| 2012 | Chinese bookstore suspend the sale of books by or about Japan, and all books by Japanese authors |
| 2012 | Vice foreign minister to Japan, Chikao Kawai, is sent to China to help improve the status of relations between the two countries |
| 2011 | The 2011 Syrian uprising continues as Turkey seizes a Syrian ship that is possibly carrying weapons to the Syrian Army |
| 2011 | Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accepts a proposal from President Dmitry Medvedev to run in Russia's 2012 Presidential election |
| 2010 | In a prolonged rally, gold prices reach a record-high price of $1,300/oz |
| 2010 | Nigeria's government opens two swollen dams, displacing two million people in Jigawa State |
| 2008 | Taro Aso becomes the new Prime Minister of Japan |
| 1997 | Drug kingpin Ramon Arellano Felix placed on FBI's 10 most-wanted |
| 1995 | 31st Ryder Cup: Europe beats U.S., 14 -13 at Oak Hill CC (NY) |
| 1995 | Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic |
| 1995 | Emillio and Gloria Estefan's boat hits and kills a jet skiier |
| 1995 | Mount Ruapehu Volcano, North Island, New Zealand erupts |
| 1994 | Parliamentary election in Ukraine |
| 1993 | Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty (Brenda) weds Ashley Hamilton |
| 1993 | Norodom Sihanouk again installed as king of Cambodia |
| 1992 | John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers) |
| 1992 | Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in New Jersey Devils history |
| 1992 | Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI |
| 1991 | "Good and Evil" and "Sibs" premieres on ABC TV |
| 1991 | After 3 year reign as AL champs, A's are eliminated from AL West |
| 1991 | Deion Sanders, left Braves July 31 to report to NFL Falcons, returns |
| 1991 | Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles |
| 1990 | East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact |
| 1990 | South African president F W de Klerk meets President Bush in Washington D.C. |
| 1990 | Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market |
| 1990 | West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty |
| 1989 | 28th Ryder Cup: U.S. and Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England |
| 1989 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Nippon Travel-MBS Golf Classic |
| 1988 | Barbara C Harris of Massachusetts, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop |
| 1988 | Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec |
| 1988 | Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec) |
| 1988 | Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th |
| 1988 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets heptathlon woman's record (7,291) |
| 1987 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1985 | Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m) |
| 1985 | Expos Andre Dawson joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 home runs in an inn twice |
| 1985 | Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th) |
| 1984 | Cubs clinch NL East title |
| 1984 | Paul McCartney release "No More Lonely Nights" |
| 1983 | Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in season |
| 1983 | Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of Hanif, vs. India Jullundur |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1982 | Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26 |
| 1982 | U.S., Italian and French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon |
| 1981 | Enterprise Radio (all sports) resigns air |
| 1981 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1980 | Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season |
| 1980 | Iraqi troops cross Iran's border, encircling Abadan |
| 1979 | CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service |
| 1979 | Ghana adopts constitution |
| 1979 | Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time |
| 1979 | Russian ice skaters Protopopov and Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ping Team Golf Classic |
| 1978 | Dutch women hockey team wins world championship |
| 1978 | Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74 |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1977 | "Estrada" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| 1977 | 1st broadcast of "Love Boat" on ABC-TV |
| 1977 | Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards |
| 1976 | "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 5959 performances |
| 1976 | Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter |
| 1974 | Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger, is 12th to get 3,000 hits |
| 1974 | Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th home run, 1st American to win a Japanese home run title |
| 1973 | Guinea-Bissau declares independence |
| 1972 | Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22 |
| 1972 | Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yards vs Green Bay (rec) |
| 1972 | N.Y. Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Baltimore Colts (44-34) |
| 1971 | 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying |
| 1971 | Eyskens-Cools disbands Belgium parliament |
| 1971 | Houston Astros beat San Diego Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings |
| 1970 | Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon |
| 1969 | 1st Elvis convention, 2500 fans attend in Cincinnati |
| 1969 | New York Mets clinch NL East pennant |
| 1969 | Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam |
| 1969 | Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem National Conv) begins |
| 1968 | "60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1968 | "That's Life" premieres-A Broadway musical type TV show |
| 1968 | New York Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
| 1966 | Hurricane Inez, kills 293 in Caribbean, Florida and Mexico |
| 1966 | France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
| 1965 | Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament |
| 1965 | Saudi-Arabian and Egyptian accord about Yemen |
| 1965 | Stefan Stefanopoulos forms Greek government |
| 1964 | "Munsters" premieres on TV |
| 1964 | 1st Minuteman II ICBM was tested |
| 1964 | Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd |
| 1964 | Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of East Germany |
| 1963 | Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards |
| 1963 | Senate ratifies treaty with Britain and U.S.S.R. limit nuclear testing |
| 1962 | KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Miss |
| 1961 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sacramento Valley Golf Open |
| 1960 | International Development Association (U.N. agency) comes into existence |
| 1960 | USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches |
| 1958 | 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia |
| 1957 | Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0 |
| 1957 | Eisenhower orders U.S. troops to desegregate Little Rock schools |
| 1956 | 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland) |
| 1955 | "Catch a Star" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 23 performances |
| 1955 | President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver |
| 1955 | Washington Senators lose their 99th and 100th games of season |
| 1954 | Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later) |
| 1954 | Yankees tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning |
| 1953 | "Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway |
| 1953 | Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1952 | Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death |
| 1952 | Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5 |
| 1951 | Industrial estate at Harlow New Town U.K. opens |
| 1951 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1950 | "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel |
| 1948 | Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Washington D.C. |
| 1948 | Yankees, Boston and Cleveland are tied for 1st place in AL (91-56) |
| 1946 | Yankees set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs |
| 1943 | Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk |
| 1941 | 9 Allied governments pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter |
| 1941 | Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev |
| 1940 | Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career home run |
| 1940 | Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton |
| 1938 | Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles U.S. tennis title |
| 1938 | Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to grand slam |
| 1934 | 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium |
| 1934 | Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0 |
| 1932 | New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt visits LA |
| 1931 | Round-robin playoff among New York City's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants and Yankees |
| 1930 | G Kaufman and M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premieres in NY |
| 1930 | Noel Coward's "Private Lives," premieres in London |
| 1930 | Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights |
| 1929 | Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in New York in 1st all-instrument flight |
| 1929 | Yankees Tom Zachary ends season 12-0 |
| 1928 | Cohan/Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great," premieres in New York City |
| 1927 | NHL's Toronto St. Patricks become Maple Leafs |
| 1927 | Yankees set record of 106 victories |
| 1926 | Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4 |
| 1924 | Boston, Massachusetts opens its airport |
| 1923 | Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin) |
| 1922 | Neurenberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky |
| 1922 | Roger Hornsby sets NL home run mark at 42 |
| 1919 | Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey |
| 1916 | Indians Marty Kavanaugh, hits AL's 1st pinch-hit grand slam |
| 1908 | Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1 |
| 1906 | St. Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game |
| 1906 | V Herbert and H Blossom's musical "Red Mill," premieres in New York City |
| 1903 | Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia premier |
| 1903 | Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle |
| 1902 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Red Circle" |
| 1895 | 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months) |
| 1890 | President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned |
| 1889 | Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder |
| 1885 | 5 German warships depart to Zanzibar |
| 1884 | Dixey, Rice and Gill's musical "Adonis," premieres in New York City |
| 1883 | National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky |
| 1881 | Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch |
| 1872 | Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg," premieres in Vienna |
| 1869 | Black Friday; Wall St. panic after Gould and Fisk attempt to corner gold |
| 1865 | James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF |
| 1862 | Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal |
| 1853 | 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt) |
| 1853 | France annexes Caledonia |
| 1853 | Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London |
| 1852 | Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st dirigible flight |
| 1850 | Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England |
| 1845 | 1st baseball team is organized |
| 1841 | Britain obtains Sarawak from Brunei, James Brooke appointed Rajah |
| 1838 | Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law |
| 1829 | Russia and Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople |
| 1789 | Congress creates Post Office |
| 1789 | Federal Judiciary Act is passed and creates a six-person Supreme Court |
| 1789 | President George Washington appointed John Jay the 1st Chief Justice |
| 1789 | U.S. Attorney General Office is created |
| 1776 | 1st St. Leger horesrace held at Doncaster |
| 1776 | St. Leger horse race run for 1st time |
| 1742 | Faneuil Hall opens to public |
| 1732 | 21 homosexuality burned in South Horn |
| 1706 | Treaty of Altranstadt: Charles XII of Sweden and August II of Saksen |
| 1688 | France declares war on German |
| 1683 | King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America |
| 1664 | Dutch Fort Orange (Albany New York) surrenders to English |
| 1657 | 1st autopsy and coroner's jury verdict is recorded in state of Maryland |
| 1629 | Jacques Specx appointed governor-general of Dutch-Indies |
| 1625 | Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 1537 | Uprising in Lubeck fails |
| 1493 | Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World |
| 787 | 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor |
| 673 | Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church |
| 366 | Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 312 | Start of Imperial Indication |
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