Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.

NASA's unmanned spacecraft ''Genesis'' crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.

A USAir Boeing 737 crashes in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania, near the city of Aliquippa.

The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.

Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of ''Time'' magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is later given a general discharge.

Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's ''Mass''.

Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as ''Black September''

The Beatles perform their last live TV performance on the David Frost show. They perform their new hit "Hey Jude".

The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.

The first ''Star Trek'' series premieres on NBC.

The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 ''Evening Star''.

Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a Constitution.

In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.

Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.

Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.

World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.

World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.

World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.

World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF.

World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad.

US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.

Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner {{SS|Morro Castle}} kills 135 people.

3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.

Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.

Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.

16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.

World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.

Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.

The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.

In England the first six Football League matches are played.

In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.

American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass

William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The ''Tonquin'' sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.

Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.

French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.

A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.

The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta that began on May 18.

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés settles St. Augustine, Florida.

The foundation day in Vitória, Brazil

Battle of Orsha

Michelangelo's ''David'' is unveiled in Florence.

Battle of Tumu Fortress

Battle of Kulikovo

Stephen Uroš IV Dušan declares himself king of Serbia

The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving ''battei din'' jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.

Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem.