| Event | Year |
| Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign | |
| Lindbergh begins New York flight (Spirit of St. Louis) | |
| Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X | |
| 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11 | |
| Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada) | |
| 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii | |
| Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich on its cover | |
| 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands | |
| Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart (#1 is 'I'll Never Smile Again' by Tommy Dorsey) | |
| Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension | |
| Togo made a mandate of League of Nations | |
| 1st U.S. intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, New York; Princeton wins | |
| Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 13th Symphony | |
| U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site | |
| Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents ) (New York beats Brooklyn 22-18) | |
| Start of 1st Lancashire-Yorkshire clash at Hyde Park, Sheffield | |
| Mahlon Loomis patents wireless radio | |
| Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops | |
| U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island | |
| IRA bomb attacks in London | |