1658 – Aurangzeb appoints himself the sixth Mughal emperor; the Mughal Empire reaches its greatest extent under him
1969 – KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, Minnesota (IND) begins broadcasting
1983 – Dutch July average temperature is 20.1°C (68.18°F), making it the warmest July since 1854
1991 – US Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
1997 – First baseman Mark McGwire becomes MLB’s top home run hitter to be traded in the middle of a season when he moves from Oakland to the St. Louis Cardinals with 34 home runs and 81 RBIs
2016 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Baltusrol GC: American Jimmy Walker wins his first major by one shot from defending champion Jason Day of Australia
2019 – Russian President Vladimir Putin orders the Russian army to help put out huge wildfires in Siberia covering 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) after 700,000 people sign a petition
2019 – US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by 0.25%, the first cut since 2008
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 30th July 2026
1678 – English troops land in Flanders
1939 – Tour de France: Sylvère Maes of Belgium wins his 3rd title from Frenchman René Vietto
1942 – German occupiers set a night curfew on Jews in the Netherlands
1968 – Washington shortstop Ron Hansen makes the eighth unassisted triple play in MLB history and the first in 41 years as the Senators lose 10-1 to the Cleveland Indians
1969 – KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
1982 – Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seating
1982 – USSR performs an underground nuclear test
2003 – Toronto Rocks – SARSStock benefit with performers including The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Rush, The Guess Who, Justin Timberlake, The Flaming Lips, and The Isley Brothers, at Downsview Park; largest concert in Canadian history attracts 450,000 spectators
Historical Events for 29th July 2026
238 – The Roman Senate and Praetorian Guard proclaim 13-year-old Gordian III as Emperor – the youngest-ever emperor of a united Rome
1566 – Great Britain executes Agnes Waterhouse, the first British woman convicted of witchcraft in Chelmsford, England
1773 – First schoolhouse west of the Allegheny Mountains is completed in Schoenbrunn, Ohio
1924 – Paul Runyan wins PGA the golf championship
1942 – Transport #12 departs Drancy, France, with 1001 French Jews sent to Auschwitz concentration camp; five survive until the war’s end
1996 – MLB Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda retires, with a record of 1599-1439, four National League Pennants, and two World Series championships.
2015 – “Sweat” by Lynn Nottage premieres at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2017)
2019 – Prison riot kills 58, with 16 decapitated in a battle between rival factions at Altamira prison, Pará state, Brazil
Historical Events for 28th July 2026
1330 – Battle of Velbuzd: Serbian forces defeat Bulgarian army
1563 – French army recaptures Le Havre after the English garrison surrenders after a siege
1794 – French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of “the Terror” are guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris
1794 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, future Empress of the French and first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, is released from prison five days after the execution of her first husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais
1967 – Pirate radio station 390 (Radio Invicta) in England closes down
2013 – 39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy
2018 – Carr Fire reaches Redding, California, with the death toll at 5, having burned 80,000 acres
2019 – Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is revealed as the first guest editor for UK Vogue in 103 years for its September 2019 issue
Historical Events for 27th July 2026
1377 – First example of quarantine in Ragusa (now Dubrovnik); city council passes a law stating newcomers from plague areas must isolate for 30 days (later 40 days, quaranta in Italian)
1816 – US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1897 – Dutch government of Pierson and Goeman Borgesius resigns
1927 – Mel Ott, 18, hits his first league home run (inside the park)
1988 – Baseball star Tommy John commits a record three errors on one play as the Yankees rout the Brewers 16-3
1992 – Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Republican National Convention
2003 – British Senior Open Men’s Golf, Turnberry: American Tom Watson wins in a playoff against Carl Mason of England
2021 – Triathlete Flora Duffy wins first Olympic gold medal for Bermuda in the women’s event at the Tokyo Games
Historical Events for 26th July 2026
1760 – Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz during Third Silesian War
1858 – Baron Lionel de Rothschild becomes the first Jewish person to be elected to the British Parliament
1882 – Richard Wagner’s opera “Parsifal” premieres in Bayreuth, Germany
1917 – J. Edgar Hoover gets job in US Department of Justice
1941 – US embargo on oil export to Japan
1946 – Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport
1954 – WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
2019 – Australian cricket captain Meg Lanning records a T20 International world record individual score of 133 off 63 balls in a 93-run win against England at Chelmsford; Southern Stars clinch Women’s Ashes
Historical Events for 25th July 2026
1901 – Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain about the concentration camps during the South African War
1913 – Pittsburgh Pirates future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Max Carey scores five runs without a hit, reaching first base on an error and four walks as the Bucs defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 12-2
1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans sale of benzine and gasoline to Japan
1956 – 46 die in a collision between the SS Andrea Doria and the MS Stockholm off the coast of Nantucket
1985 – Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms he has AIDS
1993 – Tour de France: Spaniard Miguel Induráin makes it three straight Tour titles; Djamolidine Abdoujaparov is points winner
1993 – Romantic comedy film “Sleepless in Seattle,” starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and co-written and directed by Nora Ephron, is released
2017 – Ram Nath Kovind becomes 14th President of India
Historical Events for 24th July 2026
1902 – In Turkey, the Sultan Abdul-Hamid, under pressure from within the Ottoman Empire, appoints a commission to consider reforms that might pacify Macedonian revolutionaries
1908 – American Johnny Hayes wins the London Olympic marathon in a Games record time of 2:55:18.4 after Dorando Pietri of Italy is disqualified for receiving assistance before the finish line
1946 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Atoll
1952 – US President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1959 – 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
1967 – Race riots in Cambridge, Maryland
2017 – Polish President Andrzej Duda vetoes two laws to put Polish courts under political control
2023 – Wildfires across Algeria kill at least 34 people amid temperatures of 48°C (118°F)
Historical Events for 23rd July 2026
1794 – Alexandre de Beauharnais, the first husband of Joséphine de Beauharnais, is executed for treason during the Reign of Terror
1877 – First telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed
1925 – NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his first of 23 career grand slams
1934 – Australian cricket batting legend Don Bradman completes 304 in drawn 4th Test vs England at Leeds; 430 minutes, 43 x fours, 2 x sixes
1948 – Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for US President
1958 – First four women named to peerage in House of Lords (UK)
1969 – 40th MLB All-Star Game, RFK Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C.: NL defeats AL, 9-3; MVP: Willie McCovey, SF Giants, 1B
1975 – LA Dodgers W. Crawford and Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
Historical Events for 22nd July 2026
1901 – Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
1944 – Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
1958 – US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1962 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Aronimink GC: Gary Player of South Africa wins by 1 stroke from Bob Goalby
1969 – Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s choice of Prince Juan Carlos as his successor is ratified by the Spanish Parliament
1992 – Soyuz TM-15 launches
1997 – “One Piece,” world’s best-selling manga and comic series, written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, first appears serialized in “Weekly Shōnen Jump” in Japan
2003 – Members of US 101st Airborne, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Mosul, Iraq, killing Uday Hussein and Qusay Hussein, sons of Saddam Hussein, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay’s 14-year old son, and a bodyguard