- 636 Arabs gain control of most of the Region of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
- 685 John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1215 Frederick II is crowned King of the Romans (King of the Germans) in Aachen
Pope Expels Jews
1253 Jews are expelled from Vienne, France, by order of PopeInnocent IV
- 1298 Rindfleisch ("Beef") persecutions - Jewish community in Würzburg, Germany, is massacred
Battle at Gavere
1453 Battle of Gavere:Philip the Good defeats Ghent rebellion
Dutch Rebels Occupy Roermond
1572William I of Orange's troops occupy Roermond from the Spanish
Francis Drake Departs San Francisco
1579Francis Drake departs his land-claim of Nova Albion, north of present day San Francisco, to cross the Pacific Oceana board the 'Golden Hind'[1]
- 1594 Dutch city Groningen held by Spain surrenders to Dutch and England army led by Maurice of Orange
- 1599 Italian painter Caravaggio gets his first public commission, the Contarelli Chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
- 1632 Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France
- 1664 Four British ships arrive in Boston to drive the Dutch out of New York
- 1711 Treaty of Pruth is signed, ending the Russo-Turkish War (1710-11), and Azov port is returned to Ottoman control
Franklin Returns to Philadelphia
1726Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia
Final Jacobite Rebellion
1745Charles Edward Stuart, "the Young Pretender" orBonnie Prince Charlie, lands on Eriskay Island in the Hebrides, beginning the final Jacobite Rebellion
- 1764 James Otis publishes "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved," in which he argues against taxation without representation
Casimir Pulaski Volunteers
1777 Polish military leaderCasimir Pulaski arrives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, to volunteer in the Continental Army cavalry
- 1793 The Prussians conquer Mainz
Beauharnais Executed
1794Alexandre de Beauharnais, the first husband ofJoséphine de Beauharnais, is executed for treason during the Reign of Terror
Napoleon Conquers Alexandria
1798Napoleon Bonaparte captures Alexandria, Egypt
1st U.S. Typographer
1829 William Austin Burt patents America's first typewriter, the typographer
- 1833 Cornerstones are laid for the construction of thee Mormon Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio
- 1834 HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso (Chile)
- 1840 Union Act passed by the British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada
- 1848 Battle of Custoza during the Italian War of Independence starts
- 1850 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K. Hall of New York takes office
- 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and US
- 1852 Private John Brown becomes the first interment in the National Cemetery at the Presidio in San Francisco, California
- 1858 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passes in British Parliament
- 1862 President Lincoln names Army of the Potomac General Henry Halleck as US Army General-in-Chief
- 1863 Alexandra Park opens in North London, England
- 1866 Cincinnati Baseball Club (Red Stockings) forms
- 1868 All England Lawn Tennis Club is founded as the All England Croquet Club; in 1877, the name changes to the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club
Empress Eugénie
1870 EmperorNapoleon III appoints Empress Eugénie de Montijo as Regent of France
The Real McCoy
1872 African American inventorElijah McCoy is granted a patent for lubricators for steam engines
- 1874 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa
- 1877 First telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed
- 1877 The first US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
- 1886 American civilian Steve Brodie allegedly survives a 135-foot plunge from the Brooklyn Bridge
- 1888 John Boyd Dunlop applies for a patent for the pneumatic tyre
- 1900 First Pan-African Congress meets in London, organized by Trinidadian Henry Sylvester Williams, makes plea for African self-government
- 1900 The Canadian government reviews immigration policy, prohibiting criminals and paupers from landing in Canada
- 1902 Dutch Excelsior soccer club is established in Rotterdam (First Division winners 1973-4, 78-79, 2005-06)
- 1904 Ice cream cone is created during the St. Louis World's Fair, reputedly first by Charles E. Menches
- 1906 Pogroms against Jews in Odessa, Russia
- 1913 Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot, Palestine
- 1914 Austria-Hungary presents an ultimatum to Serbia, demanding acceptance within 48 hours, making peacekeeping difficult
- 1917 Cleveland Metropolitan Park District established in Greater Cleveland, Ohio
- 1920 British East Africa is renamed Kenya and becomes a British Crown colony
- 1921 American long jumper Edward Gourdin sets new world record of 7.69 m (25 ft 2+3⁄4 in) in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1921 Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao and others found the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai, with guidance from the Soviet-backed Communist International (Comintern) and Dutch communist Henk Sneevliet. Chen Duxiu is elected its leader.
