| 2012 | Scientists discover the closest known rogue planet to Earth, known as CFBDSIR 2149-0403, the planet is about 100+ light years away |
| 2012 | Several European countries protest against unemployment and austerity measures; Spain and Portugal hold the largest protests, with Greece, Italy and Belgium holding smaller ones |
| 2011 | In Bogota, Columbia, 200,000 people protest government cuts in education |
| 2011 | Dozens of people are arrested as riot police shut down Occupy Portland and Occupy Oakland Rallies, offshoots of the Occupy Wall Street movement |
| 2010 | The Paris Masters final is won by Sweden's Robin Soderling, a first major win for the player, now ranked fourth in the world of tennis |
| 2009 | Slovenia agrees to allow Russia's South Stream gas pipeline to Europe pass through their country |
| 2007 | 7.7 Earthquake in northern Chile |
| 1997 | Colorado Rockie Larry Walker wins NL MVP |
| 1997 | Disney's "Lion King" sets Broadway record of $2,700,000 daily sale |
| 1996 | "Chicago," opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Texas Ranger Juan Gonzalez wins AL MVP |
| 1994 | 1st trains for public run in English Channel Tunnel |
| 1994 | Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), lands |
| 1993 | "Kentucky Cycle" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 34 performances |
| 1993 | "Twilight of the Golds" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 29 performances |
| 1993 | 23rd New York City Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig in 2:26:24 |
| 1993 | 24th New York City Marathon won by Andres Espinosa in 2:10:04 |
| 1993 | Don Shula becomes winningest coach in NFL history |
| 1993 | Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st U.S. state |
| 1992 | Actress Peg Phillips (Northern Exposure), falls and breaks 3 fingers |
| 1991 | Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video premieres on FOX TV |
| 1991 | Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long loses his steroids appeal and is suspended without pay by NFL for 4 weeks |
| 1990 | Doug Drabek (22-6) wins NL Cy Young Award |
| 1990 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1990 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1990 | Michael Heseltine contests Thatcher's leadership of party |
| 1990 | Philippines hit by typhoon, 110 die |
| 1989 | Padres reliever Mark Davis wins NL Cy Young Award |
| 1987 | "La Cage aux Folles" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 1761 performances |
| 1987 | Sam's Town National Bowling Pro-Am won by Debbie Bennett |
| 1986 | Doubleday Publishing sells New York Mets to Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon |
| 1986 | FCC issues Notice Of Apparent Liability to WYSP Philadelphia |
| 1986 | SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky |
| 1985 | Brewers release 39-year-old pitcher Rollie Fingers |
| 1985 | Holmfriour Karlsottir of Iceland, 22, crowned 35th Miss World |
| 1985 | Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Colombia erupts, 1000s killed |
| 1984 | Astronauts aboard "Discovery" pluck a 2nd satellite from orbit |
| 1984 | NASA launches NATO-3D |
| 1983 | 1st cruise missile placed, Greenham Common, England |
| 1982 | Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa freed |
| 1981 | 2nd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 2-returns to Earth |
| 1981 | Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired and working again |
| 1981 | Pakistan all out 62 vs. Australia at WACA, Lillee 5-18 |
| 1981 | Paul 'Bear' Bryant ties Amos Alonzo Stagg with 314 football wins |
| 1980 | Guinee-Bissau premier Vieira fires president Luis Cabral |
| 1980 | Kimberley Santos, 19 of Guam, crowned 30th Miss World |
| 1980 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1979 | California's Don Baylor, wins AL MVP |
| 1977 | Egypt President Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite |
| 1976 | "Don't Step on My Olive Branch" closes at Playhouse New York City after 16 performances |
| 1976 | Cleveland Browns' Jerry Sherk sets club record with 4 sacks |
| 1976 | War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing |
| 1975 | Spain, Morocco and Mauretania sign accord about Spanish Sahara |
| 1973 | "Good Evening" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 438 performances |
| 1973 | Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Captain Mark Phillips |
| 1973 | Canada begins production of Olympic coins |
| 1973 | Jim Palmer is named AL Cy Young winner |
| 1972 | Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for 1st time (1003.16) |
| 1970 | DC-9 crashes in West Virginia, 75 killed |
| 1969 | 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US |
| 1969 | Apollo 12 (Conrad/Gordon/Bean) launched for 2nd manned Moon landing |
| 1968 | "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning |
| 1968 | 1st European lung transplant |
| 1968 | Yale University announces it is going co-educational |
| 1966 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Cleveland Williams in 3 for heavyweight title |
| 1965 | "Baker Street" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 313 performances |
| 1965 | George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) at 152 W 54th New York City, demolished |
