AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.

Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering ''Wall Street Journal'' reporter Daniel Pearl.

"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.

In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.

A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.

A terrorist attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.

U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation" but in which he never uses the word ''malaise''

In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek Junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.

The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.

Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.

First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.

Continental Airlines commences operations.

First weekly radio broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, ''Music and the Spoken Word''.

Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.

The Polish Parliament establishes Autonomous 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).

The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

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 North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.

Reconstruction era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.

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.

A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.

Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard {{HMS|Bellerophon|1786|6}}.

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.

Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.

Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.

Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685.

Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald

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.