| 0432 |
St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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| 0768 |
[Philip] begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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| 0904 |
Saraceens hijacker Leo van Tripoli occupies & plunders Thessalonica
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| 1291 |
Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine
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| 1498 |
Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
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| 1588 |
English fleet beats Spanish Armada
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| 1620 |
Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America
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| 1653 |
Fronde-leaders surrender in Bordeaux
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| 1658 |
Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor
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| 1664 |
Pierre Corneille's "Othon," premieres in Paris
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| 1667 |
Peace of Breda: 2nd English war-Suriname vs New-Netherlands ends
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| 1718 |
Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish
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| 1737 |
Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court
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| 1751 |
Fire in Stockholm destroys 1,000 houses
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| 1771 |
Paul Potters "Great ossendrift" sold for Ÿ9050 in Amsterdam
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| 1774 |
Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen
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| 1777 |
Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army
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| 1790 |
1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
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| 1792 |
Cornerstone laid for 1st US govt building: US Mint in Phila
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| 1794 |
All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem
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| 1809 |
1st practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Phila
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| 1813 |
British invade Plattsburgh NY
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| 1830 |
Charles X of France resigns by force
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| 1849 |
Benjamin Chambers patents breech loading cannon
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| 1852 |
Hottest July in Netherlands since at least 1783 (68.4°F (20.2°C) avg)
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| 1855 |
Hottest July in Stockholm since at least 1756 (21.4°C avg)
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| 1861 |
9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam: world record
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| 1864 |
Ulysses S Grant is named General of Volunteers
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| 1874 |
Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as pres of Georgetown U
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| 1876 |
US Coast Guard officers' training school established (New Bedford MA)
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| 1893 |
Henry Perky patents shredded wheat
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| 1899 |
Albert Trott hits Monty Noble over the Pavilion at Lord's
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| 1900 |
Boer Generals Prinsloo & Roux surrenders in Brandwater Basin
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| 1901 |
Abraham Kuyper becomes premier of Netherlands
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| 1905 |
Matumbi rebellion at Samanga German East Africa
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| 1909 |
Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
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| 1910 |
Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game
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| 1910 |
Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration
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| 1911 |
Hungarian education is only taught in German
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| 1912 |
RBC soccer team forms in Roosendaal
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| 1912 |
US govt prohibits movies & photos of prize fights (censorship)
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| 1914 |
German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
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| 1914 |
Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo
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| 1917 |
3rd battle of Ypres begins
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| 1919 |
Germany accepts Weimar Constitution
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| 1922 |
18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)
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| 1922 |
Italy's general strike against fascist violence
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| 1923 |
Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University
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| 1925 |
Last allied occupying troops leave Ruhrgebied
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| 1925 |
Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England
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| 1929 |
Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
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| 1930 |
Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yanks beat Red Sox 14-13
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| 1932 |
27th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2)
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| 1932 |
Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Phila A's beat Indians 1-0
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| 1932 |
George Washington quarter goes into circulation
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| 1932 |
German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%)
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| 1934 |
29th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats USA in Wimbledon (4-1)
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| 1934 |
St Louis Cards defeat Cin Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean & Tony Freitos go the distant
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| 1935 |
3rd Dutch govt of Colijn sworn in
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| 1936 |
Tokyo Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics (later cancelled)
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| 1937 |
Politburo enables Operative Order 00447: execute 193,000 Russians
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| 1938 |
NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over head with a club"
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| 1940 |
38 U boats sinks this month (196,000 ton)
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| 1940 |
Riech's commissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals
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| 1941 |
U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton
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| 1942 |
German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
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| 1942 |
U boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton
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| 1943 |
Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany
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| 1944 |
Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz
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| 1944 |
Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
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| 1944 |
US troops occupy Sansapor New-Guinea
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| 1948 |
"Brigadoon" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 581 performances
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| 1948 |
Pres Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY
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| 1949 |
Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, kills SS & 3rd baseman
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| 1953 |
Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created
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| 1954 |
Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double)
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| 1955 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Battle Creek Golf Open
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| 1955 |
KRNT (now KCCI) TV channel 8 in Des Moines, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
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| 1955 |
WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, WV (NBC) 1st broadcast
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| 1956 |
Laker takes 10-53 in Australia's 2nd innings, 19-90 for match
