- 1537 Asunción, Paraguay, is founded.
- 1540 Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
- 1931 Spakenburg soccer team forms
- 1940 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazis)
- 1946 Dumont TV Network (WABD NY) is launched in the US
- 1947 India gains independence from Great Britain, remains a dominion until 1950/
- 1947 India becomes a sovereign and democratic nation, independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1950 Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium/.
- 1950 Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
- 1954 WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins.
- 1955 WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, VA (ABC) begins.
- 1968 Pirate Radio Free London begins transmitting
- 1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
- 1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
- 1971 Bahrain gains independence from Britain
- 1988 "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 176 performances
- 1989 Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69)
- 1995 Keylee Sue Sanders, 18, of Kansas, crowned 13th Miss Teen USA.
- 1988 "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 176 performances
- 1989 Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69)
- 1995 Keylee Sue Sanders, 18, of Kansas, crowned 13th Miss Teen USA.
- 2009 12th Athletics World Championships open at Berlin, Germany.
- 2010 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Whistling Straits GC: Martin Kaymer of Germany wins his first major title by 1 stroke in 3-hole aggregate playoff with Bubba Watson.
- 2015 North Korea creates its own time zone -moving its clocks back half an hour to GMT+8.5
- 2016 Anita Włodarczyk of Poland sets a world record 82.29m to win the women's hammer throw gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Zhang Wenxiu (China) silver, and Sophie Hitchon (Great Britain) bronze.
- 2015 North Korea creates its own time zone -moving its clocks back half an hour to GMT+8.5
