2009
Internet traffic reaches unprecedented levels after entertainer Michael Jackson's death triggers an outpouring of worldwide grief

2006
Warren Buffett donates $30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

1999
NBA Finals, San Antonio Spurs beat New York Knicks 4 games to 1

1998
Supreme Court rules attorney-client privilege extends beyond the grave, exempting Vince Foster's conversations with his lawyers from being used as evidence by Kenneth Starr

1997
Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million

1997
Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby, Orbit 9

1997
Intelsat 802 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful

1997
J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game

1997
NHL approves franchises in Nash, Atlanta, Columbus, and Minn-St. Paul

1997
Progress M-34 Collides with and damages Mir Space Station

1997
Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop

1995
Betsy King wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic

1995
Rockies' Andres Galarraga is 4th to home run in 3 consecutive innings

1994
1,500th goal in Soccer World Cup history scored by Caceres of Argentina

1994
105 degrees F (40.5 degrees C) at Albuquerque, New Mexico

1994
111 degrees F (43.9 degrees C) at El Paso, Texas

1994
Cleveland Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yankees 11-6

1994
Gay Games close in New York City

1994
Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns

1993
New York Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame

1993
Parliamentary election in Morocco

1992
"Les Miserables," opens at Vinorhady Theatre, Prague

1992
Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores

1992
STS-50 launches (Columbia)

1991
Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match atWimbledon

1991
Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia

1990
"Dave Thomas Comedy Show," last airs on CBS-TV

1990
120 degrees F in Phoenix, Arizona

1990
NBC decides to air episodes of "Quantum Leap" for 5 straight days

1990
Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known

1989
"Day By Day," last airs on NBC-TV

1989
1st U.S. postmark dedicated to Lesbian and Gay Pride

1989
Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship

1989
Mets' defense does not record a single assist in a 5-1 win over Phils

1988
"Chess" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 68 performances

1988
104 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June

1988
Cal Ripken, Jr. plays in his 1,000th consecutive game

1988
Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs

1988
Iceland's president Vigdis Finnbogadottir elected (90+%)

1988
Kristen Logan, 17, of Mississippi, crowned America's Junior Miss

1988
Netherlands soccer team wins European Cup (2-0 against U.S.S.R.)

1987
Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim

1986
Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud

1986
Phillies give Steve Carlton, 41, his unconditional release

1985
Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes, 21 die

1984
Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America

1984
STS-41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem

1983
"Evita" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 1568 performances

1983
India beat West Indies by 43 runs to win Cricket World Cup

1983
Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m

1982
Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Jr. resigns, replaced by George Schultz

1981
Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional

1980
"Fearless Frank" closes at Princess Theater New York City after 12 performances

1979
"Got Tu Go Disco" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 8 performances

1979
Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium

1978
Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires

1978
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open

1977
Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time

1976
Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader

1975
Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day)

1973
John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee

1973
Russian party leader Brezhnev visits France

1973
Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m

1972
Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball

1972
Juan Peron elected president of Argentina

1971
Stevie Wonder releases "Where I'm Coming From"

1969
Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon

1968
Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (Giants)

1967
400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special

1967
Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational

1967
KPBS TV channel 15 in San Diego, California (PBS) begins broadcasting

1967
Mohammed Ali, Cassius Clay, sentenced to 5 years

1966
Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks

1966
Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad

1966
Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched

1965
Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kadar as premier of Hungary

1964
Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black methodist bishop (NJ)

1964
WMCA (New York City) plays Beatles' Hard Days Night Album (10 days prior to its scheduled release date), they decide to release it June 26th

1963
Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies

1963
John F. Kennedy speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt

1963
South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested

1962
Inonu Government forms in Turkey

1962
Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms

1962
Supreme Court rules New York school prayer unconstitutional

1961
Baltimore and California use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns

1961
Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)

1960
Earthquake in NE Belgium

1960
Madagascar gains independence of France

1957
"Jonathan Winters Show," last airs on NBC-TV

1956
51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" and "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)

