| 2002 | Earthquake kills at least 260 in western Iran |
| 1997 | Ernie Els wins golf's Buick Classic |
| 1997 | Nationwide Senior Golf Championship |
| 1997 | Penny Hammel wins LPGA Rochester International |
| 1997 | World Bowl: Barcelona Dragon beat Rhein Fire, 38-24 |
| 1996 | 29th Curtis Cup: Great Britain and Ireland, 11 - 6 |
| 1996 | Michael Moorer beats Axel Shultz in 11 for IBF heavywgt boxing title |
| 1996 | Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test cricket debut |
| 1994 | 48th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 3 |
| 1994 | Ken Griffey, Jr. breaks Ruth's record for most home runs by end of June (31) |
| 1994 | Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253 |
| 1994 | U.S. beats Colombia 2-1 in 1994 soccer world cup (1st win since 1950) |
| 1993 | New York Met Anthony Young ties record of 23rd straight lose |
| 1992 | 2 skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg ID'ed as Czar Nicholas II and wife |
| 1992 | Supreme Court rules hate crime laws violated free-speech rights |
| 1991 | "I Hate Hamlet" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 88 performances |
| 1991 | Quebec Nordiques pick Eric Lindros #1 at NHL entry draft |
| 1991 | Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Philippines |
| 1990 | Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium |
| 1990 | Braves replace manager Russ Nixon with General Manager Bobby Cox |
| 1990 | Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit |
| 1990 | Longest game in Toronto, Yankees beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns |
| 1987 | Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with New York Mets |
| 1986 | Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| 1986 | Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections |
| 1985 | "Grind" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 79 performances |
| 1985 | "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey peaks at #12 |
| 1984 | Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins |
| 1984 | Carl Pohlad becomes CEO of Minnesota Twins |
| 1984 | Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30) |
| 1984 | Joseph Luns resigns as Secretary-General of NATO |
| 1983 | "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," released in France |
| 1983 | 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle |
| 1983 | NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period |
| 1982 | Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes |
| 1982 | Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place |
| 1982 | Prince Chuck and Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital |
| 1982 | Susan Lea Hammett, of Miss, 18, crowned 25th America's Junior Miss |
| 1981 | 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2 |
| 1981 | Iran president Bani Sadr deposed |
| 1981 | John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbledon |
| 1981 | Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon |
| 1980 | Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours |
| 1980 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1979 | Larry Holmes TKOs Mike Weaver in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1979 | Little Richard quits rock and roll for religious pursuit |
| 1979 | Pro Football Researchers Association forms, Canton, Ohio |
| 1978 | James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced |
| 1978 | Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois |
| 1977 | Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison |
| 1977 | Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released |
| 1976 | "Godspell" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 527 performances |
| 1976 | San Diego Padre pitcher Randy Jones ties record of 68 innings without a walk |
| 1975 | Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water |
| 1973 | George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World" |
| 1973 | Skylab 2's astronauts land |
| 1972 | "Man of La Mancha" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 140 performances |
| 1970 | President Nixon signs 26th amendment, voting age lowered to 18 |
| 1970 | Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional |
| 1970 | WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting |
| 1969 | Cleveland's Cuyahgo River catches fire |
| 1969 | Susie Berning wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic |
| 1968 | "Here Come Da Judge" by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88 |
| 1966 | "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens |
| 1965 | Freddie Trueman ends his Test cricket career, vs. New Zealand at Lord's |
| 1963 | "Little" Stevie Wonder (13) releases "Fingertips" |
| 1962 | 1st test flight of Hoovercraft |
| 1962 | French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed |
| 1961 | Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo |
| 1961 | Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child and My Bonnie, in Hamburg |
| 1959 | "Along Came Jones" by Coasters peaks at #9 |
| 1959 | "Class" by Chubby Checker peaks at #38 |
| 1959 | Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games |
| 1959 | Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax) |
| 1959 | Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to San Francisco voyage |
| 1958 | Game in Kansas City between A's and Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado |
| 1958 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| 1955 | Antonio Segni forms government in Italy |
| 1955 | U.S. air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea |
| 1954 | Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands |
| 1951 | Gene Rayburn and Dee Finch show premieres on NBC radio |
| 1949 | Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title |
| 1947 | Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters (9th inn) |
| 1946 | Alec Bedser takes 7-49 vs. India on 1st day of his 1st Test cricket |
| 1944 | British 14th army frees Imphal Assam |
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights", Servicemen's Readjustment Act |
| 1944 | Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn |
| 1944 | Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn |
| 1943 | WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters |
| 1942 | Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon |
| 1942 | Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms |
| 1941 | Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation |
| 1941 | Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states |
| 1941 | Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II |
| 1941 | Michael Gerasimov opens grave of Tamerlan "Lenk" |
| 1940 | France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms |
| 1940 | SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond, Netherlands |
| 1939 | Future Queen Elizabeth of England meets future husband Philip |
| 1938 | Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium |
| 1937 | Joe Louis KOs James J. Braddock in 18 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1936 | Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee and survives |
| 1936 | Virgin Islands receives a constitution from U.S., Organic Act |
| 1933 | German social-democratic party, SPD, forbidden |
| 1932 | NL, finally approves players wearing numbers |
| 1931 | RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms |
| 1930 | Lou Gehrig hits 3 home runs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader |
| 1929 | Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader |
| 1926 | Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs |
| 1925 | Spain and France fight Morocco |
| 1921 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:40.2) |
| 1918 | 32nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats E E Goss (64 63) |
| 1918 | Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68, Ivanhoe, Illinois |
| 1915 | BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service |
| 1911 | King George V of England crowned |
| 1910 | 1st Zeppelin with passengers sets afloat |
| 1906 | Hakon VII crowned king of Norway |
| 1894 | Harry Houdini marries Bessie Rahner |
| 1893 | British fleet under Vice-Admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut |
| 1889 | Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss |
| 1875 | Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun and Toulouse, kills about 1,000 |
| 1874 | Dr. Andrew T Sill, of Macon Missouri, finds science of osteopathy |
| 1874 | Game of lawn tennis introduced |
| 1873 | Prince Edward Island joins Canada |
| 1870 | 1st Boardwalk in America invented |
| 1870 | Congress creates Department of Justice |
| 1868 | Arkansas re-enters U.S. |
| 1865 | 1st class cricket debut of Dr. W. G. Grace |
| 1864 | Battle of Ream's Station, Virginia, Wilson's Raid |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Culp's (Kulp's) House, Georgia |
| 1851 | Fire destroys part of San Francisco |
| 1849 | Stephen C. Massett opens courthouse using only piano in California |
| 1848 | Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for president |
| 1847 | Doughnut created |
| 1832 | John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine |
| 1815 | 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo) |
| 1814 | 1st match at the present Lord's, MCC vs. Herefordshire |
| 1812 | Napoleon's Grand Army invades Russia |
| 1808 | Zebulon Pike reaches his peak |
| 1807 | British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812 |
| 1799 | England and Russia decide to invade Bataafse Republic |
| 1775 | 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000) |
| 1774 | English parliament accepts Quebec Act |
| 1772 | Slavery outlawed in England |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charles sails to Scotland |
| 1740 | King Frederik II of Prussia ends torture and guarantees religion and freedom of the press |
| 1675 | Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II |
| 1633 | Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (but on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong) |
| 1611 | Henry Hudson and son set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers |
| 1596 | Cornelis de Houtmans fleet reaches Banten Java |
| 1559 | Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted |
| 1533 | Ferdinand of Austria and Sultan Suleiman sign peace treaty |
| 1497 | Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath |
| 1476 | Battle at Morat/Murten: Charles the Stout invades Switzerland |
| 1377 | Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England |
| 1342 | Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning) |
| 816 | Pope Stephen IV, V, elected to succeed Leo III |
| 431 | Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens |
