*. 1910– The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
*. 1915– The passenger ship S.S. East land capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
*. 1924– Archaeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece
*. 1931– A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
*. 1937– Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called " Scottsboro Boys".
*. 1943– World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
*. 1950– Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
*. 1966– Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitana long with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
*. 1967– During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre!("Long live free Quebec!"). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
*. 1969– Apollo program: Apollo 11splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
*. 1972– Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
*. 1974– Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
*. 1977– End of a four day long Libyan– Egyptian War.
*. 1982– Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
*. 1983– The Black Julyanti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
*.1983 – George Brettbatting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the " Pine Tar Incident".
*. 1990– Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait- Iraq border.
*. 1991– Manmohan Singh presents his budget speech to the Indian Parliament which led to economic liberalisation in India
*. 1998– Russell Eugene Weston, Jr.bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
*. 2001– Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
*.2001 – Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack. They destroyed 11 Aircraft (mostly military) and damaged 15, there are no civilian casualties. This incident slowed down Sri Lankan economy.
*. 2002– Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420–1.