| 2014 | The U.S. House Judiciary Committee finds that there are no grounds for impeachment of President Barack Obama, despite calls for such action from political opponents |
| 2014 | Orbital Sciences Corp. launches its second cargo rocket to the International Space Station; Orbital and competitor Space X each have contracts for space supply delivery |
| 2013 | A boat carrying asylum seekers capsizes north of Christmas Island; Australian authorities rescue 88 people and 9 are feared dead |
| 2013 | Defendant George Zimmerman is found not guilty in the case regarding the fatal shooting of Treyvon Martin |
| 2012 | The People's Republic of China economic growth rate experiences to its lowest level in three years, 7.6 per cent |
| 2012 | A drought spreading through the United States leads to over 1,000 counties declared natural disaster areas |
| 2011 | Senior politician Norman Moore calls upon Western Australia to consider secession over carbon tax and Minerals Resource Rent Tax |
| 2011 | Researchers reveal two studies showing the antiretroviral drugs prescribed to treat AIDS can also prevent HIV infections |
| 2010 | The European Union announces that on January 1, 2011, it will make Estonia the seventeenth member of the euro |
| 1997 | 15th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Larry Gilbert |
| 1997 | 52nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Alison Nicholas |
| 1997 | David Toms wins Quad City Golf Classic at 265 |
| 1997 | Ford Senior Players Golf Championship |
| 1997 | Indonesian ferry sinks, killing at least 77 |
| 1996 | Cigar wins record 16th straight win, (ties Citation in 1940) |
| 1995 | Space shuttle STS-70, Discovery 20, launches |
| 1994 | Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan |
| 1994 | O. J. Simpson, charged with murder, gives hair samples for testing |
| 1993 | 64th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore |
| 1993 | All star MVP: Kirby Puckett for the Minnesota Twins |
| 1991 | Bob Milacki and 3 other Baltimore Oriole pitchers no-hit A's 2-0 |
| 1988 | 9th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 1988 | Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan |
| 1988 | Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert |
| 1987 | Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials |
| 1985 | "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief |
| 1985 | New York Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) and Elston Howard (32) uniforms |
| 1984 | Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert |
| 1984 | Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows |
| 1984 | Sergei Bubka of U.S.S.R. pole vaults a record 5.89 m |
| 1982 | 53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal |
| 1982 | All star MVP: Dave Conception (Cincinnati Reds) |
| 1982 | Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed |
| 1980 | 35th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott |
| 1980 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1979 | California's Nolan Ryan and Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th |
| 1979 | George Harrison releases "Faster" |
| 1978 | Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR |
| 1978 | Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years |
| 1978 | BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent" |
| 1978 | Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor President by chairman Henry Ford II |
| 1978 | Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp |
| 1978 | Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida |
| 1977 | New York City experiences 25 hour black-out |
| 1976 | 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia |
| 1976 | All star MVP: George Foster (Cincinnati Reds) |
| 1976 | Last day of Test Cricket for Brian Close, aged 45 |
| 1975 | 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record) |
| 1975 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
| 1974 | 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham |
| 1974 | India's 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley) |
| 1973 | Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating Kansas City 5-0 |
| 1973 | Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina |
| 1972 | Los Angeles Rams (Irsay) and Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners |
| 1971 | 42nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-4 at Tiger Stadium, Detroit |
| 1971 | All star MVP: Frank Robinson for the Baltimore Orioles |
| 1970 | Building begins of Amsterdam metro |
| 1969 | Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon |
| 1969 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Ladies' Supertest Golf Open |
| 1968 | 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland |
| 1968 | French government-Couve de Murville forms |
| 1967 | Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die |
| 1966 | Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago |
| 1965 | 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn |
| 1965 | All star MVP: Juan Marichal (SF Giant) |
| 1963 | Early Wynn, wins his 300th and last game at 43 |
| 1962 | 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea |
| 1962 | 91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1960 | 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York |
| 1960 | KDBQ-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KYA |
| 1960 | U.S. Democratic convention nominates John F. Kennedy as presidential candidate |
| 1958 | 13th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright |
| 1958 | 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham |
| 1958 | Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
| 1956 | WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland |
| 1954 | Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9 |
| 1950 | Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams elbow |
| 1950 | Rene Pleven forms French government |
| 1949 | Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics |
| 1948 | 15th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis |
| 1946 | "Tidbits of 1946" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| 1945 | 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico |
| 1944 | Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated |
| 1943 | 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia |
| 1943 | Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany |
| 1942 | 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis |
| 1942 | German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages |
| 1942 | SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland |
| 1941 | 24th PGA Championship: Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills CC Denver |
| 1941 | Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder |
| 1939 | Frank Sinatra made his recording debut |
| 1938 | Kroller-Muller museum opens in Holland |
| 1936 | 112 degrees F (44 degrees C), Mio, Michigan (state record) |
| 1936 | 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin (state record) |
| 1935 | Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer |
| 1935 | U.S. - Russian commerce treaty takes effect |
| 1934 | Babe Ruth hits home run number 700, against Detroit |
| 1930 | 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay |
| 1930 | Sarnoff reports in New York Times "TV would be a theater in every home" |
| 1926 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4) |
| 1925 | French occupation force begins evacuating country |
| 1924 | Albin Stenroos wins Olympic marathon (2:41:22.6) |
| 1923 | Draft law passes |
| 1919 | Race riots in Longview and Gregg counties Texas |
| 1917 | Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal |
| 1908 | 4th modern Olympic games opens in London |
| 1900 | Phillies beat Pittsburgh 23-8 |
| 1898 | Guglielmo Marconi patents radio |
| 1898 | San Francisco Ferry Building at foot of Market St. opens |
| 1896 | Ed Delahanty, becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 4 home runs in a game |
| 1882 | 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia |
| 1878 | Congress of Berlin discusses division of African colonization ends |
| 1878 | Treaty of Berlin amended terms of Treaty of San Stefano |
| 1876 | 29th Postmaster General: James N. Tyner of Indiana takes office |
| 1870 | King Wilhelm of Prussia sends "Emser Depache" on Bismarck |
| 1868 | Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana |
| 1865 | Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man" |
| 1865 | P. T. Barnum's museum burns down |
| 1864 | Early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley |
| 1863 | Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in New York City; about 1,000 die |
| 1863 | Battle of Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana |
| 1862 | Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Forrest's Raid) US895 CS150 |
| 1861 | Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53 |
| 1854 | U.S. forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua |
| 1851 | John F. Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton |
| 1837 | Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace |
| 1836 | U.S. patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels |
| 1832 | Source of Mississippi River discovered, Henry R. Schoolcraft |
| 1787 | Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery) |
| 1787 | Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop |
| 1772 | Captain James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas |
| 1700 | Russian-Turkish peace |
| 1668 | Van Marco Cesti's opera "Il Pomo d'Oro," premieres in Vienna |
| 1657 | Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert |
| 1645 | Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar of Russia |
| 1643 | Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies |
| 1573 | Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army |
| 1568 | Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer |
| 1522 | Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht |
| 1174 | Scottish King William captured |
| 574 | John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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