| 2000 | Gulf Air flight 72 crashes near Bahrain, killing 143 |
| 1997 | "Titanic," opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City |
| 1997 | 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards: LeAnn Rines and Brooks and Dunn |
| 1996 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Reno, Nevada on KRZQ 96.5 FM |
| 1996 | Sotherby begins 4 day auction of Jackie Onassis things nets $34.5 million |
| 1995 | Laura Davis wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Golf Championship |
| 1995 | President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City |
| 1994 | Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti |
| 1994 | General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke |
| 1994 | Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of New York |
| 1993 | Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia |
| 1993 | Motley Crue's Mike Mars files for divorce from Emi-Canyn |
| 1993 | Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy," premieres in New York City |
| 1992 | "Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| 1992 | Marion Berry, former mayor of Washington D.C., let out of prison |
| 1992 | McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China |
| 1991 | Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off |
| 1991 | Gordon Greenidge scores 223 vs. Aus, his last Test Cricket knock at home |
| 1991 | U.S.S.R. grants republics right to secede under certain conditions |
| 1990 | 11th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 1989 | Betsy King wins LPGA USX Golf Classic |
| 1989 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Laker |
| 1989 | Nolan Ryan blows a no hitter in 9th inning |
| 1989 | Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts |
| 1988 | A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles |
| 1988 | Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hours or less |
| 1988 | Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06) |
| 1987 | 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct |
| 1987 | New Jersey Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY |
| 1986 | Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking |
| 1986 | Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60m indoor (7 sec) |
| 1985 | Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational |
| 1985 | Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula |
| 1985 | Flyers 5-Isles 3-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-0 lead |
| 1985 | New Coke debuts |
| 1984 | AIDS-virus identified, acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
| 1983 | David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* vs. Sri Lanka |
| 1980 | Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die |
| 1978 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic |
| 1978 | Reds Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 cons errorless games at 2nd |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1977 | ADO The Hague soccer team forms |
| 1977 | Dr. Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops |
| 1977 | Miltitary workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa |
| 1977 | Czechoslovakian chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously and only loses 10 |
| 1975 | Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," premieres in London |
| 1974 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| 1972 | 26th Tony Awards: Sticks and Bones and 2 Gentlemen of Verona win |
| 1972 | Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface |
| 1972 | Betty Burfeind wins LPGA Birmingham Centennital Golf Classic |
| 1971 | Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike |
| 1971 | Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station |
| 1969 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney |
| 1969 | Los Angeles Laker Jerry West scores 53 points |
| 1969 | Over 1000 mi flooded on Shantung Province China |
| 1969 | Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy |
| 1968 | "I'm Solomon" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| 1968 | 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 and 10 pence) |
| 1968 | United Methodist Church forms |
| 1967 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational |
| 1967 | Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty |
| 1965 | Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite |
| 1964 | James Baldwin's "Blues for Mr. Charlie," premieres in New York City |
| 1964 | New York State Theater opens |
| 1964 | Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0 |
| 1963 | "She Loves Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 302 performances |
| 1963 | Jerry Bock and S Harnick's musical "She Loves Me," premieres in New York City |
| 1962 | 1st U.S. satellite to reach the moon launched |
| 1962 | New York Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pirates 9-1 |
| 1962 | Ranger 4, 1st U.S. satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral |
| 1961 | "Tenderloin" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 216 performances |
| 1961 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1960 | 1st performance of Ferde Grofe's "San Francisco Suite" |
| 1959 | "Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 472 performances |
| 1959 | 1st heliport in Britain opens in London |
| 1958 | Gil Hodges hits his 300th home run and Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game |
| 1956 | U.S. Supreme Court ends race segregation on buses |
| 1955 | "Kismet" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 583 performances |
| 1955 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Open |
| 1954 | Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers |
| 1953 | General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 1953 | KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, Arizona (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WCOV TV channel 20 in Montgomery, Alabama (IND/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Bob Cain of Browns and Bob Feller of Indians each pitch a one-hitter |
| 1952 | New York Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game and hits his only home run |
| 1952 | Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed |
| 1951 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Richmond Women's Golf Open |
| 1950 | 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5) |
| 1950 | 4th NBA Championship: Minnesota Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 2 |
| 1950 | Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island |
| 1950 | Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 3 |
| 1949 | Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing |
| 1949 | Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in San Francisco |
| 1949 | Netherlands annexes Elten and Tudderen |
| 1948 | KSTP TV channel 5 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1946 | Brooklyn Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 |
| 1945 | Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated |
| 1945 | U.S. troops in Italy cross river Po |
| 1943 | British and U.S. offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta |
| 1942 | 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins |
| 1942 | Luftwaffe bombs Exeter |
| 1941 | Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt |
| 1940 | Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss) |
| 1940 | New York Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert |
| 1939 | 1st performance of Bela Bartok's 2nd Concerto for violin |
| 1939 | Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st home run |
| 1938 | Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government |
| 1936 | Carl Hubbell's 1st start of season is his 17th straight win |
| 1933 | Dovo soccer team forms in Veenendaal |
| 1932 | Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon |
| 1925 | 1st London performance of operetta "Fasquita" staged |
| 1925 | Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms |
| 1924 | British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley |
| 1921 | Charles Paddock runs world record 100m (10.4 seconds) |
| 1920 | Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara |
| 1919 | Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season |
| 1918 | Battle of Zeebrugge ends |
| 1918 | Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea |
| 1918 | National Urban League forms |
| 1916 | Lord Dunsany's "Night at an Inn," premieres in New York City |
| 1915 | ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA) |
| 1910 | International Exhibition opens in Brussels |
| 1908 | Denmark, Germany, England, France, Netherlands and Sweden sign North Sea accord |
| 1904 | American Academy of Arts and Letters forms |
| 1903 | New York Highlanders (Yankees) win their 1st game beating Washington Senators 7-2 |
| 1900 | 1st know occurrence of word "hillbillie" (New York Journal) |
| 1896 | Premier of motion pictures (Koster and Bial's Music Hall, New York City) |
| 1896 | Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (New York City) |
| 1891 | Jews are expelled from Moscow, Russia |
| 1883 | John Heemskerk Azn forms Dutch government |
| 1881 | Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Patience" produced in London |
| 1878 | 1st Dutch test drive of steam tram |
| 1871 | Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up |
| 1867 | Queen Victoria and Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel |
| 1864 | Battle of Cane River, Louisiana (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry) |
| 1861 | Arkansas troops seize Ft. Smith |
| 1861 | Battle of San Antonio, Texas |
| 1860 | Dem convention in Charleston South Carolina divided over slavery |
| 1851 | Canada issues its 1st postage stamps |
| 1838 | English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in New York City |
| 1826 | Missolonghi captured by Turks |
| 1798 | Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution |
| 1795 | William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason |
| 1789 | President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York |
| 1775 | Opera "Il Re Pastore" is produced (Salzburg) |
| 1723 | Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht |
| 1705 | Richard Steele's "Tender Husband," premieres in London |
| 1662 | Connecticut chartered as an English colony |
| 1661 | English king Charles II crowned in London |
| 1633 | Sweden and Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn |
| 1616 | Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England |
| 1504 | King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria |
| 1501 | Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral and 6 ships return to Lisbon |
| 1500 | Pedro Cabral lands and annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz) |
| 1348 | 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter) |
| 1154 | Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo |
| 1014 | King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf |
