| 2012 | The Vietnamese government asks for help from the World Health Organization after an outbreak of an unidentified fatal disease occurs in Quang Ngai Province |
| 2012 | Officals in Egypt reject a deeply unpopular agreement to supply Israel with natural gas; the agreement was made by former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarek |
| 2011 | The Pope, Benedict XVI, becomes the first pontiff to participate in a televised interview session, pre-recorded for Italian television |
| 2011 | After airstrikes destroy 30 - 40 per cent of Libya's ground forces, U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen states the war is moving toward a stalemate |
| 2010 | The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded off the coast of Louisiana two days ago, sinks; the wreck is leading crude oil and diesel at an alarming rate |
| 2004 | Train fire and explosion in Ryongchon, North Korea kills at least 160 and levels several buildings |
| 2000 | Elian Gonzalez is snatched by a SWAT team from his Florida relatives to return him to his father in Cuba |
| 1995 | General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby |
| 1995 | George Foreman beats Axel Schulz in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1994 | 7,000 Tutsi's slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda |
| 1994 | Borge Ousland reaches North pole |
| 1994 | Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500 |
| 1994 | In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made |
| 1994 | Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavywgt boxing title |
| 1994 | Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam |
| 1993 | "Who's Tommy" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 899 performances |
| 1993 | Candid Camera creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke at 78 |
| 1993 | Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox |
| 1993 | Tennis star Bjorn Borg divorces Loredana Berte |
| 1992 | "High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club" closes at H Hayes New York City 14 performances |
| 1992 | 6.0 earthquake in California |
| 1992 | Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara Mexico |
| 1992 | Holocaust Museum dedicated in Washington D.C. |
| 1992 | Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport California, kills 16 parachutists |
| 1991 | Earthquake strikes Costa Rica and Panama, kills 95 |
| 1991 | Frank Thomas is 1st White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park |
| 1991 | Intel releases 486SX chip |
| 1991 | Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show |
| 1991 | Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn and Queens |
| 1990 | "Truly Blessed" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 33 performances |
| 1990 | Lebanon release U.S. hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months |
| 1989 | "Welcome to the Club" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| 1989 | Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter, Rickey Henderson |
| 1988 | Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana) |
| 1988 | New Jersey Devil Patrik Sundstrom ties NHL playoff record of 8 pts in a playoff game (hat trick and 5 assists) in 10-4 rout over the Capitals |
| 1987 | Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed |
| 1986 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1984 | Vicki Fergon wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
| 1983 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1983 | Rangers 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles win series 4-2 |
| 1983 | Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth |
| 1983 | Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy) |
| 1983 | Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolph Hitler (turned out to be a hoax) |
| 1982 | Atlanta Braves lose after winning 1st 13 games of season |
| 1982 | Launch of STS-3-Lousma and Fullerton |
| 1981 | 10,000 copper workers in Chile strike |
| 1981 | Almost 1 million West German metal workers in strike |
| 1981 | Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts |
| 1981 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1979 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf Tournament |
| 1979 | Mick Jaggar and Keith Richards give a benefit concert in Canada |
| 1978 | Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony |
| 1977 | Simon Peres becomes premier of Israel |
| 1976 | Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor |
| 1975 | Penguins 2-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-2 lead |
| 1974 | Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of Today Show |
| 1972 | Apollo astronauts John Young and Charles Duke ride on Moon |
| 1971 | Soyuz 10 launched |
| 1970 | "Park" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1970 | 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources |
| 1970 | Flat Earth celebrated |
| 1970 | New York Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher |
| 1970 | New York Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19 |
| 1970 | Senators beat Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings |
| 1969 | 1st human eye transplant performed |
| 1969 | Joe Frazier KOs Dave Zyglewick in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1969 | Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing |
| 1967 | Martial Law goes into effect in Greece |
| 1966 | Atlanta Braves win their 1st game, beating New York Mets 8-4 |
| 1966 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1964 | Tanganyika and Zanzibar form republic Tanzania |
| 1964 | World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, New York) opens |
| 1962 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Sunshine Golf Open |
| 1962 | New York Mets tiea NL record by losing 9 straight to start season |
| 1962 | Pirates tie then record of 10 straight wins to start season |
| 1962 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2 |
| 1961 | Uprising of French parachutist of General Salan/Challe in Algeria |
| 1959 | Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings |
