| 1775 | | George Washington takes command of the Continental Army. |
| 1790 | | In Paris, the Marquis of Condorcet proposes granting civil rights to women. |
| 1844 | | American ambassador Caleb Cushing successfully negotiates a commercial treaty with China. |
| 1863 | | Confederate forces attack the center of the Union line at Gettysburg, but fail to break it. |
| 1878 | | John Wise flies the first dirigible in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. |
| 1901 | | The Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy, commits its last American robbery near Wagner, Montana, taking $65,000 from a Great Northern train. |
| 1903 | | The first cable across the Pacific Ocean is spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila. |
| 1916 | | The Battle of the Somme begins. More than 100,000 men are killed in the first day. |
| 1944 | | The U.S. First Army opens a general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France. |
| 1945 | | U.S. troops land at Balikpapan and take Sepinggan airfield on Borneo in the Pacific. |
| 1950 | | U.S. carrier-based planes attack airfields in the Pyongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first air-strike of the Korean War. |
| 1954 | | Food rationing ends in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II. |
| 1962 | | Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. |
| 1967 | | North Vietnamese soldiers attack South Vietnam's only producing coal mine at Nong Son. |
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