1778 George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army
1792 France declares war on Prussia
1816 Frost in Waltham, Massachusetts during "year without a summer"
1822 Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom
1853 Commodore Matthew C. Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay, opening Japan to Western influence and trade
1889 John L. Sullivan successfully defends the last officially sanctioned bare-knuckle world heavyweight prizefighting championship when Jake Kilrain's trainer throws in the towel after 75 one-minute rounds near Hattiesburg, Mississippi
1889 Wall Street Journal begins publishing
1891 61°F, highest temperature for July 1891, in Baltimore and Philadelphia
1923 Warren G. Harding becomes 1st sitting US President to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)
1928 Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader
1950 33.4 cm rainfall at York, Nebraska (state record)
1950 General Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief of UN forces in Korea
1969 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
1982 Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager
1988 Indians' Bud Black sets club record for most batters hit in inning (3)
1988 Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992; he does not follow through
1991 Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed
2010 During 1st round of the John Deere Classic, Paul Goydos becomes the 4th and oldest player in PGA Tour history to shoot 59; round included 12 birdies and 6 pars
2012 Ernest Borgnine,Award-winning actor - From Here To Eternity, McHale's Navy; The Poseidon Adventure, dies from renal failure at 95
2015 The New York Stock Exchange stops trading for nearly four hours due to a technical error
2015 Ken Stabler, American Pro Football HOF quarterback (4 x Pro Bowl; NFL MVP, First-team All-Pro 1974; Super Bowl 1976; Oakland Raiders), dies of colon cancer at 69
2015 The NFL's Washington Redskins have their trademark vacated on the grounds it may cause offence to native Americans
2019 US financier Jeffrey Epstein indicted on further charges of sex trafficking of minors
2020 Americans and Polynesians made contact around 1200 A.D. according to new genomic study in "Nature"; people from eastern Polynesia had DNA from indigenous Colombia
2021 MLB Padres relief pitcher Daniel Camarena gets his first hit, in his second career at bat - a grand slam - against Washington Nationals' Max Scherzer, in San Diego
2022 Tony Sirico, American actor (The Sopranos - "Paulie Walnuts"; Cop Land; Family Guy), dies at 79