| 1965 | KCST TV channel 39 in San Diego, California (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Alamo Golf Open |
| 1965 | U.S. government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam |
| 1964 | "Fade Out-Fade In" closes at Mark Hellinger New York City after 199 performances |
| 1964 | "Follies Bergere" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 191 performances |
| 1964 | "Oliver!" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 774 performances |
| 1964 | Detroit Red Wings Gordie Howe sets NHL record 627th career goal |
| 1960 | 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czechoslovakia) |
| 1960 | Belgium threatens to leave United Nations due to criticism on it's Congo-policy |
| 1960 | OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms |
| 1960 | Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1 |
| 1960 | Riot due to school integration in New Orleans |
| 1959 | "Girls against the Boys" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| 1959 | Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii) |
| 1957 | Dick Hutton beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ |
| 1957 | Henry Aaron wins NL MVP |
| 1956 | Hungarian revolt put down |
| 1954 | Egyptian President Naguib fired/state of emergency declared |
| 1953 | WCIA TV channel 3 in Champaign, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Greek general Papagos wins elections |
| 1946 | Dutch Dakota flight to Schiphol crashes, kills 11 |
| 1945 | H Lindsay and R Crouse's "State of the Union," premieres in New York City |
| 1945 | Java: Sutan Sjahrir appointed as forming government |
| 1943 | Chicago Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs New York Giants (56-7) |
| 1943 | J Postma, C Schalker, D Goulooze arrested for leading illegal CPN |
| 1942 | Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender |
| 1941 | Governor-General Wouters of Dutch Antilles refuses Jews refugees |
| 1940 | During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England |
| 1939 | Oil refinery fire kills 500 and destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela |
| 1938 | Dutch DC3 crashes at Schiphol, 6 die |
| 1936 | Bradman scores 192 for S A vs. Vic before a MCG crowd of 21000 |
| 1935 | Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims Philippine Islands a free commonwealth |
| 1935 | Nazi's deprive German Jews of their citizenship |
| 1931 | Ottawa Mint Act is proclaimed in England |
| 1927 | Worlds largest gas tank in Pittsburgh Penn explodes; 28 die |
| 1922 | BBC begins domestic radio service from 2LO at Marconi House |
| 1922 | German Reichs Chancellor Joseph Wirth term ends |
| 1920 | American Pro Football League's Chicago Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards |
| 1919 | Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia |
| 1918 | Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president |
| 1915 | Thomas Masaryk demands independence for Czechoslovakia |
| 1914 | Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game |
| 1910 | 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va |
| 1908 | Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light |
| 1908 | Oscar Strauss' musical "Der tapfere Soldat," premieres in Vienna |
| 1906 | Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country (Panama) |
| 1905 | David Belasco's "Girl of Golden West," premieres in New York City |
| 1896 | Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation |
| 1894 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Golden Pince-Nez" |
| 1893 | Gerhart Hauptmanns "Hanneles Himmelfahrt," premieres in Berlin |
| 1889 | New York World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip |
| 1889 | New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, by finishing trip following January in 72 days, 6 |
| 1888 | St. Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes |
| 1888 | USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game |
| 1881 | Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination |
| 1881 | Leon Gambetta forms French government |
| 1863 | Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi |
| 1851 | "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published |
| 1834 | William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 years 4 months |
| 1833 | Charles Darwin departs by horse to Montevideo |
| 1832 | 1st streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in New York City; fare 12 cents rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Streets |
| 1792 | Captain George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay |
| 1775 | Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces |
| 1755 | Henry Fox appointed English Secretary of State |
| 1732 | 1st U.S. professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Philadelphia |
| 1698 | Spanish king Carlos appoints grandson prince Jozef Ferdinand as heir |
| 1677 | Prince Willem III Henry marries English princess Mary Stuart |
| 1675 | Pope Clemens X declares Gorcumse martyrs divine |
| 1666 | Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs) |
| 1550 | Pope Julius III proclaims new seat on Council of Trente |
| 1524 | Pizarro's begins 1st great expedition, near Colombia |
| 1380 | King Charles VI of France crowned at age 12 |
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