| 1998 | Nichirei Golf International |
| 1995 | "Tempest" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 71 performances |
| 1994 | Moslem fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children |
| 1993 | Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems |
| 1993 | Last day in 1st-class cricket for Mike Whitney, NSW vs. New Zealand |
| 1993 | STS-58 (Columbia) lands |
| 1992 | 22nd New York City Women's Marathon won by Lisa Ondieki in 2:24:40 |
| 1992 | 23rd New York City Marathon won by Willie Mtolo in 2:09:29 |
| 1992 | New York Jet Al Toon becomes 10th NFL to catch a pass in 100 straight games |
| 1992 | Space Shuttle STS-52 (Columbia 13) lands (scheduled) |
| 1991 | New Dutch Regulations Traffic rules and Traffic signs enforced |
| 1990 | "Oh, Kay!" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 77 performances |
| 1990 | Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy Prime Minister Howe |
| 1990 | Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts |
| 1989 | "Les Miserables," opens at Curran Theatre, San Francisco |
| 1989 | Pakistan beat West Indies by 4 wickets to win Cricket's Nehru Cup |
| 1989 | Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights |
| 1988 | Actor Jeff Goldblum and actress Gena Davis wed in Las Vegas |
| 1988 | Chris Sabo, wins NL Rookie of Year award |
| 1988 | Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones |
| 1987 | 17th New York City Women's Marathon won by Priscilla Welch in 2:30:17 |
| 1987 | 18th New York City Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein in 2:11:01 |
| 1987 | 22,000 run in New York City Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2:11:01) |
| 1987 | Fukumi Tani wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship |
| 1987 | New York Jets retire Don Maynards #13 |
| 1987 | New Orleans Saints shutout Atlanta Falcons 38-0 |
| 1986 | Fire in Sandoz-factory Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine |
| 1986 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady's Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita |
| 1985 | Netherlands decides definative sites for cruise missiles |
| 1985 | Nostalgia Television begins on cable |
| 1984 | 1st NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - Clipper beat Knick, 107-105 |
| 1984 | Larry Shues "Foreigner," premieres in New York City |
| 1984 | Willem de Kooning's "Two Women" sells for $1,980,000 |
| 1984 | Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-77-3-4 |
| 1982 | Andrew "Dice" Clay and George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment" |
| 1982 | Major leagues vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract |
| 1981 | 1st Class Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents |
| 1981 | 3rd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets up 2-1 with 26-7 win |
| 1981 | Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1981 | Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament |
| 1980 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1979 | A. L. Webber musical "Joseph and Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," premieres |
| 1979 | Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees |
| 1979 | Edward Bennett Williams buys Orioles from Hoffberger for $12.3 million |
| 1979 | Federal government makes a $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler |
| 1979 | Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster |
| 1978 | New York Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award |
| 1977 | Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals |
| 1977 | President Carter raises minimum wages of $2.30 to $3.35 for Jan 1 1981 |
| 1977 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1976 | "Don't Step on My Olive Branch" opens at Playhouse New York City for 16 performances |
| 1976 | Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule |
| 1976 | West German Gens Krupinski/Franke admit to being Nazis |
| 1974 | Fire kills 189 in less than 25 minutes (Sao Paulo Brazil) |
| 1974 | U.N. affirms independence of Cyprus |
| 1973 | "Molly" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 68 performances |
| 1972 | 1st gay theme TV movie - "That Certain Summer" |
| 1972 | Germaoin Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick |
| 1971 | Eisenhower dollar put into circulation |
| 1970 | 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea |
| 1970 | Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked and 142 die |
| 1970 | Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die |
| 1970 | KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Beatles' "Abbey Road," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks |
| 1968 | "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 36 performances |
| 1968 | Detroit Tiger Denny McLain unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award |
| 1968 | Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X) |
| 1968 | U.S. pro soccer 14 teams merged into 1 all star team |
| 1968 | University of Suriname opens |
| 1966 | Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created |
| 1966 | NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day) |
| 1966 | Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner |
| 1966 | William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km |
| 1965 | 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco |
| 1965 | Ernie Terrel beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing |
| 1965 | Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt) |
| 1964 | George Blanda of Houston throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts |
| 1964 | Kansas City Chief Len Dawson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Denver (49-39) |
| 1964 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1964 | Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon |
| 1962 | Cuban missile crisis ends, John F. Kennedy says U.S.S.R. is dismantling missile bases |
| 1962 | Greece enters European Common Market |
| 1962 | KYVE TV channel 47 in Yakima, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1962 | WNYC TV channel 31 in New York, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | WZZM TV channel 13 in Grand Rapids, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year |
| 1960 | Benelux treaty goes into effect |
| 1959 | 1st NHL goalie to wear a hockey mask (Jacques Plante) |
| 1959 | Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Balt |
| 1959 | Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo |
| 1959 | WOV-AM in New York City changes call letters to WADO |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1957 | KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, Montana (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | World longest suspension bridge opens in Mackinac Straits, Michigan |
| 1956 | Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union |
| 1956 | Indian state of Madhya Pradesh forms |
| 1956 | Indian states of Punjab, Patiala and PEPSU merge as Punjab protection |
| 1956 | Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact |
| 1956 | Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen |
| 1956 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum |
| 1955 | Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado |
| 1954 | Algeria begins rebellion against French rule |
| 1954 | General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba |
| 1954 | India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements |
| 1954 | KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | U.S. Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign |
