| 2012 | After five years of marriage, American actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes announce their plans to divorce |
| 2012 | News that European Union members agree on a deal to help some struggling Eurozone members causes world stock markets to soar |
| 2011 | Pope Benedict XVI announces the launch of a new Vatican website, news.va; he also performs the first tweet ever made by a pope |
| 2011 | The General Assembly of Rhode Island passes legislation allowing same-sex couples to enter civil unions |
| 2010 | General Stanley McChrystal, leader of the U.S. war Afghanistan announces his retirement after making controversial statements in 'Rolling Stone' magazine |
| 1997 | "American Daughter" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 88 performances |
| 1997 | "London Assurance" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 72 performances |
| 1997 | 18th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Graham Marsh |
| 1997 | Greg Norman wins PGA St. Jude Classic |
| 1997 | Michelle McGann wins ShopRite LPGA Classic |
| 1997 | Progress M-35 Soyuz Launch (Russia) |
| 1997 | Tyrenda Williams, 18, of Alabama, crowned 40th America's Junior Miss |
| 1996 | Andrea Leah Plummer, of Tennessee, crowned 39th America's Junior Miss |
| 1996 | Superman's Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900 |
| 1995 | George Foreman loses IBF boxing title, refused to fight Axel Schulz |
| 1995 | Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL game (vs Calgary Stampeders) |
| 1994 | Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan |
| 1994 | U.S. reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees |
| 1992 | "Salome" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| 1992 | 2 earthquakes including 7.4 hits southern California |
| 1992 | A's Dennis Eckersley sets record of 26th straight save of season |
| 1992 | NHL decides Eric Lindross goes to Flyers instead of Rangers |
| 1991 | "Jackie Mason - Brand New" closes at Neil Simon New York City after 216 performances |
| 1991 | 6.0 earthquake hits southern California |
| 1991 | Britain's Nick Brown, 591st rank beats 10th-seeded Goran Ivanisevic 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in 2nd round at Wimbledon |
| 1990 | Marla Maples father sues National Enquirer for $12M |
| 1990 | New York Mets tie their team career high 11 game win streak |
| 1990 | A's Dave Stewart no-hits Blue Jays and Dodger's Fernando Valenzuela no-hits St. Louis 6-0, 1st time no-hitters in both leagues |
| 1989 | Emmy 16th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 10th time |
| 1989 | Susan Lucci loses daytime emmy for 10th straight year |
| 1988 | Emmy 15th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 9th time |
| 1987 | Phil's Steve Bedrosian is 1st to record 12 saves in 12 attempts |
| 1987 | Yankees blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning grand slammer beats Toronto 15-14; Mattingly also grand slams |
| 1986 | Argentina becomes world champion soccer team (3-2 against W-Germany) |
| 1986 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| 1986 | Sparky Anderson is 1st to win 600 games as manager in both leagues |
| 1985 | NASA launches Intelsat VA |
| 1985 | STS-51-F vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1984 | Orel Hershiser begins string of making every sched start until 1990 |
| 1984 | Pete Rose plays in record 3,309th game, surpassing Carl Yastrzemski |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. offers to start talking about banning SDI |
| 1983 | Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races |
| 1983 | Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
| 1982 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended |
| 1981 | Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Teheran, 72 killed |
| 1981 | Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China PR |
| 1980 | "Sweeney Todd" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 557 performances |
| 1980 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
| 1979 | "Moonraker" premieres in U.S. |
| 1979 | San Diego Chicken reborn at Jack Murphy Stadium |
| 1978 | Vice President Walter F. Mondale begins trip to Mid-East |
| 1977 | Willie Stargell hits his 400th career home run |
| 1976 | Seychelles gains independence from Britain |
| 1975 | 3rd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner |
| 1975 | 8.10" (20.57 cm) of rainfall, Litchville No Dakota (state 24-hour rec) |
| 1972 | Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel and unusual |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km) |
| 1971 | Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sentenced on drug offense |
| 1971 | Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days |
| 1970 | U.S. ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia |
| 1969 | 1st Jewish worship service at White House |
| 1969 | 24th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
| 1969 | On Billy Williams Day in Chicago, the Cubs outfielder passes Stan Musial's NL record for consecutive games played (896) |
| 1968 | "Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Tiny Tim peaks at #17 |
| 1967 | Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem |
| 1967 | Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge |
| 1966 | In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Hanoi and Haiphong for 1st time |
| 1966 | KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, California begins |
| 1966 | U.S. bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities |
| 1965 | USAF Captain Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15 |
| 1964 | 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "Cage" released |
| 1964 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate |
| 1963 | "Little Me" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 257 performances |
| 1963 | Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits U.K. charts |
| 1963 | SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien |
| 1962 | 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner |
| 1962 | Frank Howard, hits the 5,000th Dodger home run |
| 1962 | John F. Kennedy dines with premier MacMillan in London |
| 1961 | Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3) |
| 1961 | Willie Mays is 4th major leaguer with 3 or more home runs twice in a season |
| 1960 | Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| 1960 | KYA-AM in San Francisco changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks) |
| 1959 | Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, and peace, in charity" |
| 1958 | Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm |
| 1957 | 12th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
| 1957 | Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj and Sjepilov leave U.S.S.R. Communist Party |
| 1956 | Charles Dumas, makes 1st high jump over 7' (2.13 m)-LA, California |
| 1956 | Federal interstate highway system act signed |
| 1956 | Prime Minister Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans) |
| 1955 | Argentine state of siege ends |
| 1954 | Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer |
| 1953 | XETV TV channel 6 in Tijuana-San Diego, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany |
| 1952 | 7th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs |
| 1950 | U.S. beats England 1-0 in a world cup soccer game (next win in 1994) |
| 1950 | West Indies beat England by 326 runs thanks Ramadhin and Valentine |
| 1949 | South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages |
| 1949 | U.S. troops withdraw from Korea after WW II |
| 1947 | 2nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betty Jameson |
| 1947 | Yankees beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak |
| 1946 | "Are You with It?" closes at Century Theater New York City after 264 performances |
| 1946 | "Billion Dollar Baby" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 219 performances |
| 1946 | Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist |
| 1946 | British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv |
| 1945 | 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record) |
| 1945 | Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR |
| 1944 | German counter attack at Caen |
| 1944 | Nazi Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead |
| 1944 | Rommel and von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden |
| 1944 | Soviet Armys join in Bobroesjk |
| 1944 | U.S. 7th army corp conquers Cherbourg |
| 1943 | Pope Pius XII encyclical Mystic Corporis (mystic body of Christ) |
| 1943 | U.S. forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea |
| 1943 | Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe |
| 1942 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, premieres |
| 1941 | DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record |
| 1940 | Anjer (Carnation) Day-anniversary of Prince Bernhard |
| 1940 | U.S. passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register |
| 1940 | Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan |
| 1939 | 4th Dutch government of Colijn falls |
| 1939 | Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe |
| 1936 | Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines |
| 1936 | Pope Pius XI encyclical to U.S. bishops "On motion pictures" |
| 1933 | Primo Carnera KOs Jack Sharkey in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1932 | U.S.S.R. and China sign no attack treaty |
| 1931 | 109 degrees F (43 degrees C), Monticello, Florida (state record) |
| 1931 | Pope Pius XI encyclical on Nun abbiamo bisogno Mussolini |
| 1929 | 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca |
| 1929 | 31.1 degrees C (88 degrees F) hoogste temperatuur op deze dag in De Bilt |
| 1929 | Mexico and Vatican sign Concord |
| 1927 | 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii |
| 1926 | Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research of Black history |
| 1921 | 34th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats E Ryan (62 60) |
| 1916 | Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time |
| 1913 | 2nd Balkan War begins-Bulgaria overthrows Greek/Serbian troops |
| 1911 | Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes premier |
| 1906 | 12th U.S. Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 295 at Onwentsia Club Ill |
| 1904 | 2 prehistoric bones found in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe |
| 1903 | British government protests against abuser in Belgian Congo |
| 1899 | Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage |
| 1897 | Chicago beats Louisville 36-7 (baseball) |
| 1891 | National Forest Service organized |
| 1881 | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud |
| 1880 | France annexes Otaheite (Tahiti) |
| 1867 | Pope Pius IX declares Gorcumse holy martyrs |
| 1864 | Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed |
| 1863 | Battle at Westminster Maryland: Federal assault |
| 1863 | George A. Custer (23) appointed Union Brigadier-General |
| 1863 | Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania |
| 1863 | Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa |
| 1862 | Day 5 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station, Virginia |
| 1858 | Great fire in London harbor |
| 1858 | Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia |
| 1857 | Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British) |
| 1854 | Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million |
| 1854 | Netherlands allows corporal punishment |
| 1850 | British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse |
| 1822 | Prince Charles Bonaparte marries niece Zenaide Bonaparte |
| 1800 | Free mason lodge establishes in Alkmaar |
| 1776 | Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay |
| 1776 | Virginia state constitution adopted and Patrick Henry made governor |
| 1767 | British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America |
| 1762 | Russian Czar Peter III divorces his wife Catharina II |
| 1755 | 515 prominant filipinos baptized as Catholic |
| 1694 | Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports |
| 1682 | Sofia names herself regent of Russia |
| 1613 | Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down |
| 1540 | English ex chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic |
| 1534 | Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada |
| 1529 | Emperor Karel V and Pope Clemens VII sign Treaty of Barcelona |
| 1428 | Jacoba of Bavaria signs cease fire with Philip the Good |
| 1377 | French invasion fleet lands at Rye England |
| 1312 | Roman Catholics German King Henry VII crowned |
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