Intergovernmental Conference on Identity Certificates for Russian Refugees, convened by Fridtjof Nansen in Geneva, creates the Nansen passports (for stateless persons)
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 324 | Battle of Adrianople: Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats his co-emperor Licinius, who flees to Byzantium |
| 1187 | Battle of Horns of Hattin: Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, destroys Jerusalem's crusader army. |
| 1863 | Battle of Gettysburg, largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War. |
| 1877 | American inventor Thomas Edison invents the carbon telephone transmitter. |
| 1884 | Dow Jones publishes its 1st stock index, the Dow Jones Transportation Average |
| 1928 | John Logie Baird demonstrates the first colour television transmission in London |
| 1972 | Cairo orders Soviet Union to withdraw military advisers stationed in Egypt. |
| 1976 | Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Sweden's Björn Borg beats Ilie Năstase of Romania 6-4, 6-2, 9-7 for the first of 5 straight Wimbledon titles |
| 1980 | India launches its first satellite,Rohini. |
| 1988 | Iran announces it has accepted a security council ceasefire call in its 8 year old war with Iraq. |
| 1995 | Italian cyclist Fabio Casertelli dies in crash during the 15th stage of the Tour de France. |
| 2000 | Alex salmond resigns as leader of the Scottish National Party |
| 2005 | The first sucessful robot camel jocky race in the world introduced in the UAE. |
| 2010 | An express train ploughs through a stationary train at a station in West Bengal,India,killing 61 people. |
| 2018 | Cardi B becomes first female rapper to get two number one US Billboard hits, with "I Like It" with Bad Bunny and J Balvin |
| 2019 | A 41-year-old man sets fire on Kyoto Animation studio, Japan,killing 36 people. |