1900 - King of Italy Umberto I was assassinated by anarchist Gaetano Bresci in Monza.
1937 - King Farouk was crowned in Cairo, the last king of the Kingdom of Egypt, and the last ruler from the Albanian-origin Muhammad Ali dynasty.
1948 - The first Olympic Games after World War II were opened at Wembley Stadium in London.
1981 - Former Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr was granted political asylum in France.
1981 - Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, married Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
2001 - American cyclist Lance Armstrong won the 2001 Tour de France, joining the elite group of triple winners and confirming his status as one of the greats of contemporary cycling.
2003 - The Belgian House of Representatives passed a bill to repeal the controversial war crimes law, which gave Belgian courts the authority to hear war crimes cases regardless of where they were committed.
2006 - The last contingent of Japanese ground forces stationed in Iraq returned home, completing the military's most dangerous overseas mission since World War II.
2007 - Italian cheesemakers attempted to break their world record for the longest intertwined mozzarella.
2013 - A direct collision occurred between two passenger trains in Switzerland near Bière.
2015 - Microsoft launched the Windows 10 operating system.
