| 2005 | Part of Australia's Twelve Apostles rock formation collapses. The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain. |
| 2004 | Official opening of Bangkok's subway system. |
| 2001 | A Vladivostokavia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people. |
| 1994 | Pete Sampras beats Goran Ivanisevic to win Wimbledon; |
| 1994 | Romania eliminates Argentina 3-2 in the World Cup. |
| 1993 | Prince Alois of Liechtenstein weds Duchess Sophie of Bavaria. |
| 1993 | Steffi Graf wins Wimbledon. |
| 1988 | United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard. |
| 1979 | US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. |
| 1977 | The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded. |
| 1976 | Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda during Operation Yonatan. |
| 1971 | Singer Jim Morrison of The Doors is found dead of a heart attack in his bathtub. |
| 1970 | A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 people. |
| 1969 | Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones drowns in his swimming pool. The band plays a concert at Hyde Park, London two days later in his honor. |
| 1964 | President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places. |
| 1962 | The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends |
| 1952 | Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States. |
| 1938 | World record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the "Mallard", which reaches a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph). |
| 1932 | First Sunday game at Fenway Park, the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 13-2, and John McGraw retires from baseball. |
| 1928 | First color television broadcast in London. |
| 1890 | Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state. |
| 1886 | The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand. |
| 1884 | Dow Jones published its 1st stock average. |
| 1866 | Austro-Prussian War decided at Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria. |
| 1863 | U.S. Civil War: The final and bloodiest day of the Battle of Gettysburg. |
| 1852 | Congress establishes the United States's 2nd mint in San Francisco, California. |
| 1848 | Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands). |
| 1844 | The last pair of Great Auks is killed. |
| 1839 | The first state normal school in the United States opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students. |
| 1819 | The first savings bank in the United States (The Bank of Savings in New York City) opens. |
| 1778 | British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa, and Prussia declares war on Austria. |
| 1775 | George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1754 | George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces during the French and Indian War. |
| 1608 | Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain. |
| 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. |