- 0985 - Pope Boniface VII dies
- 1031 - King Robert II of France dies (b. 972)
- 1304 - Francesco Petrarch, was born (d. 19 Jul 1374). Italian poet.
- 398 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March dies.
- 1454 - King John II of Castile dies (b. 1405)
- 1519 - Pope Innocent IX was born.
- 1524 - Queen Claude of France dies
- 1609 - Federico Zuccaro (or Zuccari) dies (b. 1542). Italian Mannerist painter , draftsman, and writer.
- 1620 - Nikolaes Heinsius was born (d. 1681). Dutch scholar.
- 1659 - Hyacinthe Rigaud was born (d. 1743). French painter.
- 1661 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville was born (d. 1706). French founder of the colony of Louisiana.
- 1704 - Peregrine White dies (b. 1620). First English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- 1738 - French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
- 1752 - Johann Christoph Pepusch dies (b. 1667). German composer.
- 1754 - Destutt de Tracy was born. Philosopher.
- 1797 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki was born (d. 1873). Polish explorer and geologist.
- 1815 - Giuseppe La Farina was born (5 Sep 1863). Italian writer and leader of the Risorgimento.
- 1838 - George Otto Trevelyan was born (d. 1928). British statesman and biographer.
- 1838 - Augustin Dally was born (d. 1899). American playwright.
- 1847 - Max Liebermann was born (d. 8 Feb 1935). Germain painter and graphic artist. Self-Portrait (1934); Selbstbildnis (1910); On the Way to School in Edam (1904)
- 1849 - Robert Anderson Van Wyck was born (d. 1918). Mayor of New York City.
- 1861 - American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States of America begins sitting in Richmond, Virginia.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek - Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
- 1865 - Carlos Avril was born in Paris (d. 30 Oct 1940). French actor.
- 1868 - Miron Cristea was born (d. 1939). First patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
- 1870 - Charles McHugh was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 21 Oct 1931). American actor.
- 1870 - Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt dies. French writer
- 1870 - Gerard Wolst Trenité was born in Utrech (d. 9 Oct 1946). Dutch writer.
- 1871 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
- 1872 - The United States Patent Office awards the first patent for wireless telegraphy to Mahlon Loomis.
- 1873 - Alberto Santos-Dumont was born (d. 23 Jul 1932). Brazilian aviator.
- 1877 - William Colman was born in Sligo, Ireland (d. 8 Aug 1930). American actor.
- 1881 - Clyde Benson was born in Marshalltown, Iowa. American actor (d. 15 Oct 1947)
- 1881 - Hugh Sothern was born in Anderson County, Kansas (d. 13 Apr 1947). American actor.
- 1881 - Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana
- 1884 - Hellwig F. Rimmen was born. Danish actor
- 1885 - The Football Association legalises professionalism in football under pressure from the British Football Association.
- 1889 - Erich Pommer was born (d. 1966). German actor.
- 1889 - Ruth Weijden was born (d. 27 Jun 1956). Swedish actress.
- 1889 - John C. W. Reith was born Stonehaven, Grampian, Scotland (d. 1971). BBC director-general from 1922 to 1938. He was aptly designated by the New York Times as "the single most dominating influence on British broadcasting."
- 1890 - Gonzalo Roig was born in Havana (d. 13 Jun 1970). Cuban conductor and composer (bolero Quiereme Mucho).
- 1890 - Richard Billinger was born in Sankt Marienkirche ( †07 Jun 1965 in Linz). Austrian writer
- 1890 - Freeman H. Owens was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas (d. 9 Dec 1979). American cinematographer
- 1890 - Giorgio Morandi was born. Painter.
- 1890 - King George II of Greece was born (d. 1947)
- 1891 - Ralph Faukner was born (d. 1987). American actor and fight choreographer for films
- 1894 - Errett Cord was born. Automobile entrepreneur
- 1895 - László Moholy-Nagy was born (d. 1946). Painter, photographer, sculptor.
- 1897 - Fundação da Academia Brasileira de Letras.
- 1897 - Clifford Braughton was born (d. 1979). American actor.
