| 2012 | The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, undergoes surgery for cancer in Cuba |
| 2012 | Thousands of union employees protest outside of the capital building in Lansing, Michigan, as Michigan's government passes legislation, becoming the nation's 24th right-to-work state, and most highly unionized state in the U.S. to have such laws |
| 2011 | The Cote d'Ivoire holds Parliamentary elections |
| 2011 | In Taipei, protesters demand Taiwan's 200,000 foreign live-in caregivers receive the legal right to a weekly day off |
| 2010 | China's inflation rate reaches 5.1%, a 28-month high |
| 2010 | The 46-year old son of convicted fraud king Bernard Madoff kills himself in a Manhattan apartment |
| 1997 | "Sunshine Boys," opens at Lyceum Theater New York City |
| 1997 | Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows |
| 1995 | Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million |
| 1994 | Kelly Robbins and Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches |
| 1994 | Russian troops pull inside Tsjetsjenia |
| 1993 | 59th Heisman Trophy Award: Charlie Ward, Florida State (quarterback) |
| 1993 | Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile |
| 1992 | Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing 1 billion dollars worth of damage |
| 1992 | WNEW AM radio on 1130 in New York City ends transmitting after 58 years |
| 1990 | 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tennessee I-75, due to fog |
| 1990 | U.S. 69th manned space mission STS-35 (Columbia 11) returns from space |
| 1989 | "City of Angels" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 878 performances |
| 1989 | Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year Kansas City Royals contract |
| 1987 | Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI vs. India at Bombay |
| 1986 | A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 1986 | South Africa censors press |
| 1985 | Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb |
| 1985 | Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70) |
| 1985 | General Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC |
| 1985 | NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (26) 12-9 and ties record of 21 goals |
| 1984 | "Doug Henning and His World..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 60 perf |
| 1984 | Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya |
| 1983 | 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome) |
| 1983 | 72nd Australian Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (61 64 64) |
| 1983 | Jan Stephens/Fred Couples wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1981 | Argentine president/general Roberto Viola flees |
| 1981 | Muhammad Ali's 61st and last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick |
| 1981 | Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes Secretary-General of UN |
| 1981 | Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center |
| 1981 | U.N. Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl |
| 1981 | Washington Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2 |
| 1980 | Dirk Wellham scores 100 on 1st-class debut, NSW vs. Victoria |
| 1979 | Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international |
| 1979 | Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) |
| 1978 | 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport and made off with $5.8 M in cash and jewelry |
| 1977 | Billboard Awards |
| 1975 | 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents |
| 1975 | Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis and Ken Brett from Pirates for George "Doc" Medich |
| 1973 | Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman |
| 1973 | NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle and Vancouver franchises |
| 1973 | Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet |
| 1973 | West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czechoslovakia |
| 1972 | Astronauts Cernan and Harrison become 11th and 12th on Moon |
| 1972 | Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632) |
| 1970 | Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, vs. England |
| 1970 | Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell |
| 1969 | Libya adopts constitution |
| 1968 | KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, California (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1968 | U.S. Soccer Football Assoc refuses to let NASL disband |
| 1967 | 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed |
| 1967 | Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit |
| 1967 | People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established |
| 1967 | SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France) |
| 1966 | Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards |
| 1965 | "Anya" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| 1965 | "Yearling" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 3 performances |
| 1961 | "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released |
| 1961 | Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel |
| 1961 | Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 20 weeks |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy provides U.S. miltary helicopters and crews to South Vietnam |
| 1960 | Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die |
| 1960 | Coleman/Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in New York City |
| 1960 | Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run |
| 1959 | Yankees trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer and Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley and Joe Deaestri |
| 1958 | 4th (last) Dutch government of Drees falls |
| 1958 | Archibald MacLeish's "JB," premieres in New York City |
| 1958 | Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France |
| 1956 | Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin and Wroclaw Poland |
| 1954 | USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va |
| 1953 | KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station |
| 1951 | Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement |
| 1950 | Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract |
| 1950 | Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres |
| 1949 | Chicago Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Chicago Cards (52-29) |
| 1949 | Cleveland Browns beat San Francisco '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game |
| 1949 | WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio, Texas (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1948 | WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | "Angel in the Wings" opens at Coronet Theater New York City for 308 performances |
| 1947 | Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigman's musical "Angel in Wings," premieres in New York City |
| 1947 | Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected |
| 1946 | Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label |
| 1946 | Spain suspended from UN |
| 1946 | U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965) |
| 1945 | Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip |
| 1944 | Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed |
| 1942 | Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia |
| 1941 | Dutch government in London declares war on Italy |
| 1941 | Germany and Italy declare war on US |
| 1941 | Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players and $50,000 |
| 1941 | Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing) |
| 1941 | Japanese occupy Guam |
| 1940 | Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault |
| 1939 | New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed |
| 1938 | New York Giants win NFL championship |
| 1937 | 25th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7 |
| 1937 | Italy withdraws from League of Nations |
| 1936 | King Edward VIII marries Mrs. Wallis Simpson; abdicates throne Duke of York becomes King George VI |
| 1934 | 1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland |
| 1934 | 1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers |
| 1934 | Ford Frick becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 1934 | NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team) |
| 1932 | SF's coldest day (27 degrees F) - it snows |
| 1931 | Japan leaves the Golden Standard |
| 1931 | British Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd |
| 1930 | Bank of the United States opens in New York City |
| 1928 | Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on President-elect Herbert Hoover |
| 1928 | NL President John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers |
| 1926 | Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam |
| 1926 | Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, vs. NSW |
| 1925 | Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas |
| 1919 | Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala |
| 1917 | 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot |
| 1917 | German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia |
| 1916 | David Lloyd George forms British war government |
| 1914 | Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed |
| 1909 | Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, New York City |
| 1909 | Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000 |
| 1908 | Frederick Delius' "In a Summer Garden," premieres |
| 1906 | U.S. president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo |
| 1905 | 120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record) |
| 1905 | British government of Campbell-Bannerman forms |
| 1903 | British forces under MacDonald and Young march into Tibet |
| 1901 | Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld |
| 1899 | Battle of Magers' fountain - Boer leader Cronje vs. General Methuen |
| 1893 | 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed |
| 1888 | French Panama Canal company fails |
| 1882 | Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" |
| 1882 | Victorien Sardous "Fedora," with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris |
| 1872 | 1st black U.S. Governor took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La) |
| 1866 | 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean |
| 1844 | 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct |
| 1816 | Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders |
| 1816 | Indiana becomes 19th state |
| 1812 | 1st newspaper on Curaeao (Curaeao Gazette and Commercial Advertiser) |
| 1792 | France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason |
| 1730 | Voltaire's "Brutus," premieres in Paris |
| 1719 | 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in U.S. (New England) |
| 1718 | Battle at Frederikshall Norway |
| 1710 | Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers) |
| 1688 | King James II arrested |
| 1665 | "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna |
| 1620 | 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock |
| 1618 | Russia and Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino |
| 1572 | Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem |
| 1477 | Duchess Maria van Bourgondie ends Great Privilegie |
| 1419 | Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence |
| 384 | St. Damasus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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