Do you think that's going to actually happen?
I'm hopeful.
- 390 BC Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
Event of 
- 1290 King Edward I of England orders expulsion of Jews
- 1334 The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
- 1536 Pope's authority declared void in England
- 1572 Willem of Orange recognized as viceroy of Holland/Friesland/Utrecht
- 1630 Spanish troops occupy Mantua
- 1656 -20] Battle at Warsaw: Swedish King Karel X Gustaaf beats Johan II Kasimir and occupies Warsaw
- 1716 Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels
- 1737 Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians
- 1743 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)
- 1753 Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham Mass
- 1766 Society of the Dutch Literary forms
- 1768 Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song", America's 1st patriotic song
- 1814 British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
- 1853 Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine & Montreal
- 1857 Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.
- 1861 Battle of Blackburn's Ford, VA US57 CS68 - Manassas -
- 1862 Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces
- 1863 Battle of Fort Wagner, SC - Second assault US1500 CS174
- 1864 President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for milt service
- 1870 Pontifical infalliability proclaimed
- 1872 The Ballot Act introduces the secret ballot in elections in Britain; previously votes were made openly.
- 1882 Louisville Tony Mullane is 1st to pitch righty then lefty
- 1893 Australian Harry Graham scores 107 on cricket debut Australia v England, Lord's
- 1894 11th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Blanche Bingley beats E Austin (6-1 6-1)
- 1894 18th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Joshua Pim beats Wilfred Baddeley (10-8 6-2 8-6)
- 1896 2nd US Golf Open: James Foulis shoots a 152 at Shinnecock Hills NY
- 1896 George Giffen is 1st to complete 1000/100 double, in 30th Test Cricket
- 1896 Ranjitsinhji completes 154* on Test Cricket debut v Aust, Old Trafford
- 1897 Cap Anson is 1st to get 3,000 hits
- 1907 Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907" premieres in NYC
- 1907 French troops occupy Casablanca
- 1912 Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
- 1913 After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk
- 1914 US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps
- 1915 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins & ends with loss of 280,000 men
- 1915 Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs
- 1918 World War I: US and French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive
- 1921 Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
- 1923 British House of Lords accepts new divorce law
- 1924 KPD points out Rote Frontkampferbund against Nazi
- 1930 SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland
- 1931 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
- 1932 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign Ouchy Convention, a customs treaty
- 1932 US & Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
- 1935 Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000
- 1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
Presidential 
- 1941 SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
- 1942 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
- 1942 Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.
- 1943 British assault on Catania Sicily
- 1943 Giants & Phillies strand record 30 baserunners, NY wins, 10-6
- 1944 7:45 Operation Goodwood: British assault east of Caen
- 1944 Allies air raid railways at Vaires, Paris
- 1944 Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6)
- 1944 RAF Mosquitos attack Cologne & Berlin
- 1944 British air raid on German convoy SW of Heligoland
- 1944 British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range, Normandy
- 1944 Polish troops under Gen Anders occupy Ancona Italy
- 1944 US troop march into St Lo
- 1947 British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine
- 1947 US President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act
- 1947 Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0, end 19 game win streak
- 1947 US begins administering Trust Territory of Pacific Islands
- 1948 "Marinka" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 168 performances
- 1948 Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in an 11 inning game
- 1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution
- 1952 KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Inverness Four-Ball Golf Tournament
- 1954 Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forfeit game
- 1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
- 1955 280 mm rain in Martinstown, Dorset (UK-record)
- 1956 Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rákosi as party leader of Hungary
- 1958 6th British Empire Games and Commonwealth Games open in Cardiff, Wales
- 1959 African American William 'Bill' Wright is the 1st coloured person to win a major golf tournament (U.S. Amateur Public Links Championships)
- 1959 Los Angeles premiere of the film version of Kathryn Hulme's "The Nun's Story"
- 1959 46th Tour de France won by Federico Bahamontes of Spain
- 1960 1st UN troops reach Congo
- 1960 Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises
- 1960 Premier Kishi of Japan resigns
- 1961 Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth's record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games
- 1962 Minnesota Twins Bob Allison & Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn & Harmon Killebrew connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning
- 1962 Minn is 1st AL team to hit 2 grand slams in an inning as Bob Allison
- 1963 Failed military coup in Syria
