| 1997 | Boston Red Sox trade Mike Stanley back to the New York Yankees |
| 1997 | San Diego Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels |
| 1996 | Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0 |
| 1995 | 77th PGA Championship: Steve Elkington shoots a 267 at Riviera California |
| 1995 | Beth Daniels wins LPGA PING Welch's Golf Championship |
| 1994 | Train crash in Tbilisi Georgia, 24 killed |
| 1993 | Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24 |
| 1993 | Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed |
| 1993 | U.S. Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail |
| 1991 | Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60) |
| 1991 | Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney versus England at Old Trafford |
| 1989 | 2 hot-air balloon crash at Alice Springs Australia, 13 killed |
| 1989 | 71st PGA Championship: Payne Stewart shoots 276 at Kemper Lakes Golf Club Illinois |
| 1989 | U.S. space shuttle STS-28 lands |
| 1988 | Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games |
| 1988 | Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit Opens |
| 1988 | U.S. beats Jamacia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
| 1988 | Ronald J. Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes |
| 1987 | Cards outfie ld sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning |
| 1987 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5 " jump |
| 1986 | KRE-AM in Berkeley, California changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN) |
| 1984 | Morocco and Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty |
| 1981 | Last broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS-TV |
| 1981 | Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 200m butterfly (2:05.96) |
| 1980 | Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted |
| 1980 | Tatyana Kazankina of U.S.S.R. sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in U.S.S.R. |
| 1979 | Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits |
| 1978 | Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed |
| 1978 | Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin |
| 1978 | Yankees score 5 runs in top of 7th. but rain causes game to be halted and thus score goes back to previous inning, Baltimore wins 3-0 |
| 1977 | Randy Bachman quits BTO, they disband |
| 1975 | Viv Richards out for 291 vs. England at Cricket Oval |
| 1972 | Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th and last "Bonanza" |
| 1972 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic |
| 1971 | Paul and Linda McCartney release "Back Seat of My Car" |
| 1969 | Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0 |
| 1969 | Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote |
| 1967 | WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire |
| 1963 | Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum |
| 1963 | Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382 |
| 1962 | Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously |
| 1961 | Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany |
| 1961 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open |
| 1960 | Central African Republic and Chad proclaim independence from France |
| 1960 | U.S.S.R. draws adviseors out of China |
| 1959 | Military satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit) |
| 1958 | Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2 |
| 1956 | WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, Tennessee (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield |
| 1954 | 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470) |
| 1953 | 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations |
| 1953 | President Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee |
| 1953 | U.S. General Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff |
| 1951 | Great Britain and Iraq sign new oil contract |
| 1950 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
| 1950 | President Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai |
| 1948 | Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game |
| 1946 | Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus |
| 1945 | 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia |
| 1944 | British 8th army occupies Florence |
| 1944 | Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough |
| 1944 | Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio |
| 1943 | Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk |
| 1941 | Red army evacuates Smolensk |
| 1940 | Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins) |
| 1940 | Goering's "Adler Tag" 45-48 German aircrafts shotdown over South-Engld |
| 1939 | Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's |
| 1939 | Sabotage suspected in crash of 'City of San Francisco' |
| 1937 | Japanese attack Shanghai |
| 1935 | Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum) |
| 1933 | 16th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Blue Mound CC Milwaukee |
| 1933 | Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist |
| 1932 | Hitler refuses Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor |
| 1932 | Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers and wins game 1-0 in 10 tying |
| 1931 | Cincinnati Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6 |
| 1928 | Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins |
| 1923 | Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition government |
| 1923 | Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president |
| 1923 | U.S. Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day |
| 1921 | Simon Kaufman and Marc Connelly's "Dulcy," premieres in New York City |
| 1920 | 24th U.S. Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio |
| 1919 | British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350 |
| 1919 | Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga) |
| 1917 | Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves |
| 1914 | German army occupies forts at Luik |
| 1914 | Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st U.S. bus line, in Minnesota |
| 1914 | France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I |
| 1910 | Dodgers and Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball and 1 hit by pitch |
| 1908 | Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team |
| 1906 | Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas |
| 1906 | Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning |
| 1902 | England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory |
| 1898 | U.S. forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war |
| 1892 | U.S. black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore |
| 1889 | William Gray patents coin-operated telephone |
| 1881 | Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch |
| 1876 | Reciprocity Treaty between U.S. and Hawaii ratified |
| 1876 | Wagner's "Of the Ring," premieres |
| 1868 | Earthquakes kill 25,000 and causes $300 million damages (Peru and Ecuador) |
| 1864 | Battle of Deep Bottom Virginia (Strawberry Plains) and Fussell's Mill VA |
| 1831 | Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia |
| 1814 | Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch |
| 1814 | Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves |
| 1799 | English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname |
| 1792 | Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette |
| 1788 | Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90 |
| 1784 | English parliament accept India Act |
| 1740 | Hunger strike in Rotterdam |
| 1732 | Voltaire's "Zaire," premieres in Paris |
| 1713 | King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia |
| 1704 | French and Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German and Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany |
| 1696 | State of Drenthe accredits Willem III as mayor |
| 1695 | French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels |
| 1651 | Litchfield, CT founded |
| 1645 | Sweden and Denmark sign Peace of Bromsebro |
| 1642 | Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap |
| 1630 | Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein |
| 1624 | Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII |
| 1608 | John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication |
| 1578 | Duke French van Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands |
| 1521 | Spanish conquerors Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs |
| 1516 | Kings Charles I and Francois I signs Treaty of Noyons |
| 1415 | King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River |
| 1099 | Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II |
| 523 | St. John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
