| 2012 | In India, a nationwide strike against rising gas prices closes shops and interrupts public transport across the country |
| 2012 | Former Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. Presidency, John Edwards, is cleared on one count of corruption, with a mistrial declared on the other five counts |
| 2011 | Release dates and titles for two films based on 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkein are announced |
| 2011 | After scientists reviewed studies on cell phone safety, the World Health Organization classifies cell phone radiation as a carcinogenic hazard, possibly carcinogenic to humans |
| 2005 | Watergate figure Deep Throat is revealed to be W. Mark Felt a former F.B.I agent |
| 1997 | "Once Upon a Matress," closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 187 perf |
| 1997 | Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race |
| 1996 | Mark Van Thillo and Abigail Alling, former biospherian win $100,000 lawsuit against Biospheric Development for Space Biospheres Ventures |
| 1994 | Padres scores 13 in 2nd vs Pirates |
| 1993 | President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees |
| 1992 | 46th Tony Awards: Dancing at Lughnasa and Crazy For You win |
| 1992 | 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000 |
| 1992 | Barb Mucha wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
| 1991 | Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia |
| 1991 | Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war |
| 1990 | 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne |
| 1990 | BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie |
| 1990 | Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles |
| 1989 | "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (New York City) |
| 1989 | 1st International Rock Awards |
| 1989 | 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards |
| 1989 | Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns |
| 1987 | Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1987 | Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 3 |
| 1985 | 41 tornadoes hit Northeast U.S., killing 88 |
| 1985 | Guatemala adopts constitution |
| 1985 | New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000 |
| 1985 | Tornados in Penn, Ohio, New York and Canada kill 88 and injured more than 1,000 |
| 1984 | 57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge |
| 1984 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1984 | Viv Richards hits 189* (170 balls) vs. England, ODI cricket record |
| 1983 | 37th NBA Championship: Philadelphia 76ers sweep Los Angeles Lakers in 4 games |
| 1982 | "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City for 63 perf |
| 1981 | Cathy Reynolds wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
| 1980 | "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38 |
| 1980 | Police and youthful rebels battle in Zurich |
| 1979 | "I Remember Mama" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 108 performances |
| 1979 | Radio City Music Hall (New York City) reopens |
| 1979 | Zimbabwe proclaims independence |
| 1977 | "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 920 performances |
| 1977 | Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar |
| 1977 | Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed |
| 1976 | Loudest Pennsylvania (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London |
| 1975 | "Goodtime Charley" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 104 performances |
| 1975 | Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition |
| 1974 | Israel and Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights |
| 1974 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1973 | Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season |
| 1972 | Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam |
| 1971 | WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die) |
| 1970 | KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1969 | "Dear World" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 132 performances |
| 1969 | "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8 |
| 1969 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" |
| 1969 | Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore" |
| 1967 | Bayern Munchen wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg |
| 1965 | Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy |
| 1964 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1964 | San Francisco Giants beat New York Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hours 32 minutes) |
| 1962 | "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV |
| 1961 | Benfica wins 6th Europe Cup 1 at Bern |
| 1961 | Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St. Louis, opens |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris |
| 1961 | Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate |
| 1961 | Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth |
| 1959 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open |
| 1958 | Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin" |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests) |
| 1957 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) |
| 1956 | Mickey Mantle home run just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof |
| 1955 | Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities |
| 1955 | Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike |
| 1955 | Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed" |
| 1953 | Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government |
| 1953 | WSUN TV channel 38 in St. Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1951 | Netherlands and South Africa sign cultural accord |
| 1950 | Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins |
| 1950 | Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial |
| 1949 | 31st PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Hermitage CC Richmond VA |
| 1949 | Charley Lupica begins stay on 4' platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, and stays 117 days) |
| 1948 | Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings) |
| 1947 | 79th Belmont: Ruperto Donoso aboard Phalanx wins in 2:29.6 |
| 1947 | Communists grab power in Hungary |
| 1947 | Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft. Deposit and Perryville Md, kills 53 |
| 1947 | Italian government of Gasperi forms |