| 1959 | Chicago White Sox beat Kansas City Athletics 20-6, in 1 inning Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit, 10 walks, and 3 errors |
| 1957 | All NL teams intergates, John Irwin Kennedy is 1st black on Phillies |
| 1956 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open |
| 1955 | Congress orders all U.S. coins bear motto "In God We Trust" |
| 1955 | Kansas City Athletic's 1st game, beat Tigers 6-2 |
| 1954 | Achiel van Acker forms Belgian government |
| 1954 | NBA adopts 24-second shot clock and 6 team-foul rule |
| 1954 | Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began |
| 1954 | U.S.S.R. joins UNESCO |
| 1952 | 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada |
| 1952 | Eugene Ionesco's "Les Chaises," premieres in New York City |
| 1951 | Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in New York City |
| 1948 | WTVR TV channel 6 in Richmond, Virginia (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | 1st NBA Championship: Philadelphia Warriors beat Chicago Stags, 4 games to 2 |
| 1946 | SED, Sozialistic Einheitspartei Deutschlands, party forms |
| 1945 | Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated |
| 1945 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3 |
| 1944 | Allies land near Hollandia, New-Guinea |
| 1944 | Hitler and Mussolini meet at Salzburg |
| 1943 | German counter attack in North-Tunisia |
| 1943 | RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea |
| 1940 | Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable |
| 1937 | New York City college students stage 4th annual peace strike |
| 1933 | Dutch government forbids leftwing radio address |
| 1931 | Egypt and Iraq sign peace treaty |
| 1930 | U.S., Britain and Japan sign London Naval Treaty |
| 1927 | 1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E |
| 1926 | Persia, Turkey and Afghanistan sign treaties of security |
| 1924 | Hague Chambers of Commerce forms |
| 1922 | South Ossetian Autonomous Region forms in Georgian SSR |
| 1916 | France battles at Fort Douaumont |
| 1915 | 1st military use of chlorine poison gas by Germany in WW I |
| 1915 | 2nd Battle of Ypres begins |
| 1915 | New York Yankees don pinstripes and hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time |
| 1914 | Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win |
| 1914 | Mexico ends diplomatic relations with U.S. |
| 1913 | Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania |
| 1908 | Queensland beat NSW by 171 runs for their 1st cricket win at Gabba |
| 1906 | 10th anniversary Olympic games open at Athens, Greece |
| 1906 | New rule puts umpire in sole charge of all game balls |
| 1905 | Operations begin uniting conservatory of Nature monument Amsterdam |
| 1903 | American Power Boat Association forms |
| 1903 | New York Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game, Senators win 3-1 before 11,950 |
| 1898 | 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship |
| 1898 | Baltimore James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0 |
| 1898 | Cincinnati Red Theodore Breitenstein no-hits Pirates 11-0 |
| 1898 | Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry |
| 1898 | U.S. President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors |
| 1897 | New York City Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (still active) |
| 1893 | Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo |
| 1893 | Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time |
| 1889 | Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were "sooner" |
| 1884 | Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 years 9 mos) |
| 1884 | U.S. recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State |
| 1876 | 1st NL game, Boston Braves beat Philadelphia Athletics 6-5 |
| 1876 | Tsjaikovsky completes his "Swan Lake" ballet |
| 1876 | Philadelphia Nationals Wes Fisler scores baseball's 1st run |
| 1864 | U.S. mints 2 cent coin (1st appearance of "In God We Trust") |
| 1861 | Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces |
| 1838 | English steamship "Sirius" docks in New York City after Atlantic crossing |
| 1823 | Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London |
| 1823 | R. J. Tyers patents roller skates |
| 1817 | Curacao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight |
| 1809 | Battle at Eckmuhl - Napoleon beats Austria arch duke Karl |
| 1804 | Gioacchino Rossini (12) performs in Imola |
| 1796 | Napoleon defeats Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi |
| 1793 | President Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in U.S. |
| 1769 | Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress |
| 1728 | Pierre de Marivaux' "Le Triomphe de Plutus," premieres in Paris |
| 1722 | 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed |
| 1692 | Edward Bishop is jailed for proposong flogging as cure for witchcraft |
| 1677 | Battle at Catania: between French and Dutch fleet |
| 1676 | Battle of Etna - Netherlands/Spain vs France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded |
| 1674 | Netherlands and Munster sign peace treaty |
| 1671 | King Charles II sits in on English parliament |
| 1662 | Royal Society incorporates |
| 1659 | Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament |
| 1648 | English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed |
| 1529 | Treaty of Saragosa: Spain and Portugal divide eastern hemisphere |
| 1521 | French king Francois I declares war on Spain |
| 1509 | Henry VIII ascended to throne of England |
| 1500 | Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil and claims it for Portugal |
| 1370 | Bastille begins being built in Paris |
| 1164 | Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III |
| 1145 | 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
| 1073 | Pope Alexander II buried/Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII |
| 1056 | Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye |
| 536 | St. Agapitus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 296 | St. Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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