| 2012 | Parts of Australia and the South Pacific witness a total solar eclipse, with Cairns being the most populated city to experience this rare event |
| 2012 | Medical textbooks require rewriting after 39-year-old Canadian Scott Routley becomes the first person believed to be in a vegetative state to tell scientists he isn't in any pain |
| 2011 | In Georgia's region of South Ossetia, voters go to the polls for a presidential election and referendum |
| 2011 | Italian President Giorgio Napolitano nominates Mario Monti to be the country's new Prime Minister |
| 2010 | According to China, a report submitted to the U.N. Security Council on violation of the Darfur weapons embargo is ridden with flaws and vaguely worded |
| 2010 | A Chinese ship with 29 crew is attacked by Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea |
| 1997 | "Lion King," opens at New Amersterdam Theater New York City |
| 1997 | Ken Griffey, Jr. unanimously wins AL MVP |
| 1997 | U.N. pulls out arms inspection teams from Iraq |
| 1996 | "Three Sisters," closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Padres third baseman Ken Caminiti is 4th unanimous winner of NL MVP |
| 1994 | Sweden agrees to join European Union |
| 1993 | 7.1 seaquake east of Kamchatka |
| 1993 | Chinese MD82 makes crash landing at Urumqi, 12 killed |
| 1993 | Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president |
| 1992 | Riddick Bowe beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavywgt boxing title |
| 1991 | Bomb attack on Aad Kosto, Dutch social dem party - Assistant Secretary of state |
| 1991 | Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award |
| 1990 | Oakland's Bob Welch wins AL Cy Young Award |
| 1989 | Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" and "Ou Est Le Soleil" |
| 1987 | 1st condom commercial on BBC TV |
| 1986 | Giselle Jeanne-Marie LaRonde of Trinidad, 23, crowned 36th Miss World |
| 1986 | NASA launches space vehicle S-199 |
| 1986 | U.S. president Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran |
| 1985 | Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award |
| 1985 | Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000 |
| 1984 | David Levy finds his 1st comet |
| 1984 | Ryne Sandberg wins the NL MVP Award |
| 1983 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini |
| 1982 | Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington D.C. |
| 1981 | Ringo releases "Wrack My Brains" |
| 1980 | U.S. spacecraft Voyager I sent back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn |
| 1980 | Gabriella Brum, 18, of W Germany crowned 30th Miss World, she resigns the next day, because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend |
| 1979 | British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year |
| 1979 | Ronald Reagan in New York announces his candidacy for president |
| 1979 | Willie Stargell and Keith Hernandez share NL MVP Award NL |
| 1978 | NASA launches HEAO |
| 1977 | 25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot |
| 1977 | Final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l Abner" (1934-77) |
| 1977 | Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
| 1975 | "Musical Jubilee" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 92 performances |
| 1974 | Dodgers Steve Garvey wins NL MVP |
| 1973 | "Gigi" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 103 performances |
| 1973 | Oakland A's Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP unanimously |
| 1971 | Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet, Mars |
| 1970 | Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh |
| 1970 | Flooding ravages Ganges delta, 200,000-1 million killed |
| 1970 | Lieutenant General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup |
| 1969 | Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network TV news depts of bias and distortion |
| 1968 | Bob Gibson edges Pete Rose to win NL MVP |
| 1967 | NL owners OK AL expansion to Seattle and Kansas City |
| 1966 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1965 | "Skyscraper" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 248 performances |
| 1965 | "Yarmouth Castle" burns and sinks off Bahamas, killing 89 |
| 1964 | Bob Petit (St. Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points |
| 1964 | Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor |
| 1961 | WCBB TV channel 10 in Augusta, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain) |
| 1960 | Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt |
| 1958 | New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball called the Continental League |
| 1956 | Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses |
| 1955 | 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba |
| 1955 | Argentine General Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president |
| 1953 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 4th String Quartet, premieres |
| 1952 | False fingernails 1st sold |
| 1952 | KLBK TV channel 13 in Lubbock, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | Lefty O'Doul's all-stars, including Joe DiMaggio and Billy Martin, lose 3-1 to Pacific League all-star team (Japan) |
| 1950 | U.S. win 1st world championship bridge contest |
| 1948 | "As the Girls Go" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 420 performances |
| 1946 | 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mount Greylock, MA |
| 1946 | Bradman scores 106 for an Australian XI vs. the MCC |
| 1945 | Australian Services draw 1st Victory Test against India |
| 1942 | Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal |
| 1942 | Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18 |
| 1941 | British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in Mediterranean |
| 1941 | German Abweht consults with Chetnikleider Draza Mihailovic |
| 1940 | Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released |
| 1938 | America's 1st saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified |
| 1937 | NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio |
| 1935 | Anti-British riots in Egypt |
| 1933 | 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minn |
| 1931 | Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st U.S. woman senator |
| 1930 | WA Drake's "Grand Hotel," premieres in New York City |
| 1928 | Bradman scores 132* for NSW against MCC |
| 1927 | NY-New Jersey Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens |
| 1926 | Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java |
| 1922 | Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY |
| 1922 | George Cohan's musical "Little Nellie Kelly," premieres in New York City |
| 1922 | Marc Connelly/George Kaufman's "'49ers," premieres in New York City |
| 1921 | "Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released |
| 1921 | U.S., France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty |
| 1920 | Hudson River frozen at Albany |
| 1918 | Monarch Friedrich of Waldeck and Pyrmont abdicates throne |
| 1918 | Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
| 1918 | Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg |
| 1916 | British offensive at Ancre Belgium |
| 1913 | 1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob |
| 1909 | 259 miners die in a fire at St. Paul Mine at Cherry Ill |
| 1909 | Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game |
| 1907 | French cyclist Paul Cornu flies 1st helicopter (twin rotor) |
| 1906 | C W Gregory out for 383 as NSW make 763 vs. Queensland |
| 1900 | Baltimore Orioles (now New York Yankees) enter baseball's American League |
| 1895 | 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii |
| 1885 | Serbian army occupies Bulgaria |
| 1875 | Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms |
| 1875 | National Bowling Association organized in New York City |
| 1868 | American Philological Association organized in NY |
| 1865 | 1st U.S. gold certificates issued |
| 1865 | PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport |
| 1865 | U.S. issues 1st gold certificates |
| 1862 | Battle of Holly Spring, MS |
| 1854 | "New Era" sinks off New Jersey coast with loss of 300 |
| 1851 | 1st meeting of anti-revolutionary "Netherlands and Orange" |
| 1851 | Telegraph connection between London-Paris linked |
| 1849 | Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California |
| 1843 | Mount Rainier in Washington State erupts |
| 1839 | 1st U.S. anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY |
| 1830 | Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides" |
| 1789 | Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death and taxes" |
| 1781 | English troops occupy Negapatam Ceylon |
| 1775 | American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal |
| 1715 | Battle at Sheriffmuir: English army beats Scottish earl of Mar |
| 1715 | Pro-James Edward Stuart-rebellion surrenders |
| 1673 | Prince Willem III/Raimundo earl Montecuccoli conquer Bonn |
| 1642 | Battle at Turnham Green, London: King Charles I vs English parliament |
| 1565 | King Philip II's "Letters out Segovia" reaches Brussels |
| 1565 | Pope Pius IV publishes degree Professi fidei |
| 1553 | English Lady Jane Grey/bishop Cranmer accused of high treason |
| 1511 | England signs on to the Saint League |
| 1002 | English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers |
| 866 | Pope Nicholas I answers the envoys of Boris (Ad consulta vestra) |
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