- 1897 - Tadeus Reichstein was born (d. 1996). Polish chemist and Nobel prize winner.
- 1897 - Clifford Braughton was born (d. 1979). American actor.
- 1897 - Jean Ingelow dies (b. 1820). English poet.
- 1898 - Stepan Kayukov was born (d. 1960). Russian actor.
- 1899 - Melville De Lay was born (d. 1947). American actor.
- 1900 - Maurice Gilliams was born (d. 1979). Belgian writer.
- 1901 - Heinie Manush was born (d. 1971). Baseball player.
- 1901 - Sergei Blinnikov was born (d. 1969). Russian actor.
- 1901 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, dies (b. 1840). Poet and critic.
- 1902 - Jimmy Kennedy was born (d. 1984). Irish composer.
- 1903 - Maria Paudle was born (d. 1990). German actress.
- 1903 - Pope Leo XIII dies.
- 1905 - Pascual Pelliciota was born (d. 1985). Argentine actor.
- 1907 - Leon Pietraskiewicz was born (d. 1987). Polish actor.
- 1908 - Demetrius Vikelas dies. Greek International Olympic Committee president
- 1909 - Clint Sharp was born (d. 1989). American stuntman in films
- 1910 - Louise Rousseau was born (d. 1981). American screenwriter.
- 1910 - Henri Calef was born (d. 1994). Belgian filmmaker.
- 1910 - Muriel Evans was born (d. 2000). American actress.
- 1911 - Mirelle Balin was born (d. 1968). French actress.
- 1912 - Tom McDermott was born (d. 1996). American actor
- 1913 - Elmer Lahti was born. Finnish actor
- 1913 - Irma Cordoba was born. Argentine actress.
- 1914 - Masa Niemi was born. (d. 1960) . Finnish actor
- 1916 - Claude Vernier was born (d. 1996). French actor
- 1917 - Paul Hubschmid was born (d. 2001). German actor
- 1917 - The Corfu Declaration, which created the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, was signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
- 1917 - Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister of the provisional government and survives an assassination attempt.
- 1918 - Cindy Walker was born. American country music singer
- 1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountain climber
- 1919 - Ernie Wilkins was born (d. 1999). American jazz musician
- 1919 - Benson Ford was born (d. 1978). Son of industrialist Henry Ford
- 1919 - Paolo Levi was born (df. 1989). Italian writer
- 1919 - K. T. Stevens was born (d. 1994). American actress
- 1920 - The funeral of Empress Eugenie of France is held in St. Michael's Abbey near Farnborough, England.
- 1920 - Tommy Prothro was born. American football coach.
- 1920 - Elliot Richardson was born (d. 31 Dec 1999). American politician best known for his refusal to obey President Richard M. Nixon's order to fire a special prosecutor
- 1920 - Dick Lucas was born (d. 1997). American animator.
- 1921 - Hall Daniels was born (d. 1984). American composer.
- 1921 - Takanobu Hozumi was born. Japanese actor
- 1922 - The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
- 1922 - Andrey Markov dies. Mathematician
- 1923 - Pancho Villa dies assasssinated. Revolutionary.
- 1923 - Stanisław Albinowski was born (d. 2005). Polish economist and journalist.
- 1924 - Tor Isedal was born (d. 1990). Swedish actor.
- 1924 - Mort Garson was born. Canadian composer
- 1924 - Tatyana Lioznova was born. Soviet director
- 1924 - Thomas Berger was born. American novelist
- 1924 - Bob Nichols was born. American actor
- 1924 - Elias Sarkis was born. President of Libano (1976-1982)
- 1925 - Jacques Delors was born. French politician, President of the European Commission
- 1925 - In Cleveland, Tennessee, Clarence Darrow questions William Jennings Bryan in the Scopes Monkey Trial during a session held out of doors about the literal truth of the Bible.
- 1926 - Lola Albright was born. American actress
- 1926 - Ilija Ivezic was born. Yugoslav actor
- 1926 - Patricia Cutts was born. (d.1974). British actress (Coronation Street).
- 1926 - Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy dies. Head of the Soviet secret police
- 1927 - King Ferdinand of Romania dies.
