| 2012 | A pageant on London's River Thames marks the highpoint of a series of events celebrating The Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II |
| 2012 | Cycling's Philadelphia International Championship is won by Alexander Serebryakov |
| 2011 | Right-to-die activist Jack Kevorkian dies in Royal Oak, Michigan; his death caused by pneumonia and kidney problems |
| 2011 | Former North Carolina Senator and U.S. Presidential Candidate John Edwards is indicted on charges of conspiracy and violating campaign finance laws |
| 2010 | Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany nominates Christian Wulff for President |
| 2006 | 17 Islamic men are arrested in a plot to bomb targets in Toronto |
| 2002 | Tony Awards, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Private Lives revival, and Into the Woods revival won major awards |
| 2001 | Tony Awards, The Producers, Proof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest revival and 42nd Street revival won major awards |
| 1995 | Expos pitcher Pedro Martinez perfect game is broken up in 10th inning as San Diego's Bip Roberts leads off with a double, Mont wins 1-0 |
| 1994 | 5.9 earthquake/floods SE Java, 150+ killed |
| 1994 | Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder (29) weds Beth Liebling (27) |
| 1994 | WIIZ (98.7) FM goes off the air |
| 1993 | 66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze |
| 1992 | Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support |
| 1992 | World's largest environmental summit opens, Rio De Janeiro Brazil |
| 1991 | Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history |
| 1991 | New York Yankees selected 19-year-old Brien Taylor, #1 in amateur draft |
| 1991 | Thomas Hearns captures WBA light-heavyweight title |
| 1990 | 3rd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $894,560 |
| 1990 | 44th Tony Awards: Grapes of Wrath and City of Angels win |
| 1990 | Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1989 | Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing |
| 1989 | Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone |
| 1989 | Houston Astros beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09) |
| 1989 | Leaking pipe of Asha, U.S.S.R. causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die |
| 1989 | Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season and 11th overall |
| 1988 | "Big," premieres in U.S. |
| 1988 | Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony |
| 1987 | "Little Shop of Horrors," released in France |
| 1987 | "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," released in France |
| 1987 | Cubs and Astro tie Oriole and Ranger record of 3 grand slams in a game |
| 1986 | Battles in Beirut; 53 killed |
| 1985 | Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1 |
| 1985 | Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques |
| 1984 | "Wiz" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 13 performances |
| 1984 | 30th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
| 1984 | 38th Tony Awards: Real Thing and La Cage Aux Folles win |
| 1982 | 55th National Spelling Bee: Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis |
| 1982 | Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov seriously wounded by Palestinians |
| 1981 | Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt |
| 1980 | "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" opens at Martin Beck New York City for 8 performances |
| 1980 | Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35 |
| 1980 | ESPN begins televising college world series games |
| 1980 | Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination |
| 1980 | New York Mets draft Darryl Strawberry, 18, #1 |
| 1979 | "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens on Broadway |
| 1979 | 33rd Tony Awards: Elephant Man and Sweeny Todd win |
| 1979 | Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya |
| 1979 | Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled, world's worst oil spillage |
| 1979 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
| 1978 | Phillies Dave Johnson is 1st to hit 2 pinch hit grand slams in a year |
| 1977 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs Kansas City Royals) |
| 1977 | Belgium government of Tindemans forms |
| 1977 | U.S. and Cuba talk about diplomatic relations |
| 1976 | Queen's "Bhoemian Rhapsody" goes gold |
| 1976 | Test Cricket debut of Mike Brearley vs. West Indies (0 and 17) |
| 1976 | U.S. presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta |
| 1974 | Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government |
| 1973 | "Smith" closes at Eden Theater New York City after 17 performances |
| 1973 | At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes |
| 1973 | Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Sealy-Faberge Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Tupolev 144 crashes at Paris, 15 killed |
| 1972 | "Hot Rod Lincoln," by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9 |
| 1972 | 1st female U.S. rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25 |
| 1972 | Sally J Priesand becomes 1st female U.S. rabbi |
| 1972 | Yankees score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10 |
| 1971 | Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman 2nd no-hitter beats Cincinnati Reds, 1-0 |
| 1971 | Test Cricket debut of Imran Khan, vs. England at Edgbaston (5, 0-36, 0-19) |
| 1970 | 1st artificial gene synthesized |
| 1970 | Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban |
| 1969 | Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices U.S. destroyer "Frank E. Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam) |
| 1969 | Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder) |
| 1968 | Canada announces it will replace silver with nickel in coins |
| 1968 | Poor Peoples March on Washington |
| 1968 | Yankees turn 21st triple-play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins |
| 1967 | 99th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 2:28.8 |
| 1967 | Aretha Franklin's "Respect" reaches #1 |
| 1966 | European DX Council forms in Copenhagen, shortwave listeners |
| 1966 | Gemini 9 launched; 7th U.S. 2-man flight, Stafford and Cernan |
| 1965 | Gemini 4 launched; 2nd U.S. 2-man flight, McDivitt and White |
| 1964 | Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis and pharyngitis |
| 1964 | Rolling Stones begin 1st U.S. tour, with Bobby Goldsboro and Bobby Vee |
| 1962 | Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130 |
| 1962 | Betsy Rawls and Kathy wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1962 | Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal, Netherlands |
| 1962 | WBKO TV channel 13 in Bowling Green, Kentucky (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | "Wildcat" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 172 performances |
| 1961 | 93rd Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Sherluck wins in 2:29.2 |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev meet in Vienna |
| 1959 | 1st U.S. Air Force Academy graduation |
| 1959 | 1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo |
| 1959 | Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon |
| 1959 | Real Madrid wins 4th Europe Cup 1 |
| 1959 | Singapore adopts constitution |
| 1958 | Referendum allows city to sell Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers |
| 1957 | Howard Cosell's 1st TV show |
| 1956 | 3rd class travel on British Railways ends |
| 1956 | KGUN TV channel 9 in Tucson, Arizona (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Pittsburgh Golf Open |
| 1955 | KLFY TV channel 10 in Lafayette, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | Stan Musial hits his 300th home run |
| 1953 | Congress cites research of New York City librarian Robert Henderson in proving |
| 1953 | KVOS TV channel 12 in Bellingham/Vancouver, WA (CBS) begins |
| 1953 | Alexander Cartwright founded baseball and not Abner Doubleday |
| 1952 | Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president |
| 1950 | French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal |
| 1949 | Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio, KFI in Los Angeles |
| 1949 | GN Clark becomes 1st female U.S. treasurer |
| 1948 | "Sleepy Hallow" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1948 | 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory |
| 1948 | Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mount Rushmore |
| 1947 | British viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan |
| 1946 | 1st bikini bathing suit displayed, Paris |
| 1946 | International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals |
| 1946 | U.S. Supreme Court rules race separation on buses, unconstitutional |
| 1944 | 76th Belmont: G L Smith aboard Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2 |
| 1944 | Generals Giraud and de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution |
| 1944 | Nazis pull out of Rome |
| 1943 | United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration forms |
| 1942 | Battle of Midway Island begins |
| 1941 | Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol |
| 1941 | Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn |
| 1941 | German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports |
| 1940 | Last British/French troop leave Dunkirk |
| 1939 | 71st Belmont: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:29.6 |
| 1939 | Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe |
| 1938 | German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery |
| 1937 | Duke of Windsor (Edward 8) weds Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson in France |
| 1937 | Josh Gibson home run just 2 feet below rim of Yankee Stadium, 580' drive |
| 1935 | French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours |
| 1933 | A's score 11 runs in 2nd, Yankees score 10 in 5th and win 17-11 |
| 1933 | Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain" |
| 1932 | John McGraw, who came to New York in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants |
| 1932 | Lou Gehrig is 1st to hit 4 consecutive home runs; Yankees beat A's 20-13 |
| 1932 | Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament |
| 1929 | 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center, electric light |
| 1929 | Chile, Peru and Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area |
| 1925 | Eddie Collins, is 6th to get 3,000 hits |
| 1925 | Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin) |
| 1925 | White Sox manager Eddie Collins gets 3,000 hit |
| 1924 | Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service |
| 1921 | A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado |
| 1919 | Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks |
| 1918 | Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional |
| 1916 | National Defense Act establishes ROTC |
| 1913 | Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws |
| 1911 | "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" hits #1 |
| 1906 | Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession |
| 1899 | W G Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 years 320 days |
| 1888 | "Casey at the Bat" published, SF Examiner |
| 1886 | 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo Uganda |
| 1884 | John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party national convention chair |
| 1876 | Lacrosse introduced in Britain and Canada |
| 1875 | Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st voice transmission |
| 1871 | Jesse James and his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000 |
| 1864 | General Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor |
| 1861 | 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV |
| 1860 | Comanche, Iowa completely destroyed by 1 of a series of tornadoes |
| 1856 | Cullen Whipple patents screw machine |
| 1851 | 1st baseball uniforms worn, New York Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt and blue long trousers |
| 1847 | Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens |
| 1833 | 4th national black convention meets in Philadelphia |
| 1818 | Maratha Wars between British and Maratha Confederacy in India ends |
| 1789 | Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada) |
| 1781 | Jack Jouett rides to warn Jefferson of British attack |
| 1770 | Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California |
| 1752 | Moscow houses and churchs destroyed by fire |
| 1748 | Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service |
| 1665 | Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft |
| 1621 | Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands" (NY) |
| 1621 | WIC, West Indian Co, under Heeren XIX, founded |
| 1540 | Hernando de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so |
| 1539 | Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain |
| 1509 | Henry VIII married wife No 1, Catherine of Aragon |
| 1357 | Peace of Aat |
| 1098 | After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey |
| 1083 | Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St. Peter's Cathedral |
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