| 2012 | A Union Pacific train strikes a parade float in Midland, Teas, killing four people and injuring 17 others |
| 2012 | Prior to a visit from U.S. President Barack Obama, Myanmar's government pardons 452 prisoners under an amnesty as a goodwill gesture |
| 2011 | In Tibet, several acts of self-immolation prompt exiled Tibetans in India to urge the Chinese government to end its repressive policies restricting the Tibetan's religious freedom |
| 2011 | New York's Police Department clears Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zucotti Park, the public space they have occupied to stage their protest |
| 2010 | The U.S. announces it will provide an additional $500 million to aid Pakistan to help rebuilding efforts after major floods ravaged the country |
| 2010 | In Prague, scientists exhume the remains of 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe, in an effort to solve the mystery of his sudden death |
| 2009 | Kosovo holds its first local election since declaring independence from Serbia |
| 2006 | Al Jazeera launches Al Jazeera English |
| 1999 | Next transit of Mercury visible in North America |
| 1997 | 19th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 32 awards |
| 1997 | William Shatner (66) weds Norine Kidd |
| 1996 | "Into the Whirlwind" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 2 performances |
| 1995 | "Master Class" opens at Golden Theater New York City for 601 performances |
| 1995 | Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir |
| 1994 | "Glass Menagerie" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 57 performances |
| 1994 | 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45 |
| 1994 | Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes) |
| 1994 | Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election |
| 1993 | Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on WYAV 104.1 FM |
| 1992 | Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die |
| 1992 | Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 vs. SA, Durban) |
| 1991 | Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive) |
| 1991 | Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 game |
| 1990 | President Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990 |
| 1990 | Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album |
| 1990 | U.S. 68th manned space mission STS-38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit |
| 1989 | "Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 497 performances |
| 1989 | Aaron Sorkin's "Few Good Men," premieres in New York City |
| 1989 | Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award |
| 1989 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1989 | Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis and Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi |
| 1989 | Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games |
| 1988 | 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses |
| 1988 | Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award |
| 1988 | PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence |
| 1988 | Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits) |
| 1987 | 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver |
| 1987 | Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34) |
| 1987 | Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America |
| 1987 | New York Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game |
| 1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1986 | 2nd time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Sam Knison hosts) |
| 1983 | 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy |
| 1983 | Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed |
| 1982 | Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev |
| 1981 | "Camelot" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| 1980 | Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany, |
| 1979 | ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage |
| 1979 | British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring |
| 1978 | 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| 1978 | Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," premieres in London |
| 1978 | Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP |
| 1977 | President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran |
| 1976 | Syrian army conquerors Beirut |
| 1975 | Miss Teenage America Pageant |
| 1974 | Ringo releases "Goodnight Vienna" and "Only You" in UK |
| 1973 | Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war |
| 1972 | Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway New York City |
| 1972 | Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays |
| 1972 | White Sox Dick Allen wins AL MVP |
| 1971 | Intel advertises 4004-processor |
| 1969 | 1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back) |
| 1969 | 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland) |
| 1969 | 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington D.C. against Vietnam War |
| 1969 | Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar and indicent language in Tampa, Fla |
| 1969 | Wendy's Hamburgers opens |
| 1968 | 1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary "Ball Four" |
| 1967 | Boston's Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP |
| 1967 | Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km |
| 1967 | WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | Gemini XII (Lovell/Aldrin) returns to Earth |
| 1965 | Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph) |
| 1964 | Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV |
| 1964 | KBYU TV channel 11 in Provo, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open |
| 1964 | Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro |
| 1964 | Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns |
| 1962 | Don Drysdale wins Cy Young Award |
| 1961 | Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth |
| 1961 | Roger Maris is voted AL MVP |
| 1961 | U.N. bans nuclear arms |
| 1960 | Elgin Baylor of NBA Los Angeles Lakers scores 71 points vs New York Knicks |
| 1960 | USS George Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched |
| 1959 | Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Washington 31-17 |
| 1957 | U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000 |
| 1956 | "Li'l Abner" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 693 performances |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in New York City |
| 1955 | Poland and Yugoslavia sign trade agreement |
| 1954 | 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins |
| 1953 | WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | Cricket 1st-class debut of Hanif Mohammad, Pak XI vs. MCC, Lahore |
| 1951 | New York Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year |
| 1950 | Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey, Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League |
| 1949 | KRON TV channel 4 in San Francisco, California (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1949 | WSAZ TV channel 3 in Huntington-Charleston, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1948 | William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as Prime Minister of Canada |
| 1947 | Bradman scores his 100th 100, 172 vs. Indians at the SCG |
| 1947 | Soccer team GVVV forms in Veenendaal |
| 1946 | Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP |
| 1945 | The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of |
| 1944 | Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank |
| 1941 | Cow Palace opens in San Francisco |
| 1941 | Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier |
| 1940 | 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime |
| 1940 | 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington and AC Seagulls |
| 1940 | New York Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic |
| 1939 | Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia |
| 1939 | Franklin D. Roosevelt lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. |
| 1939 | Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews |
| 1939 | Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check |
| 1938 | 1st telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, New York |
| 1938 | Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona |
| 1937 | 1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers |
| 1936 | Nazi-Germany and Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact |
| 1935 | Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated |
| 1934 | Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C. Urey (deuterium) |
| 1932 | Walt Disney Art School created |
| 1926 | 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC) |
| 1926 | AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (New York City) |
| 1924 | Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms |
| 1922 | British Conservative wins election/Labour 2nd party |
| 1921 | KYW-AM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions |
| 1920 | Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen," premieres in Neurenberg |
| 1920 | Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection |
| 1920 | League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva |
| 1919 | Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty) |
| 1914 | Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia |
| 1911 | Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 and $10 gold coins |
| 1904 | King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade |
| 1903 | Eugen d'Alberts opera "Tiefland," premieres in Prague |
| 1902 | Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist |
| 1901 | James J. Jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1899 | Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal |
| 1889 | Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed |
| 1887 | British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong |
| 1884 | Colonization of Africa orgainized at International conference in Berlin |
| 1882 | British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger |
| 1881 | American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh) |
| 1870 | Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union |
| 1869 | Free postal delivery formally inaugurated |
| 1864 | 1st U.S. mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, New York |
| 1864 | Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta |
| 1849 | 1st U.S. poultry show opens in Boston |
| 1845 | Opera "Maritana" is produced (London) |
| 1837 | Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Tahiti |
| 1832 | Felix Mendelssohn's "Reformation," premieres |
| 1827 | Creek-indians lose all their property in US |
| 1826 | Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura |
| 1824 | Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland) |
| 1813 | Allied troops occupies Groningen |
| 1813 | Tax revolt in Amsterdam |
| 1806 | 1st U.S. college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue |
| 1806 | Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado) |
| 1791 | 1st Catholic college in U.S., Georgetown, opens |
| 1777 | Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress |
| 1763 | Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland |
| 1727 | New York General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath |
| 1715 | Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands |
| 1688 | Prince Willem III's army lands at Torbay England |
| 1679 | English house of Commons accept Exclusion Bill |
| 1660 | 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New York City (New Amsterdam) |
| 1583 | Gelders Earl Willem of the Bergh flees |
| 1577 | Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington |
| 1533 | Francisco Pizarro arrives at Cuzco |
| 1532 | Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn |
| 1492 | Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco |
| 1492 | In Spain, 6 Jews and 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic |
| 1491 | 6 Jews and 5 Conversos accused of killing Christians in La Guardia Spain |
| 1491 | Anna van Bretagne becomes devoted to end "la guerre folle" |
| 1348 | Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells |
| 1316 | Jan I becomes king of France, dies 4 days later |
| 1315 | Battle at Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austrian |
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