| 2012 | In a third round of voting, the Parliament of Albania fails to elect the President of the Republic of Albania |
| 2012 | Pensacola, Florida and adjacent areas experience widespread flooding after over 12 inches of rain falls on the area |
| 2011 | Australia bans live cattle exports to Indonesia for up to six months in response to reports of cruel treatment at Indonesian slaughterhouses |
| 2011 | Residents in the U.S. towns of Eagar and Springerville, Arizona fully evacuate as the Wallow Fire wildfire rages on |
| 2010 | The trial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich begins today; Blagovich faces corruption charges regarding his alleged attempt to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat |
| 2007 | Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-117, begins mission |
| 2003 | Tony Awards, Hairspray, Take Me Out, Long Day's Journey Into Night revival and Nine revival won major awards |
| 1997 | "Young Man From Atlanta" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 85 performances |
| 1997 | 67th French Mens Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten beats S Bruguera (63 64 62) |
| 1997 | BellSouth Senior Golf Classic at Opryland |
| 1997 | Justin Leonard wins golf's Kemper Open at TPC at Avenel |
| 1997 | Pat Hurst wins LPGA Oldsmobile Classic |
| 1996 | 128th Belmont: Rene Douglas aboard Editor's Note wins in 2:28.96 |
| 1996 | 66th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats A S Vicario (63, 67, 108) |
| 1996 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1996 | Dean Jones takes career-best 5-112 for Derbyshire vs. Hampshire |
| 1996 | Lloyd and Titchard complete 358 stand for 4th wkt Lancs vs. Essex |
| 1996 | PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper |
| 1995 | "Buttons on Broadway" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 40 performances |
| 1994 | 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia |
| 1993 | Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns |
| 1992 | 26th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks |
| 1992 | New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time |
| 1992 | Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria |
| 1991 | "Our Country's Good" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| 1991 | 123rd Belmont: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 2:28 |
| 1991 | 61st French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A S Vicario (63 64) |
| 1991 | College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3 |
| 1991 | Former New York Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds |
| 1991 | Victory parade held in Washington D.C., Persian Gulf War |
| 1991 | Warren Schutte, is 1st non American to win NCAA Div 1 golf title |
| 1990 | "It's Garry Shandling's Show," last airs on Fox-TV |
| 1990 | Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park home run in Oriole history |
| 1989 | Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate Jim Rooker to say he would walk from Pitts to Philadelphia if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of season broadcaster |
| 1988 | Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20% |
| 1987 | 21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis |
| 1987 | Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing |
| 1986 | "Big Deal" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 70 performances |
| 1986 | 40th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Hous Rockets, 4 games to 2 |
| 1986 | 56th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mikael Pernfors (63 62 64) |
| 1986 | Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria |
| 1986 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| 1986 | Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Baltimore Orioles beat Yankees 18-9 |
| 1985 | 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27 |
| 1985 | Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit home runs in same game |
| 1983 | "Trading Places," "Ghostbusters," and "Gremlins," premieres |
| 1983 | Charlos Vieira begins 191 hour "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal |
| 1983 | Marlies Gohr runs female European record 100m (10.81) |
| 1982 | 36th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2 |
| 1982 | Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die |
| 1982 | Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time |
| 1982 | Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament |
| 1981 | 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters |
| 1980 | "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" closes at Martin Beck New York City after 8 performances |
| 1980 | 26th LPGA Championship won by Sally Little |
| 1980 | 34th Tony Awards: Children of a Lesser God and Evita win |
| 1980 | 50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63) |
| 1979 | "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line |
| 1979 | Mariners draft Al Chambers #1 |
| 1979 | Wings release "Back to the Egg" album |
| 1978 | 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification |
| 1978 | Braves draft Bob Horner #1 |
| 1978 | Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery |
| 1977 | Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game |
| 1976 | Houston Astros draft Floyd Bannister #1 |
| 1975 | 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35 |
| 1975 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic |
| 1975 | U.S.S.R. launches Venera 9 for Venus landing |
| 1974 | 106th Belmont: Miguel Rivera aboard Little Current wins in 2:29.2 |
| 1974 | Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes" |
| 1974 | U.S. and Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract |
| 1973 | Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain |
| 1972 | Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick Manning #2 |
| 1972 | Test Cricket debut of Tony Greig, vs. Australia at Old Trafford (57/62) |
| 1971 | North Vietnam demands U.S. end aid to South Vietnam |
| 1971 | White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign |
| 1970 | Players and management end labor dispute up minimum salary to $12,000 |
| 1969 | "Smothers Brothers comedy Hour," last airs on CBS-TV |
| 1969 | 21st Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Don Adams and Susan St. James |
| 1969 | Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones |
| 1969 | General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar |
| 1969 | KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG) |
| 1969 | Nixon says 25,000 U.S. troops would leave Vietnam by end of August |
| 1969 | Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones |
| 1969 | Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 1968 | Bermuda adopts its constitution |
| 1968 | Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning |
| 1968 | Gary Puckett and Union Gap release "Lady Will Power" |
| 1968 | James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., captured |
| 1968 | New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted |
| 1968 | Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash" |
| 1967 | Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 U.S. crewmen |
| 1966 | NFL and AFL announce plans to become NFC and AFC in 1970 |
| 1965 | A's draft Rick Monday #1 |
| 1965 | U.S. troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam |
| 1965 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 6; missed Moon |
| 1963 | "Mr. President" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 265 performances |
| 1963 | 95th Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:30.2 |
| 1963 | American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes |
| 1962 | Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8) |
| 1961 | English prince Edward, Duke of Kent, weds Katharine Worsley |
| 1961 | Test Cricket debut of William Morris Lawry, vs. England at Edgbaston, 57 |
| 1961 | Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive home runs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron Joe Adcock and Frank Thomas) |
| 1960 | 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House" |
| 1960 | Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann |
| 1959 | 1st official "missile mail" lands, Jacksonville, Florida |
| 1959 | X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m |
| 1958 | 4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright |
| 1956 | Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government |
| 1956 | WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax |
| 1953 | Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113 |
| 1953 | Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court |
| 1953 | Tornadoes kill 110 in Michigan and Ohio |
| 1952 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Women's Golf Open |
| 1950 | Boston Red Sox beat St. Louis Browns 29-4 (win by record 25 runs) |
| 1950 | Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier |
| 1950 | Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin and Valentine (8-104 1st inn) vs. England |
| 1949 | Siam changes name to Thailand |
| 1948 | "Milton Berle Show" premieres on NBC TV |
| 1948 | "Sally" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 36 performances |
| 1946 | "Lute Song" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 142 performances |
| 1946 | Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia |
| 1944 | 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy |
| 1944 | Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy |
| 1944 | Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested |
| 1944 | General Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully |
| 1942 | Bing Cosby records "Silent Night" |
| 1941 | English and French troop overthrow pro-German Syria |
| 1940 | 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6 |
| 1940 | Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced |
| 1940 | Last British troops leave Narvik, Norway |
| 1939 | British king George VI visits U.S. |
| 1937 | World's largest flower blooms in New York Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily |
| 1936 | 1st parking meters are invented |
| 1935 | 39th U.S. Golf Open: Sam Parks, Jr. shoots a 299 at Oakmont CC PA |
| 1935 | 67th Belmont: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:30.6 |
| 1935 | Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds and leaves the game |
| 1933 | A's Jimmie Foxx homers his 1st 3 at bats for 4 consecutive home runs |
| 1931 | Duke and Duchess of Kent wed |
| 1931 | Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo |
| 1929 | 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8 |
| 1929 | Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curaeao kidnap governor Fruytier |
| 1928 | 1st U.S. to Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford) |
| 1927 | Tony Lazzeri hits 3 home runs Yankees beat White Sox 12-11 |
| 1921 | Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4 PM |
| 1920 | Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake him, but ump ejects Roush for delay of game |
| 1918 | Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered |
| 1917 | Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School |
| 1915 | 92 degrees F (33.3 degrees C) in De Bilt, Netherlands |
| 1915 | William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State |
| 1914 | 34.7 degrees F (1.5 degrees C) in De Bilt, Netherlands |
| 1911 | Belgium government of Schollaert falls |
| 1900 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 6 Napoleons" |
| 1892 | Homer A. Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy vs. Ferguson) |
| 1889 | Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery" |
| 1886 | 1st Civil Rights Act passes |
| 1882 | 16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43 |
| 1878 | 12th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:43 |
| 1872 | Congress endorses penny post card |
| 1869 | Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner |
| 1865 | Tristanderl und Zusholde, premieres |
| 1862 | Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia |
| 1861 | People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union |
| 1861 | U.S. Sanitary Commission is given executive approval |
| 1856 | Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island |
| 1846 | Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu |
| 1834 | HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn |
| 1829 | 1st U.K. municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool |
| 1824 | Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec |
| 1815 | 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation |
| 1786 | Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised, Mr Hall, New York City |
| 1783 | Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption |
| 1761 | British fleet occupies Belle Britain |
| 1694 | English troop landing at Brest attack, 300 killed |
| 1663 | Battle at Amegical: English and Portugese fleet beats Spanish |
| 1632 | Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard |
| 1624 | Earthquake strikes Peru |
| 1551 | Pope Julius III excommunicates Duke Ottario Farnese of Parma |
| 979 | Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France |
| 793 | Vikings plunder St. Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne |
| 570 | Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca |
| 536 | St. Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 452 | Italy invaded by Attila the Hun |
| 68 | Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba |
| 65 | Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem |
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