| 1944 | Allied breakthrough in Italy |
| 1943 | "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio |
| 1943 | Cards Mort Cooper pitches 1st of back-to-back one-hitters |
| 1942 | 25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Seaview CC Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| 1942 | Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury |
| 1941 | 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale |
| 1941 | 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton) |
| 1941 | British troops vacate Kreta |
| 1941 | German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach and swimming pools |
| 1940 | General-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken |
| 1940 | Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris |
| 1938 | Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's |
| 1937 | 1st quadruplets to finish college (Baylor University) |
| 1937 | Brooklyn Dodgers snap New York Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak |
| 1937 | German battleships bomb Almeria, Spain |
| 1935 | Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat |
| 1935 | Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan |
| 1930 | Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season |
| 1930 | Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium |
| 1930 | Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth |
| 1929 | Atlantic City Convention Center opens |
| 1928 | 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland |
| 1928 | Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season |
| 1927 | Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A) |
| 1927 | Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play |
| 1926 | Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup |
| 1926 | Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia |
| 1923 | China and U.S.S.R. exchange diplomats |
| 1921 | Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700 |
| 1919 | 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas) |
| 1919 | NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic |
| 1917 | 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball) |
| 1916 | Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead) |
| 1916 | British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 |
| 1915 | An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London |
| 1914 | Chicago White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleveland Indians, 6-1 |
| 1913 | 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified |
| 1913 | Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6) |
| 1912 | U.S. Marines land on Cuba |
| 1910 | Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa |
| 1910 | Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to New York City |
| 1910 | Union of South Africa declares independence from U.K. |
| 1909 | 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, New York City) |
| 1908 | Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium) |
| 1907 | Taxis 1st began running in New York City |
| 1906 | Attack on King Alfonso XIII and Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid |
| 1905 | Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger |
| 1902 | Australia Cricket all out 36 vs. England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever |
| 1902 | Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal |
| 1900 | British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg |
| 1900 | Piet de Law captures Lt-colonel Spragges Irish Yeomanry |
| 1900 | Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074) |
| 1900 | U.S. troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion |
| 1899 | Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park |
| 1894 | John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal" |
| 1891 | Work on trans-Siberian railway begins |
| 1889 | Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Pennsylvania |
| 1883 | French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar |
| 1880 | League of American Wheelmen (1st U.S. bicycle association), forms in Newport, Rhode Island |
| 1879 | 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition |
| 1879 | Madison Square Garden opens |
| 1878 | German battleship Grosser Kurfurst sinks, 284 killed |
| 1878 | U.S. Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation |
| 1870 | Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) |
| 1870 | E. J. DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement |
| 1868 | 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio |
| 1868 | Dr. James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St. Cloud, Paris |
| 1864 | Raid at Morgan's Kentucky |
| 1862 | Battle of Seven Pines Virginia (Fair Oaks) |
| 1861 | General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line |
| 1861 | Mint at New Orleans closes |
| 1859 | Philadelphia A's organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later |
| 1853 | Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves New York aboard Advance |
| 1849 | Last edition of Orange sheet "Journal de La Haye" |
| 1847 | Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens |
| 1837 | Astor Hotel opens in New York City, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria |
| 1836 | HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope |
| 1821 | Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st U.S. Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore |
| 1790 | U.S. copyright law enacted |
| 1744 | French troops conquer Kortrijk |
| 1727 | France, England and Netherlands sign accord of Paris |
| 1696 | John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius |
| 1678 | Lady Godiva rode naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes |
| 1665 | Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah |
| 1659 | Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague |
| 1634 | U.S. colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony |
| 1621 | Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night |
| 1564 | Battle on Gotland: Lubeck and Denmark beat Sweden |
| 1531 | "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted |
| 1495 | Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella and Venice sign anti-French Saint League |
| 1417 | Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen |
| 70 | Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem |
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