* 1865 – The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England.
* 1937 – Highest recorded temperature in Canada, at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan: 45 °C.
* 1946 – The bikini is introduced in Paris, France.
* 1954 – Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session. He sang That’s All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky. Widely considered to be the birth of Rock and Roll.
* 1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
* 1958 – First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest peak on the earth.
* 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
* 1998 – Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