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| 1958 |
Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet
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| 1959 |
1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
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| 1960 |
Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
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| 1960 |
KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast
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| 1960 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
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| 1961 |
31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston
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| 1961 |
Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant
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| 1962 |
Federation of Malaysia forms
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| 1962 |
Statham is Test crickets' leading wkt-taker (229), beating Lindwall
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| 1963 |
Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina
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| 1963 |
Cleve ties record of 4 consecutive HRS (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown)
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| 1963 |
Indians' Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona, & Larry Brown hit consecutive home runs in one inning (vs California Angels)
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| 1964 |
Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor
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| 1964 |
George Lascelles marries Patricia Tuckwell
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| 1964 |
Rolling Stone concert in Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot
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| 1964 |
US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon
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| 1965 |
Cigarette Ads banned on British TV
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| 1966 |
Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark
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| 1966 |
Charles Whitman wounds 46 & kills 5 at University of Texas
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| 1967 |
Rolling Stone Mick Jagger & Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence
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| 1968 |
Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free
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| 1969 |
KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting
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| 1969 |
Mariner 6 flies past Mars
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| 1969 |
National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, La
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| 1970 |
37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940)
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| 1970 |
Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
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| 1971 |
Apollo 15 astronauts take 6« hour electric car ride on Moon
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| 1971 |
Deventer Soccer team Go Ahead Eagles forms
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| 1972 |
Dick Allen is 7th to hit 2 inside-the-park homers in a game
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| 1972 |
Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate
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| 1973 |
ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to NY Nets
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| 1973 |
Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later
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| 1973 |
Frank Hayes scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v WI as England lose
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| 1976 |
Seychelles Independence (Independence day)
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| 1976 |
Waldemar Cierpinski runs Olympic marathon (2:09:55.0)
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| 1977 |
Debbie Austin wins LPGA Pocono Northeast Golf Classic
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| 1977 |
E Henry Knoche, ends term as deputy director of CIA
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| 1977 |
John F Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA
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| 1978 |
Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris
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| 1978 |
NY Yanks now 7« out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks
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| 1978 |
Pete Rose ties NL record hitting streak at 44
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| 1979 |
"But Never Jam Today" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 7 performances
|
| 1980 |
John Phillips of Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges
|
| 1980 |
Rangers snap Orioles pitcher Steve Stone's 14-game winning streak
|
| 1980 |
Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
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| 1980 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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| 1981 |
42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends
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| 1981 |
Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of Natl Bar Assn
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| 1982 |
46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses & several cars collide in France
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| 1982 |
Car/bus collision near Beaune, France, 53 die
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| 1982 |
Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria & France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)
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| 1982 |
USSR performs nuclear Test
|
| 1983 |
38th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jan Stephenson
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| 1983 |
B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, & W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame
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| 1983 |
Dutch July avg temp is 20.1°C; warmest July since 1852
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| 1984 |
Leeza Gibbon's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
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| 1984 |
US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
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| 1984 |
Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed
|
| 1987 |
"Living Daylights" premieres in US
|
| 1987 |
Battle between Iranian pilgrims & Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed
|
| 1987 |
Eddie Murray hits his 300th HR
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| 1987 |
Guns & Roses song "Appetite for Destruction" is released
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| 1987 |
Oriole Eddie Murray hits his 299th & 300th career home runs
|
| 1987 |
Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle
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| 1988 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open
|
| 1988 |
Jose Canseco is 1st to hit 30 HRs in 1st 3 years
|
| 1988 |
Last Playboy club closes (Lansing Michigan)
|
| 1988 |
Miami Dolphins beat SF 49ers 27-21 in London
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| 1988 |
Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame
|
| 1989 |
Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets
|
| 1990 |
Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
|
| 1990 |
Nolan Ryan becomes 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games
|
| 1991 |
Russia & US sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact
|
| 1991 |
Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
|
| 1992 |
Jeff Rouse swims world record/OR 100m backstroke (53.86 sec)
|
| 1992 |
Kieren John Perkins swims world record/OR 1500m free style (14:43.4)
|
| 1992 |
Tam s Darnyi swims world record/Olympics 200m backstroke (1:59.36)
|
| 1992 |
Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die
|
| 1992 |
Yang Wenyi swims world record/OR 50m freestyle (24.79 sec)
|
| 1993 |
A's trade Rickey Henderson to Blue Jays
|
| 1993 |
Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops
|
| 1993 |
Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg
|
| 1993 |
Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned king of Uganda
|
| 1994 |
102.7°F (39.3°C) in Pleschen, East-Germany
|
| 1994 |
28th Curtis Cup: Draw, 9-9
|
| 1994 |
Arcen Limburg averages 71.6°F (22.0°C) in July: record
|
| 1994 |
Helen Alfredss wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
|
| 1994 |
Neth averages 21.4°C; their warmest July since 1783
|
| 1994 |
Phil Rizzuto (Yanks) & Steve Carlton (Phils) enter the Hall of Fame
|
| 1994 |
Sergei Bubka ploe vaults his 35th world record (6.14 m)
|
| 1994 |
Stockholms avgs 21.5°C; their warmest July since 1855
|
| 1994 |
UN votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti
|
| 1997 |
A's trade Mark McGwire to St Louis Cards |
