1879 – Government Kappeijne of Coppello resigns
1940 – 1st Polish squadrons fight along allies in the Battle of Britain
1948 – US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
1948 – 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
1949 – 78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1980 – Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
1988 – Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman’s record (12.21)
2020 – Kamala Harris accepts her nomination for vice-president, becoming the 1st US woman of color on a major-party ticket saying “there is no vaccine for racism”
2020 – Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny falls into a coma after a suspected poisoning (later confirmed to be Novichok poisoning)