- 463 Start of the Lunar Cycle of Hilarius
- 622 Islamic Era begins: Muhammad and his followers begin migration from Mecca to Medina (Hijra)
- 1054 The Great Schism between Western and Eastern churches begins when Roman Cardinal Humbert issues a bull of excommunication against Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, on the altar of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
- 1099 Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire
- 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa [Battle of Al-Uqab]: combined Christian army defeats Almohad Muslim force in a turning point for Muslim power on Iberian peninsula
- 1251 The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stock a Brown Scapular (legend)
- 1338 The six Electors of the Holy Roman Empire signed the Agreement of Rhense confirming Emperor Louis IV.
Coronation of Richard II
1377 Richard II, aged 10, crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, succeeding his grandfather Edward III
Joan of Arc Enters Rheims
1429 Joan of Arc and the French army enter the city of Rheims
- 1439 Kissing is banned in England to stop the spread of the Black Death
Battle at Montlhéry
1465 Battle at Montlhéry between Louis XI and the League of the Public Weal
1519 Public debate between Martin Luther and theologian Johann Eck at Pleissenburg Castle in Liepzig, during which Luther denies the divine right of the Pope
- 1548 La Paz, Bolivia, is founded
- 1573 Alva demands submission of Zealand and Holland
- 1615 Nighttime naval battle off the coast of Peru between a Dutch fleet led by Joris Spilbergen and a Spanish fleet carrying silver; two Spanish ships sink [1]
- 1618 Captain John Gilbert patents first dredger in Britain
1661 First banknotes in Europe are issued by the Bank of Stockholm
- 1672 William III becomes stadtholder of Zeeland
- 1683 Manchu/Chinese Qing Dynasty naval forces under commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
- 1683 Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa reach Vienna
1st Mission in California
1769 Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego the 1st mission in California
The Abduction from the Seraglio
1782 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)" premieres in Vienna with Mozart conducting
- 1790 Congress declares the city of Washington in the District of Columbia, the permanent capital of the United States
- 1798 US Public Health Service forms, and US Marine Hospital is authorized
French Papal Concord
1801 Pope Pius VII and Napoleon sign the Concordat of 1801, guaranteeing religious freedom for Catholics living in France
- 1809 La Paz, Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva led by Pedro Domingo Murillo, the first independent government in Spanish America
- 1856 Statue of Laurens Jansz Coster unveiled in Haarlem
- 1857 Sir Henry Havelock arrives at the Battle of Cawnpore
- 1861 Manassas Campaign [->July 22]
- 1863 Utrecht-Swells railway opens
- 1867 Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady," opens in Amsterdam
- 1867 D.R. Averill of Ohio patents ready-mixed paint
- 1867 Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete
- 1880 Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practise medicine in Canada.
- 1894 Many African American miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
- 1894 Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan and England
- 1895 Lancashire batsman Archie MacLaren scores the first quadruple-hundred (424) in first-class cricket against Somerset at Taunton
- 1896 Indian-born K. S. Ranjitsinhji debuts for England against Australia in the second Test at Old Trafford; he is the first Indian to play Test cricket
Report on the Jameson Raid
1897 The South African Committee, investigating the Jameson Raid releases its report finding that it was conducted almost implicitly through the support and encouragement of Cecil Rhodes and the mining houses in the Transvaal
- 1900 A report appears in London that all foreigners in Peking, China, have been massacred. Although soon exposed as false, the report helps mobilize support for relief of foreigners
- 1900 Russia launch an offensive against the Chinese in Manchuria
- 1901 The Fawcett Commission headed by Millicent Fawcett is established as a result of an outcry against the treatment of Afrikaners in concentration camps during the South African War
- 1902 John McGraw officially becomes manager of MLB New York Giants; 30-year tenure begins (1902-32)
- 1904 Islands of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
- 1909 MLB Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators play longest scoreless game in AL history - 18 innings at Bennett Field in Detroit, Michigan [1]
- 1912 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by B. A. Fiske
- 1914 Socialist conference in Brussels (Kautsky, Trotski, and Rosa Luxemburg)
- 1920 General Amos Fries is appointed as the first U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service Chief
Greco-Turkish War
1921 Encouraged by the British, King Constantine of Greece launches a campaign to take Asia Minor from nationalists under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1924 Conference over German recovery payments begins in London
- 1924 New York Giants' George Kelly is the first to hit home runs in six consecutive games
- 1925 The first parliament in Iraq opened by King Feisal in Baghdad
- 1926 Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc
- 1926 National Geographic takes first natural-color undersea photos
- 1927 Augusto César Sandino begins 5½-year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
- 1935 First automatic parking meter in the United States is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- 1936 First X-ray photo of arterial circulation in Rochester, NY
- 1936 The New York Giants are 10½ games back in the NL and go on to win the pennant
Operation Sealion
1940 Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion)
- 1940 NSB'er Woudenberg is appointed as NVV trustee
- 1941 100°F (38°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle, Washington
- 1941 Joe DiMaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th consecutive game
- 1942 Police take Jewish citizens (2,573 men; 5,165 women; and 3,625 children) from their homes in Paris and incarcerate them at the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium to process them for deportation
- 1944 Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 and break their 16-game losing streak; they will lose another 5 in a row
- 1945 Australian Services win third Victory Test Cricket by four wickets
- 1945 Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atomic bomb
1945 First test detonation of an atomic bomb occurs at Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico, as part of the US Manhattan Project
- 1946 A US court martial sentences 46 members of the SS to death for Battle of the Bulge crimes in Dachau
- 1946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (first time in San Francisco history)
- 1947 Bobo Newsom wins his 200th game, his first as a Yankee, and the Yankees' 18th straight in the nightcap Vic Raschi extends the streak to 19
- 1948 MLB manager merry-go-round: Philadelphia Phillies - Ben Chapman out, Eddie Sawyer in; NY Giants - Mel Ott out, Leo Durocher in; Brooklyn Dodgers - Durocher out, Burt Shotton in
- 1950 FIFA World Cup Final, Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Alcides Ghiggia scores a 79th minute winner as Uruguay defeats Brazil 2-1
- 1950 Single-day 16-team home run record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
- 1951 Len Hutton scores his 100th century, Yorkshire vs. Surrey at The Oval
- 1951 Leopold III, King of the Belgians, abdicates in favor of his son Baudouin I
Catcher in Rye
1951 Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger is published by Little Brown and Company
- 1953 KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, Minnesota (NBC) broadcasts for the first time
1955 Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina clinches his third Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship by finishing second to fellow Mercedes driver Stirling Moss in the British Grand Prix at Aintree
- 1956 Detroit Tigers and Briggs Stadium are sold for a then-record $5.5 million
- 1956 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
- 1956 King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England
- 1956 Last Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
Transcontinental Record
1957 US Marine Corps Major John Glenn sets a transcontinental speed record, flying a Vought F8U Crusader from Los Angeles to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes, and 8 seconds
- 1960 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer [1]
- 1960 George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
- 1961 American Ralph Boston sets the long jump world record with a leap of 27 feet, 2 inches
- 1963 Amazon river carries 190,000 m3/sec of water (record)
- 1964 Republican convention selects Barry Goldwater as presidential candidate
- 1965 Mont Blanc Road tunnel between France & Italy opens
Mao Swims the Yangtze
1966 72 year-old Mao Zedong swims the Yangtze River near Wuhan to prove his strength as part of his launch of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution [1]
- 1966 Nigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of European Economic Community
- 1966 Number of banned persons in South Africa totals 936; the individuals are banned under various laws, most prominently the Suppression of Communism and Riotous Assembly Acts
- 1967 American pop-rock group "The Monkees" perform at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York, with psychedelic rock Jimi Hendrix Experience as opening act;
- 1967 British rock band "The Who" begin 1st full US tour, appearing at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California, and then going coast-to-coast opening for Herman's Hermits
Newport Folk Festival
1967 Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell makes her Newport Folk Festival debut at a songwriters' workshop performance in Newport, Rhode Island
- 1967 Prison brawl ignites barracks in Jay, Florida, killing 37
1969 Apollo 11 launches, carrying the first men to land on the Moon
- 1969 Minnesota Twins' Rod Carew steals home for his career best 7th time of the season, against Chicago
- 1970 9th British Commonwealth Games open in Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1970 Cincinnati Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburgh's new Three Rivers Stadium, 3-2
- 1970 Iraq's constitution goes into effect
- 1971 The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) withdraw from Stormont (North Ireland Parliament) after no inquiry is announced into the shooting dead of Seamus Cusack and Desmond Beattie
- 1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople
- 1972 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles give their final live performance in Washington, DC
Nixon’s Secret Tapes Revealed
1973 During the televised Senate Watergate hearings, former White House aide Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of Richard Nixon's Oval Office taping system
Kuhn Re-Elected Commissioner
1975 Major League Baseball owners re-elect Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to a 7-year term
- 1976 Rock duo Loggins & Messina break up after 6 years
Saddam Hussein Rises to Power
1979 Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr is succeeded by Saddam Hussein
- 1980 Polish railway workers block railway to Russia
Reagan Nominated
1980 Ronald Reagan nominated for US President by Republicans in Detroit
- 1981 India performs nuclear Test
- 1981 Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously
- 1982 CDC report on AIDS symptoms in three hemophiliacs
- 1982 NASA launches Landsat 4 to create thematic maps of Earth
Sun Myung Moon Sentenced
1982 Sun Myung Moon is sentenced to 18 months in prison for filing false federal income tax returns
- 1983 Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities in Britain's worst helicopter accident
- 1985 Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent
- 1987 Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
- 1987 New York Yankees Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season & ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8)
- 1987 Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81)
- 1988 Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100m in 9.78 sec
- 1988 Florence Joyner runs 100m in women's world record 10.49 seconds
- 1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets the women's heptathlon world record with 7,215 points
- 1988 Landmark Japanese animated cyberpunk manga film "Akira" released, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo [1]
- 1988 San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings
- 1989 South Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, holds its third annual congress and intensifies its campaign against apartheid
- 1990 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in the Philippines
- 1990 Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins
- 1990 NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-no fatalities
- 1990 Parliament of Ukraine adopts Declaration of State Sovereignty , laying the groundwork for independence from the Soviet Union
- 1990 Rick Dee's "Into the Night" premieres on ABC-TV
ANC Report Police Violence
1990 The ANC send a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demand an end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police action in rural areas of South Africa
- 1993 President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
- 1993 S. van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for £705,500 in London
- 1993 SF outfielder Darren Lewis sets record of 267 consecutive errorless games
The Three Tenors
1994 "The Three Tenors" Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, and Luciano Pavarotti, perform with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and chorus of the Los Angeles Opera, conducted by Zubin Mehta at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California; an estimated 1.3 billion viewers watch the worldwide broadcast
- 1994 Baseball Night in America premieres (no Saturday day games)
- 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy first collides with Jupiter (collisions continue until 22 July)
- 1994 Shreveport Pirates lose first CFL home game 35-34 to the Toronto Argonauts at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana
- 1994 Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights
Plane Crash Kills JFK Jr.
1999 John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard; the Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy
Martha Stewart Sentenced
2004 Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home confinement for lying to federal investigators
Millennium Park
2004 Millennium Park, considered one of Chicago's most ambitious architectural projects of the early 21st century, opens to the public under Mayor Richard M. Daley
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2005 "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", the 6th book in the series by J. K. Rowling, is published worldwide. 9 million copies sell in 24 hrs
- 2006 14th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Annika Sörenstam win
- 2007 An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast, Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.
- 2008 Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim is arrested on sodomy charges in Malaysia
- 2011 NASA's Dawn space probe enters orbit around the protoplanet Vesta
- 2013 27 children are killed and 25 are hospitalized after eating lunch contaminated with insecticide in India
Bashar al-Assad's Rule
2014 Bashar al-Assad is sworn in for a third term as President and Dictator of Syria
- 2014 Death toll within Gaza surpasses 200 people following air strikes by Israel
- 2014 Hamas and Islamic Jihad offer Israel a 10-year truce with 10 conditions, which include lifting the blockade and the release of prisoners; it is rejected
- 2014 Israel intensifies strikes on Gaza
- 2015 Scientists reveal the first close-up pictures of Pluto sent by the New Horizons probe
- 2015 Shootings in Chattanooga at a US military recruitment centre and a naval reserve training center kill five and injure others
Trump Picks Pence
2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announces Indiana governor Mike Pence as his Vice Presidential running mate
- 2017 BBC announces first-ever female Doctor in "Doctor Who" will be played by Jodie Whittaker
Spurs Re-sign Leonard
2017 Kawhi Leonard re-signs with the San Antonio Spurs to a five-year, $90 million contract
- 2017 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats Marin Čilić 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 for a record 8th Wimbledon men's title
- 2018 12 new moons discovered orbiting Jupiter bringing planet's moon total to 79, by scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science
- 2018 Historic cemetery (1878-1911) announced discovered near Houston, Texas, containing 95 remains though to be African Americans forced into labour
Mamma Mia! - Here We Go Again
2018 Musical film sequel "Mamma Mia! - Here We Go Again" premieres at Hammersmith-Apollo, London; worldwide box office receipts total over $400 million
Helsinki Summit
2018 US President Donald Trump appears to accept the word of Russian President Vladimir Putin over US intelligence services about Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, in an interview after the two leader's Helsinki Summit
- 2023 Highest temperature ever recorded in China of 52.2 C (126 F) at Sanbao township in Xinjiang's Turpan Depression [1]
- 2023 Jam rock band Dead & Company, an outgrowth of the Grateful Dead, plays the final show of its final concert tour, at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California
- 2023 Persian Gulf International Airport on Iran’s southwestern coast hits a heat index high of 152 degrees Fahrenheit (66.7 C) at 12:30 p.m., beyond what humans can endure [1]
Jackson Steps Down
2023 Rev. Jesse Jackson steps down as head of Rainbow/PUSH after leading the non-profit organization for more than five decades
Speak Now Debuts at #1
2023 Taylor Swift’s re-recorded "Speak Now" album debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200, her 12th No. 1 album, surpassing Barbra Streisand's record for #1 albums by a female artist [1]
- 2024 Paraguay carries out the largest cocaine bust in its history with "Operation Sweetness" netting four tons inside a shipment of sugar [1]
- 2025 At least 61 people die in fire at the recently opened five-story Al-Kornish Hypermarket and restaurant in Kut, Iraq
- 2025 At least 63 people die in monsoon torrential rains in Punjab, Pakistan, within 24 hours [1]
- 2025 Members of rock band Jane’s Addiction file dueling lawsuits over singer Perry Farrell's onstage scuffle with guitarist Dave Navarro in Boston, which resulted in cancellation of their reunion tour and a planned album
- 2025 One of three known "Rosebud" props from the 1941 film 'Citizen Kane' sells at auction for $14.75M [1]
- 2025 The Israeli Air Force bombs the Syrian Defense Ministry headquarters and areas near the presidential palace in Damascus [1]
