| 2012 | In Bulgaria, remains believed to be John the Baptist, are scientifically dated to be from the first century AD |
| 2012 | President Barack Obama states that the U.S. will stop deporting some illegal immigrants |
| 2011 | In Greece, Police fire tear gas on protesters angry over cuts their government made in co-operation with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund |
| 2011 | The coalition government announces plans to privatize Northern Rock, a British public-owned bank |
| 2010 | The inquiry into Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland, 1972, determined British paratroopers first the first shot without warning, and concocted lies to cover up their acts |
| 2004 | NBA Finals, Detroit Pistons beat Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 1 |
| 2003 | NBA Finals, San Antonio Spurs beat New Jersey Nets 4 games to 2 |
| 1998 | 32nd TNN Music City News Country Awards |
| 1997 | "Little Foxes," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City after 56 performances |
| 1997 | 97th U.S. Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 276 Congressional CC Bethesda Md |
| 1997 | British model Naomi Campbell, hospitalized on drug overdose |
| 1997 | Danielle Ammaccapane wins Edina Realty LPGA Classic |
| 1997 | Du Mauier Senior Golf Champions |
| 1995 | "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" opens at Plymouth New York City for 55 performances |
| 1995 | Mark Ilott takes 9-19 incl all lbw hat-trick, Essex vs. Northants |
| 1995 | Northants all out 46 vs. Essex and wins game next day |
| 1994 | Disney's "Lion King," opens in theaters with $42 million |
| 1994 | New York Giants cut quarterback Phil Simms |
| 1994 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
| 1992 | 1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years |
| 1992 | Director Frank Perry (Mommie Dearest) marries Virginia Bush Ford |
| 1992 | During spelling bee, Quayle misspells potato, as potatoe |
| 1992 | Erie Sailors (Florida Marlin farm team) 1st game beat Jamestown 6-5 in 13 |
| 1992 | Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport, New York City |
| 1992 | Jeff Reardon breaks Rollie Fingers' save record with #342 |
| 1991 | Carolyn Tanny and Bob Trischel wed |
| 1991 | Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo erupts |
| 1990 | "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty and Madonna premieres |
| 1989 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 9th triple play, vs. Yankees |
| 1988 | NASA launches space vehicle S-213 |
| 1988 | Turkish premier zal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens |
| 1987 | Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy |
| 1987 | Michael Spinks TKOs Gerry Cooney in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1986 | 86th U.S. Golf Open: Ray Floyd shoots a 279 at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club New York |
| 1986 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1986 | Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity |
| 1986 | Raymond Floyd wins U.S. Open golf tournament |
| 1985 | "Pryor's Place," children show last airs on CBS-TV |
| 1985 | En route to Halley's Comet, U.S.S.R.'s Vega 2 drops lander on Venus |
| 1985 | Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1985 | Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus |
| 1984 | "Thicke Of The Night," TV Talk Show last airs in syndication |
| 1984 | Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran |
| 1984 | Vitesse soccer team forms in Arnhem |
| 1983 | Cards trade Keith Hernandez to Mets for Neil Allen and Rick Ownbey |
| 1983 | Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion |
| 1982 | Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat |
| 1982 | Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education |
| 1980 | "Fearless Frank" opens at Princess Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1980 | 80th U.S. Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 272 at Baltusrol Golf Club New Jersey |
| 1980 | Dale Lundquis wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| 1980 | Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game |
| 1979 | 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds |
| 1978 | Italy's President Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair |
| 1978 | Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American |
| 1978 | Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days |
| 1977 | New York Mets trade Tom Seaver to Reds for Pat Zachry |
| 1977 | Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years) |
| 1977 | Wim Polak becomes mayor of Amsterdam |
| 1976 | Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor and Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick and Jim Freeman |
| 1976 | Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team and umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium |
| 1975 | 45th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Guillermo Vilas (62 63 64) |
| 1975 | Carol Mann wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1974 | "Streak" by Ray Stevens hit #1 on U.K. pop chart |
| 1973 | "American Graffiti" opens in New York City |
| 1972 | Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die |
| 1972 | West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof |
| 1971 | Vernon E Jordan, Jr., appointed executive director of National Urban League |
| 1970 | 16th LPGA Championship won by Shirley Englehorn |
| 1969 | "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark and Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV |
| 1969 | 69th U.S. Golf Open: Orville Moody shoots a 281 at Champs Golf Club in Houston, Texas |
| 1969 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| 1969 | Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon |
| 1968 | "How Now, Dow Jones" closes at Lunt Fontanne New York City after 220 performances |
| 1968 | "I Do! I Do!" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 561 performances |
| 1968 | "New Faces of 1965" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 52 performances |
| 1968 | 15th Curtis Cup: U.S., 10 -7 |
| 1968 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral |
| 1968 | Yummy Yummy Yummy by Ohio Express hits #4 |
| 1965 | Bob Dylan records "Like a Rolling Stone" |
| 1965 | Denny McLain in relief strikesout 1st 7 batters faced and record 14 in 6 2/3 innings, Bill Freehan ties catcher record of 19 putouts |
| 1965 | South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products |
| 1964 | Last French troops leave Algeria |
| 1963 | "Sound of Music" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 1443 performances |
| 1963 | Buddy Nobles runs world record marathon (2:14:28) |
| 1963 | Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns |
| 1963 | San Francisco Giants Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt .45s, 1-0 |
| 1962 | Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 win |
| 1962 | South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes |
| 1962 | WWUP TV channel 10 in Sault Ste Marie, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | Expansion Washington Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500, Washington will lose their next 10 games |
| 1960 | Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races |
| 1960 | Argentina complains to United Nations about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann |
| 1958 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| 1957 | "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 123 perf |
| 1957 | 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St. Louis, Illinois (state record) |
| 1957 | 57th U.S. Golf Open: Dick Mayer shoots a 282 at Inverness Club in Toledo |
| 1957 | 89th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6 |
| 1957 | Yankees trade Billy Martin and Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran |
| 1955 | Australia score 8-758 vs. West Indies at Kingston, their best ever |
| 1954 | Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factory nationalized |
| 1953 | Browns end Yankees win streak at 18 and Browns 14-game losing streak |
| 1953 | Johnny Mize is 93rd player to get 2,000 hits |
| 1953 | New York City Transit Authority forms |
| 1953 | WLFI TV channel 18 in Lafayette, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory |
| 1949 | Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel |
| 1948 | 1st night game at Briggs Stadium: Detroit Tigers beat Philadelphia A's |
| 1948 | Bradman is out for a duck, but Australia win Test Cricket anyway |
| 1948 | WPIX TV channel 11 in New York City, New York (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | WTNH TV channel 8 in New Haven, CT (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | 1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1) |
| 1947 | 47th U.S. Golf Open: Lew Worsham shoots a 282 at St. Louis CC in MO |
| 1945 | ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam |
| 1945 | Dutch political party ANJV forms |
| 1944 | U.S. forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific |
| 1943 | Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms |
| 1940 | 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province |
| 1940 | Bread and flour rationed in Holland |
| 1940 | France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris |
| 1940 | Soviet Army occupies Lithuania |
| 1938 | 1st night game at Brooklyn Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cincinnati Red Johnny Vander Meer hurls unprecedented 2nd consecutive no-hitter |
| 1934 | Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated |
| 1931 | Eddie Collins and Harry Heilmann, retire from baseball |
| 1931 | Poland and U.S.S.R. sign friendship and trade treaty |
| 1929 | 1st time New York curb stock exchange transacts more business than New York Exch |
| 1928 | Ty Cobb, 41, steals home for 50th and final time |
| 1926 | 7th French government of Briand falls |
| 1925 | Philadelphia A's go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15 |
| 1924 | 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal |
| 1924 | Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile |
| 1924 | J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI |
| 1924 | Native Americans are proclaimed U.S. citizens |
| 1923 | Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post and railroad strike |
| 1921 | Bessie Coleman reaches France as U.S. 1st black pilot |
| 1920 | De Zweef soccer team forms in Nijverdal |
| 1919 | 1st nonstop Atlantic flight, Alcock and Brown, lands in Ireland |
| 1918 | 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania |
| 1916 | Boys Scouts of America receives congressional charter |
| 1915 | U.S. government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo |
| 1912 | 26th U.S. Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Eleonora Sears (64 62) |
| 1908 | World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam |
| 1907 | 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference |
| 1904 | Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in New York's East River (1,031 die) |
| 1902 | Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time |
| 1902 | Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Texas minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game |
| 1901 | 7th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 331 at Myopia Hunt Club, Massachusetts |
| 1898 | U.S. House of Representatives accept annexation of Hawaii |
| 1898 | U.S. Marines attack Spanish off Guantanamo, Cuba |
| 1897 | Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election |
| 1896 | Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed |
| 1894 | Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8 |
| 1888 | Wilhelm II becomes emperor of Germany |
| 1887 | Carlisle D. Graham survives 2nd ride in Niagara waterfall in barrel |
| 1887 | New York Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 29-1 |
| 1887 | Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo |
| 1878 | 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground |
| 1877 | Henry O. Flipper becomes 1st black graduate at West Point |
| 1876 | Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a U.S. presidential convention |
| 1876 | Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000 |
| 1871 | Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a U.S. collegiate law school |
| 1869 | Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, New York |
| 1869 | Mike McCoole (U.S.) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout |
| 1866 | Prussia attacks Austria |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia |
| 1864 | Battle for Petersburg begins as General Grant assaults Confederate line |
| 1864 | Captain Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James River, Virginia |
| 1864 | Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers |
| 1864 | Robert E. Lee's home area, Arlington, Virginia, becomes a military cemetery |
| 1863 | 2nd battle at Winchester Va, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualities |
| 1862 | General JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan" |
| 1861 | Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry |
| 1860 | 1st White settlement in Idaho, Franklin |
| 1857 | San Francisco Water Works organized |
| 1851 | Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory |
| 1846 | Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49 degrees N |
| 1844 | Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber |
| 1836 | Arkansas becomes 25th state |
| 1834 | Rioters in Safed Palestine kills many Jews |
| 1808 | Jozef Napoleon becomes king of Spain |
| 1804 | 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president |
| 1802 | Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Heros |
| 1785 | 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident |
| 1779 | General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx |
| 1775 | George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army |
| 1762 | Austria uses 1st paper currency |
| 1752 | Ben Franklin's performs his kite-flying experiment |
| 1741 | Captain Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America |
| 1664 | New Jersey established |
| 1643 | Able Tasmania returns to Batavia after discovering Tasmania |
| 1626 | King Charles I disbands English parliament |
| 1567 | Battle at Carberry Scot: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwells army |
| 1567 | Genoa Italy expels Jews |
| 1389 | Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs, Bosnians |
| 1246 | Battle at Leitha: Hungary-Austrian |
| 1219 | King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark |
| 1215 | King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England |
| 1094 | Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren |
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