| 2001 | 43rd Grammy Awards, U2, Steely Dan, Macy Gray and Sting win major awards |
| 1998 | Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
| 1997 | "Empire Strikes Back, special edition," premieres |
| 1997 | STS-82 (Discovery 22) lands |
| 1996 | Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit |
| 1995 | CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans |
| 1995 | RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado |
| 1993 | 43rd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City |
| 1993 | Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m) |
| 1992 | Kristi Yamaguchi of U.S. wins Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating |
| 1991 | "Lost in Yonkers" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 780 performances |
| 1991 | Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," premieres in New York City |
| 1991 | U.S.S.R. announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War U.S. calls the plan unacceptable |
| 1990 | 32nd Grammy Awards: Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time wins |
| 1989 | Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling |
| 1989 | U.S. bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 Billion street value) |
| 1988 | Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane |
| 1988 | Gustafson skates world record 10km (13:48.20) |
| 1988 | Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation |
| 1987 | Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
| 1987 | Syrian army marches into Beirut |
| 1986 | AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School |
| 1986 | Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 and suspended for 10 weeks |
| 1985 | Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skateing race |
| 1985 | Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit) |
| 1985 | Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator |
| 1983 | Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 minutes 7.1 seconds |
| 1983 | NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak |
| 1982 | "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 1604 performances |
| 1982 | "Little Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 36 performances |
| 1982 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic |
| 1981 | "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured |
| 1981 | Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k) |
| 1981 | NASA launches Comstar D-4 |
| 1980 | Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1500m in 1:55.44 |
| 1980 | Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olymp gold (giant slalom) |
| 1979 | Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite and Corsa-B (550/580 km) |
| 1979 | 2 Iowa girls High School basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters game was won 4-2 in 4th overtime period |
| 1977 | 74 Unification Church couples wed in New York City |
| 1976 | "Rockabye Hamlet" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| 1976 | Cardinal Willebrands installed as archbishop of Utrecht |
| 1975 | John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album |
| 1975 | John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman sentenced to 2-8 yrs |
| 1974 | Israeli forces leave western Suez |
| 1974 | Silver hits record $5.96 an ounce in London |
| 1974 | Yugoslavia adopts constitution |
| 1973 | Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out |
| 1973 | Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108 |
| 1972 | Michael Weller's "Moonchildren," premieres in New York City |
| 1972 | Richard Nixon becomes 1st U.S. president to visit China |
| 1971 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic |
| 1971 | Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi and Louisiana killing 117 |
| 1970 | Jackson 5 make TV debut on American Bandstand |
| 1970 | Pathet Lao conquerors Xieng Khuang and Muong Suy |
| 1969 | 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes) |
| 1969 | Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Washington Senators |
| 1968 | 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin |
| 1968 | Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000 |
| 1966 | Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution |
| 1964 | U.K. flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to U.S. |
| 1963 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1962 | Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Netherlands |
| 1961 | Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Die Physiker," premieres in Zurich |
| 1961 | Gabon adopts constitution |
| 1961 | Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry Test reaches 172 km |
| 1960 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open |
| 1958 | "Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 3 performances |
| 1958 | Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president with 99.9 percent of the vote |
| 1957 | Dodgers (Ft. Worth) and Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises |
| 1953 | "Maggie" closes at National Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1953 | Francis Crick and James Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule |
| 1953 | Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81 |
| 1952 | Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement) |
| 1952 | Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition |
| 1952 | Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage to Michael Wilding |
| 1951 | South Carolina House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated |
| 1950 | WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | 1st broadcast of 1st U.S. TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember" |
| 1947 | 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in New York City, by E H Land |
| 1947 | Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champ |
| 1946 | Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt |
| 1945 | Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties |
| 1945 | British Army captures Goch |
| 1945 | U.S. 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line |
| 1944 | "War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (New York City only) |
| 1943 | Dutch RC bishops protest against persecution of Jews |
| 1943 | German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia |
| 1942 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn |
| 1942 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht |
| 1941 | U.S. Senate accepts Omar Bradley's demotion to Brigadier-General |
| 1939 | Belgian government of Pierlot forms |
| 1934 | Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard |
| 1932 | Andre Tardieu becomes premier of France |
| 1932 | Camera exposure meter patented, W. N. Goodwin |
| 1931 | Alka Seltzer introduced |
| 1931 | Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play 1st exhibition night game |
| 1930 | Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures," premieres in New York City |
| 1927 | Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch," premieres |
| 1925 | 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published |
| 1925 | Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg |
| 1923 | Andre Charlot's musical "Rats," premieres in London |
| 1922 | Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die |
| 1922 | Great Britain grants Egypt independence |
| 1922 | WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions |
| 1920 | Darius Milhaud and Jean Cocteau's ballet, premieres in Paris |
| 1919 | German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria |
| 1919 | Revolutionary strike in Barcelona |
| 1918 | Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine |
| 1917 | British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die |
| 1917 | Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire and explodes; 100s die |
| 1916 | Battle of Verdun in WW I begins (1 million casualties) |
| 1915 | 20th Russian Army corps surrenders |
| 1915 | World's Fair in San Francisco opens |
| 1914 | White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China |
| 1911 | Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse elegique) |
| 1910 | John Galsworthy's "Justice," premieres in London |
| 1909 | John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London |
| 1907 | SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Netherlands (142 dead) |
| 1904 | National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming, Michigan |
| 1903 | Cornerstone laid for U.S. Army war college, Washington, D.C. |
| 1902 | Dr. Harvey Cushing, 1st U.S. brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation |
| 1895 | North Carolina Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass |
| 1887 | 1st U.S. bacteriology laboratory opens in Brooklyn |
| 1887 | Oregon becomes 1st U.S. state to make Labor Day a holiday |
| 1885 | Washington Monument dedicated in Washington D.C. |
| 1883 | 2nd French government of Ferry begins |
| 1882 | New York City's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours |
| 1878 | 1st telephone book issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut) |
| 1874 | Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier |
| 1874 | Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication |
| 1866 | Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st U.S. woman to earn a DDS degree |
| 1864 | Battle at Okolona, Mississippi |
| 1864 | 1st U.S. Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore |
| 1862 | Confederate Constitution and presidency are declared permanent |
| 1862 | Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico |
| 1861 | Navaho indians elect Herrero Grande as chief |
| 1858 | Edwin T. Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| 1857 | Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in U.S. |
| 1857 | U.S. issues flying eagle cents |
| 1853 | U.S. authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces |
| 1846 | 1st U.S. woman telegrapher, Sarah G. Bagley, Lowell, Mass |
| 1842 | 1st known sewing machine patented in U.S., John Greenough, Washington D.C. |
| 1828 | 1st American Indian newspaper in U.S., "Cherokee Phoenix," published |
| 1804 | 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales |
| 1797 | Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to British |
| 1795 | Freedom of worship established in France under constitution |
| 1792 | Congress passes President Succession Act |
| 1782 | U.S. congress resolves establishment of a U.S. mint |
| 1777 | English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting U.S. flag |
| 1764 | John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for "Essay on Women" |
| 1675 | Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland |
| 1673 | Michiel A de Ruyter appointed lt-admiral-general of Dutch fleet |
| 1613 | Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar |
| 1598 | Boris Godunov crowned tsar |
| 1583 | Groningen Netherlands begins using Gregorian calendar |
| 1574 | Spanish garrison of Middelburg Netherlands surrenders |
| 1564 | Philip II routes cardinal Granvelle to Franche-Comte |
| 1431 | England begins trial against Joan of Arc |
| 1173 | Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket Absp of Canterbury |
