| 2012 | In Dublin, an estimated crowd of 10,000 protesters demonstrated against austerity and called for a general strike to shut down the country |
| 2012 | Palestinian officials plan to exhume the body of former leader Yasser Arafat to determine whether his death in Paris, 2004, was caused by poisoning |
| 2011 | Opposition MP Peter Slipper replaces Harry Jenkins as speaker of the Australian House of Representatives |
| 2011 | India's government relaxes rules relating to the operation of foreign-owned retailers such as Wal-Mart and Tesco within India |
| 2010 | University students in England and Wales protest the government's plan to increase tuition fees and make higher education funding cuts |
| 2010 | Ireland presents its 15 billion euro austerity package to secure a financial bailout from European Union and the International Monetary Fund |
| 1997 | "Street Corner Symphony," opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 79 performances |
| 1996 | "Juan Darien - A Carnival Mass," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City |
| 1996 | CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Edmonton, 43-37 at Hamilton |
| 1996 | Karrie Webb wins ITT LPGA Tour Championship |
| 1996 | Mashonaland defeat Matabeleland to win the Logan Cricket Cup |
| 1996 | Mohammad Wasim scores 109 on Test Cricket debut, Pakistan vs. New Zealand Lahore |
| 1996 | Rookie Karrie Webb wins LPGA Tour Championship |
| 1995 | Ireland votes to end 70-year-old ban on divorce (50.28% to 49.72%) |
| 1993 | Brady bill passes establishing 5-day waiting period for handgun sales |
| 1993 | End of world, according to Ukrainian sect White Brotherhood |
| 1992 | Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141 |
| 1991 | 1st International flight from Long Island's MacArthur Airport (to Mexico) |
| 1991 | 79th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 36-21 |
| 1991 | After going 12-0, Washington Redskins lose to Dallas 24-21 |
| 1991 | Monica Seles, sets female tennis record winning $2,457,758 in a year |
| 1991 | Rachmon Nabijev elected President of Tadzjikistan |
| 1991 | U.S. 75th manned space mission "STS-44" Atlantis 10 launched |
| 1989 | Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia |
| 1989 | Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon |
| 1989 | Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty age 16 years 214 days, a record |
| 1987 | Li Peng succeeds premier Zhao Ziyang in China PR |
| 1986 | "Smile" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| 1986 | Cards reliever Todd Worrell wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1986 | Wrestler John Tatum charged with possession of marijuana |
| 1985 | 73rd CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 37-24 |
| 1985 | Egyptian commandos storm captured Boeing in Malta, 60 killed |
| 1983 | PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese |
| 1983 | Test Cricket debut of Richie Richardson, WI vs. India Bombay |
| 1982 | Orioles Cal Ripken is named AL Rookie of Year |
| 1982 | Yasuhiro Nakasone succeeds Zenko Suzuki as premier of Japan |
| 1981 | 1st air-launched cruise missile tested |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan, Jr. marries Doria Palmieri |
| 1979 | Kings' Charley Simmer fails on 8th penalty shot against Islanders |
| 1979 | U.S. admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange |
| 1977 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1977 | Miami Bob Greise passes for 6 touchdowns vs St. Louis (55-14) |
| 1976 | NBA Atlanta Hawks end a 28 game road losing streak |
| 1976 | Reds Joe Morgan wins his 2nd straight NL MVP Award |
| 1975 | "Boccaccio" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| 1974 | 62nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 20-7 |
| 1974 | Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev signs SALT-2-treaty |
| 1974 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Miss Teenage America Pageant |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1971 | Braves catcher-infielder Earl Williams, wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1971 | Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000 |
| 1971 | Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison, New Jersey |
| 1970 | 36th Heisman Trophy Award: Jim Plunkett, Stanford (quarterback) |
| 1969 | Apollo 12 returns to Earth |
| 1969 | West German President Heinemann visits Netherlands |
| 1969 | Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial |
| 1968 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational |
| 1966 | 1st TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Zaire) |
| 1966 | 400 die of respiratory failure and heart attack in killer New York City smog |
| 1966 | The Beatles began recording sessions for "Sgt Pepper" |
| 1965 | Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu, becomes President of Zaire |
| 1964 | 30th Heisman Trophy Award: John Huarte, Notre Dame (quarterback) |
| 1964 | Cards' 3rd baseman Ken Boyer is voted NL MVP |
| 1964 | For 1st time since 1800, residents of Washington D.C. permitted to vote |
| 1964 | Rebellion ends in Zaire |
| 1963 | 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald |
| 1962 | Last of Dutch militia leave New-Guinea |
| 1960 | Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record) |
| 1958 | Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community |
