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Croatian Mario Mandžukić scored the first own goal in a FIFA World Cup final in their defeat to France.
The Peace at Home Council, a faction of the Turkish Armed Forces, staged a coup d'état attempt against the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
South Korean rapper Psy (pictured) released his hit single "Gangnam Style".
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France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.
Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.
A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168.
Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module.
Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life.
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.
A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
Nintendo and Sega enter the console market with the respective releases of the Famicom and SG-1000 in Japan.
U.S. president Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
Aeroflot Flight E-15 crashes on approach to Batumi International Airport, killing 40.
In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing Makarios III and installing Nikos Sampson as the president of Cyprus.
The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, takes its first flight.
The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps.
Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna.
The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts, killing approximately 500 people in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
Canadian Confederation: Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
American Civil War: The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union Navy ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself.
The first air raid in history occurs; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice
Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.
Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
Pike Expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
French Revolution: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitsyn are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov's help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna.
The first university of Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, is inaugurated in Turku.
Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.
Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald: The allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed.
First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome.