Battle of Adrianople
324 Battle of Adrianople: Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats his co-emperor Licinius, who flees to Byzantium
- 987 Hugh Capet, is coronated as King of France, in Paris, after being elected by the nobility
- 1090 Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor Henry IV beats earl Egbert II
1250 Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself
Hook and Cod Wars End
1428 Treaty of Delft signed between Jacqueline of Bavaria and Philip the Good of Burgundy, ending the Hook and Cod wars in the County of Holland
- 1630 Emperor Ferdinand II opens the Diet of Regensburg meeting in Regensburg, Germany
- 1720 Sweden and Denmark the Treaty of Frederiksborg
Fort Necessity Surrendered
1754 Seven Years' War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces after a difficult defense in heavy rain during the struggle for control of the Ohio Country
- 1767 Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date)
- 1767 Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage in the Pacific, commanded by Philip Carteret
- 1775 George Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1778 British forces massacre 360 men, women, and children in Wyoming, Pennsylvania
- 1778 Frederick II of Prussia declares war on Austria
- 1806 Michael Keens exhibits the first large-scale cultivated strawberry, a large fruit strawberry called the Keen Seedling
- 1814 War of 1812: Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada
- 1819 First savings bank in New York, the Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, opens its doors
- 1836 Wisconsin Territory is officially established in the US
- 1839 First state normal school in the US opens in Lexington, Massachusetts, with three students
- 1841 British astronomer John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus
- 1844 The last pair of Great Auks is killed
- 1848 Slavery is ended in the Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) when thousands of enslaved people protest at Frederiksted, St. Croix
- 1849 French forces enter Rome to restore Pope Pius IX to power, providing a major obstacle to Italian unification
- 1852 Congress authorizes the US's second mint in San Francisco, California
- 1861 Colonel Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general
- 1861 Martinsburg, Virginia: Confederate forces pull out before US advance
1861 Pony Express arrives in San Francisco with overland letters from New York
1863 Battle of Gettysburg, the largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War
- 1864 Battle of Chattahoochie River, Georgia [until Jul 9]
- 1864 Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Federals evacuate in face of Early's advance
- 1876 Montenegro formally declares war on the Ottoman Empire
- 1883 SS Daphne sinks on Clyde River in Scotland; 195 people die
- 1884 Dow Jones publishes its first stock index, the Dow Jones Transportation Average
- 1886 First New-York Tribune printed using the first commercial Linotype machine
Benz Drives First Car
1886 In Germany, Karl Benz first drives the first automobile in Mannheim at a top speed of 16 km/h (10 mph)
- 1890 Idaho is admitted as the 43rd US state
Congo Given to Belgium
1890 King Leopold II gives Congo, previously a private possession, to Belgium
- 1898 American troops, en route to the Philippines on the SS China, raise the American flag on Wake Island
- 1898 Royal Dutch Automobile Club forms (KNAC)
- 1898 Spanish-American War: US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba
- 1900 The British evacuate Rustenburg and occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek in the Anglo-Boer war
- 1900 Trying to stem the growing popular resentment, Tsar Nicholas of Russia issues a decree that abolishes the banishment of dissidents and troublemakers to Siberia
- 1905 American boxer Marvin Hart scores a 12th round KO of Jack Root in Reno, Nevada for the vacant world heavyweight title
- 1905 Kuyper government forms in Holland
- 1907 Papal decree forbids the modernization of theology
- 1908 Indian nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak arrested for sedition by the British in wake of Muzzafarpur bombing
- 1912 NY Giants pitcher Rube Marquard ties Tim Keefe's 1888 MLB record 19 game win-streak with 2-1 win v Brooklyn Dodgers; has 21 with 2 end-of-season in 1911
- 1913 A Common Tern is banded in Maine and later found dead in Africa in 1919, making it the first bird known to have crossed the Atlantic
- 1913 Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors
- 1915 After exploding a bomb in US Senate reception room previous day, Erich Muenter, a German instructor at Cornell University, shoots JP Morgan for representing the British government in war contract negotiations
- 1917 Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride Palace, Petrograd
- 1918 Suze Groenweg of the Social Democratic Workers' Party is the first woman elected in Dutch parliament
- 1920 Java Technical School opens in Bandung
- 1920 Royal Air Force holds the first Pageant air display at Hendon, England (later known as the RAF Display)
Nansen Passports
1922 Intergovernmental Conference on Identity Certificates for Russian Refugees, convened by Fridtjof Nansen in Geneva, creates the Nansen passports for stateless persons
- 1923 Dockers' strike in Hull, Grimsby, Cardiff, and Bristol over to London
1st Demo of Color TV
1928 John Logie Baird demonstrates the first color television transmission in London
- 1929 Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories make foam rubber
- 1930 US Veterans Administration is created
Schmeling vs. Stribling
1931 German boxer Max Schmeling beats American Young Stribling by TKO in 15 in Cleveland in his first heavyweight title defense; first major fight broadcast live on national radio
- 1932 After 30 years as manager of the New York Giants, John McGraw retires from baseball (2,583 wins / 1,948 losses NY)
- 1934 FDIC pays off first insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria, Illinois
Del Mar Turf Club
1937 Del Mar Turf Club opens for racing with crooner Bing Crosby as president and actor Pat O'Brien as a club officer
- 1938 British East Coast Main Line locomotive No. 4468 "Mallard" reached a speed of 202.6 km/h (125.9 mph) setting new record for steam powered trains
Eternal Flame Lit at Gettysburg
1938 President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield
Heinkel Demos Rocket Plane
1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates the He 176, the world's first aircraft powered solely by a liquid-fueled rocket engine, to Adolf Hitler at Rechlin, reaching about 800 kph (500 mph)
- 1940 ARP-leader and Former Dutch PM Hendrikus Colijn argues cooperation with Germany
1940 British Royal Navy damages the French fleet in Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, to prevent Germany seizing it
- 1940 German occupiers forbid using Dutch royal names
- 1942 Adolf Hitler visits Field Marshal Von Bock's headquarters in Ukraine
- 1942 German troops march into Sebastopol, Crimea
- 1943 British Liberator bomber sinks German U-628 in Bay of Biscay
- 1943 Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126
Double Indemnity
1944 "Double Indemnity" film noir, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, premieres at the Keith's Theater in Baltimore, Maryland before opening nationwide
- 1944 Oriole Park, then a minor league baseball stadium burns down in Baltimore; cause, speculated discarded cigarette
49th Secretary of State
1945 James F. Byrnes becomes 49th US Secretary of State, succeeding Edward Stettinius
- 1946 First Dutch government of Louis Beel forms
- 1946 The Cape Passive Resistance Council is formed at a mass meeting in Cape Town, attended by 1,500 people
- 1947 252,288 people, a record number, pass through Grand Central Terminal train station in NYC
Soviets Reject Marshall Plan
1947 The Soviet Union declines to participate in the Marshall Plan
- 1948 Kidnapper Caryl Chessman is sentenced to death, California; execution doesn't happen until 1960
- 1952 American ocean liner SS United States departs New York Harbor on her maiden crossing of Atlantic Ocean; completes voyage in record time of 82 hours 40 minutes [1]
- 1952 Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by US Congress
Andy Williams Show
1958 "The Andy Williams Show" premieres on ABC as a summer series (later moves to CBS, and then to NBC)
- 1959 First exhibition of Karen, the bongo antelope, opens at Cleveland Zoo in Ohio
- 1962 Algerian Revolution against French rule ends (Algeria gains independence on 5th July)
- 1963 National Airways Corporation Dakota DC-3 crashes in the Kaimai Ranges in New Zealand, killing all 23 passengers and crew in New Zealand’s worst domestic civil aviation accident
- 1965 Harold Strachan, member of the Communist Party of South Africa and Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, is served with a restriction order in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act
- 1965 USSR and Persia sign dam building and economic aid pact
- 1966 Atlanta Braves Tony Cloninger, 1st NL player and only pitcher to hit 2 grand slams in a MLB game (17-3 v SF Giants)
- 1966 Race riots in Omaha, Nebraska
- 1967 "News at 10" premieres on British TV
- 1968 As part of a series of protests against housing conditions in Derry, the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) hold a sit-down protest on the newly opened second deck of the Craigavon Bridge in the city, Northern Ireland
- 1968 Cleveland Indians pitcher Luis Tiant strikes out MLB record 19 Minnesota Twins in 1-0 win; record for 10 inning game; also record 32 Ks in consecutive games
Newport Jazz Festival
1969 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island opens, 78,000 attend over 4 days; performers include: George Benson; Blood, Sweat, and Tears; Jeff Beck; James Brown; Bill Evans; Sun Ra; Mothers of Invention; Dave Brubeck; Miles Davis; Stephane Grapelli; and Sly & The Family Stone
- 1969 Soviet N1 rocket explodes just after launch off at Baikonur Cosmodrome; one of the largest-ever non-nuclear human-made explosion, debris spread over 10 km
Atlanta International Pop Festival
1970 Atlanta International Pop Festival opens, 200,000 attend over 3 days; performers include Allman Brothers; Grand Funk Railroad, Jimi Hendrix Experience; Richie Havens; Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys; B.B. King; Mott the Hoople; and John Sebastian
- 1970 British Dan-Air Flight crashes at Barcelona, killing all 112 people
- 1970 California Angels pitcher Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0
- 1970 The British Army impose curfew on Falls Road area of Belfast as they search for weapons; coming under attack from the Official IRA (OIRA) and republican rioters
- 1972 The Ulster Defence Association and the British Army come into conflict about a 'no-go' area at Ainsworth Avenue, Belfast
- 1972 Themba Sono is forced to resign as president of South African Student Organisation (SASO)
- 1973 Brothers Gaylord (Hall of Fame) and Jim Perry (3-time All Star) face each other for only time in MLB, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, Gaylord charged with loss
- 1973 General Vernon A. Walters serves as acting director of CIA
- 1974 Pitching in MLB-record 13th consecutive game for the LA Dodgers, Mike Marshall saves Tommy John's 4-1 win over the Cincinnati Reds
- 1974 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 14 carries two cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
- 1976 Adolfo Suárez becomes premier of Spain
- 1976 Brian Wilson performs with the Beach Boys for the first time after his 12 year stage absence, at Anaheim Stadium in California
- 1976 Israel launches hostage rescue mission of 106 Air France crew and passengers held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers. Three hostages die along with all the hijackers, numerous Ugandan soldiers and Yonatan Netanyahu, an Israeli soldier.
1976 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Sweden's Björn Borg beats Ilie Năstase of Romania 6-4, 6-2, 9-7 for the first of five straight Wimbledon titles
- 1977 The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded
Seattle Slew
1977 Triple Crown champion Seattle Slew’s nine-race winning streak ends in the Swaps Stakes at Hollywood Park, where he finishes fourth
- 1978 US Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words" in 1973
- 1980 Biggest MLB crowd in 7 years, 73,096 watch Indians beat NY Yankees, 7-0 at Cleveland Stadium
- 1981 NYC transit fare rises from 60 cents to 75 cents, new brass Y-cut-out token issued
- 1982 Riot at building site of Stopera concert hall in Amsterdam causes Ÿ1 million in damages
World Record 100m
1983 American Calvin Smith sets new world record of 9.93 for 100m in Colorado Springs, beating Jim Hines 1968 mark by 0.02 seconds
- 1983 Texas Rangers explode for MLB single extra innings record 12 runs in 15th inning of 16-4 win v Oakland
- 1984 After 22 years, England Test cricket spinner Derek Underwood hits a maiden 1st class century (111) for Kent v Sussex at Hastings
- 1984 US Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
CBS Thwarts Turner
1985 CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's attempted takeover
- 1985 Tinker Bell's first nightly flight at Walt Disney World Resort, Florida
- 1986 Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) is dissolved by the Emir of Kuwait
- 1987 Controversial NY Mets MLB star Darryl Strawberry threatens teammates for criticising his play; he is now an ordained minister
- 1987 Two men become the first hot-air balloon travelers to cross the Atlantic
- 1988 Gene Nelson of the Oakland A's becomes first AL pitcher to steal a base since 1973 in 9-8 win over Toronto Blue Jays
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge
1988 The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus
- 1988 US Vincennes in Strait of Hormuz shoots Iran Airbus A300, killing all 290 people
- 1989 Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3,000m steeplechase world record of 8:05.39 in Stockholm, Sweden
- 1989 Tim Burton's "Batman" sets record for quickest $100 million in 10 days
- 1989 US Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
- 1990 Liberian President Samuel Kanyon Doe offers to resign in response to rebel incursions in his country; he is later kidnapped and executed
- 1990 Members of 2 Live Crew are formally charged with obscenity in Florida
- 1991 Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year lease for the Cleveland Indians to play MLB at Jacobs Field
- 1992 South Africa's FIFA membership reinstated (expelled 1961); united non-racial FA, political prisoners released, free political parties
- 1994 FIFA World Cup: In a huge upset Romania eliminates Argentina 3-2 from the round of 16 at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California
- 1994 The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety, with 46 people killed in crashes
- 1996 UK House of Commons announces that the Stone of Scone, aka the Stone of Destiny, used in the coronation of Scottish and subsequently English and British monarchs, will be returned to Scotland after 700 years in Westminster Abbey
- 1997 Mississippi becomes the first state to settle lawsuit against tobacco manufacturers for $3.6 billion
- 1998 "Svoboda," oldest Ukrainian language newspaper in US, founded in 1893 in Jersey City, New Jersey, contracts from daily to weekly publication
- 2001 A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people
- 2001 At a meeting of its oil ministers, OPEC agrees to maintain current production quotas; ministers indicate that, if Iraqi oil returns to the market, they may cut production in response to maintain their desired level of prices
- 2004 Official opening of Bangkok's subway system
- 2005 Spain's national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect
- 2006 Asteroid labeled 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) past Earth
- 2006 Detroit Red Wings legend Steve Yzerman officially retires from the NHL, finishing with 692 goals and 1,755 points
Smile
2006 English singer-songwriter Lily Allen releases her debut single "Smile"
- 2007 "Just Got Started Lovin' You" single released by James Otto (Billboard Song of the Year 2008)
Swiss Win America's Cup
2007 America's Cup: Swiss defender Alinghi beats Team New Zealand by 1 second to take the series 5-2 off Valencia, Spain
- 2009 Mark II.5 SkyTrain cars enter service in Metro Vancouver
- 2012 Antonio Esfandiari wins a record $18.3 million after winning the 2012 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In
- 2012 Truck bombing kills 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq
Morsi Ousted in Coup
2013 President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is deposed by the military in a coup d'état with Adly Mansour appointed interim president
- 2014 Germany passes first nation-wide minimum wage law at 8.5 euros
- 2015 Adelaide Crows Australian Rules Football coach Phil Walsh is murdered by his son Cy at his Somerton Park home
- 2017 Bus crash in traffic jam, resulting in fire, kills 18 people near Muenchberg, Germany
Macron Proposes Radical Changes
2017 French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech at the Palace of Versailles proposing significant government changes, including a reduction in the number of MPs
- 2018 Australian cricket batsman Aaron Finch breaks his own T20 International record smashing 172 from 76 balls vs Zimbabwe in Harare, opening stand with D'Arcy Short (223) also a record
Cardi B Sets Rapper Record
2018 Cardi B is the first female rapper to achieve two #1 hits on the US Billboard chart with "I Like It" featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin
Campus Affirmative Action Reversed
2018 Donald Trump's Justice and Education Departments rescind Obama-era affirmative action guidance for college admissions [1]
Najib Razak Arrested
2018 Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is arrested on corruption charges, accused of stealing $700 million from state development fund 1MDB
- 2018 French President Emmanuel Macron visits the New Afrika Shrine nightclub in Lagos during his two-day tour of Nigeria
- 2018 Souad Abderrahim is elected the first female mayor of Tunis, Tunisia
- 2018 Worst monsoon rains in decades swamp Lahore, Pakistan, kills six people
- 2019 Atlético Madrid sign Portugal forward Joao Felix for €126m (£113m) from Benfica in the fifth most expensive transfer in football history
- 2019 Heavy monsoon rains strike Mumbai and surrounding Maharashtra state in India killing at least 43, worst flooding in a decade
- 2019 Italian David-Maria Sassoli chosen as new European Parliament President
- 2019 More than a million people ordered to evacuate Japanese island of Kyushu amid warnings of mudslides after 1,000mm (39in) of rainfall
- 2019 US produces the most waste per head globally and recycles the least at 35% according to new research by Verisk Maplecroft, Germany recycles the most at 68%
- 2020 Major League Baseball All-Star Game planned to be hosted on July 14 by the LA Dodgers is cancelled due to government restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 2020 MLB Cleveland Indians owner Paul Dolan announces he would review changing the organization's name
- 2021 Mudslides crash through town of Atami, Japan, after torrential rain, killing 19 people with over 100 initially missing
- 2021 Worst wildfires in Cyprus' history begin in Limassol district, spreading in next few days and killing four people
- 2022 Sri Lanka says it has less than one day's worth of fuel, as its economic crisis deepens, closing schools and stopping public transport [1]
- 2023 Hottest global temperature ever recorded as average global temperature tops 17.01 degrees Celsius (previous record 16.92 degrees Celsius August 13, 2016)
- 2023 Israel launches its biggest military operation against militants in the Jenin refugee camp, West Bank, Palestine, in 20 years; killing eight people and injuring 100 according to Palestinian authorities [1]
- 2023 State of Emergency declared in Yakutia region, Siberia, as more than 110 forest fires rage across 61,000 hectares (151,000 acres) [1]
- 2024 Earliest example of narrative cave art is dated to 51,200 years ago, from Indonesian caves of Maros-Pangkep, South Sulawesi, depicting people hunting a pig [1]
- 2024 Hurricane Beryl passes 45 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica, as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 140 mph [1]
- 2024 Israel approves largest land grab in occupied West Bank in three decades, 12.7 square km (nearly 5 square m) in the Jordan Valley, aiming to prevent a Palestinian state [1]
- 2024 Researchers learn Hippos can fly, or at least become airborne, in a UK study of their footfall patterns showed them trotting at such speed their feet all left the ground [1]
- 2025 Archaeologists announce the discovery of a 3,500-year-old ancient city in Peru named Peñico [1]
- 2025 Archaeologists publish discovery of 80,000-year-old Neanderthal footprints at Monte Clérigo in Portugal; trackways include three individuals
LL Cool J Backs Strike
2025 Rapper LL Cool J withdraws from 4th of July concert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in support of striking blue-collar municipal workers
- 2025 Russia becomes the first country to recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan [1]