| 1957 | Cleveland Browns' fullback Jim Brown sets club record of 237 yards rushing |
| 1956 | "Pajama Game" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 1063 performances |
| 1956 | 44th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 50-27 |
| 1955 | 1st test flight of Fokker's F-27 Friendship |
| 1954 | Air Force One, 1st U.S. Presidential airplane, christened |
| 1954 | France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria |
| 1953 | Dodgers sign Walter Alston to a 1-year pact as manager for 1954 |
| 1952 | Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" opens in London (still running) |
| 1951 | "17" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 180 performances |
| 1951 | "Music in the Air" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 56 performances |
| 1951 | 39th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 21-14 |
| 1951 | British auto manufacturers Austin/Moris Motors merge |
| 1950 | "Guys and Dolls" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 1200 performances |
| 1950 | U.N. troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas |
| 1950 | U.S. infantry division conquerors Chonju, Korea |
| 1949 | Britain nationalizes it's steel and iron industry |
| 1949 | Syracuse Nationals beat Anderson Packers, 125-123 in 5 OTs |
| 1948 | Ireland votes for independence from UK |
| 1948 | WAVE TV channel 3 in Louisville, Kentucky (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | John Steinbeck's novel "Pearl" published |
| 1947 | Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists |
| 1944 | U.S. bombers based on Saipan, begin 1st attack on Tokyo |
| 1942 | Field Marshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk |
| 1942 | French collaborator earl De Brinon establishes "African Falanx" |
| 1941 | "Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, rest exterminated |
| 1941 | Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar |
| 1941 | U.S. troops land on Suriname to protect bauxite mine |
| 1938 | Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon," premieres in New York City |
| 1938 | National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball |
| 1936 | Noel Coward's "Tonight at 8:30," premieres in New York City |
| 1936 | Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1935 | King George II returns to Greece after 12 years |
| 1934 | CFL Grey Cup: Sarnia beats Regina, 20-12 at Toronto |
| 1934 | SN Behrman's "Rain from Heaven," premieres in New York City |
| 1930 | 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, New York to California), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days |
| 1926 | KVI-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions |
| 1925 | 1st radio-broadcast of Dutch KRO (Catholic Radio Broadcast) |
| 1925 | Eugene O'Neill Theater (Coronet, Forrest) opens at 230 W 49th St. New York City |
| 1924 | 1st Dutch airplane (Fokker's F-7) reaches Batavia (Java) |
| 1923 | Radio Belgium's 1st transmission |
| 1922 | Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year" |
| 1918 | Bela Can forms Hungarian Communist Party |
| 1915 | Serbian leader flees to Albania |
| 1914 | Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party |
| 1914 | Dutch Overseas Trustmaatschappij (NOT) forms |
| 1905 | Moshav Hertzlia forms in Israel |
| 1903 | Clyde Coleman of New York City patents automobile electric starter |
| 1903 | George Ade's "County Chairman," premieres in New York City |
| 1897 | Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union forms in Kingston |
| 1896 | 1st U.S. absentee voting law enacted by Vermont |
| 1887 | Victorien Sardou's "La Tosca," premieres in Paris |
| 1880 | Southern University forms |
| 1874 | Joseph F. Glidden patents barbed wire |
| 1871 | National Rifle Association organized in New York City |
| 1869 | American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland) |
| 1863 | Battle of Chattanooga, Columbia and Lookout Mountain begins in Tennessee |
| 1862 | M Levy publishes Gustave Flauberts "Salammbo" |
| 1861 | Luik-Vise-Maastricht railway opens |
| 1859 | Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" |
| 1835 | Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas Prov Government |
| 1832 | South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification |
| 1805 | Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent |
| 1800 | Weber's opera "Das Waldmadchen," premieres in Freiburg |
| 1759 | Destructive eruption of Vesuvius |
| 1715 | Thames River freezes |
| 1703 | 1st Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner in Philadelphia |
| 1688 | General strategist John Churchill meets Willem III |
| 1655 | English Lord Protector Cromwell bans Anglicans |
| 1643 | Battle at Tuttlingen: Beiers army under General Mercy beats France |
| 1642 | Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) |
| 1639 | 1st observation of transit of Venus occured (only 2, record event) |
| 1628 | John Ford's "Lover's Melancholy," premieres in London |
| 1601 | Earl Mauritius ceases siege of De Bosch due to strict monarchy |
| 1587 | Battle at Auneau: Henri de Guise wins |
| 1542 | Battle at Solway Moss: English beat Scottish King James |
| 1434 | Thames River freezes |
| 1105 | Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary |
| 642 | Theodore I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 496 | Anastasius II succeeds Gelasius I as Catholic Pope |
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