| 2015 | Google, Inc. restructures, placing its search business and its various research ventures into a holding company called Alphabet; Google will begin reporting under the new company with the fourth quarter of this year |
| 2014 | Rory McIlroy wins the PGA Championship, marking his fourth major championship; McIlroy is now one of only four players in golf history to reach this achievement by age 25 |
| 2014 | Fossils of a new species of giant penguin, named Palaeeudyptes klekowskii, have been found on Seymour Island in Antarctica; the penguins lived about 40 million years ago and likely weighed about 250 pounds |
| 2013 | Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium hosts the 2013 World Championships in Athletics |
| 2013 | U.S. President Barack Obama announces a series of NSA reforms aimed at minimizing criticism over the NSA's electronic surveillance program |
| 2012 | Ghana's state funeral, held in Accra for President John Atta Mills, attracts tens of thousands |
| 2012 | For the first time since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the United States plans to help clean up herbicide Agent Orange from areas in Vietnam |
| 2011 | New Zealand's highest mountain, the south ridge of Aoraki/Mount Cook, is renamed Hillary Ridge after Sir Edmund Hillary, first to conquer Mt. Everest |
| 2011 | Rioting takes place in English cities including Manchester, liverpool, Salford, Birmingham and Nottingham; police from Scotland are called in to help |
| 2010 | More than 5,000 people lose their homes and crops when the Niger River bursts its banks |
| 2010 | The death toll from the Gansu province flooding and landslide disaster rises to 702 with 1,100 people missing |
| 1997 | 36th Walker Cup: U.S., 18-6 |
| 1997 | Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine |
| 1997 | Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to record 5 year, $575 Million deal |
| 1997 | Deb Richard wins LPGA Friendly's Classic |
| 1997 | Northville Long Island Senior Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Vijay Singh of Fiji wins Buick Open at the Warwick Hills Golf |
| 1996 | Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican Vice Presidential running mate |
| 1996 | Dare and Go ends Cigars record tying victory streak at 16 |
| 1996 | Parlisha Williams (Louisiana) crowned Ms Black USA Metroplex |
| 1996 | Yankees lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24 |
| 1995 | Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly |
| 1994 | Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841) |
| 1993 | Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA |
| 1992 | Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched |
| 1992 | Soyuz TM-15 lands |
| 1991 | "Little Night Music" closes at New York State New York City after 7 performances |
| 1991 | NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53 |
| 1990 | U.S.'s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus |
| 1989 | A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning |
| 1989 | Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge |
| 1988 | Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec) |
| 1988 | Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador |
| 1988 | U.N. estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion |
| 1987 | Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully |
| 1987 | Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball |
| 1986 | "Me and My Girl" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 1420 performances |
| 1986 | Betsy King wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| 1986 | Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired |
| 1986 | Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway New York City |
| 1986 | Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cards to a 5-4 win over Pirates |
| 1985 | A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 home runs (off Matt Young at Seattle) |
| 1985 | Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47 million |
| 1985 | Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles |
| 1984 | Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run |
| 1981 | Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business |
| 1981 | Pete Rose, 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record |
| 1981 | Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes |
| 1980 | 62nd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 274 at Oak Hill, New York |
| 1980 | 8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley |
| 1980 | Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Texas |
| 1979 | Ecuador adopts its constitution |
| 1979 | Wings release "Getting Closer" and "Baby's Request" |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1977 | U.S. and Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord |
| 1977 | U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test |
| 1977 | Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer |
| 1975 | 57th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 276 at Firestone Akron |
| 1975 | David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon |
| 1974 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open |
| 1973 | 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St. Station |
| 1972 | 1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada |
| 1972 | Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession |
| 1971 | 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research |
| 1971 | Twins' Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 home runs, and adds his 501st |
| 1970 | Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on "lewd and lascivious behavior" |
| 1969 | Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win |
| 1969 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Stroh's-WBLY Golf Open |
| 1968 | Race riot in Miami, Chicago and Little Rock |
| 1968 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Concord Golf Open |
| 1966 | 1st lunar orbiter launched by U.S. |
| 1966 | Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere and leaving it again |
| 1965 | Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km |
| 1964 | WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | England applies for membership in European Common Market |
| 1960 | Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space |
| 1960 | Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea |
| 1958 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Macktown Golf Open |
| 1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1956 | 23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000) |