Lou Gehrig 1st Grand Slam
1925 NY YankeeLou Gehrig hits his first of 23 career grand slams
Prime Minister Poincaré
1926 French government ofRaymond Poincaré forms
- 1926 National Railway Company of Belgium forms (NMBS/SNCFB)
- 1929 The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words
- 1930 Earthquake strikes Ariano in Italy, killing 1,500
- 1930 Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with home runs (first in 9th, second in 13th)
- 1931 France announces it can't afford to send a team to the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics due to the Great Depression but eventually manages to send a team
- 1931 The United Kingdom transfers the Ashmore and Cartier Islands in the Indian Ocean to Australia
- 1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone is announced (Yale University)
Advance on Stalingrad
1942Adolf Hitler's Directive number 45: order for army to advance on Stalingrad
- 1942 German troops conquer Rostow
- 1942 World War II: Operation Edelweiss (a German plan to gain control over the Caucasus) begins
- 1943 The US 45th Infantry Division occupies the north coast of Termini, Sicily
- 1944 Bretton Woods Conference ends, establishes the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, later part of the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund
- 1944 Chicago Cubs' Bill Nicholson hits four home runs in a doubleheader
- 1944 Soviet Army marches into Lublin, Poland
- 1944 US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WWII
- 1944 US troops occupy Pisa, Italy
Head of Vichy Regime Goes on Trial
1945 MarshalPhilippe Pétain, leader of the French Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II, goes on trial
- 1947 First US Navy air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island
- 1948 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for US President
- 1949 Test cricket debut of England's Brian Close at age 18 years and 149 days
- 1952 General Naguib seizes power and overthrows the monarchy in Egypt (National Day)
- 1955 English speed ace Donald Campbell drives Bluebird K7 to a new water speed record at Ullswater in the English Lake District, becoming the first boat to surpass 200 mph at 202.32 mph (325.60 km/h)
- 1955 NY Yankees Bob Cerv and E Howard are first to hit consecutive pinch home runs
- 1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 km/h
Cronin and Greenberg Inducted
1956Joe Cronin andHank Greenberg are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
- 1956 The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic to organize French overseas territory affairs
- 1958 First four women named to peerage in House of Lords (UK)
Nixon Visits USSR
1959 US Vice PresidentRichard Nixon begins visit to the USSR
Bumbry 1st Black Singer at Bayreuth
1961 American opera singerGrace Bumbry becomes the first Black singer to perform at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, earning 42 curtain calls
Baseball Record
1964 Kansas City A'sBert Campaneris hits a home run on the first pitch he sees from Twins' Jim Kaat and adds a second home run later, also off Kaat in Minnesota
Strangers In The Night
1966Frank Sinatra's album "Strangers in the Night" hits #1 on the US charts and wins a Grammy for Record of the Year and Best Male Vocal Performance
- 1966 John Pennel pole vaults a record of 5.34 meters
- 1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
- 1967 43 die in a race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
- 1967 First successful liver transplant on 19-month-old Julie Rodriguez by Dr Starzl at the University of Colorado
- 1967 Pirate radio station Swinging Scotland closes down for financial reasons
- 1968 Fred Blasie wins fifth wrestling world championship belt
- 1968 PLO's first hijacking of an El Al plane
- 1968 Race riot in Cleveland kills 11 people, including 3 police officers
- 1969 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1970 A ban on parades and public processions until January 1971 is announced by the Stormont government (Northern Ireland Parliament)
- 1970 Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa'id ibn Taimur
- 1971 The British Army carries out early morning raids across Northern Ireland and arrests 48 people
- 1972 First Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched to document global land use change as a joint NASA/USGS program and is later renamed Landsat 1[1]
- 1973 Ozark AL Flight 809 is knocked out of the air by lightning while landing in St. Louis, killing 38
- 1973 US PresidentRichard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
- 1973 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1974 Greek military dictatorship collapses
Absent Friends
1975Alan Ayckbourn's play "Absent Friends" premieres in London
- 1975 LA Dodgers W. Crawford and Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
- 1976 42nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All-Stars 0 (52,895 attendees)
Baseball Record
1976 Baltimore OrioleReggie Jackson homers in six consecutive games
- 1976 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
