| 2005 | John G. Roberts is nominated for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
| 1999 | Men's championship at U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1999 | WNBA Championships, Houston Comets beat New York Libery 2 games to 1 |
| 1998 | Women's championship at U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1997 | Athen's Greece selected for 2004 Olympics |
| 1997 | Larry King weds Shawn Southwick |
| 1997 | Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game |
| 1996 | "Summer and Smoke" opens at Criterion Theater New York City |
| 1996 | MTV Video Music Awards |
| 1995 | Cal Ripken, Jr. ties Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 straight games |
| 1994 | Barb Mucha wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
| 1994 | Jerry Lewis' 29th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,100,000 |
| 1994 | Jingyi Le swims world record 100m women's freestyle (54.01 sec) |
| 1994 | Kirgizie government resigns |
| 1994 | SF 49'er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 127th touchdown pass |
| 1993 | "Fool Moon" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City after 207 performances |
| 1993 | "Jelly's Last Jam" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 569 performances |
| 1993 | "Will Rogers Follies" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 983 performances |
| 1993 | F Murray Abraham released from hospital after car accident |
| 1993 | Largest U.S. Tennis Open 2 sessions (total) daily gate (43,502) |
| 1993 | Noureddine Morceli runs world record mile (3:44,39) |
| 1993 | Robocop Richard Eden (36) weds actress Shannon Hile (30) |
| 1992 | Andrew "Dice" Clay marries his longtime live-in lover Trinie |
| 1992 | Dan O'Brien sets world record decathlon (8891 pts) |
| 1991 | 8th MTV Awards: REM |
| 1991 | Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston |
| 1991 | Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC |
| 1991 | U.S. trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins |
| 1990 | Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West |
| 1990 | Pete Sampras ends Ivan Lendl's bid for 9th straight U.S. Open final |
| 1989 | Chris Evert last U.S. Open match, she is defeated by Zina Garrison |
| 1989 | Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show |
| 1988 | Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 1988 | Jerry Lewis' 23rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $41,132,113 |
| 1988 | CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return and 58-yd pass reception |
| 1987 | Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career home run off Danny Jackson |
| 1987 | John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1986 | 3rd MTV Awards: Whitney Houston wins |
| 1986 | Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked U.S. B-747, 19 killed |
| 1986 | MTV Music Awards - Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" wins |
| 1986 | NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms |
| 1986 | NASA launches DOD-1 |
| 1984 | 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB |
| 1983 | 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB |
| 1983 | Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph |
| 1983 | Jerry Lewis' 18th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,691,627 |
| 1983 | Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 1982 | 82nd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel |
| 1982 | Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph |
| 1980 | Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns |
| 1980 | World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens |
| 1979 | A's Matt Keough A's beats Brewers 6-1 for 1st win after 14 straight losses, ended 1978 with 4 loses (1 shy of the record 19) |
| 1979 | Canada puts its 1st gold bullion coin on sale |
| 1979 | Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in Burma |
| 1979 | Iran army occupies Piranshahr |
| 1979 | Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve and upsets top-seeded Bjorn Borg in U.S. Tennis Open quarterfinals |
| 1978 | Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md |
| 1977 | Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night" |
| 1977 | Jerry Lewis' 12th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| 1977 | RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer |
| 1977 | Voyager 1 (U.S.) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn |
| 1976 | "Rex" closes at Lunt-Fontaine Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| 1976 | "Very Good Eddie" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 307 performances |
| 1976 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic |
| 1975 | Czechoslovakian tennis ace Martina Navratilova asks for political asylum in New York City |
| 1975 | Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate Ford in Sacramento |
| 1975 | Portugal premier Goncalvez resigns |
| 1975 | Wings release "Letting Go" |
| 1973 | "Desert Song" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 15 performances |
| 1973 | 1st one-day Cricket international for WI (v Eng) - lose by 1 wicket |
| 1972 | 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by terrorists |
| 1972 | Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium |
| 1972 | Jerry Lewis' 7th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, John and Yoko appear |
| 1971 | Astros pitcher J R Richard debut, strikes out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win |
| 1971 | New York Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet |
| 1970 | Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record) |
| 1969 | Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections |
| 1968 | 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan |
| 1968 | 82nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats Billie Jean King (64 64) |
| 1968 | 88th U.S. Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats Tom Okker |
| 1968 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1967 | Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico and Texas |
| 1967 | KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | WEBA TV channel 14 in Allendale, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | Jerry Lewis' 1st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $15,000 |
| 1966 | WRLK TV channel 35 in Columbia, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | Atletico Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup II |
| 1962 | Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 and consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy begins underground nuclear testing |
| 1961 | President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty) |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal |
| 1960 | President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo |
| 1960 | Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal |
| 1959 | Washington Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd) |
| 1958 | "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US |
| 1958 | 1st color video recording on magnetic tape |
| 1958 | WKPC TV channel 15 in Louisville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising |
| 1957 | Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book "new class marine officers" |
| 1956 | 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM |
| 1955 | Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician |
| 1955 | Phillies Don Newcombe hits NL pitcher record 7th home run of season |
| 1955 | WKRG TV channel 5 in Mobile, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | WTTW TV channel 11 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die |
| 1953 | 1st privately operated atomic reactor, Raleigh NC |
| 1953 | U.S. give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid |
| 1952 | General Carlos Ibanez elected president of Chile |
| 1951 | 65th U.S. Womens Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry (63 16 64) |
| 1951 | 71st U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Elias Seixas, Jr. (64 61 61) |
| 1950 | 64th U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont beats D Hart (63 63) |
| 1950 | 70th U.S. Mens Tennis: Art Larsen beats Herbert Flam (63 46 57 64 63) |
| 1950 | 98.3 cm rainfall at Yankeetown, Florida (state record) |
| 1949 | 63rd U.S. Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats Doris Hart (64 61) |
| 1949 | 69th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beat Schroeder (1618 26 61 62 64) |
| 1946 | "Yours Is My Heart" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 36 performances |
| 1946 | Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game |
| 1944 | "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany |
| 1944 | 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen |
| 1944 | Allies liberate Brussels |
| 1944 | Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands sign unity treaty |
| 1944 | British premier Churchill travels to Scotland |
| 1944 | Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard |
| 1943 | 57th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (63 57 63) |
| 1943 | U.S. airland at Nadzab, New-Guinea |
| 1942 | Battle at Alam Halfa ends |
| 1942 | British and U.S. bomb Le Havre and Bremen |
| 1939 | 34th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Haverford (3-2) |
| 1939 | Franklin D. Roosevelt declares U.S. neutrality at start of WW II in Europe |
| 1936 | Red Sox turn a triple-play on Yankees |
| 1929 | French premier A Briand requests a U.S. of Europe |
| 1927 | Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings |
| 1925 | 112 F (44 degrees C), Centerville, Alabama (state record) |
| 1925 | 29th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones |
| 1923 | Flyweights Gene LaRue and Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously |
| 1922 | 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1) |
| 1922 | Yankees final game at Polo Grounds (played there 7 years) |
| 1921 | Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287 |
| 1920 | Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders |
| 1918 | Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early |
| 1916 | 36th U.S. Mens Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston (46 64 06 62 64) |
| 1915 | 35th U.S. Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats McLoughlin (16 60 75 108) |
| 1915 | Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland |
| 1914 | Battle of Marne (WW I) begins: Germans chase out Russians |
| 1914 | French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine |
| 1914 | Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London |
| 1914 | Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins |
| 1913 | Phillies and Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th |
| 1910 | Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings |
| 1908 | Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0 |
| 1906 | 1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider) |
| 1905 | Lillian Mortimer's "No Mother to Guide," premieres in Detroit |
| 1905 | Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War |
| 1901 | National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms |
| 1900 | France proclaims a protectorate over Chad |
| 1895 | George Washington Murray elected to Congress from South Carolina |
| 1887 | Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200 |
| 1885 | 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft. Wayne, Ind) |
| 1882 | 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in New York City |
| 1877 | Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas |
| 1864 | British, French and Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits |
| 1863 | Bread revolt in Mobile Alabama |
| 1862 | Lee crosses Potomac and enters Maryland |
| 1844 | Iron ore discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Mountains |
| 1838 | Central Museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands |
| 1836 | Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas |
| 1814 | Battle at Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russians out of E Prussia |
| 1800 | Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops |
| 1798 | New conscription law goes into effect in France |
| 1796 | General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy |
| 1795 | U.S. - Algiers sign peace treaty |
| 1793 | In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins |
| 1786 | Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium |
| 1781 | Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis |
| 1774 | 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia |
| 1750 | Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods |
| 1725 | French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski |
| 1698 | Russia's Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards |
| 1661 | French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested |
| 1644 | Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sas of Gent |
| 1634 | Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III and Spain beat Sweden and German protestants |
| 1622 | Richelieu becomes cardinal |
| 1596 | Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java |
| 1550 | William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs |
| 1519 | 2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernan Cortes vs Tlascala Aztecs |
| 1198 | Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany |
