| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | American actor Ernest Borgnine died. | Death day |
| 2011 | Hewa Bora Airways Flight 952 aircraft incident at Kisangani, DR Congo, killed 74 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 2007 | Indian politician Chandra Shekhar died. | Death day |
| 2003 | Sudan Airways Flight 139 aircraft incident at Port Sudan, Sudan, killed 117 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 2000 | American tennis player Venus Williams won her first title in 2000 Wimbledon. | Achievement |
| 2000 | Chinese film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was released in theaters. This is one of the highest grossing non-English movies in the world. | Release Date |
| 1999 | Astronaut from United States, Pete Conrad died. | Death day |
| 1996 | Dutch tennis player Richard Krajicek won his first title in 1996 Wimbledon. | Achievement |
| 1995 | Hungarian fencer Pal Kovacs died. | Death day |
| 1991 | German tennis player Michael Stich won his first title in 1991 Wimbledon. | Achievement |
| 1991 | Chess grandmaster from Peru, Emilio Cordova was born. | Birthday |
| 1990 | In Football World Cup, West Germany won against Argentina at Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy. | World Cup Finals |
| 1988 | 107 people died in Peruman railway accident. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1985 | American economist Simon Kuznets died. | Death day |
| 1985 | German tennis player Boris Becker won his first title in 1985 Wimbledon. | Achievement |
| 1981 | Russian tennis player Anastasia Myskina was born. | Birthday |
| 1980 | Aeroflot Flight 4225 aircraft incident at Almaty, Kazakh SSR, USSR, killed 166 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1979 | American chemist Robert Burns Woodward died. | Death day |
| 1979 | Japanese physicist Sin-Itiro Tomonaga died. | Death day |
| 1976 | Indonesia's first artificial satellite Palapa A1 was launched. | Launch Day |
| 1972 | Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly was born. | Birthday |
| 1972 | Chess grandmaster from Israel, Victor Mikhalevski was born. | Birthday |
| 1971 | Chess grandmaster from Germany, Frank Holzke was born. | Birthday |
| 1965 | Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 aircraft incident at near 100 Mile House, BC, Canada, killed 52 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1952 | Egyptian politician Ahmed Nazif was born. | Birthday |
| 1951 | American actress Anjelica Huston was born. | Birthday |
| 1935 | Astronaut from Soviet Union, Vitaly Sevastyanov was born. | Birthday |
| 1930 | New Zealand politician Joseph Ward died. | Death day |
| 1923 | Chess grandmaster from FR Yugoslavia, Dragoljub Janošević was born. | Birthday |
| 1919 | German politician Walter Scheel was born. | Birthday |
| 1895 | Soviet physicist Igor Tamm was born. | Birthday |
| 1894 | Soviet physicist Pyotr Kapitsa was born. | Birthday |
| 1857 | French psychologist Alfred Binet was born. | Birthday |
| 1840 | Portuguese politician Manuel de Arriaga was born. | Birthday |
| 1838 | German general and inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin was born. | Birthday |
| 1831 | American pharmacist John Pemberton was born. | Birthday |
| 1730 | Magnitude 8.7 earthquake in Valparaiso, Chile. This is one of the largest earthquake by magnitude. | Natural Disaster |
| 1695 | Dutch physicist and inventor Christiaan Huygens died. | Death day |
| 1623 | Pope Gregory XV died. | Death day |
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