- 1885 – The Football Association legalises professionalism in football under pressure from the British Football Association
- 1903 – Ford Motor Company shipped its first car
- 1944 – World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 Plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg
- 1952 – The 15th Olympic Games begin in Helsinki, Finland
- 1953 – The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency
- 1973 – Claudio Reyna, American soccer player was born
- 1979 – Diana Nyad swims sixty miles from the Bahamas to Florida
- 1990 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes at the International Stock Exchange in London
- 2000 – The leaders of Salt Lake City’s bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering
- 2001 – The London Stock Exchange goes public.
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