- 574 John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
Capture of William I
1174 William I of Scotland, key rebel in Revolt of 1173-1174, captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England
- 1522 Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht
- 1558 Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines
- 1568 Dean of St. Paul's London, Alexander Nowell perfects a way to bottle beer
- 1573 Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army
- 1643 Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
- 1645 Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as Tsar of Russia
Cromwell Constrains Lambert
1657 Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
Cook Begins his Second Voyage
1772 Captain James Cook begins his second voyage to the South Seas aboard HMS Resolution to search for Terra Australis (Southern continent)
- 1787 US Congress adopts Ordinance of 1787 (Northwest Ordinance), establishes first organized US territory, sets requirements for statehood - guaranteeing equal status with original 13 states, outlawing slavery, and protecting civil liberties [1]
- 1794 Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
Source of Mississippi Discovered
1832 Source of Mississippi River discovered by American geographer Henry Schoolcraft
Screw Propeller
1835 Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw propeller design
- 1836 US patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels
Queen Victoria Moves into Buckingham Palace
1837 Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
- 1851 John Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton
- 1854 In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon
- 1854 US forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
- 1861 Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia
- 1862 Battle of Murfreesboro, fought in Rutherford County, Tennessee begins (Forrest's Raid), Confederate victory (US Civil War)
- 1863 Battle of Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana
- 1863 Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi (Harrisburg) [->JUL 15]
- 1863 New York City Draft Riot: Anti-draft protests turn violent, over 100 killed, including lynching of Blacks, 2,000 injured and 50 buildings burned; riots last for 3 days
- 1863 Rebellion at Morgan's, Ohio [->JUL 26]
- 1864 Early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley
- 1865 Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the "New-York Tribune" reputedly advises his readers to "Go west, young man"
Barnum Museum Fire
1865 P. T. Barnum's museum in New York burns down, giantess Anna Haining Swan just escapes
- 1868 Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
Ems Telegram
1870 King Wilhelm I of Prussia sends the "Emser Depeche (Ems Telegram)" to Otto von Bismarck who publishes an edited version to purposely offend the French government precipitating the Franco-German War
- 1871 World's first championship cat show; Organised by Harrison Weir and held in Crystal Palace, London
- 1876 29th US Postmaster General: James N Tyner of Indiana takes office
- 1878 Congress of Berlin ends, redrawing the terms of Treaty of San Stefano to give Russia less influence in old Ottoman Empire
- 1882 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
- 1893 Germany Army Bill is ratified
- 1896 Philadelphia outfielder Ed Delahanty becomes second major leaguer to hit 4 HRs in a game as Phillies lose 9-8 to Chicago Colts at the West Side Grounds, Chicago
- 1898 San Francisco Ferry Building at foot of Market St opens
- 1900 Phillies beat Pittsburgh 23-8
- 1911 Great Britain and Japan renew their alliance of 1902 for another four years; the reason Japan joins WWI on the Allies side
- 1917 Vision of Virgin Mary appears to children of Fatima, Portugal
- 1919 Boston Red Sox pitcher Carl Mays walks off mound blaming teammates for lack of support in field
- 1919 Race riots in Longview, Gregg County, Texas
- 1923 American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first recognised dinosaur eggs, in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia
Hollywoodland
1923 The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland" but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949
Nurmi's Record 3000m
1926 Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi sets world record 3000m (8:20.4) in Stockholm, Sweden
- 1930 1st-ever football World Cup competition begins in Uruguay
- 1930 David Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
Strauss Resigns Nazi Office
1935 Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichsmusikkammer, (Nazi Reich Chamber of Music)
Sinatra's Recording Debut
1939 Frank Sinatra makes his recording debut, with The Harry James Orchestra, singing "From the Bottom of My Heart" and "Melancholy Mood"
- 1941 Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of umpire Ray Snyder
- 1941 World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
- 1942 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by Nazis
- 1942 German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
- 1942 SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland
- 1944 Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
Ted Williams Operated On
1950 Doctors operate and remove seven bone fragments from MLB player Ted Williams' elbow
- 1950 René Pleven forms French government
- 1951 Great Flood: 2.000,000 acres in Kansas and Missouri in central US are flooded from rain swollen Missouri and Kansas Rivers
- 1953 Battle of the Kumsong River begins - last major battle of the Korean war
- 1954 Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9
- 1955 Beaux Arts Trio (Menahem Pressler, piano; Daniel Guilet, violin; Bernard Greenhouse, cello) makes their debut at the Berkshire Music Festival (now Tanglewood Music Center), Lenox, Massachusetts, United States
Eatons Offer to Host Nuclear Conference
1955 Industrialist Cyrus Eaton first offers to host a conference on dangers of nuclear weapons in Pugwash, Nova Scotia
- 1955 The last execution of a woman in Britain, Ruth Ellis, takes place at Holloway Prison, London
Hound Dog
1956 RCA releases Elvis Presley's single "Hound Dog", a cover of Big Mama Thorton's original, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, backed with "Don't Be Cruel", written by Otis Blackwell
- 1956 WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1960 KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA
- 1962 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New Guinea
- 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1963 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn, wins his 300th and last MLB game at 43
- 1963 Indian government announces it will cut last remaining links with South Africa by refusing landing facilities to South African aircraft
- 1966 A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founds the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement) in New York City
- 1967 Race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey; 27 die
- 1968 French government-Couve de Murville forms
Event of Interest
1969 North Ireland loyalist Ian Paisley addresses a crowd at Loughgall, County Antrim, and is reported to have said: "I am anti-Roman Catholic, but God being my judge, I love the poor dupes who are ground down under that system."
- 1969 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
- 1970 Building begins of Amsterdam metro
- 1970 The annual 'Twelfth' parades passes off without serious incident in Northern Ireland
- 1972 A series of gun-battles and shootings erupt across Belfast between the Provisional Irish Republican Army and British Army soldiers
- 1972 LA Rams (Irsay) & Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners
- 1973 Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0
- 1973 Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina
- 1974 India's 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley)
- 1975 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record)
- 1976 Court martial begins in USSR for Valery Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)
- 1976 Last day of Test Cricket for English all-rounder Brian Close, aged 45
- 1977 NYC experiences 25 hr black-out
- 1978 Albania drops diplomatic relations with People's Republic of China
- 1978 Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years
Music History
1978 BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"
- 1978 Ford Motor Company chairman Henry Ford II fires company president Lee Iacocca
- 1978 Russian dissidents Ginsburg, Piatkus and Sjtsjaranki sentenced to work camps
- 1978 Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida
Sports History
1979 Calif's Nolan Ryan and Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th
Faster
1979 George Harrison releases single "Faster"
- 1980 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1982 Iran launches first attack into Iraq
- 1982 Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed
- 1983 The Transvaal Attorney General announces that Eugène Terre'Blanche, leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and three associates will face terrorism charges, South Africa
Music Concert
1984 Eddie Van Halen makes a guest appearance, performing "Beat It", in a Jacksons concert, in Dallas, Texas
- 1984 Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m
- 1984 The last sitting of an all-white Parliament in South Africa
- 1985 "Live Aid" concerts held at both Wembley Stadium (London, England) and JFK Stadium (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) raises over $70 million for African famine relief
Reagan's Cancer Surgery
1985 Doctors at Bethesda Naval hospital remove two small benign polyps from US President Ronald Reagan's colon [1]
Sports History
1985 New York Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) and Elston Howard (32) uniform numbers
- 1986 Zola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games, a direct consequence of Britain's refusal to support economic sanctions against the apartheid government of South Africa
Music History
1987 Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials
Locomotion
1987 Kylie Minogue releases her debut single "Locomotion"
- 1988 Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan
Murder of Interest
1994 Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson (charged with murder) gives hair samples for testing
Sports History
1994 Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years in prison for attack on American Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan
Sports History
1999 Pedro Martínez strikes out the first four batters in the All-Star Game at Fenway Park, earning All-Star Game MVP
Alright, Still
2006 UK singer-songwriter Lily Allen releases her debut album "Alright, Still" (Grammy nominee Best Alternative Music Album)
- 2011 19th ESPY Awards: Dirk Nowitzki, Lindsey Vonn win
- 2011 Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130
- 2012 19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa
- 2012 China's economic growth drops to 7.6%, its lowest level for three years
- 2012 Financially troubled Scottish football club, Rangers, is voted into the third division
- 2013 #BlackLivesMatter created in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman on trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin
- 2013 18 people are killed and 40 are injured after a gravel truck collides with a bus in Podolsk, Russia
- 2013 Ten people are killed after a bus crash in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Football Awards
2014 FIFA World Cup Awards: Lionel Messi (golden ball), James Rodriguez (golden boot) and Manuel Neuer (Golden gloves)
FIFA World Cup
2014 FIFA World Cup Final, Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Mario Götze scores an extra time winner as Germany beats Argentina, 1-0
- 2015 Greek Credit Crisis: Eurozone agrees conditional deal to lend €86bn over 3 years if Greece passes reforms.
- 2015 Sandra Bland is found dead in Waller County jail, Texas after spending weekend in jail after a traffic offence. Her family disputes her supposed suicide
PM Theresa May
2016 Theresa May is elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Conservative Party MPs
Dunkirk
2017 "Dunkirk" film directed by Christopher Nolan with ensemble cast including Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy premieres in London, England
Trump Meets Macron
2017 US President Donald Trump arrives in Paris for a 2-day visit with French President Emmanuel Macron
Film & TV History
2018 Actress Scarlett Johansson withdraws from a transgender film role after criticism of her casting
- 2018 Chelsea FC sacks high profile manager Antonio Conte despite winning 2016-17 EPL and 2018 FA Cup, replaced by ex-Napoli boss Maurizio Sarri
Film & TV History
2018 HBO announces that it has obtained the rights to "The Nevers," a project by Joss Whedon
- 2018 Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay record $4.7 billion in damages in talc cancer case by jury in US state of Missouri
Trump Meets Elizabeth II
2018 Large protests in London against US President Donald Trump featuring Trump-like baby blimp as President Trump meets Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle
- 2018 Outline of 5,000 year-old henge discovered at New Grange, Ireland through drought and drone footage
- 2018 Suicide bombing in Baluchistan, Pakistan, targeting election campaign event kills 128, Islamic State claims responsibility
- 2018 US Department of Justice charges 12 Russian intelligence officers with cyber-attacks against Democratic officials during 2016 US election
- 2019 After Atlantic League-MLB partnership rule changes, Southern Maryland Blue Crabs' outfielder Tony Thomas becomes first player in professional baseball history to steal first base in 7-2 win v Lancaster Barnstormers
- 2021 "Unprecedented" early fire season in western US as 67 large fires and nearly 918,000 acres reported burnt by Interagency Fire Center [1]
Riots after Zuma Jailed
2021 337 die in violent protests and looting in South Africa following the jailing of Jacob Zuma, with more than 200 shopping malls set alight [1]
Sports History
2021 Kawhi Leonard undergoes surgery to repair a partial tear of the ACL in his right knee
