| 2006 | Smoking is banned in restaurants and bars in Scotland |
| 2000 | 72nd Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, American Beauty wins Best Picture, Kevin Spacey and Hilary Swank win lead acting awards |
| 1997 | "Annie," opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City |
| 1997 | NHL announce Might Ducks and Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 in Japan |
| 1996 | Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Qld vs. Vic) |
| 1995 | "Defending the Caveman," opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 671 perf |
| 1995 | "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 56 performances |
| 1995 | 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins |
| 1995 | 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen |
| 1995 | Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup |
| 1994 | Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec) |
| 1994 | Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26) |
| 1994 | Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60) |
| 1994 | Talk show hostess Ricki Lake weds Rob Sussman |
| 1994 | Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating championship in Tokyo |
| 1992 | NHL New York Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years |
| 1991 | Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street and Lexington Ave, New York City |
| 1991 | Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner," premieres in London |
| 1991 | Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34 |
| 1991 | Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final |
| 1990 | 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy," D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win |
| 1989 | 1st free elections in U.S.S.R.; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins |
| 1989 | Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic |
| 1988 | Janet B. Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10) |
| 1987 | August Wilson's "Fences," premieres in New York City |
| 1987 | Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy |
| 1987 | NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit |
| 1987 | National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet) |
| 1986 | Geffen records signs Guns and Roses |
| 1983 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1982 | Ground-breaking in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
| 1982 | Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder release "Ebony and Ivory" in the U.K. |
| 1982 | Soap opera "Capitol" premieres |
| 1981 | Police and Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia |
| 1981 | Soyuz T-4 lands |
| 1980 | Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police) |
| 1979 | 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Michigan State beats Indiana State. 75-64 |
| 1979 | Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt |
| 1979 | Michigan State Spartans snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak |
| 1979 | Padres and Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it |
| 1977 | Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero" |
| 1976 | AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M |
| 1976 | Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album |
| 1975 | "Tommy" premieres in London |
| 1975 | Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win and NHL record of 17 straight loses |
| 1974 | George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1974 | Romanian Communist Party names party leader Ceausescu president |
| 1973 | 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76 |
| 1973 | Soap "Young and Restless" premieres |
| 1973 | Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange |
| 1973 | UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title |
| 1972 | "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 144 performances |
| 1972 | Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic |
| 1972 | Los Angeles Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13) |
| 1971 | "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings |
| 1971 | "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1971 | Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence |
| 1970 | "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 80 performances |
| 1970 | 500th nuclear explosion announced by the U.S. since 1945 |
| 1970 | Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark |
| 1970 | Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl |
| 1969 | Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV |
| 1969 | Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Netherlands goes into use |
| 1969 | Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched |
| 1967 | 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming and Cabaret win |
| 1967 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1967 | Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio |
| 1964 | "Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 1,348 performances |
| 1962 | Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legislature |
| 1961 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival |
| 1960 | Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem |
| 1960 | Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami |
| 1960 | USC captures NCAA swimming title |
| 1959 | Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad vs. WI age 15 years 124 days |
| 1958 | 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward and Guinness win |
| 1958 | U.S. Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III" |
| 1956 | Medic Alert Foundation forms |
| 1956 | Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One |
| 1955 | "Ballad of Davy Crockett," becomes the #1 record in US |
| 1954 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| 1953 | Dr. Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio |
| 1952 | 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St. Johns 80-63 |
| 1952 | F Durrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi," premieres in Munich |
| 1951 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open |
| 1951 | USAF flag approved |
| 1949 | 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Kentucky beats Oklahoma State 46-36 |
| 1945 | Kamikazes attack U.S. battle fleet near Kerama Retto |
| 1945 | British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg) |
| 1945 | De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34 |
| 1945 | Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine |
| 1945 | Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima |
| 1945 | U.S. 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms |
| 1945 | Venray soccer team forms |
| 1944 | 705 British bombers attack Essen |
| 1943 | Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean |
| 1943 | Elsie S. Ott becomes 1st woman awarded U.S. Air Force Medal |
| 1942 | 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps |
| 1942 | 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec |
| 1942 | 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pennsylvania, kills 21 |
| 1942 | German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel General Rommel |
| 1940 | Ernest Hemingway and Benjamin Glazer premiere in New York City |
| 1938 | NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony |
| 1937 | Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice and replace his 40 with 36 oz bat |
| 1937 | Spinach growers of Crystal City, Texas, erect statue of Popeye |
| 1937 | William H. Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands) |
| 1936 | 1st parliamentary debate on New Zealand radio |
| 1936 | 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, New York-Cal Tech |
| 1936 | Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska |
| 1935 | "RvJ" Mitchell and Major Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire |
| 1934 | Driving tests introduced in Britain |
| 1931 | Iraq and Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty |
| 1931 | Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio |
| 1931 | New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies |
| 1930 | Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway |
| 1927 | Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA |
| 1927 | Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms |
| 1926 | ACD de Graeff appointed Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies |
| 1926 | The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America |
| 1924 | Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," in London |
| 1923 | Stanley Cup: Ott Senators beat Vanc Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1 |
| 1917 | Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1 - Seattle is 1st U.S. team to win Stanley Cup |
| 1916 | Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary |
| 1915 | Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators |
| 1913 | Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War |
| 1913 | Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously |
| 1910 | U.S. forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick |
| 1910 | William H. Lewis appointed asst attorney general of U.S. |
| 1909 | August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti," premieres in Stockholm |
| 1903 | American Hotel opens in Amsterdam |
| 1895 | King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day |
| 1889 | Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South Africa vs. England |
| 1889 | Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 and 8-11) vs. South Africa at Newlands |
| 1889 | South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 vs. England |
| 1886 | 1st cremation in England |
| 1885 | Eastman Film Co. manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film |
| 1885 | Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Sask |
| 1878 | Hastings College of Law founded |
| 1878 | Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens |
| 1872 | 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California |
| 1872 | Thomas J. Martin patents fire extinguisher |
| 1871 | Paris Commune founded |
| 1863 | Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves |
| 1862 | Battle of La Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch) |
| 1859 | 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury |
| 1856 | NSW's 1st 1st-class game, vs. Victoria at Melbourne NSW won |
| 1845 | Joseph Francis, New York City, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat |
| 1845 | Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid |
| 1839 | 1st Henley Royal Regatta |
| 1824 | 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" |
| 1821 | Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess," premieres in Vienna |
| 1812 | Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas; about 20,000 die |
| 1804 | Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana |
| 1804 | Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase |
| 1799 | Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine |
| 1793 | Pro-royalist uprising in Vendee region of France |
| 1790 | Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency |
| 1780 | 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette and Sunday Monitor) |
| 1692 | King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands |
| 1668 | England takes control of Bombay India |
| 1636 | University of Utrecht opening ceremony |
| 1534 | Lubeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea |
| 1526 | King Francois I returns Spanish captivity to France |
| 1150 | Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a Gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise |
| 1147 | Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence |
| 1027 | John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor |
