville, Tennessee |
| 1918 | Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal |
| 1917 | British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804 |
| 1916 | 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in U.S. from Germany |
| 1915 | Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa |
| 1914 | 1st U.S. duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, New York |
| 1910 | Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude |
| 1908 | CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms |
| 1904 | 10th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 303 at Glen View Club IL |
| 1900 | Australia accepts its constitution |
| 1893 | Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia |
| 1891 | Irene Coit is 1st woman admitted to Yale University |
| 1878 | An improved corncob pipe patents by Henry Tibbe, Washington, Mo |
| 1877 | 1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held |
| 1876 | Black landowner murdered in Hamburg, South Carolina |
| 1869 | Concord pipe, made from small corn kernels, invented |
| 1868 | 1st black cabinet member in South Carolina (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state) |
| 1864 | Battle of Monocacy, MD US1959 CS400 |
| 1863 | Union troops enter Port Hudson |
| 1862 | General John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky |
| 1860 | Temperature hits 115 degrees F in Ft. Scott and 112 degrees F in Topeka Kansas |
| 1853 | Admiral Perry and U.S. Navy visit Japan |
| 1852 | Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada and no one die |
| 1846 | Captain Montgomery claims Yerba Buena, San Francisco, for U.S. |
| 1842 | Notary Stamp Law passes |
| 1835 | St. Etienne-Lyons railway opens in France |
| 1816 | Argentina declares independence from Spain |
| 1815 | 1st natural gas well in U.S. is discovered |
| 1815 | King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France |
| 1800 | Mount Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in U.S. |
| 1795 | James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 U.S. national debt |
| 1780 | Denmark declares neutrality |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops, New York |
| 1766 | English premier Rockingham resigns |
| 1755 | Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British |
| 1755 | British General E. Braddock mortally wounded during French and Indian War |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlies "Elisabeth" battles with HMS Lion |
| 1686 | Germany, Sweden and Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg |
| 1672 | Prince Willem III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland/Zealand |
| 1609 | Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemian protestants freedom of religion |
| 1595 | Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe |
| 1572 | 19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum |
| 1553 | Battle at Sievershausen Solingen: van Saksen beats Alcibiades |
| 1540 | England's King Henry VIII 6-mo marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled |
| 1536 | French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada |
| 1517 | Gelderse crowd robber murders population of Asperen |
| 1401 | Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad |
| 1386 | Battle at Sempach: Swiss beat duke Leopold III of Austria |
| 1371 | Pope Gregory XI names Arnold II of Horne as bishop of Utrecht |
| 711 | Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupies North Spain |