- 1927 - Leon Sinden was born. British actor
- 1927 - Heather Chasen was born. British actress
- 1927 - Paul Marin was born. American actor
- 1928 - Terence Feely was born. British screenwriter
- 1928 - Pavel Kohout was born. Czech writer
- 1929 - Mike Ilitch was born. American businessman (Little Caesar's Pizza), sports executive, and philanthropist
- 1929 - Rajendra Kumar was born (d. 1999). Indian actor.
- 1929 - Zlatko Sudovic was born. Yugoslav director
- 1930 - Oleg Anofriyev was born. Russian actor
- 1930 - James Kenney was born (d. 1982). British actor
- 1932 - Otto Schily was born. German politician
- 1932 - Ove Verner Hansen was born. Danish actor
- 1932 - German President Paul von Hindenburg signs a decree ordering Franz von Papen to take control of the Prussian state government and declares martial law.
- 1932 - In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House.
- 1933 - Germany's Franz von Papen and the Vatican's Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli sign a concordat on behalf of their respective nations.
- 1933 - United States: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders new regulations on the trading of grain in order to curb speculators.
- 1933 - Chuck Daly was born. American basketball coach
- 1933 - Nelson Doubleday was born. American book publisher and baseball executive
- 1933 - Cormac McCarthy was born. American author
- 1933 - Rex Williams was born. English snooker player
- 1934 - Uwe Johnson was born. German writer
- 1934 - Aliki Vougiouklaki was born. Greek actress
- 1936 - Barbara Mikulski was born. U.S. Senator from Maryland
- 1936 - The Montreux Convention is signed in Montreux, Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
- 1937 - Ken Ogata was born. Japanese actor.
- 1937 - Guglielmo Marconi dies. Italian inventor.
- 1938 - Nascimento, em Paulo de Frontin - Rio de Janeiro, de Anna Zelma. Actriz brasileira
- 1938 - Natalie Wood was born (d. 1981). American actress.
- 1938 - Dame Diana Rigg was born. British actress.
- 1939 - Judy Chicago was born. American feminist artist.
- 1940 - O personagem de desenho animado Pernalonga faz sua estréia na Warner Bros..
- 1940 - Tony Oliva was born. Cuban-born American baseball player
- 1940 - Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
- 1940 - Billboard magazine publishes its first "Music Popularity Chart"; the first number one song is Frank Sinatra's "I'll Never Smile Again".
- 1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill limiting political activity by Federal employees, the Hatch Act.
- 1941 - Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.
- 1941 - Kurt Raab was born (d. 1988). German actor
- 1941 - Gastão Cruz was born. Portuguese writer.
- 1941 - Lew Fields dies. American vaudeville performer.
- 1941 - Maria Lucia Dahl was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actress.
- 1943 - Wendy Richard was born. British television actress
- 1944 - Adolf Hitler survives the July 20 Plot an assassination attempt led by Claus von Stauffenberg.
- 1944 - The United States Democratic Party nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for a fourth term as president.
- 1945 - The U.S. Congress approves the Bretton Woods Agreement.
- 1945 - Kim Carnes was born in Los Angeles, California. American rock, folk and country singer and songwriter.
- 1945 - Larry Craig was born. U.S. Senator from Idaho.
- 1945 - Paul Valéry dies (b. 1871). French author and poet.
- 1946 - Peter Simons was born. Belgian director
- 1946 - Kim Carnes was born. Rock singer
- 1946 - The U.S. Congress's Pearl Harbor Committee says Franklin D. Roosevelt was completely blaeless for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces.
- 1947 - Gerd Binnig was born. German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1947 - Carlos Santana was born in Autlan, Jalisco. Mexican guitarist. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 (as a member of Santana). Became the first Hispanic to win a Grammy for "Record of the Year" in 2000 when he shared the honor with Matchbox 20 lead singer 'Rob Thomas' for the song "Smooth." His 1999 album, "Supernatural," won 9 Grammies that year.
- 1948 - President Harry S. Truman issues the first peacetime military draft in the United States amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union.
