- 1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
- 1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
- 1520 – Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
- 1534 – Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
- 1575 – The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.
- 1585 – The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
- 1770 – The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
- 1777 – American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
- 1798 – As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the “Quasi-War“.
- 1807 – The Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.
- 1834 – In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
- 1846 – US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.
- 1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
- 1865 – Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
- 1892 – The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
- 1898 – US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
- 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
- 1911 – The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
- 1915 – The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
- 1915 – Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
- 1916 – The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
- 1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor’s 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
- 1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
- 1937 – The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- 1937 – The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
- 1941 – The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK’s occupation.
- 1944 – World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
- 1946 – Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
- 1946 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
- 1952 – The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
- 1953 – Ernesto “Che” Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
- 1954 – Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, “That’s All Right”.
- 1958 – US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
- 1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
- 1963 – Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngô Đình Diệm, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
- 1978 – The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1980 – Institution of sharia law in Iran.
- 1980 – During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
- 1981 – US President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
- 1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
- 1991 – Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- 1992 – The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
- 1997 – The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
- 2003 – NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
- 2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London’s transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.
- 2007 – The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
- 2012 – At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
- 2013 – A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
- 2016 – Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.
-Source: wikipedia