Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.
Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.
Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.
In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Watched by 90,185 spectators, the final sets a new world record for a...
The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
The Bahamas gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago; as many as 60,000 people attend.
Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
World War II: Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, begins.
World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero"), which the US Navy then uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks begin against British maritime convoys in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain...
Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, is assassinated by the IRA.
Paavo Nurmi wins the 1,500 m and 5,000 m events at the Paris Olympics, with just an hour between the two races.
U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.
U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.