| 1999 | Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s) |
| 1997 | Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday |
| 1996 | "Thousand Clowns," closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 32 performs |
| 1996 | 78th PGA Championship: Mark Brooks shoots a 277 at Vallhalla Golf Club Kentucky |
| 1996 | Emilee Klein wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship |
| 1994 | Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected President of Guinee-Bissau |
| 1993 | Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth |
| 1993 | New York Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke |
| 1993 | Pope John Paul II visits Mexico |
| 1993 | Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out, Danny Tartabul - New York |
| 1992 | Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game |
| 1991 | 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed |
| 1991 | 73rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick Ind |
| 1991 | Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1991 | Shite Moslems release U.S. hostage Edward Tracy |
| 1991 | Space shuttle STS-43 (Atlantis 9) lands |
| 1991 | Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start |
| 1990 | Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion |
| 1990 | New York Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 home runs (110 at bats) |
| 1989 | "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres |
| 1989 | Geoff Marsh and Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand vs. England |
| 1989 | Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune |
| 1988 | 225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th home run |
| 1988 | Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte North Carolina opens |
| 1988 | Meir Kahane renounced U.S. citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament |
| 1987 | France and Great Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf |
| 1986 | 68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo |
| 1985 | Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes 21st to hit 400 home run |
| 1985 | "Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 669 performances |
| 1985 | 67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver |
| 1985 | Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz |
| 1985 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| 1985 | Rudolf Povarnitsin of U.S.S.R. sets new high jump world record (7'10"12) |
| 1984 | 101,799 fans at soccer match Brazilie-France |
| 1984 | Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds |
| 1984 | Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform |
| 1984 | During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes" |
| 1984 | Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test |
| 1982 | Twins Terry Felton loses and runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16) |
| 1982 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1980 | Angola revises its constitution |
| 1980 | Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran |
| 1980 | Yankees Reggie Jackson hits his 400th home run off Chicago's Britt Burns |
| 1979 | 28 degrees F in Embarrass Minnesota |
| 1979 | Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year |
| 1978 | Funeral of Pope Paul VI |
| 1978 | Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta |
| 1977 | Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, vs. Australia at Headingley |
| 1976 | Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami |
| 1976 | Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die |
| 1975 | Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game |
| 1975 | U.S. vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to U.N. |
| 1974 | 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC |
| 1974 | Coup in East-Timor under UDT |
| 1974 | Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey) |
| 1972 | "Cheech and Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas |
| 1971 | Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome |
| 1971 | Harmon Killebrew hits home runs #500 and 501 |
| 1970 | Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues |
| 1970 | Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a home run in red seats at Riverfront |
| 1969 | Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder |
| 1969 | Pittsburgh Steelers beat New York Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo) |
| 1968 | Beatles launch "Apple Records" label |
| 1968 | Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves |
| 1967 | Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches |
| 1966 | Last Beatle concert tour of U.S. begins |
| 1965 | 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles |
| 1965 | Beatles movie "Help" opens in New York City |
| 1965 | Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days |
| 1964 | Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in New York City |
| 1963 | Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?" |
| 1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational |
| 1962 | Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3 |
| 1962 | Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari" |
| 1962 | Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2) |
| 1962 | Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down |
| 1961 | Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1 |
| 1960 | Chad declares Independence from France |
| 1957 | Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open |
| 1957 | Paul Hindemith' opera "Harmonie der Welt," premieres in Munich |
| 1956 | 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620 |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel" |
| 1955 | Indonesia government of Harahap forms |
| 1954 | BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0 |
| 1954 | Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh |
| 1952 | Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan |
| 1951 | 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois |
| 1951 | 1st color baseball game, Braves vs Dodgers, telecast, WCBS-NYC |
| 1951 | New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa |
| 1951 | New York Giants lose to go 13 games behind Brooklyn Dodgers, later win pennant |
| 1950 | 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885) |
| 1950 | Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Brooklyn Dodger, 7-0 |
| 1950 | Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time |
| 1950 | King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium |
| 1949 | 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi) |
| 1949 | Gaston Eyskens forms Belgiangovt |
| 1948 | Summer Olympics opens in London |
| 1945 | Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito |
| 1944 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy |
| 1944 | French 5th Armour division recaptures Sees |
| 1944 | Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz |
| 1944 | U.S. air raid on Palembang |
| 1943 | Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov |
| 1943 | Richard Strauss' 2nd Horn Concert, premieres |
| 1943 | U.S. amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily |
| 1942 | 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium |
| 1942 | British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed and sinks |
| 1942 | Lieutenant-general Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar |
| 1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter |
| 1940 | 38 German aircrafts shot down above England |
| 1940 | German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth |
| 1939 | Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe |
| 1936 | Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton |
| 1935 | Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews |
| 1934 | 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay |
| 1933 | Temp reaches 136 degrees F (57.8 degrees C) at San Luis Potosi, Mexico (world record) |
| 1929 | Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers off Willis Hudlin of Cleveland |
| 1929 | Persia and Iraq sign friendship treaty |
| 1929 | Russian-Chinese border fights |
| 1928 | Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils |
| 1928 | Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists |
| 1926 | Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double |
| 1924 | 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken |
| 1923 | Dutch Premier de Geer resigns |
| 1920 | 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia |
| 1919 | Weimar Republic begins in Germany |
| 1918 | Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans |
| 1914 | France declares war on Austria-Hungary |
| 1914 | Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland |
| 1914 | John Wray patents animation |
| 1909 | Liner "Arapahoe" is 1st ship to use SOS distress call |
| 1909 | SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC |
| 1909 | Warren Bardsley (136 and 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test |
| 1907 | St. Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn |
| 1904 | German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa |
| 1896 | Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain |
| 1885 | $100,000 raised in U.S. for pedestal for Statue of Liberty |
| 1884 | 1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Australia |
| 1877 | Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos |
| 1874 | Harry S. Parmelee patents sprinkler head |
| 1863 | Cambodia becomes French protectorate |
| 1860 | Nation's 1st successful silver mill, Virginia City, Nevada |
| 1835 | George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal |
| 1780 | Barbados hurricane begins |
| 1772 | Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000 |
| 1718 | Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish |
| 1695 | English and Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk |
| 1674 | 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Conde vs Willem III) |
| 1611 | Emperor Rudolf forces out king of Bohemia |
| 1597 | Germany throws out English sales people |
| 1522 | Uprising of adel/burgerij in Austria fails |
| 1492 | Rodrigo de Borja becomes Pope Alexander VI |
| 1304 | Sea battle of Zierikzee |
| 1253 | Clara van Assisi leads rules of life in order of Clarissen |
| 117 | Hadrianus hears of death of emperor Trajanus of Antioch |
