1659 The Russians, led by Prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
1682 Sofia names herself regent of Russia
1694 Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports
1749 New Governor Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
1755 515 prominant filipinos baptized as Catholic
1767 British pass Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America, helping to intensify opposition to British rule
1776 Mission Dolores founded at San Francisco Bay by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Francisco Palóu1850 Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
1854 Netherlands allows corporal punishment
1857 Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British)
1858 Great fire in London docks
1858 Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia
1862 Day 5 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station, Va
1863 Battle at Westminster, Maryland: Federal assault1863 Confederate General Robert Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
1863 Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
1864 Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
1864 Samuel Crowther, bishop of Niger, becomes the first Black bishop of the Church of England
1867 Pope Pius IX declares Gorcumse holy martyrs
1874 Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1880 France annexes Otaheite (Tahiti)
1881 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud
1888 First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder
1891 US National Forest Service organized
1891 Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
1895 Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1895 9th U.S. Women's National Championship: Juliette Atkinson beats Helen Hellwig (6-4, 6-2, 6-1)
1897 Chicago beats Louisville 36-7 (baseball)
1899 Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
1900 The Imperial Chinese Court issues what is essentially a declaration of war against the foreigners in China and blames hostilities on them, giving license to Boxers for even greater ferocity
1901 15th U.S. Women's National Championship: Elisabeth Moore beats Myrtle McAteer (6-4, 3-6, 7-5, 2-6, 6-2)
1903 British government protests against abuses in Belgian Congo
1904 2 prehistoric bones found in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe1927 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1927 First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller.
1928 The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened.
1929 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
1929 31.1°C (88°F) highest temperature on this day in De Bilt
1929 Mexico & Vatican sign Concord
1931 109°F (43°C), Monticello, Florida (state record)1944 Soviet Armies join in Bobroesjk
1944 US 7th army corps conquers Cherbourg
1945 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record)
1945 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, annexed by Soviet Union, becomes Ukrainian SSR
1946 "Are You with It?" closes at Century Theater NYC after 264 performances
1946 "Billion Dollar Baby" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 219 performances
1946 Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist
1946 British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv
1947 2nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betty Jameson
1947 Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak
1949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
1950 US beats England 1-0 in a world cup soccer game (next win in 1994)
1950 West Indies beat England by 326 runs thanks to Ramadhin & Valentine
1952 USS Oriskany becomes 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn1961 The International Labour Organisation (ILO) calls for South Africa's withdrawal at the Geneva Conference in protest of the racial policies of the South African government
1962 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
1962 Frank Howard hits the 5,000th Dodger home run
1963 "Little Me" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 257 performances
1963 Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits UK charts
1963 SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien
1964 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "Cage" released
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in the US Senate
1965 USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
1966 Vietnam War: US planes bomb the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong for the first time
1966 KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins
1967 Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem1987 Phil's Steve Bedrosian is 1st to record 12 saves in 12 attempts
1987 Yanks blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning grand slammer beats Toronto 15-14; Mattingly also grand slams
1988 Emmy 15th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 9th time
1989 Emmy 16th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 10th time
1989 South Africa's National Party adopts five year programme of its objectives, including a political "reform" plan to give Black majority role in national and local government; ANC responds it would consider only a one-man, one-vote system
1990 Marla Maples father sues National Enquirer for $12M
1990 NY Mets tie their team career high 11 game win streak
1990 A's Dave Stewart no-hits Blue Jays & Dodger's Fernando Valenzuela no-hits St Louis 6-0, 1st time no-hitters in both leagues
1990 World's first female diocesan Anglican bishop, Dr Penny Jamieson, appointed in New Zealand
1991 6.0 earthquake hits southern Calif
1991 Britain's Nick Brown, 591st rank beats 10th-seeded Goran Ivanisevic 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in 2nd round at Wimbledon
1992 "Salome" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 9 performances
1992 2 earthquakes including 7.4 hits southern Calif
1992 A's Dennis Eckersley sets record of 26th straight save of season1992 Algerian head of state, Mohamed Boudiaf, is assassinated by military officers during a public speech at the opening of a cultural center in Annaba
1994 Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan
1994 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees1995 Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL game (vs Calgary Stampeders)
1996 Andrea Leah Plummer, of Tennessee, crowned 39th America's Junior Miss
1996 Superman's Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900
1997 "American Daughter" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 88 performances
1997 "London Assurance" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 72 performances
1997 18th U.S. Senior Golf Open: Graham Marsh
1997 Greg Norman wins PGA St Jude Classic
1997 Michelle McGann wins ShopRite LPGA Classic
1997 Progress M-35 Soyuz Launch (Russia)
1997 Tyrenda Williams, 18, of Alabama, crowned 40th America's Junior Miss2002 Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2008 Thomas Beatie, the world's first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter
2008 UEFA European Championship Final: Fernando Torres scores as Spain beats Germany 1-0 in Vienna
2009 Financier Bernard Madoff sentenced to 150 years in prison, US maximum, for conducting massive Ponzi scheme
2012 16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police
2012 Three bombs in Balid, Iraq, kill 6 people and injure 45
2012 15,000 Japanese anti-nuclear protesters blockade the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo2015 Beijing Times reports 30% of the Great Wall of China has disappeared due to natural forces and stealing of bricks
2016 US Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter lifts Pentagon's ban on transgendered people serving in the US armed forces
2017 Vatican treasurer Cardinel George Pell charged with historic sexual offences in Victoria, Australian
2017 Mihai Tudose confirmed as Romanian Prime Minister, by parliament, succeeding Sorin Grindeanu
2017 Battle for Mosul: Iraqi forces retake destroyed Great Mosque of al-Nuri from Islamic State - symbolic site where their leader declared a "caliphate"
2017 Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner apologize and remove t-shirts from sale featuring Tupac Shakur and others, after accused of exploiting their legacies
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