| 1954 | Netherlands Indonesian Union breaks up |
| 1954 | Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins |
| 1952 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament |
| 1949 | Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1949 | National Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense |
| 1948 | ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, New York) |
| 1948 | Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC |
| 1948 | Bradman scores 133* Australia vs. Lancashire, 216 minutes, 17 fours |
| 1948 | WABC TV channel 7 in New York, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1945 | Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged |
| 1944 | Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cincinnati Reds 2-0 |
| 1944 | Race riots in Athens Alabama |
| 1944 | U.S. recaptures Guam from Japanese |
| 1944 | U.S./French offensive at Aleneon |
| 1943 | Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali |
| 1943 | Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots |
| 1942 | General B. Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in North Africa |
| 1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland |
| 1940 | Prince Bernhard Fund forms |
| 1939 | 2nd Dutch De Geer government forms (1st with Social Democrats) |
| 1938 | 119 degrees F (48 degrees C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record) |
| 1936 | 114 degrees F (46 degrees C) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record) |
| 1936 | 120 degrees F (49 degrees C) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record) |
| 1934 | Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player |
| 1929 | Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd and last NL win |
| 1926 | Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed |
| 1925 | Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die |
| 1921 | Franklin D. Roosevelt stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello |
| 1920 | Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania |
| 1920 | Treaty of Sevres (Allies and Turkey) |
| 1920 | Turkish Government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate |
| 1919 | Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine |
| 1916 | Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia |
| 1914 | At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary |
| 1914 | German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany |
| 1914 | German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas |
| 1914 | Royal Nationally Steuncomite forms |
| 1913 | 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses |
| 1911 | Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords |
| 1909 | Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins |
| 1907 | Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Beijing to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally |
| 1906 | Pope Pius X bans Associations cults |
| 1904 | Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest. |
| 1904 | Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock |
| 1904 | Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur |
| 1904 | Yankees Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games |
| 1901 | Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners |
| 1900 | 1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0) |
| 1897 | Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club) |
| 1895 | 1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagners "Rienzi") |
| 1893 | Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act |
| 1889 | Dan Rylands patents screw cap |
| 1888 | New York Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record |
| 1887 | Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois) |
| 1885 | Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt) |
| 1877 | Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians |
| 1869 | O. B. Brown patents moving picture projector |
| 1866 | Transatlantic cable laid-President Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria |
| 1862 | Battle of Nueces River, Texas |
| 1861 | Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-General Lyon killed |
| 1856 | Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana |
| 1846 | Congress charters "nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution |
| 1833 | Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200 |
| 1831 | Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery |
| 1831 | Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die |
| 1827 | Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada) |
| 1822 | Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die |
| 1821 | Missouri admitted as 24th U.S. state |
| 1809 | Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day) |
| 1792 | Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI |
| 1790 | Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage |
| 1787 | Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik" |
| 1787 | Turkey declares war on Russia |
| 1774 | 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing |
| 1759 | Carlos III becomes king of Spain |
| 1743 | Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated |
| 1678 | Netherlands and France signs peace treaty in Nijmegen |
| 1675 | King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich |
| 1675 | Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam |
| 1664 | Austria/Turkey signs Peace of Vasvar |
| 1653 | Sea battle at Heijde, English fleet beats Dutch |
| 1628 | Wasa sinks at Stockholm, 50 killed |
| 1627 | Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle |
| 1622 | County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges |
| 1585 | English Queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: Aid for Netherlands |
| 1557 | Battle at St. Quentin: Lamoraal of Egmont and Philibert beat France |
| 1519 | Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate Earth |
| 1512 | Battle at Brest: English fleet beats France |
| 1511 | Portugese troops occupy parts of Malakka |
| 1500 | Diego Diaz discovers Madagascar |
| 1497 | John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia" |
| 1461 | Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain |
| 1304 | Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch and French fleet beat Flemish fleet |
| 955 | Battle at Lech: German king Otto I beats Hungarians |
| 843 | Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German and Charles the Bare divide France |
| 654 | Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I |
| 70 | "2nd Temple" of Jews is set aflame (approx) |
