| 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) |