| 1953 | Emile Zatopek runs world record 10K (29:01.6) and 6 mile (28:08.4) |
| 1953 | KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, Texas (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | 1st hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in Pacific |
| 1951 | "Top Banana" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 356 performances |
| 1951 | 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico |
| 1951 | Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella wins 1st of his 3 NL MVP |
| 1951 | Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP |
| 1951 | Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson |
| 1951 | Johnny Mercers "Top Banana," premieres in New York City |
| 1951 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1950 | 82 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Nov |
| 1950 | Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at Blair House |
| 1948 | Mao's Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria |
| 1948 | President Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey |
| 1947 | "Medium and The Telephone" closes at Barrymore New York City after 211 performances |
| 1947 | 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii |
| 1947 | Howard Hughes flies "Spruce Goose," a large wooden airplane |
| 1947 | U.N. trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, New Zealand and UK |
| 1946 | Charles S. Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University |
| 1946 | Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck's right foot is amputated |
| 1946 | German "Country" Nedersaksen forms |
| 1946 | Marken soccer team forms |
| 1946 | New York Knicks 1st basketball game beat Toronto Huskies 68-66 |
| 1946 | WABC becomes WCBS radio in New York City |
| 1946 | WEAF radio changes call letters to WNBC (New York City) |
| 1946 | West German state of Niedersachsen formed |
| 1945 | 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H. Johnson |
| 1944 | Mary Coyle Chase' "Harvey," premieres in New York City |
| 1944 | Zeeuws and Flanders freed |
| 1943 | Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area |
| 1943 | U.S. troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island |
| 1942 | 10th day of battle at El Alamein |
| 1942 | Vice-Admiral Cunningham becomes British commander-in-chief |
| 1941 | Chetniks attacks Tito's partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia |
| 1941 | Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor |
| 1940 | 1st U.S. air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa |
| 1940 | Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM) |
| 1939 | 1st animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed |
| 1939 | 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry |
| 1939 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae |
| 1938 | German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires |
| 1938 | NL batting champ Ernie Lombardi is named MVP |
| 1938 | Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico |
| 1936 | Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis" |
| 1936 | Rodeo Cowboy's Association founded |
| 1935 | T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," premieres in London |
| 1932 | Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program |
| 1931 | Dupont introduces synthetic rubber |
| 1929 | Lundy, part of British Isles, issue their own stamps |
| 1928 | 1st celebration of Author's Day |
| 1928 | Bradman scores a century each innings (131 and 133*), NSW vs. Qld |
| 1928 | Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km |
| 1926 | Air Commerce Act passes |
| 1925 | VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam |
| 1924 | 1st U.S. NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded |
| 1924 | Forest Peters of Montana State University hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals |
| 1923 | Bruno E. Lucander forms Aero E/Y (Finnair) |
| 1922 | Ottoman Empire abolished |
| 1922 | Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam |
| 1921 | National Birth Control League and Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League |
| 1920 | Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones," premieres in New York City |
| 1920 | Warren Harding elected 29th president |
| 1918 | 102 die in a New York City BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn |
| 1918 | Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians |
| 1917 | In WW I, the 1st U.S. soldiers are killed in combat |
| 1914 | Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank and Chief Colby |
| 1914 | German-British fleet battle at Coronel, Chile |
| 1914 | Pope Benedictus Xv's encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity |
| 1914 | Von Hindenburg named marshal of Eastern front |
| 1913 | Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively |
| 1910 | 1st issue of "Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois |
| 1904 | George Bernard Shaws "John Bull's Other Island," premieres in London |
| 1896 | 1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Mag |
| 1894 | Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr. Roux of Paris |
| 1889 | North and South Dakota entered the union as the 39th and 40th states |
| 1885 | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei |
| 1878 | Edward Scripps and John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press) |
| 1877 | Dutch government of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns |
| 1876 | King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden) |
| 1870 | U.S. Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations) |
| 1869 | Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra |
| 1867 | "Harpers Bazaar" publishes |
| 1866 | 1st Civil Rights Bill passes |
| 1865 | Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens |
| 1863 | Averell's Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia |
| 1863 | Fortifications built on Angel Island (SF Bay) by troops |
| 1861 | General George B. McClellan made general in chief of Union armies |
| 1849 | Dutch government of Thorbecke forms |
| 1848 | 1st U.S. woman's medical school opens (Boston) |
| 1834 | 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game) |
| 1787 | 1st free school in New York City (African Free School) opens |
| 1784 | Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette and his descendents |
| 1783 | Continental Army dissolved; George Washington's "Farewell Address" |
| 1776 | Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California |
| 1765 | Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies |
| 1755 | Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 |
| 1721 | Prince Eugenius of Savoye unveals statue of himself |
| 1671 | French King Louis XIV and RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty |
| 1628 | French king Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle |
| 1623 | Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings |
| 1611 | Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest" 1st presented |
| 1604 | William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" 1st presented |
| 1570 | Netherlands hit by flood disaster, 1,000s killed |
| 1512 | Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited |
| 1462 | Arch duke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna |
| 1349 | Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells |
| 1248 | Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor |
| 1210 | King John of England begins imprisoning Jews |
| 996 | 1st use of name "Austria" for Ostarrichi/in oorkonde |
