- **1913** - The Treaty of Bucharest was signed between Bulgaria and the Balkan Allies Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania, ending the Second Balkan War.
- **1920** - After World War I, Turkey and the Allied Forces signed the Treaty of Sèvres, which exempted Turkey from controlling a large part of the territories previously governed by the Ottoman Empire.
- **1994** - Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasrin arrived in Sweden, fleeing death threats at home from radical Muslims who accused her of insulting Islam.
- **2000** - A Polish court ruled that President Aleksander Kwaśniewski was not an informer for the security apparatus during the communist era, avoiding a political crisis.
- **2003** - The first wedding in space took place between Russian commander of the International Space Station Yuri Malyshev and Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was on Earth in Texas.
- **2003** - The hottest day ever recorded in Britain, with temperatures reaching 37.9 degrees Celsius (100.2 degrees Fahrenheit).
- **2004** - Libya agreed to pay $35 million in compensation to more than 160 non-American victims of the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing.
- **2004** - A stranded humpback whale died on the Brazilian beach of Gorogoba after three days of rescue attempts.
- **2005** - The electoral commission in Guinea-Bissau declared former army chief João Bernardo Vieira the winner of contentious presidential elections.
- **2008** - Oscar-winning soul singer Isaac Hayes, alongside Al Green, James Brown, and Stevie Wonder, passed away; he was one of the dominant "Black" artists in the early 1970s.
- **2012** - The U.S. 4 × 100 m relay team set a new world record by winning the Olympic race.
