1908 - King Edward VII of Britain met with Tsar Nicholas II of Russia aboard a royal yacht in the Baltic Sea, marking their first encounter.
1931 - The Davis escape device, a portable oxygen container, was used for the first time. The British submarine Poseidon sank off the coast of China, allowing 6 men to surface.
1991 - Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines after being dormant for 600 years, representing the second-largest volcanic eruption of the century, with materials expelled into the atmosphere causing a drop in Earth's surface temperature.
1997 - Space telescope images were released, showing a region of the Seyfert galaxy believed to contain a supermassive black hole.
2000 - Tiger Woods won the 100th U.S. Open Championship.
2001 - Italian businessman and politician Silvio Berlusconi agreed to a mandate to form the 59th Italian government since the outbreak of World War II.
2004 - Four former Kurdish deputies were released after spending 10 years in prison in Turkey for their connections to Kurdish rebels.
2005 - Supreme Court President Eduardo Rodríguez replaced Carlos Mesa as Bolivia's new president to end weeks of protests and pave the way for early elections.
2006 - Palestinians in Ramallah created the largest tabbouleh dish in the world.
2007 - Over 6,000 Hungarian couples broke the world record for simultaneous kissing.
2017 - Naked models were painted in Times Square.