- 1948 - In New York City, twelve leaders of the Communist Party USA are indicted under the Smith Act including William Z. Foster and Gus Hall.
- 1949 - Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen month war.
- 1950 - Naseeruddin Shah was born. Indian actor
- 1950 - Tantoo Cardinal was born. Canadian actress
- 1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
- 1951 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern dies. Crown Prince of Germany
- 1951 - King Abdullah dies. King of Jordan
- 1952 - The Egyptian prime minister, Hussein Sirry Pasha resigns.
- 1952 - The 15th Olympic Games begin in Helsinki, Finland.
- 1953 - The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency.
- 1953 - Marcia Hines was born. American-born Australian singer
- 1953 - Dumarsaid Estime dies (b. 1900). President of Haiti.
- 1953 - Jan Struther dies. British author.
- 1954 - Assinatura de um acordo de cessar-fogo entre as forças armadas francesas e o Exército Popular do Vietname. O Vietname é dividido em dois estados independentes. O Norte é dominado pelos comunistas, o Sul é apoiado pelos americanos. A França abandona a Indochina.
- 1954 - Independência do Camboja.
- 1954 - Moira Harris was born. American actress.
- 1954 - Fátima Freire (Maria de Fátima Naves Freire Maia) was born in Curitiba. Brazilian actress.
- 1955 - Willem Dafoe was born in Appleton, Wisconsin. American actor.
- 1955 - Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian dies (b. 23 Mar 1869 in Istambul, Turkey). Oil pioneer. Philantropist.
- 1956 - Paul Cook was born. English musician (The Sex Pistols)
- 1957 - The Soviet Union closes Peter the Great Bay, which provides access to Vladivostok, to foreign ships.
- 1957 - Dr. Alfred Einstein Cohen dies. American cardiologist
- 1959 - Admiral William Leahy dies. American naval officer
- 1959 - The Organization for European Economic Cooperation admits Spain.
- 1959 - Radney Foster was born. American singer
- 1960 - The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington (SSBN-598), for the first time.
- 1960 - In Lebanon, Saeb Salem is named Prime Minister.
- 1961 - The Arab League admits Kuwait to membership.
- 1964 - Chris Cornell was born. American musician
- 1964 - Kool G. Rap was born. American musician
- 1964 - Terri Irwin was born. American television personality
- 1965 - In Greece, Elias Tsirimokos becomes prime minister.
- 1967 - Albert Lutuli dies. South African civil rights leader, winner of the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize
- 1968 - Bray Hammond dies. American historian
- 1968 - Michael Park was born. American actor
- 1968 - Julian Rhind-Tutt was born. English actor
- 1969 - Vitamin C was born. British singer
- 1969 - Josh Holloway was born. American actor
- 1969 - Apollo 11 lands on the Moon and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first humans to walk on its surface. / O astronauta americano Neil Amstrong dá o primeiro passo na Lua, afirmando: «É um pequeno passo para o Homem, mas um salto gigantesco para a Humanidade.» A intenção era dizer «É um pequeno passo para UM homem ...».
- 1971 - Charles Johnson was born. Baseball player
- 1972 - In the Netherlands, the cabinet of Prime Minister Barend Biesheuvel resigns in a dispute over the budget.
- 1973 - The United States Senate passes the War Powers Act.
- 1973 - In testimony by Assistant Secretary of Defense Jerry Friedheim to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, the United States Defense Department admits it lied to U.S. Congress about bombing Cambodia.
- 1973 - Palestianian terrorists hijack a Japan Airlines jet en route from Amsterdam to Japan and force it down in Dubai.
- 1973 - Indiana is found guilty of operating segregated schools by federal judge S. Hugh Dillin, who orders the state to develop a desegregation plan for Indianapolis's schools.
- 1973 - Haakon Magnus was born. Crown Prince of Norway
- 1973 - Peter Forsberg was born. Swedish-born hockey player
- 1973 - Bruce Lee dies. Actor and martial artist
- 1974 - Simon Rex was born. American actor
- 1974 - Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after Greek Cypriots' attempt at enosis. NATO's Council praises the United States and the United Kingdom for attempts to settle the dispute. Syria and Egypt put their militaries on alert.