- 1963 The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second interim report pressing for international sanctions against South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and petroleum
- 1964 Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)
- 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open
- 1965 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
- 1966 Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
- 1966 Gemini 10 launched (John Young & Michael Collins)
- 1967 Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY
- 1968 The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
- 1969 Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL
- 1970 "Boy Friend" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 119 performances
- 1970 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
- 1970 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
- 1970 WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Baseball 
- 1974 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
- 1974 World's tallest structure, 646 metre Polish radio mast, completed
- 1975 Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play)
- 1976 "Something's Afoot" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 61 performances
- 1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
- 1976 Stockhausens "Sirius" premieres in NYC
- 1976 Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut
- 1976 Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
- 1976 63rd Tour de France won by Lucien Van Impe of Belgium
- 1977 Hugh Leonard's "Da" premieres in London
- 1977 Vietnam becomes member of UN
- 1978 Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
- 1979 Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London
- 1979 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1980 Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly, France
- 1980 Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women
- 1980 Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana
- 1980 Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit
- 1981 Polish communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
- 1982 "Blues in the Night" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 53 performances
Golf 
- 1982 Sally Little wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
- 1983 Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales
- 1984 James Huberty kills 21 McDonald's patrons in San Ysidro Calif
- 1984 Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF
- 1984 21 people are killed and 19 are injured in a massacre in a McDonalds restaurant in San Ysidro, California; it ends with the shooting of its perpetrator, James Oliver Huberty
- 1985 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
- 1986 115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld
- 1986 Royals announce that manager Dick Howser, 50, has a brain tumor
- 1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
- 1987 Molly Yard elected new President of National Organization for Women
- 1987 NY Yanks Don Mattingly ties record of HRs in 8 cons games
- 1988 Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship
- 1988 Shooting begins on "License to Kill"
- 1989 48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record)
- 1991 Florida Marlins' logo unveiled
Meeting of 
- 1992 Sharon Belden, of Florida, 25, crowned Miss World USA
- 1992 The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima, Peru.
- 1993 122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St George
- 1993 Afghan president Ishaq Khan & prime minister Nawaz Sharif resign
- 1993 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (51,596 K)
- 1993 Hiromi Kobayash wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
- 1993 Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election
- 1994 Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed
- 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy's largest collision with Jupiter leaves black spot 12,000 km across
- 1994 Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights
- 1994 Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons
- 1994 Houston Astros tie NL comeback record, trailing 10-0, beat Cards 15-12
- 1994 NY Jets sign USA soccer goalkeeper Tony Miola as a place kicker
- 1995 DC3 crashes at Antananarivo, Madagascar, 34 die
- 1996 Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Québec's costliest natural disasters ever.
- 1996 The UN approves an Iraqi aid distribution plan, a major step forward in the direction of allowing Iraq to sell oil under Resolution 986
- 1999 128th British Golf Open: at Carnoustie; Scot Paul Lawrie wins after play off
- 1999 New York Yankees' David Cone becomes 15th pitcher to throw a perfect game (6-0 vs Montreal)
- 2004 133rd British Golf Open: Todd Hamilton shoots a 274 at Royal Troon Golf Club
- 2009 Five members of one family are found murdered at Epping, New South Wales.
- 2010 139th British Golf Open: Louis Oosthuizen shoots a 272 at St Andrews
- 2012 6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria
- 2012 14 people are killed after a bomb explosion at Pakistan's Orakzai Agency
- 2012 Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths
- 2012 Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria's Minister of Defence
- 2012 24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar
- 2013 Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy, becoming the largest US municipal bankruptcy ever at $18.5 billion
- 2013 46th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
- 2014 The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) call 18,000 additional reserves soldiers in campaign against Gaza
- 2015 "The Sun" newspaper in Britain controversially publishes old picture and video of Queen Elizabeth giving Nazi salute in 1933
- 2015 PayPal is spun off from eBay as a separate publicly traded company on the NASDAQ
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