1871 – British-US treaty ends Alabama dispute
1895 – China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
1899 – Ernest Rutherford publishes his discovery of two different kinds of radiation (Alpha and Beta Particles)
1942 – German summer offensive opens in Crimea
1957 – South Vietnamese President, Ngô Đình Diệm, arrives in the United States on a state visit
1974 – 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted
1994 – Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama
2013 – Sir Alex Ferguson announces his retirement as Manchester United’s manager at the end of the season
2019 – Governor of Georgia Brian Kemp signs new abortion law, the so-called “heart-beat bill” (comes into effect Jan 2020)
2019 – Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues that Facebook should be split up and regulated in “New York Times” Op-Ed essay