- 1976 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1976 Wings release single "Let 'em In"
- 1977 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Muslims on hostage charges
- 1978 Franklin Bradshaw is murdered in Salt Lake City by his grandson Marc Schreuder at the instigation of his mother Frances Schreuder
- 1978 Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for the return of two Sinai areas
- 1978 Mayence returns to helps Yankees win their fifth consecutive game
Baseball History
1978 MLB Philadelphia Phillies'Steve Carlton becomes the 78th MLB pitcher to win 200 games
Baseball Record
1979George Brett of the Kansas City Royals achieves his 1,000th career hit in Major League Baseball
River of No Return Wilderness Area
1980 River of No Return Wilderness Area, surrounding the Salmon River in Idaho, designated by US PresidentJimmy Carter
- 1980 Soyuz 37 ferries two cosmonauts, including one Vietnamese, to Salyut 6
- 1982 FCC approves AM stereo radio; KTSA in San Antonio, Texas, becomes the first station in the US to broadcast in stereo
- 1982 International Whaling Commission votes for a total ban on commercial whaling starting in 1985
- 1983 Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a successful deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba, earning the nickname "Gimli Glider"
Baseball Record
1984 KC RoyalsDan Quisenberry achieves his 200th career save
Moroccan King Meets Israeli PM
1986 Moroccan KingHassan II meets with Israeli Prime MinisterShimon Peres
- 1987 Petra Felke (East Germany) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record)
- 1987 RNI (Brooklyn, New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
- 1987 Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39)
- 1988 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record eight field goals vs. Edmonton
- 1989 Fox-TV tops ABC, NBC, and CBS for the first time with America's Most Wanted
Music Concert
1989Ringo Starr's first All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include Joe Walsh,Nils Lofgren, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Clarence Clemons, Dr. John,Billy Preston, and Jim Keltner
- 1989 Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith, Arkansas
- 1990 Grateful Dead keyboardist Brent Mydland performs unexpected last show with the group at the World Music Theater, Tinley Park, Illinois
- 1990 Rosie Jones (St. Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America
- 1990 South African workers' union leader Billy Nair (60) is arrested on treason charges but is released after suffering a heart attack
- 1991 James Farentino of "Dynasty" arrested in Canada for cocaine possession
- 1991 Rob Dibble, back from a 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at and hitting Cubs baserunner Doug Dascenzo as the Cubs win 8-5
Springsteen on Tour
1992Bruce Springsteen begins a world tour, his first with musicians other than the E Street Band
- 1993 China Northwest Airlines BAe146-300 crashes at Yinchuan, killing 55
- 1993 Chris Boardman cycles a world-record 1-hour distance of 52.27 km
- 1993 NY Yankee Mark Hutton becomes the first Australian to be a starting pitcher as they beat the Angels 5-2; Yankees, Red Sox, and Blue Jays are in a three-way tie for first
- 1994 All 40,000 ceiling tiles in the Kingdome must be replaced
Music History
1994 American dancer, actor, and directorGene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
- 1994 Amy Osmond of Utah, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
Baseball History
1994Don Mattingly becomes the sixth New York Yankee to get 2,000 hits
- 1994 Goodwill Games III open in St. Petersburg, Russia
- 1994 Space Shuttle STS-65 Columbia 17 lands after a record 14 days and 55 minutes
- 1995 Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later
- 1997 Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin and Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them
- 1997 The US State Department rules that Turkey's agreement to purchase $23 billion worth of natural gas from Iran does not violate the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act
- 1999 ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan
- 1999 Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father
British Golf Open
2000 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews:Tiger Woods beats Thomas Bjørn andErnie Els by eight shots to win his first Open title and becomes the youngest player at only 24 to win all four major titles
- 2002 The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), a treaty including Germany, France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, expires 50 years after it entered into force
- 2005 Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people
- 2008 Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member
- 2009 Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox becomes the 18th pitcher to throw a perfect game in MLB history, defeating Tampa Bay Rays 5-0