- 1975 - Erik Hagen, was born. Norwegian footballer
- 1977 - Susana Werner was born. Brazilian model and actress.
- 1977 - The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
- 1980 - Takieddih Solh is named Lebanon's new prime minister.
- 1980 - The United Nations Security Council votes 14-0 that member states should not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
- 1980 - Gisele Bundchen was born. Brazilian model
- 1980 - Dado Dolabella was born. Brazilian actor.
- 1984 - Officials of the Miss America pageant ask Vanessa Williams to quit after Penthouse published nude photos of her.
- 1990 - Iran Contra: All of Colonel Oliver North's convictions for perjury and other offenses are overturned by an appeals court.
- 1990 - Herbert T. Jenkins dies. American policeman
- 1991 - Earl Robinson dies. American singer and composer
- 1992 - John Bratby dies. British painter
- 1992 - In Czechoslovakia, Václav Havel, the playwright who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, resigns as president.
- 1993 - White House deputy counsel Vince Foster was found shot to death in a park near Washington in an apparent suicide.
- 1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter.
- 1994 - Paul Delvaux dies. Belgian painter.
- 1996 - Billi Bruno was born. American actress.
- 1996 - Colin Mitchell dies. British Member of Parliament
- 1993 - Vincent Foster Jr. dies. White House deputy counsel
- 1997 - John Akii-Bua dies. Ugandan hurdler
- 1999 - Sandra Gould dies. American actress.
- 2000 - The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering.
- 2000 - In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first time in a decade.
- 2000 - Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him.
- 2001 - The London Stock Exchange goes public.
- 2001 - The 27th G8 summit summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police.
- 2001 - Carlo Giuliani, dies. Italian activist.
- 2002 - The United States Senate confirms Roger L. Gregory as the first black to sit on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
- 2003 - Nicolas Freeling dies. Crime writer
- 2003 - Golf: Rookie Ben Curtis, ranked 396th in the world, wins the British Open, the first golfer to win a major golf tournament on his first try in more than ninety years.
- 2004 - Former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger resigns as an advisor to Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign after it was revealed he stole classified documents from the National Archives.
- 2004 - PETA releases a video of gross cruelty to chickens taken at Pilgrim's Pride, one of KFC's suppliers in West Virginia, and the company pledged to investigate the claims.
- 2004 - Ahmed Qurei, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, agrees to withdraw his resignation, three days after tendering it.
- 2004 - Human Rights Watch releases a report stating that Sudanese government documents confirm support for the Arab Janjaweed militia in their campaign of ethnic cleansing against African Muslims in Darfur.
- 2004 - Adi Lady Lala Mara dies. Fijian chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara
- 2004 -The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution demanding that Israel tear down the barrier it was building to seal off the West Bank.
- 2004 - Antonio Gades dies. Spanish ballet dancer and coreographer
- 2005 - James Doohan dies (b. 1920). Canadian-born actor.
- 2005 - Charles Chibitty dies (b. 1921). World War II Comanche code talker.
- 2005 - Finn Gustavsen dies (b. 1926). Norwegian politician.
- 2005 - Kayo Hatta dies (b. 1958). American film director.
- 2005 - Alfred Hayes dies (b. 1928). British-born wrestling announcer.
- 2005 - In Yemen, several people die during demonstrations against oil price increases.
- 2006 - World Jump Day
- Occupied North Cyprus - Peace and Freedom Day
- Argentina /Brasil - Friendship Day (Dia da Amizade ou Dia do Amigo)
- Feast day for at least thirteen saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Ss. Aurelius, Margaret of Antioch, Wilgefortis, St. Elias, Barhadbesciabas, Wulmar, Sabinus, Severa (two of this name), Flavian, John of Pulsano, Joseph of Barsabas, Margaret, and Paul of St. Zoilus.
Amor, morte, poesia, política, actualidade, futebol, efemérides, solidão, paz, humor, musica...tudo e nada; Here we talk about life, love, death,
On this day in History, poetry, politics, football (soccer), solitude, peace, humour, music ... nothing and all.
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