| 2013 | New findings from the University of Leicester indicate decreasing sitting time by 90 each day can result in major heath advantages, such as reducing the risk of Type 2 Diabetes |
| 2013 | Anchorage, Alaska begins the 1,000 mile, 2013 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race; winners receive a new truck and $50,400 in prize money |
| 2012 | The United States space agency NASA reveals it had its security compromised by hackers 13 times in the past year |
| 2012 | Marysville, Indiana and Henryville, Indiana experience widespread damage from tornadoes that hit the midwestern and southern United States |
| 2011 | In his book 'Jesus of Nazareth Part II', Pope Benedict XVI exonerates the Jewish people for the responsibility of the death of Jesus |
| 2011 | In the United Kingdom, the British Armed Forces announce plans to eliminate 11,000 jobs |
| 2010 | The widow of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, Agathe Habyarimana, is arrested in France - accused of helping plan the 1994 genocide |
| 2009 | Joao Bernardo Vierira, President of Guinea-Bissau is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau |
| 1997 | Gail Graham wins LPGA Alpine Australian Ladies Masters |
| 1997 | Nick Faldo wins Nissan Golf Open |
| 1997 | Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple Computer |
| 1997 | Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia) |
| 1996 | Copeland swimming pool re-opened by Gladiator |
| 1996 | Tendulkar scores 137 for Ind vs. SL in Cricket World Cup, but still lose |
| 1995 | "Smokey Joe's Cafe," opens at Virginia Theater New York City |
| 1995 | British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC |
| 1995 | Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed |
| 1995 | Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches |
| 1994 | Miami begins a latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan |
| 1994 | William Huston Natcher, Representative-D-Kentucky, casts his 18,401 and last consecutive vote |
| 1994 | Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't |
| 1993 | Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89 |
| 1993 | Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins |
| 1992 | Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35) |
| 1991 | "Aspects of Love" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 377 performances |
| 1991 | "La Bete" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 24 performances |
| 1991 | Deb Richard wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| 1991 | Del Ballard, Jr. throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history |
| 1991 | North Carolina State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists |
| 1991 | U.N. votes in favor of U.S. resolutions for cease fire with Iraq |
| 1990 | Greyhound Bus goes on strike |
| 1990 | Mark Tewsksbury swims world record 50m backstroke (25.06 sec) |
| 1989 | 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000 |
| 1989 | Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil |
| 1989 | Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial |
| 1989 | NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers win 22nd straight home game |
| 1989 | New York Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez |
| 1988 | 30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley |
| 1988 | Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP |
| 1986 | 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita |
| 1986 | Mary Beth Zimmerman wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational |
| 1986 | Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to U.S. |
| 1985 | U.S. approves screening test for AIDS |
| 1984 | Iran offensive against Iraq fails |
| 1984 | John Long (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
| 1983 | Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips and Sony introduced |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1982 | 60th hat trick in Islander history - Bryan Trottier |
| 1982 | Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru |
| 1981 | Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists |
| 1981 | Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington D.C. |
| 1980 | 3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pitts |
| 1980 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic |
| 1980 | Mike Bratz (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games |
| 1978 | 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV |
| 1978 | Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6 |
| 1977 | 1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show with host Johnny Carson |
| 1977 | Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award |
| 1977 | Libya amends constitution |
| 1976 | "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 766 performances |
| 1976 | Bob Lurie becomes CEO of San Francisco Giants |
| 1976 | Holgate, Kemp and Lopez' musical premieres in New York City |
| 1976 | Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest |
| 1974 | 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins |
| 1974 | 1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents |
| 1974 | Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up |
| 1974 | Greg Chappell makes 247* vs. New Zealand, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1 six |
| 1973 | "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum |
| 1972 | Jean-Bedel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Cent African Rep |
| 1972 | Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby |
| 1970 | American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747 |
| 1970 | Rhodesia becomes independent republic |
| 1970 | Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years |
| 1969 | 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde |
| 1969 | Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die) |
| 1969 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 14th Symphony |
| 1969 | Phil Esposito becomes 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season |
| 1968 | Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler and Ford (GRB) |
| 1968 | Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.) |
| 1968 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) |
| 1968 | USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world |
| 1968 | U.S.S.R. launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit |
| 1968 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (U.S.) |
| 1967 | 9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night, Michele wins |
| 1967 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1966 | 215,000 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam |
| 1965 | "Sound Of Music" opens |
| 1965 | Montcalm Community College in Sidney, Michigan, founded |
| 1964 | Beatles begin filming "Hard Days Night," Harrison meets Patti Boyd |
| 1962 | John F. Kennedy announces U.S. will resume above ground nuclear testing |
| 1962 | Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game |
| 1961 | "13 Daughters" opens at 54th St. Theater New York City for 28 performances |
| 1958 | 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days |
| 1958 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| 1958 | Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic |
| 1956 | Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France |
| 1955 | King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father |
| 1955 | William Inge's "Bus Stop," premieres in New York City |
| 1952 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
| 1951 | 1st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-94 at Boston |
| 1949 | 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct) |
| 1949 | Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Texas, covering 23,452 miles in 94 hours |
| 1946 | Dutch troops land on East Bali |
| 1946 | Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam |
| 1946 | Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 1945 | 8th Air Force bombs Dresden |
| 1945 | King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government |
| 1944 | 16th Academy Awards - "Casablanca," Jennifer Jones and Paul Lukas win |
| 1944 | Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy |
| 1943 | 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp |
| 1943 | Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, U.S. and Australia win |
| 1942 | 14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley," Cooper and Fontaine win |
| 1942 | Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon |
| 1940 | 1st intercollegiate track meet telecast, MSG, New York City |
| 1940 | Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland |
| 1939 | Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII |
| 1939 | Massachusetts Legislature vote to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late |
| 1938 | Landslides and floods cause over 200 deaths in Los Angeles, California |
| 1938 | Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union |
| 1937 | Mexico nationalizes oil |
| 1936 | Bradman scores 369 in 253 minutes, SA vs. Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes |
| 1934 | Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha |
| 1933 | "King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy New York City |
| 1933 | Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan |
| 1930 | 1st U.S. indoor glider flight, St. Louis Terminal Building |
| 1929 | Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game |
| 1929 | Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals |
| 1927 | Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year) |
| 1925 | Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament |
| 1925 | Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage |
| 1925 | Nationwide road numbering system and U.S. shield marker adopted |
| 1925 | SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament |
| 1923 | Time magazine debuts |
| 1922 | WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting |
| 1922 | WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions |
| 1920 | Karel Capek's "Loupeznik," premieres in Prague |
| 1919 | 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin |
| 1918 | New York Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers and immediately trades him to Philadelphia A's |
| 1917 | Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, U.S. citizenship granted |
| 1915 | British vice adm Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts |
| 1915 | Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine |
| 1910 | 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die |
| 1909 | Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy asks Serbia to set no territorial demands |
| 1907 | General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal |
| 1907 | Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce l'Oreille," premieres in Paris |
| 1904 | "Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" adopted |
| 1904 | Gabriele d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio," premieres in Milan |
| 1903 | Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City |
| 1902 | Jimmy Collins, leaves Boston Beaneaters (NL) club to manage AL's new Boston Somersets |
| 1901 | Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens |
| 1899 | President McKinley signs bill creating Mount Rainier National Park (5th in U.S.) |
| 1898 | Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England |
| 1896 | Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians |
| 1896 | George Lohmann takes 9-28 vs. South Africa at Johannesburg |
| 1893 | 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features |
| 1890 | Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19) |
| 1889 | Kansas passes 1st U.S. antitrust |
| 1887 | American Trotting Association organized in Detroit |
| 1877 | Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory |
| 1874 | Baseball batter's box is officially adopted |
| 1868 | University of Illinois opens |
| 1867 | Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico |
| 1867 | Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act |
| 1867 | Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead |
| 1867 | U.S. Congress creates the Department of Education |
| 1866 | 1st U.S. company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Connecticut |
| 1865 | British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing |
| 1865 | Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865 |
| 1865 | General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough |
| 1863 | Congress authorizes track width of 4'8" for Union Pacific Railroad |
| 1861 | Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington |
| 1861 | U.S. creates Dakota and Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska and Utah territories |
| 1858 | Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie |
| 1855 | Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia |
| 1853 | Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory |
| 1836 | Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico |
| 1831 | John Frazee becomes 1st U.S. sculptor to receive a federal commission |
| 1829 | New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in U.S., incorporated, Boston |
| 1825 | 1st grand opera in U.S. sung in English, New York City |
| 1824 | Interstate commerce comes under federal control |
| 1819 | Territory of Arkansas organized |
| 1819 | U.S. passed its 1st immigration law |
| 1817 | 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn |
| 1807 | Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808 |
| 1799 | Congress standardizes U.S. weights and measures |
| 1789 | Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances |
| 1776 | Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston |
| 1725 | Georg F Handels opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto," premieres in London |
| 1675 | Prince William III installed as governor of Overijssel |
| 1629 | English king Charles I leaces house of commons |
| 1498 | Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island |
| 1458 | Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia |
| 1121 | Dirk VI becomes count of Holland |
| 871 | Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army |
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