1853 – Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
1871 – The Chicago Fire of 1871 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.
1877 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US, when Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers have their wages cut for the second time in a year.
1881 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
1910 – William Hanna, American animator, director, producer, and actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2001) is born.
1911 – Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers lands his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House. He is later awarded a Gold medal from U.S. President William Howard Taft for this feat.
1912 – Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Almanac Singers) (d. 1967) is born.
1913 – Gerald Ford, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006) is born.
1918 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007) is born.
1941 – Maulana Karenga, American philosopher, author, and activist, created Kwanzaa is born.
1943 – In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
1960 – Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
1969 – The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
1976 – Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.
1987 – Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
1998 – Richard McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1909) dies.
2002 – French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
2003 – In an effort to discredit U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who had written an article critical of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reveals that Wilson's wife Valerie Plame is a CIA "operative".
2015 – NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
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