| 2003 | WON is shut down. |
| 1999 | NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface. |
| 1996 | MIL-STD-1750A is declared inactive for use in new designs. |
| 1992 | A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into mountain south of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113. |
| 1987 | A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage. |
| 1976 | NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1 |
| 1975 | In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing. |
| 1973 | A Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89 |
| 1971 | Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover. |
| 1964 | Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes). |
| 1961 | At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain. |
| 1956 | Jim Laker sets extraordinary record at Old Trafford in the fourth Test of taking nineteen wickets in a first-class match (the previous best was seventeen. |
| 1954 | First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio. |
| 1951 | Japan Airlines is established. |
| 1948 | At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated. |
| 1945 | Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria. |
| 1941 | Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question." |
| 1936 | The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics were to be held in Tokyo. However, the games were given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, and were eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II. |
| 1930 | The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time. |
| 1919 | German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (to enter into force August 14) |
| 1917 | The Third Battle of Ypres starts in Flanders. |
| 1856 | Christchurch, New Zealand chartered as a city. |
| 1790 | First US patent issued; granted to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process. |
| 1703 | Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers. |
| 1667 | The Treaty of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War. |
| 1588 | The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England. |
| 1498 | On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad. |
| 1423 | Hundred Years War: Battle of Cravant |
| 1009 | Pietro Boccapecora becomes Pope Sergius IV |
