- 1994 Middlesex cricket seam bowler Richard Johnson takes all 10 Derbyshire wickets for 45 runs at the County Ground in Derby
- 1994 US Air DC-9 crash in North Carolina, 37 killed
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
1994 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Conchita Martínez of Spain upsets Martina Navratilova 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 for her only Grand Slam title
- 1995 "The Rose Tattoo" closes at Circle in the Square NYC after 80 performances
- 1995 LA Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo is first Japanese player to be selected for a MLB All Star game when he is named in the NL squad
Music Concert
1995 Ringo Starr's third All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Randy Bachman, Mark Farner, Billy Preston, Felix Cavaliere, John Entwistle, Zak Starkey, and Mark Rivera
- 1995 Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election
US Senior Golf Open
1995 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Congressional GC: Tom Weiskopf wins by 4 strokes from Jack Nicklaus for his only Champions Tour major victory
- 1998 "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" the second book in the series is published by Bloomsbury in the UK
- 2000 UEFA European Championship Final, Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands: David Trezeguet scores in extra time to give France a 2-1 win over Italy
- 2000 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Hale Irwin wins by 3 strokes ahead of Bruce Fleischer for his second US Senior title
- 2000 Vicente Fox is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional
- 2001 AbioCor self contained artificial heart created.
- 2001 Bush Administration announce that it will seek to let oil companies drill on about 1,500,000 acres of the Gulf of Mexico
- 2001 UN Security Council, facing an almost certain Russian veto, agrees to postpone indefinitely a vote on the US-led "smart sanctions" package for Iraq
- 2002 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
Event of Interest
2003 Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, insults German MP Martin Schulz by calling him a "kapo" during a session of the European Parliament.
- 2004 ASEAN Regional Forum accepts Pakistan as its 24th member.
Live 8 Concert
2005 10 Live 8 concerts held around the world organised by Bob Geldof to raise awareness of poverty
- 2005 Live 8 concert at Chateau de Versailles, Paris, France; performers include Andrea Bocelli, Dido, Sahakira, Youssou N'Dour, The Cure, and Zucchero
- 2005 Live 8 concert at Circus Maximus, Rome, Italy; performers include Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, and Zucchero
- 2005 Live 8 concert at Hyde Park, London, England; performers include Paul McCartney, U2, Coldplay, Elton John, Sting, Madonna, The Who, Pink Floyd, and R.E.M.
- 2005 Live 8 concert at Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan; performers include Björk, Good Charlotte, Dreams Come True, Do As Infinity, and McFly
- 2005 Live 8 concert at Park Place in Barrie, Ontario, Canada; performers include Neil Young, Bryan Adams; The Tragically Hip; Motley Crue; Gordon Lightfoot; Deep Purple, and Bruce Cockburn
- 2005 Live 8 concert at the Eden Project, Cornwall, England; performers included Daara J, Thomas Mapfumo, Youssou N'Dour, Angelique Kidjo, and Coco Mbassi
- 2005 Live 8 concert at the Victory Column in Tiergarten Park, Berlin, Germany; performers include Green Day; a-ha; Brian Wilson, Roxy Music, Audioslave, and Herbert Grönemeyer
- 2005 Live 8 concert in front of Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; performers include Stevie Wonder, Bon Jovi, The Black-Eyed Peas, Keith Urban, Dave Matthews Band, Maroon 5, and Linkin Park
- 2005 Live 8 concert In Mercy Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa; performers include Lucky Dube, Mahotella Queens, Orchestra Baobob, Zola, and Vusi Mahlasela
- 2005 Live 8 concert in Red Square, Moscow, Russia; performers include Pet Shop Boys, Agata Kristi, Splean, and Red Elvises
- 2005 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Venus Williams beats fellow American Lindsay Davenport 4-6, 7-6, 9-7 for the 3rd of her 5 Wimbledon singles titles
Sports History
2006 Michael Schumacher wins US F1 Grand Prix for the 5th time, 1st driver in any series to win 5 races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Cricket Record
2006 Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya (152) and Upul Tharanga (109) compile world record cricket ODI opening stand of 286 vs England at Headingley
- 2008 A settlement is reached allowing former NBA franchise the Seattle SuperSonics to move to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; new owner Clay Bennett agrees to pay City of Seattle $45 million to wriggle out of last 2 years of KeyArena lease
- 2008 Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other FARC hostages are rescued by the Colombian armed forces.
- 2010 FIFA World Cup: Ghana, only African team remaining in last 8, are beaten 4-2 on penalties by Uruguay; Netherlands upset Brazil 2-1
- 2010 Oil tanker truck explosion in South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, kills at least 230 people
- 2011 American twin brothers Bob & Mike Bryan earn their record equalling 11th Grand Slam doubles title with a straight sets win over Robert Lindstedt & Horia Tecău at Wimbledon
- 2011 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Czech left hander Petra Kvitová wins her first Grand Slam title beating Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4
- 2012 GlaxoSmithKline settles the largest healthcare fraud case in history for US$3 Billion
- 2012 Monsoon rain in East India kills at least 79 people and leaves 2.2 million homeless
Event of Interest
2013 16 people are killed and 200 are injured in protest clashes at Cairo University against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi
- 2013 Reds pitcher Homer Bailey no-hits SF Giants 3-0 in Cincinnati, his second no-hitter in 10 months
Event of Interest
2014 Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is criminally charged with corruption by French prosecutors
- 2015 62 people are killed after the Kim Nirvana ferry capsizes off the coast of the Philippines
- 2015 BP agrees to compensate US government & gulf states $18.7 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
- 2016 Large lorry bomb in Baghdad kills at least 125 people and wounds 150, Islamic State claims responsibility
- 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup: Germany defeats Chile 1-0 to win for the 1st time at Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Sports History
2017 Home town underdog Jeff Horn upsets Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines on points in a highly controversial WBO welterweight title fight in Brisbane, Australia
- 2017 New Jersey Governor Chris Christie causes uproar by day at beach during his government's shutdown of beaches
Film & TV History
2017 US President Donald Trump tweets edited wrestling video of himself attacking news network 'CNN'
- 2017 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Salem CC: Kenny Perry wins by 2 strokes ahead of Kirk Triplett for his 2nd US Senior title
- 2017 Women's PGA Championship, Olympia Fields CC: American Danielle Kang scores her first professional win, 1 stroke ahead of defending champion Brooke Henderson of Canada
- 2017 World Health Organization declares Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo over (4 deaths)
- 2018 270,000 people now displaced by fighting in south-western Syria says UN since assault on rebel-held area two weeks ago
- 2018 British divers discover 12 boys and their coach alive in Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped for 9 days by monsoon flooding
Music History
2018 Singers Cheryl and Liam Payne announce they are splitting up after two years
- 2019 Air strike kills at least 40 people at Libyan migrant center in Tripoli, with Libyan National Army blamed
Event of Interest
2019 Germany's Ursula von der Leyen is the first woman nominated to lead the European Commission with France's Christine Lagarde 1st woman nominated to lead the European Central Bank
The Lewis Chess Pieces
2019 Newly rediscovered Lewis chess piece sells at auction for £735,000 in London
- 2019 Total solar eclipse over Chile and Argentina
- 2019 Virginie Viard presents her first haute couture collection as designer at Chanel after the death of Karl Lagerfeld at the Grand Palais
- 2020 British Darts Organisation’s commercial arm – BDO Enterprises Ltd, goes into liquidation due to lack of sponsorship; oversaw original professional, semi-pro and amateur competitions in Britain
- 2020 Funeral for slain Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa in Ambo amid nationwide unrest at his death that has killed over 80 people
- 2020 More than 160 people die after a landslide at a jade mine in northern Hpakant area of Myanmar
- 2020 Texas Governor Greg Abbott makes wearing face masks mandatory as cases of coronavirus soar in the state
- 2021 India's known COVID-19 death toll passes 400,000 with 30.45 million cases, amid expert speculation that over one million have died [1]
- 2022 Earliest evidence for the use of opium from 14th century bce found in burials at Tel Yehud, ancient Canaan (now Israel) [1]
- 2022 Largest ever exhibition on African fashion "Africa Fashion" opens at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London [1]
- 2022 The more contagious COVID-19 omicron subvariant BA.5 achieves dominance in the US, making up 54% of cases according to the CDC [1]
- 2023 US schooner Cuyahoga Packet captured on the Detroit river by the Provincial Marine, including top secret war correspondence [1]
