| 2012 | Australia announces its plan to create the largest marine reserve in the world |
| 2012 | Swedish doctors perform the world's first stem cell assisted vein transplant on a 10-year old girl |
| 2011 | The Wallow Fire becomes the largest wildfire in Arizona history; firefighters have contained 20% of the 469,407-acre fire |
| 2011 | A terrorist-related travel warning for the Philippines is issued by the United States |
| 2010 | China's Premier, Wen Jiabao visits migrant workers at a Beijing construction site and declares the need for better treatment of the country's migrant workers |
| 1998 | "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show |
| 1998 | World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany |
| 1998 | NBA Finals, Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4 games to 2 |
| 1996 | "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released |
| 1996 | Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire vs. Indians |
| 1995 | 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games |
| 1995 | Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win |
| 1994 | Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3 |
| 1993 | Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth |
| 1993 | Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey |
| 1992 | 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton |
| 1992 | 46th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2 |
| 1992 | Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1992 | Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female U.S. poet laureate |
| 1992 | Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play |
| 1991 | "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens |
| 1991 | Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in New York City |
| 1991 | Space Shuttle STS-40 (Columbia 12) lands |
| 1990 | 44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1 |
| 1990 | NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season |
| 1990 | Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional |
| 1989 | Ground breaking begins in Minnesota on world's largest mall |
| 1989 | Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams |
| 1989 | Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan |
| 1989 | Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame |
| 1989 | Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman |
| 1988 | Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her |
| 1987 | "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years |
| 1987 | 41st NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2 |
| 1987 | 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor |
| 1987 | Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| 1985 | "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1985 | Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Baltimore Orioles |
| 1985 | Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847 |
| 1984 | Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members |
| 1983 | 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx |
| 1982 | Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict |
| 1981 | 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
| 1980 | Theme From New York, New York by Frank Sinatra hits #32 |
| 1979 | Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup vs. England, in 40 3 overs |
| 1979 | New York Giants Willie McCovey 513th home run is an NL lefty record |
| 1979 | Rock group "Little Feat" disbands |
| 1978 | Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yankees Paul Blair hits a 3 run home run |
| 1978 | Sierra Leone adopts constitution |
| 1976 | "Gong Show" premieres on TV, syndication |
| 1976 | 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yankees beat Mets 8-4 |
| 1975 | 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61) |
| 1975 | Janis Ian releases "At 17" |
| 1975 | U.S.S.R. launches Venera 10 for Venus landing |
| 1974 | Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings |
| 1973 | 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe |
| 1972 | Hurricane Agnes kills 117 |
| 1970 | Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight |
| 1969 | John and Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show |
| 1969 | Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7 |
| 1968 | Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing |
| 1967 | Mariner 5 Launch, Venus Flyby |
| 1967 | Steve Allen Show," premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit |
| 1966 | Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured |
| 1966 | Miami beats St. Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball |
| 1965 | Beatles release album "Beatles VI" |
| 1965 | Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits New York Mets but loses in 11, 1-0 |
| 1965 | John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published |
| 1964 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 1963 | New York Met Duke Snider hits his 400th home run |
| 1963 | Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days |
| 1961 | 106 degrees F, hottest temperature in San Francisco |
| 1959 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
| 1958 | 58th U.S. Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa |
| 1958 | British parachutists lands on Cyprus |
| 1958 | Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela |
| 1957 | 42.0 cm rain falls on East St. Louis, Illinois, state record |
| 1957 | Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ |
| 1956 | "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 221 performances |
| 1954 | President Eisenhower signs order adding words 'under God' to the Pledge |
| 1953 | Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal |
| 1953 | Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee |
| 1953 | Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia |
| 1953 | Yankees sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight |
| 1952 | 52nd U.S. Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas |
| 1952 | Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings |
| 1952 | Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2) |
| 1952 | Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus |
| 1952 | Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss |
| 1951 | "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater New York City for 37 performances |
| 1951 | 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau |
| 1949 | State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor |
| 1949 | WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia |
| 1946 | Canadian Library Association established |
| 1944 | 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan |
| 1944 | General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles, France |
| 1942 | 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport, Connecticut |
| 1942 | Anne Frank begins her diary |
| 1942 | French government of Reynaud resigns |
| 1942 | Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released |
| 1941 | Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita, Kansas |
| 1941 | Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia |
| 1940 | Auschwitz concentration camp opens, 3 million killed there |
| 1940 | German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral |
| 1940 | German forces occupied Paris during WW II |
| 1938 | Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge |
| 1938 | Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin |
| 1938 | Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal, kid books author |
| 1936 | Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens |
| 1935 | Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends |
| 1934 | Hitler and Mussolini meet in Vienna |
| 1934 | Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City |
| 1934 | WOQ-AM in Kansas City Missouri goes off the air |
| 1933 | Lou Gehrig and Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games |
| 1932 | German government of von Papen forms |
| 1931 | French "St. Philbert" overturns off St. Nazaire France, drowns 450 |
| 1931 | Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler |
| 1930 | VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht |
| 1929 | Prussia and Vatican sign Concord |
| 1928 | Republican National Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover |
| 1926 | 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60) |
| 1924 | Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe and Maurice Tate vs. South Africa |
| 1924 | WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY |
| 1923 | Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane) |
| 1922 | 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa |
| 1922 | Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament |
| 1922 | President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore |
| 1919 | 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock and Brown) |
| 1917 | 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London |
| 1917 | General Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I |
| 1907 | Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers |
| 1907 | Norway restricts woman's voting rights |
| 1906 | Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia |
| 1904 | Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants |
| 1901 | 1st golf championship is played |
| 1900 | Hawaiian Territorial Government begins |
| 1898 | France signs Niger Convention |
| 1881 | Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass) |
| 1880 | 14th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47 |
| 1876 | 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Philadelphia Athletics) |
| 1876 | California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise |
| 1870 | All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games |
| 1864 | Congress rules Black soldiers must receive equal pay |
| 1864 | U.S. Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg |
| 1863 | Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia |
| 1861 | Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance |
| 1850 | Fire destroys part of San Francisco |
| 1847 | Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner |
| 1846 | Belgian Liberal Party forms |
| 1846 | California declares independence from Mexico in Sonoma |
| 1841 | 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario |
| 1839 | 1st Henley Regatta held |
| 1834 | Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine |
| 1834 | Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper |
| 1834 | Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer, Jr., Springfield, Vermont |
| 1800 | Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria |
| 1789 | Captain William Blighs reaches Timor |
| 1777 | Continental Congress adopts Stars and Stripes replacing Grand Union flag |
| 1775 | U.S. Army founded |
| 1755 | 1e edition of Dr. Johnsons "Dictionary" |
| 1673 | Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet |
| 1658 | Battle at Dunes: English and French fleet beat Spanish |
| 1645 | Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax beats royalists |
| 1642 | 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts |
| 1634 | Russia and Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov |
| 1623 | 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Reverend Gerville Pooley, Virginia files against Cicely Jordan, he loses |
| 1615 | Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis |
| 1597 | At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands |
| 1565 | Catharina de Medici and Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism |
| 1541 | Duke Willem van Gulik of Gelre marries Jeanne d'Albret |
| 1535 | Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis |
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