1956
WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting

1955
"Can Can" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 892 performances

1955
"Imogene Coca Show," last airs on NBC-TV

1953
1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours

1953
86 degrees F in Anchorage Alaska

1952
"Wish You Were Here" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 597 performances

1952
34th PGA Championship: Jim Turnesa at Big Spring CC Louisville

1952
Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election

1951
1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from New York City to 4 cities

1950
Israeli airline El Al begins service

1950
Johnny Pramesa (Reds) and Hank Thompson (Giants) hit inside the park home runs

1950
Korean conflict begins; North Korea invades South Korea

1950
U.N. member states begin using integrated forces against North Korea

1949
Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote)

1948
Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

1948
Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to U.S.)

1947
1st edition of Anne Frank's "The Back of House" published

1947
Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello

1947
Tennis shoe introduced

1945
Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas

1945
Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa

1944
British assault at Caen Normandy

1943
Crematory III at Birkenau is finished

1943
Seyss-Inquart orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians

1942
British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)

1942
British premier Winston Churchill travels from U.S. to London

1942
General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe

1941
Russian counter attack at Rovno

1941
Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination

1941
Fair Employment Practices Commission established

1941
Finland declares war on Soviet Union

1941
Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there

1940
Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower and grave of Napoleon in France

1938
"A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1

1938
Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour

1937
Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit home runs in a game

1935
Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium

1934
Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets vs. Australia (7-61 and 8-43)

1934
New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle beating White Sox 11-2,

1934
Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times

1932
36th U.S. Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows NY

1932
Commencement of India's 1st Test cricket, vs. England at Lord's

1929
President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam

1928
New York Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader

1927
WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout

1926
61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham

1925
Military putsch under General Theodorus Pangulos in Greece

1921
56th British Golf Open: Jock Hutchison shoots a 296 at St. Andrews

1921
Charlie McCartney scores 300 in 205 minutes Australia vs. Notts

1920
League of Nations places International head of Justice in Hague

1919
1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)

1919
Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg

1918
Baku-Turkish Communist Party forms

1916
Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov

1913
Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)

1910
Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)

1909
George Sargent wins U.S. Open golf tournament

1905
Warsaw and Lodz revolt against Russian occupation

1903
Yankees and White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18

1903
Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 and 5-3

1894
American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike

1888
Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison

1876
Custer and 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Big Horn

1870
Opera "Die Walkure" is produced (Munich)

1868
FL, AL, LA, GA, North Carolina and South Carolina readmitted to US

1868
President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hour day

1867
1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio

1864
Horse tramway at the Hague, opens

1864
Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines

1863
U.S. General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggressive

1862
Battle of Oak Grove, Virginia (Orchard, Henrico, French's Field) (Kings's Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7 Days

1861
Western Virginia campaign

1835
1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)

1834
Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published

1798
U.S. passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens

1794
French troops occupy Charleroi

1788
Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify U.S. constitution

1749
General fast because of drought in MA

1716
Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands

1675
Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden

1672
1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in U.S. held, Sandwich, Mass

1667
Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs 1st blood transfusion

1658
Spanish garrison at Duinkerk surrenders to French and British

1646
Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Oxford

1638
Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in U.S.

1630
Fork introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop

1621
French government army occupies Fort St. Jean d'Angely at La Rochelle

1607
Mentally ill emperor Rudolf II signs Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary and Moravia

1606
Alkmaarse clergy asks "Great Dertelheyt"

1606
St. Jansday is forbidden

1580
Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published

1500
Pope Alexander VI accept Treaty of Granada

1298
Rindfleish Persecutions-250 Jews killed in Rothenburg Germany

1243
Sinibaldo dei Fieschi elected as Pope Innocentius IV

1183
Peace of Konstanz

1178
5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon

1139
Battle of Ourique: Afonso I defeats Moors

1096
1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany

1080
Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clemens III

253
St. Lucius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope