Year 1451 Calendar » Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
Year 1492 Calendar » The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
Year 1498 Calendar » On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first Ethnic groups in Europe called European to discover the island of Trinidad.
Year 1588 Calendar » The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
Year 1655 Calendar » Russo-Polish War (1654–67): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
Year 1658 Calendar » Aurangzeb is proclaimed Mughal Empire named Moghul emperor of India.
Year 1667 Calendar » Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda (1667) called Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
Year 1703 Calendar » Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
Year 1712 Calendar » Action of 31 July 1712 (Great Northern War): Danish and Swedish ships clash in the Baltic Sea; the result is inconclusive.
Year 1715 Calendar » Seven days after a 1715 Treasure Fleet called Spanish treasure fleet of 12 ships left Havana, Cuba for Spain, 11 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
Year 1741 Calendar » Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor named Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
Year 1777 Calendar » The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette known as Gilbert du Motier "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and
Year 1790 Calendar » The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins (inventor) or Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
Year 1865 Calendar » The first Narrow gauge railway or narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
Year 1904 Calendar » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
Year 1913 Calendar » The Balkans named Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.
Year 1919 Calendar » Weimar National Assembly known as German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
Year 1930 Calendar » The Radio drama e.g radio mystery program 'The Shadow' airs for the first time.
Year 1931 Calendar » New York City e.g New York, New York experimental television station W2XAB (now known as WCBS-TV known as WCBS) begins broadcasts.
Year 1932 Calendar » The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German federal election, July 1932 known as German elections.
Year 1938 Calendar » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
Year 1938 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius I known as Darius the Great in Persepolis.
Year 1941 Calendar » The Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazism Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders Schutzstaffel SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary
Year 1945 Calendar » Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allies of World War II known as Allied soldiers in Austria.
Year 1948 Calendar » At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
Year 1948 » USS Nevada BB-36 6 is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
Year 1954 Calendar » First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
Year 1956 Calendar » Jim Laker becomes the first man to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings as he returns figures of 10/53 in the Australian 2nd innings. This combined with his 9/37 in the first innings gave him match figures of 19/90 in the 4th Test at Old Trafford.
Year 1961 Calendar » At Fenway Park in Boston known as Boston, Massachusetts, the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game or All-Star Game tie in Major League Baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
Year 1964 Calendar » Ranger program: 'Ranger 7' sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
Year 1970 Calendar » Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned Rum Naval rum or rum ration in the Royal Navy.
Year 1971 Calendar » Apollo program: 'Apollo 15' astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
Year 1972 Calendar » The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later tha
Year 1988 Calendar » 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal bridge collapse e.g bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
Year 1992 Calendar » Georgia (country) or Georgia joins the United Nations.
Year 2006 Calendar » Fidel Castro hands over power to brother Raúl Castro.
Year 2007 Calendar » Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
Year 2009 Calendar » Three members of the popular South Korean group TVXQ, (Kim Jaejoong, Kim Junsu, and Park Yoochun), filed lawsuit against their Korean management S.M. Entertainment.
Year 2012 Calendar » Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the List of multiple Olympic medalists called most medals won at the Olympics.