| 1997 | "Jackie - An American Life," opens at Belasco Theater New York City |
| 1997 | Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud and time served |
| 1997 | Nanny Louise Woodward, murder sentenced downgrade to manslaughter |
| 1993 | "Joseph and the Amazing" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 223 performances |
| 1993 | Slowakije government of Meciar forms |
| 1991 | Bernie Kosar ends NFL record of 308 passes without an interception |
| 1991 | Browns set club record for largest lead blown (led 23-0), Philadelphia 32-30 |
| 1991 | Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| 1991 | Martina Navratilova ties Chris Evert, 157 pro tennis tournament wins |
| 1991 | Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game |
| 1991 | South Africa's 1st cricket international since 1970 - one-day vs. India |
| 1990 | Lebanon releases 2 french hostages (Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari) |
| 1989 | Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov, resigns |
| 1989 | Germans begins demolishing Berlin Wall |
| 1988 | China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938 |
| 1988 | MLB All-Star team beats Japan 3-1 in Tokyo (Game 5 of 7) |
| 1988 | New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes |
| 1988 | Orel Hershiser (23-8) is a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young Award |
| 1987 | Steve Bedrosian edges Rick Sutcliffe 57-55 to win NL Cy Young Award |
| 1986 | Bangladesh Constitution restored |
| 1985 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| 1984 | Australia all out 76 vs. West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21 |
| 1984 | Miami Hurricanes blows 31-0 lead in 3rd quarter lose to Md 42-40 |
| 1984 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood |
| 1983 | "Amen Corner" opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 83 performances |
| 1983 | Federal government shut down |
| 1982 | IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankrupcy |
| 1982 | Susan Cooper/Hume Cronyns "Foxfire," premieres in New York City |
| 1981 | "Oh, Brother!" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 3 performances |
| 1981 | Ernest Thompson's "West Side Waltz," premieres in New York City |
| 1980 | Poland acknowledges Solidarity union |
| 1978 | Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks |
| 1978 | Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1978 | Yankees trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath and Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison and Griffin |
| 1977 | Amsterdam: RAF-terrorists Gert Schneider/Christof Wackernagel arrested |
| 1977 | Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (New York City) |
| 1976 | Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore |
| 1975 | Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald and crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior |
| 1975 | PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses United Nations in New York City |
| 1975 | Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career |
| 1975 | U.N. General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism |
| 1974 | 2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT win |
| 1974 | Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0 |
| 1971 | Joe Torre wins NL MVP, Vida Blue wins AL MVP |
| 1971 | U.S. table tennis team arrived in China |
| 1970 | "2 by 2" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 343 performances |
| 1970 | Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched |
| 1970 | R Rodgers/M Charnins musical "Two by Two," premieres in New York City |
| 1969 | "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV |
| 1968 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
| 1968 | Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar and return flight |
| 1968 | Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed |
| 1967 | KXNE TV channel 19 in Norfolk, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier |
| 1966 | Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon |
| 1965 | Manneke Piss statue stolen in Brussels |
| 1965 | Netherlands 2nd Chamber accept marriage princess Beatrice and Claus von Amsberg |
| 1964 | "Something More!" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 15 performances |
| 1964 | Braves sign a 25-year lease to play in the new Atlanta stadium |
| 1963 | Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545 |
| 1963 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open |
| 1962 | "Nowhere to Go, But Up" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| 1960 | Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill |
| 1959 | Corinne Rottschaeffer elected Miss World |
| 1958 | Bertolt Brecht's "Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo o Ui," premieres |
| 1958 | WUFT TV channel 5 in Gainesville, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | NFL record crowd (102,368), '49ers vs Rams in LA |
| 1957 | Cleveland Browns' Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble return with a 89-yard run (and TD), beating Pittsburgh 24-0 |
| 1956 | Gene de Paul/John Meyer's musical "Li'l Abner," premieres in New York City |
| 1955 | "Vamp" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 60 performances |
| 1954 | Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising U.S. flag) dedicated in Arlington |
| 1954 | Lieutenant Colonel John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled |
| 1953 | Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised) |
| 1952 | Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN |
| 1951 | 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance |
| 1950 | After 9 years, Cleveland Indians fire manager Lou Boudreau |
| 1950 | Clifford Odet's "Country Girl," premieres in New York City |
| 1950 | Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected President of Guatemala |
| 1950 | Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner |
| 1950 | Spanish dictator Franco ends war in Gibraltar |
| 1946 | Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election |
| 1945 | "Are You with It?" opens at Century Theater New York City for 264 performances |
| 1945 | College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0 |
| 1945 | General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania |
| 1945 | Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by U.S. |
| 1944 | German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany |
| 1944 | U.S. 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery |
| 1942 | Philip Barry's "Without Love," premieres in New York City |
| 1942 | U.S. troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey Morocco |
| 1942 | U.S. - British troops occupies Oran Algeria |
| 1940 | Pittsburgh and Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game |
| 1938 | 8.3 earthquake shakes East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska |
| 1938 | Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth) |
| 1937 | Brazilian dictator Getulio Vargas proclaims "Estado novo" |
| 1933 | Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic |
| 1928 | Hirohito ascended throne as Emperor of Japan |
| 1926 | Belgium crown prince Leopold weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden |
| 1926 | Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37 |
| 1926 | Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou) |
| 1926 | Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA |
| 1923 | German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany |
| 1920 | George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," premieres in New York City |
| 1919 | 1st observance of National Book Week |
| 1919 | American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis) |
| 1918 | German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherland |
| 1918 | Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski |
| 1917 | 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House |
| 1917 | Faure's 2nd Violo Sonate, premieres |
| 1917 | New soviet government suspends freedom of press (temporary) |
| 1911 | Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly and charitable works) |
| 1911 | Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath) |
| 1908 | 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room |
| 1905 | Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia |
| 1898 | Race riot in Wilmington North Carolina (8 blacks killed) |
| 1894 | Fred Lugard signs accord with king Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki |
| 1892 | 1st CRU championship game: Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal, 45-5 |
| 1891 | 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston) |
| 1891 | Granville T. Woods patents electric railway |
| 1885 | Gottlieb Daimler's motorcycle, world's 1st, unveiled |
| 1883 | Toronto Argonauts defeat Ottawa FC 9-7, for 1st ORFU Championship |
| 1878 | Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa," premieres in Moscow |
| 1871 | Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa |
| 1866 | Gold coins from the Sydney Mint become legal tender in Canada |
| 1864 | Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico |
| 1864 | Kingston, Georgia burned during Sherman's March to Sea |
| 1836 | Louis Napoleon banished to America |
| 1834 | HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from Valparaiso |
| 1808 | Osage Treaty signed |
| 1801 | Kentucky outlaws dueling |
| 1793 | France ends forced worship of God |
| 1785 | Netherlands and France signs treaty |
| 1775 | Congress forms U.S. Marine Corps |
| 1697 | English parliament accept army reduction |
| 1687 | Pope Innocent XI publishes decree Coelestis pastor |
| 1674 | Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English |
| 1630 | Failed palace revolution against Richelieu France |
| 1584 | Willem Louis of Nassau appointed viceroy of Friesland |
| 1567 | Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots |
| 1544 | Antwerps painter John Matsys banished |
| 1526 | John I Zapolyai of Transsylvania chosen as king of Hungary |
| 1444 | Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats crusaders |
| 911 | Conrad I elecect German King |
| 461 | St. Leo I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
