| 2012 | Famous American pianist and jazz composer, Dave Brubeck, dies at the age of 91 |
| 2012 | Typhoon Bopha, striking New Bataan and parts of the southern Philippines, leads to the deaths of 283 people with 339 injured, over 300 missing, and over 87,000 evacuated from the area |
| 2011 | In Peru, protests over a mining project persist in four provinces, causing the country to declare a state of emergency |
| 2011 | Reports indicate the credit ratings agency Standard & Poors will review 15 nations for possible downgrades, including France and Germany |
| 2010 | Experts believe three Russian satellites that failed to reach orbit after launching from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome have crashed into the Pacific Ocean |
| 2010 | Floodwaters rise throughout New South Wales; they cause thousands to evacuate the Australian town of Wagga Wagga |
| 2009 | Tens of thousands in Rome, Italy, participate in a demonstration demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi |
| 1997 | 1st Game at Washington Capitals' MCI Center vs. Florida Panthers |
| 1997 | STS-87 (Columbia 24) lands |
| 1996 | "Dreams and Nightmares," opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Players union approves new collective bargaining agreement |
| 1996 | Portland's Jermaine O'Neal, 18, becomes youngest NBA player |
| 1993 | "Timon of Athens" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 37 performances |
| 1993 | 82nd Davis Cup: Germany beats Australia in Dusseldorf (4-1) |
| 1993 | Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space |
| 1993 | Melissa Mcnamara/Mike Sopringer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1993 | Newhart actor William Sanderson (47) weds Sharon Wix (39) |
| 1993 | Rafael Caldera elected president of Venezuela |
| 1991 | "Catskills on Broadway" opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 452 performances |
| 1991 | Charles Keating, Jr. (Lincoln Savings and Loan fraud), found guilty |
| 1991 | NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11 |
| 1990 | Blue Jays trade F McGriff and T Fernandez to SD for R Alomar and J Carter |
| 1990 | Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty |
| 1990 | Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years |
| 1989 | France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph |
| 1988 | North Carolina federal grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud and conspiracy |
| 1988 | Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite |
| 1987 | 53rd Heisman Trophy Award: Tim Brown, Notre Dame (WR) |
| 1987 | David Boon's 5th Test Cricket century, 143 vs. New Zealand at Brisbane |
| 1987 | Schonbrunn skates world record 3 km ladies (4:16.76) |
| 1985 | Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 level for 1st time |
| 1985 | Great Britain performs nuclear test |
| 1985 | Sam Shepard's "Lie of the Mind," premieres in New York City |
| 1984 | A's trade Rickey Henderson to Yankees for Jay Howell and Jose Rijo |
| 1984 | French colonies killed 10 Kanaken in New Caledonia |
| 1984 | Yankees trade catcher Rick Cerone to Braves for pitcher Brian Fisher |
| 1983 | 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut |
| 1983 | Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Steve Howe is suspended for 1 year for cocaine use |
| 1982 | Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 33 pass completions |
| 1982 | Herschel Walker of Georgia wins Heisman Trophy |
| 1982 | Ingrid Berghmans (Netherlands) retains judo's world championship |
| 1982 | Mel Gray ends NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions |
| 1982 | Seattle Baptist Church declares sanctuary for Central American refugees |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1981 | 47th Heisman Trophy Award: Marcus Allen, Southern California (RB) |
| 1981 | 56th Australian Women Tennis: Navratilova beats Chris Evert (67 64 75) |
| 1981 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1980 | Bank of Canada's Canadian Currency Museum opens |
| 1979 | Ireland premier Jack Lynch resigns |
| 1978 | EG decides establishes EMS, European Monetary System |
| 1978 | Free agent Pete Rose signs 4-year, $32 million contract with Phillies |
| 1978 | Phillies Pete Rose becomes highest paid baseball player |
| 1978 | Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus |
| 1978 | Sam Shepard's "Buried Child," premieres in New York City |
| 1978 | Islanders took 28 shots in 1 period vs Penguins Penguins' Ross Lonsberry failed on 7th penalty shot against Islanders |
| 1977 | Egypt breaks dipl relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and S Yemen |
| 1976 | Buffalo Bill OJ Simpson rushes 203 yards |
| 1975 | "Me and Bessie" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 453 performances |
| 1975 | NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed |
| 1974 | "Monty Python's Flying Circus" last shown on BBC |
| 1974 | 1st Washington Capitals penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs Buff Sabres |
| 1974 | 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida |
| 1974 | Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran) |
| 1974 | Monty Python's final episode airs on BBC |
| 1974 | NFL's Seattle Seahawks forms |
| 1974 | Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named |
| 1974 | Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Washington Capitals 1st NHL penalty shot |
| 1973 | Cubs' Ron Santo became 1st baseball player to veto his trade |
| 1973 | Dodgers trade Willie Davis to Expos for relief pitcher Mike Marshall |
| 1973 | Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album |
| 1972 | 38th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska (FL) |
| 1972 | Australia Labour party wins parliamentary election |
| 1972 | Joseph A Walkers "River Niger," premieres in New York City |
| 1971 | KCBJ (now KMIZ) TV channel 17 in Columbia, MO (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1970 | Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy and Bill Masterson trophy stolen from NHL hall of fame |
| 1969 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1968 | Rolling Stones release "Beggar's Banquet" LP |
| 1967 | Beatles clothing store "Apple" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens |
| 1967 | Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war |
| 1966 | "I Do! I Do!" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 561 performances |
| 1960 | Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium |
| 1959 | Intikhab Alam bowls Colin McDonald with 1st ball in Tests |
| 1958 | Phils drop plans for New York sportcast as Yankees threat to do same in Philadelphia |
| 1958 | WTOL TV channel 11 in Toledo, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | William Inge's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs," premieres in New York City |
| 1957 | New York City is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law) |
| 1956 | Thornton Wilder's "Matchmaker," premieres in New York City |
| 1955 | AFL and CIO merge, with George Meany as president |
| 1955 | Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks |
| 1954 | KTEW (now KJRH) TV channel 2 in Tulsa, OK (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die |
| 1951 | "Dragnet" premieres |
| 1950 | Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1950 | Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India |
| 1949 | Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1948 | New York Giant Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions |
| 1947 | Joe Louis beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1946 | President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808 |
| 1945 | "Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle) |
| 1945 | Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl |
| 1944 | German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht |
| 1943 | NFL Philadelphia Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger disolves |
| 1942 | CFL Grey Cup: Tor beats Win RCAF, 8 -5 at Toronto |
| 1942 | Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to go work |
| 1942 | West Indies chocolate/coffee drop above Netherland |
| 1941 | Football Writers Association of America organized |
| 1941 | Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," premieres in New York City |
| 1941 | Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army |
| 1941 | Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved |
| 1941 | U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington and 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor |
| 1936 | 24th CFL Grey Cup: Sarnia Imperials defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-20 |
| 1936 | Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR and Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent republics of Soviet Union |
| 1935 | 1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello California) |
| 1933 | 21st Am ratified, 18th Amendment, Prohibition, repealed |
| 1932 | German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa |
| 1931 | CFL Grey Cup: Mtl AAA beats Regina, 22-0 at Montreal |
| 1929 | 1st U.S. nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, New York City) |
| 1928 | England defeats Australia by record 675 runs at Brisbane |
| 1928 | MW Miklas elected president of Austria |
| 1926 | Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin," debuts |
| 1925 | 13th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats Win Tammany Tigers, 24-1 |
| 1925 | German government of Luther falls |
| 1924 | Hamilton Tiger Red Green scores 5 goals to beat Tor Maple Leafs 10-5 |
| 1920 | Pro football playoff game Akron and Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided |
| 1918 | Oil refinery on Curacao opens |
| 1914 | 6th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats University of Toronto, 14-2 |
| 1908 | 1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh) |
| 1906 | British government-Balfour resigns |
| 1905 | Henry Campbell-Bannermam (Lib) becomes Prime Minister of England |
| 1896 | Henrik Ibsen's "Kejsor og Galileer," premieres in Leipzig |
| 1894 | Georges Feydeaus' "L'hotel du lobre echange," premoeres on Paros |
| 1893 | 1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges |
| 1892 | Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag |
| 1890 | Berlioz' opera "Les Troyens," premieres in Karlsruhe |
| 1887 | Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert Congo |
| 1881 | 47th Congress (1881-83) convenes |
| 1879 | 1st automatic telephone switching system patented |
| 1876 | Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench |
| 1876 | Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death |
| 1868 | 1st American bicycle college opens (NY) |
| 1862 | Battle of Coffeeville, MS |
| 1861 | Gatling gun patented |
| 1859 | Dion Boucicault's "Octaroon," premieres in New York City |
| 1854 | Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair |
| 1848 | President Polk triggers Gold Rush of '49, confirms California gold discovery |
| 1846 | C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive |
| 1837 | Hector Berlioz' "Requiem," premieres |
| 1837 | Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada |
| 1832 | Andrew Jackson re-elected president of US |
| 1831 | Former President John Quincy Adams takes his seat as member of House of Representatives |
| 1830 | Hector Berlioz' "Symphonique fantastique," premieres in Paris |
| 1813 | Lubeck surrenders to allied armies |
| 1804 | Thomas Jefferson re-elected U.S. president/George Clinton vice-president |
| 1798 | Government troops occupy Hasselt |
| 1792 | George Washington re-elected U.S. president |
| 1776 | 1st U.S. fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa (William and Mary College), forms |
| 1766 | London auctioneers Christie's hold their 1st sale |
| 1757 | Battle at Leuthen: Prussian army beats Austrians |
| 1741 | Russian princess Elisabeth Petrovna grabs powers |
| 1602 | Giulio Caccini's "Euridice," premieres in Florence |
| 1590 | Noccolo Sfondrato chosen Pope Gregory XIV |
| 1496 | Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I |
| 1492 | Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espanola/Haiti) |
| 1456 | Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die |
| 1448 | Bishop Jona of Moscow chosen as metropolitan of Kiev/Intoxication |
| 1349 | 500 Jews of Nuremberg massacre during Black Death riots |
| 1301 | Pope Boniface VIII's degree Ausculta fili (only nominee) |
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