| | 678 - Saint Agatho begins his reign as a Catholic Pope. |
| | 1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain. |
| | 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava. |
| | 1743 - War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally led troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field. |
| | 1759 - General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec. |
| | 1806 - The British capture Buenos Aires. |
| | 1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr., murdered along with his brother, Hyrum, at the Carthage, Illinois jail. |
| | 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. |
| | 1867 - The Bank of California is created. |
| | 1893 - Crash of the New York Stock Exchange. |
| | 1898 - The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia. |
| | 1950 - The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War. |
| | 1953 - Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of France. |
| | 1954 - The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow. |
| | 1957 - Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas. |
| | 1966 - The first broadcast of Dark Shadows is aired on ABC-TV. |
| | 1967 - The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London. |
| | 1969 - Stonewall riots begin in New York city. |
| | 1974 - U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R.. |
| | 1976 - Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda. |
| | 1977 - France grants independence to Djibouti. |
| | 1979 - Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from boxing. |
| | 1980 - A commercial DC-9 (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870) crashes near Ustica, Italy, killing 81 |
| | 1984 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Albert Einstein Peace Prize. |
| | 1985 - Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway. |
| | 1986 - The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in Nicaragua v. United States. |
| | 1988 - 59 are killed and 55 are injured as a runaway train in Gare de Lyon, France plows into a packed rush-hour train. |
| | 1991 - Slovenia, after declaring independence two days previous, is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War. |
| | 1998 - Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia. |
| | 2001 - International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case. |
| | 2005 - AMD files broad antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations. |