636 – Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
1949 – Test Cricket debut of England’s Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days
1956 – Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
1973 – US President Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
1976 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 – Israeli government rejects Sadat’s call for return of 2 Sinai areas
1990 – South Africa workers’ union leader Billy Nair arrested
1994 – Goodwill Games open in St Petersburg
1995 – British Open Men’s Golf, St. Andrews: Controversial American John Daly wins his 2nd major title by 4 strokes in a 4-hole playoff with Costantino Rocca of Italy
2000 – 87th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)