- 2009 The Bank of Canada announces the end of the recession even though it remains nascent and still dependent on government stimulus money
One Direction Formed
2010 English boy band "One Direction" is formed during the "X Factor" television talent show as Niall Horan,Harry Styles,Liam Payne,Zayn Malik, andLouis Tomlinson join together
- 2012 A series of attacks across Iraq kill 103 people
- 2013 19 people are killed and 22 are injured after a tour bus collides with a truck in Saraburi, Thailand
- 2014 20th Commonwealth Games open in Glasgow, Scotland
- 2014 TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes into buildings in Taiwan, killing 44 people
- 2015 NASA's Kepler mission announces the discovery of the most Earth-like planet yet, Kepler-452b, located 1,400 light-years from Earth
Bill Crosby Petition Rejected
2015 Supreme Court rejectsBill Cosby's petition against a civil case of his alleged sexual assault of 15-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1974
- 2016 Suicide bomb in Kabul kills 80 during a protest march; Islamic State claims responsibility
- 2018 "Sabrina" by Nick Drnaso becomes the first graphic novel named to the longlist for Man Booker Prize for best fiction written in English
- 2018 250,000 doses of vaccines for children produced by a firm in China are faulty, according to reports in China
- 2018 Dam collapses while under construction in Attapeu province, Laos, killing at least 20 with more than 100 missing
- 2018 Environmental reports find China on track to reach new emission targets, but carbon dioxide emissions rise to 9.2 billion metric tons in 2017, more than the US and Europe combined
- 2018 International Monetary Fund predicts inflation of one million percent in Venezuela by end of 2018
- 2018 Japan records its highest-ever temperature at 41.1°C (105.98°F) in Kumagaya
- 2018 Slum homes for 30,000 people demolished to make way for a dual carriage way in Nairobi, Kenya
- 2019 At least 36 people killed by a mud landslide in Shuicheng county, Guizhou province, China
- 2019 BHP becomes the first mining company to tackle pollution and says it will invest $400 million to reduce emissions
Boris Johnson PM
2019Boris Johnson is chosen the new British Prime Minister by the ruling Conservative Party to replace Theresa May
- 2019 Investigation launched after no girls born in three months in 132 villages in Uttarkashi district, India, with sex-selective abortions suspected as the reason
- 2019 Nike's Jordan Brand signs 2019 NBA #1 draft pick Zion Williamson to richest multiyear sponsorship deal for a rookie in history; estimated 7 years for $75 million
9/11 Responders Bill
2019 US Senate passes bill championed by comedianJon Stewart to ensure 9/11 first responders fund never runs out of money
- 2020 China launches its first mission to Mars, Tianwen-1, a combined orbiter, lander, and rover, from Wenchang Launch Site, Hainan Island
- 2020 South Africa records more than 400,000 COVID-19 cases amid surging infections and decides to shut schools for a month
- 2020 US confirmed cases of COVID-19 surpass 4 million with a death toll over 143,000; the real number of cases is likely up to 13 times higher according to the CDC
Trump Threatens to Send Feds to US Cities
2020 USPresident Trump says he could send 75,000 federal agents to deal with violence in American cities like Portland, drawing backlash
- 2021 At least 164 people die in floods and landslides caused by heavy rain in Indian state of Maharashtra[1]
- 2021 Indonesia posts a record daily number of COVID-19 deaths at 1,566[1]
- 2021 MLB Cleveland Indians announce team will be renamed the Guardians after the Guardians of Traffic, eight large Art Deco statues on the Hope Memorial Bridge located near their playing field
- 2021 XXXII Summer Olympic Games officially open at the Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan
- 2022 WHO declares monkeypox to be a public health emergency of international concern with 16,000 cases in 75 countries[1]
- 2023 Greece mounts it biggest evacuation, moving 19,000 tourists and residents out of the path of wildfires on the island of Rhodes amid the country's hottest July in 50 years[1]
- 2023 Prime Minister Hun Sen Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) declares a landslide win in the country's election, amid widespread criticism after any credible opponents were barred from running[1]
- 2023 Scott Rolen and Fred McGriff are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York
- 2023 Snap election in Spain fails to produce a majority government with conservative People's Party winning most seats[1]
- 2024 China announces plans to raise its retirement age from 60 for men and 55/50 for women, one of the lowest in the world[1]
- 2024 US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle steps down after the agency failed to prevent an assassination attempt onDonald Trump[1]
- 2025 Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger is sentenced for four consecutive life sentences in prison without parole after pleading guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students in 2022[1]
