| 1998 | Minnesota LPGA Classic |
| 1995 | Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 38th consecutive save |
| 1995 | Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant |
| 1993 | Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points |
| 1993 | Fred McGriff and David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back home runs twice in same game |
| 1992 | Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic |
| 1992 | Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons |
| 1990 | Armenia declares independence |
| 1990 | East and West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3 |
| 1990 | U.S. begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf |
| 1989 | Los Angeles Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey home run) |
| 1989 | Lewis/Everett/Burrell/Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38) |
| 1988 | Mike Tyson and Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem |
| 1987 | 15-years old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion |
| 1987 | Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1987 | Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s |
| 1986 | "Rags" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1985 | Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin |
| 1985 | South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested |
| 1985 | West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to East Germany |
| 1985 | Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games |
| 1982 | Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president |
| 1982 | Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1981 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf |
| 1980 | Charlie Finley sells A's for $127M to Haas (owners of Levi Strauss) |
| 1979 | Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in New York City |
| 1979 | Iran army opens offensive against Kurds |
| 1978 | Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar |
| 1977 | 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor) |
| 1977 | Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in East Germany |
| 1977 | Yankees leap frog over Red Soxs game in 1st place to stay |
| 1976 | Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die |
| 1975 | Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway |
| 1975 | Communists take over Laos |
| 1975 | Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile |
| 1975 | Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack |
| 1975 | Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland |
| 1975 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1974 | John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in New York City |
| 1974 | Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan vs. England at The Cricket Oval |
| 1973 | Intelsat communications satellite launched |
| 1972 | Republican convention (Miami Beach, Florida) renominates Vice President Agnew but not unanimous - 1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley |
| 1972 | Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers |
| 1971 | WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open |
| 1970 | Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game |
| 1969 | Audrey McElmory (U.S.) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno, |
| 1969 | France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912) |
| 1968 | Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily |
| 1968 | Yankees and Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew |
| 1966 | Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon |
| 1964 | Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament |
| 1964 | St. Louis Cardinals are 11 games back in NL, and win World Series |
| 1963 | Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK |
| 1963 | Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By" |
| 1963 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1962 | 1st Europe-U.S. live TV program (via Telstar) |
| 1962 | John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell |
| 1961 | Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi |
| 1961 | East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West and East Berlin |
| 1961 | U.S. lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back |
| 1960 | World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea) |
| 1959 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open |
| 1958 | China resumes fire on Quemoi and Matsoe |
| 1958 | Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours |
| 1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1955 | Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open |
| 1954 | President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily |
| 1953 | Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan |
| 1953 | Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter |
| 1953 | Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die |
| 1953 | KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, California (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3 ") |
| 1953 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1952 | Arab League security pact goes into effect |
| 1952 | Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strikes out and is also ejected for arguing |
| 1950 | Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12) |
| 1950 | West Germany and Japan readmitted to International Amateur Athletic Federation |
| 1948 | Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine |
| 1948 | World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries |
| 1947 | President Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert |
| 1946 | 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380) |
| 1944 | 94.5 degrees F (34.7 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands and 101.5 degrees F (38.6 degrees C) in Warnsvelt |
| 1944 | Allied troops capture Marseilles, France |
| 1944 | General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris |
| 1944 | General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower |
| 1944 | King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies and dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu |
| 1944 | Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day) |
| 1944 | Sammellager Drancy freed |
| 1944 | U.S. 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine |
| 1944 | U.S. B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed |
| 1943 | Red army recaptures Charkow |
| 1942 | 1st U.S. flights to land on Guadalcanal |
| 1942 | Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die) |
| 1942 | British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo |
| 1942 | Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for New York - Washington game, raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief |
| 1940 | German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London |
| 1940 | Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer |
| 1939 | John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats |
| 1939 | Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler and Stalin |
| 1939 | U.S.S.R. and Germany sign a non-agression pact |
| 1939 | Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided) |
| 1938 | England score 7-903 decl vs. Australia Hutton 364 |
| 1936 | 17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St. Louis Browns |
| 1933 | 1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri in London |
| 1931 | 45th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen B Whitingstall (64 61) |
| 1931 | Count Gyula Karolyi becomes premier of Hungary |
| 1931 | Philadelphia A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight |
| 1930 | 44th U.S. Womens Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64) |
| 1929 | Arabs attack Jews in Israel |
| 1926 | 40th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (46 64 97) |
| 1924 | Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century |
| 1920 | M R Rinehart and A Hopwood's "Bat," premieres in New York City |
| 1919 | "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune |
| 1917 | Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks and 11 whites killed) |
| 1916 | Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years |
| 1915 | Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army |
| 1914 | German troops plunder Belgium |
| 1914 | Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten |
| 1914 | General von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium |
| 1914 | Japan declares war on Germany in World War I |
| 1911 | British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany |
| 1910 | Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh |
| 1907 | Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits New York Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game |
| 1906 | Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Washington Senators |
| 1906 | Cuba's 1st president Tomas Estrada Palma asks for U.S. intervention |
| 1904 | Automobile tire chain patented |
| 1903 | 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state |
| 1898 | 18th U.S. Mens Tennis: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight Davis (36 62 62 61) |
| 1889 | 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in U.S. (SF) |
| 1883 | Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks and and passballs count as errors prior to 1888) |
| 1879 | Governor-general Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo |
| 1873 | Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens |
| 1869 | 1st carload of freight (boots and shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston |
| 1866 | Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war |
| 1864 | Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama |
| 1862 | Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (2 Federal regiments) |
| 1850 | 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass |
| 1839 | British capture Hong Kong from China |
| 1838 | Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class |
| 1833 | Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed |
| 1821 | Mexico declares independence |
| 1813 | Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French |
| 1796 | African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated |
| 1784 | Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it |
| 1711 | Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St. Lawrence |
| 1617 | 1st one-way streets open (London) |
| 1614 | University of Groningen opens |
| 1582 | French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders |
| 1566 | Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam |
| 1566 | Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights |
| 1553 | Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor |
| 1542 | Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code |
| 1441 | Holland and Hanzesteden sign cease fire treaty |
| 1328 | Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers |
| 1328 | King Philip VI of France, crowned |
| 1046 | King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese |
| 476 | Odoacer elected King of Byzantine |
| 406 | Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians |
