| 2012 | NASA's Curiosity rover continues to make small discoveries as the organization works to discredit rumors of evidence of life on Mars |
| 2012 | Physics professor Enzo Di Fabrizio, of Magna Graecia University in Catanzaro, Italy, successfully takes the first direct photograph of DNA |
| 2011 | Washington State University researchers develop an artificial bone 'scaffold' which uses 3D printers to print replacement bone tissue for injured patients |
| 2011 | Ali Larijani, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, attacks Britain, claiming the students represent Iran's public opinion |
| 2010 | At an auction in Dublin, a handwritten poem written by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney sells for 4,800 euro |
| 2010 | After facing heavy flooding and mudslides, the President of Venezuela declares a state of emergency in the state of Falcon |
| 2005 | First human face transplant is performed in France |
| 1997 | "Eugene Onegin," closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City |
| 1997 | 86th Davis Cup: Sweden sweeps U.S. in Gothenburg (5-0) |
| 1994 | Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, Live at BBC, is released in Britain |
| 1994 | Cruiser Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die |
| 1994 | Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal |
| 1993 | NFL announces 30th franchise - Jacksonville Jaguars |
| 1993 | President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill |
| 1992 | David Boon's 14th Test Cricket century, 111 vs. WI at Brisbane |
| 1992 | Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die |
| 1991 | 1st world championship of women's soccer, U.S. defeats Norway 2-1 |
| 1991 | 93 cars and 11 truck accident near San Francisco during a dust storm, 17 die |
| 1991 | Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide |
| 1991 | San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing and scoring titles |
| 1990 | Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke |
| 1990 | Bush proposes U.S. - Iraq meeting to avoid war |
| 1988 | Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed |
| 1988 | France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
| 1988 | New York City furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase |
| 1988 | Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs |
| 1988 | U.N. General Assembly (151-2) censures U.S. for refusing PLO's Arafat visa |
| 1987 | Afghanistan Constitution adopted |
| 1986 | "Flamenco Puro" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 40 performances |
| 1986 | 74th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 39-15 |
| 1986 | Ivan Lendl is 1st tennis player to earn over $10 million, lifetime |
| 1983 | 6th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 1983 | Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam |
| 1983 | Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip) |
| 1983 | Raul Alfonsin wins Argentine presidential election |
| 1983 | Sam Shepards "Fool for love," premieres in New York City |
| 1983 | Denver Nugget coach Doug Moe, hoplessly behind, advise team to let Blazers break their scoring record |
| 1982 | STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1982 | U.S. submarine Thomas Edison collides with U.S. Navy destroyer in So China Sea |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1981 | New York Yankee Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year Award |
| 1981 | South Africa anti apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested |
| 1981 | Yankees Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year |
| 1980 | "Banjo Dancing" closes at Century Theater New York City after 38 performances |
| 1980 | "Perfectly Frank" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| 1980 | "West Side Story" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 341 performances |
| 1980 | Uruguay's new constitution rejected by referendum |
| 1979 | Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC) |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1976 | 42nd Heisman Trophy Award: Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh (RB) |
| 1975 | Dahomey becomes Benin |
| 1974 | "Good Evening" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 438 performances |
| 1974 | "Mack and Mabel" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 66 performances |
| 1974 | 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks) |
| 1974 | Miss Teenage America Pageant |
| 1974 | Most complete early man skeleton found (Johanson and Gray in Ethiopia) |
| 1973 | M T Ghani scores 104 on FC debut for Commerce Bank (Pak) age 44 |
| 1972 | BBC bans Wings "Hi, Hi, Hi" |
| 1972 | Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy) |
| 1971 | TV movie "Brian's Song," airs for 1st time on ABC-TV |
| 1970 | George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass" |
| 1969 | 57th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 29-11 |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1968 | 56th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeat Calgary Stampeder, 24-21 |
| 1967 | Democratic People's republic of Yemen gains independence |
| 1967 | Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower announce their engagement |
| 1967 | Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman |
| 1967 | People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from U.K. |
| 1967 | People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain |
| 1967 | Senator Eugene McCarthy begins run for U.S. presidency |
| 1966 | Barbados gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1966 | Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland |
| 1964 | U.S.S.R. launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned |
| 1963 | 51st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats BC Lions, 21-10 |
| 1963 | Martin Walser's "oberlebensgross Herr Krott," premieres in Stuttgart |
| 1962 | U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of United Nations unanimously |
| 1961 | Billy Williams of the Cubs is voted NL Rookie of Year |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. vetoes Kuwaits application for United Nations membership |
| 1960 | French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons |
| 1960 | Tad Mosels "All the Way Home," premieres in New York City |
| 1959 | Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL |
| 1958 | 1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me |
| 1958 | WKBW TV channel 7 in Buffalo, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | "Happy Hunting" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 413 performances |
| 1957 | 45th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 32-7 |
| 1957 | Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8 |
| 1956 | 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards and the News) |
| 1956 | Floyd Patterson KOs Archie Moore in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1955 | "Pipe Dream" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 245 performances |
| 1955 | Argentine government disbands Peronistic party |
| 1954 | 1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala) |
| 1954 | 20th Heisman Trophy Award: Alan Ameche, Wisconsin (FB) |
| 1954 | John Strodom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa |
| 1953 | French parachutist under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu |
| 1952 | Jackie Robinson charges New York Yankees with racism |
| 1950 | U.S. President Truman threatens China with atom bomb |
| 1949 | Chinese Communists captured Chungking |
| 1949 | KOTV TV channel 6 in Tulsa, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | Player-manager Lou Boudreau is selected AL MVP |
| 1948 | Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin |
| 1947 | Arab terrorist campaign opens in Palestine |
| 1947 | Day after United Nations decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked |
| 1946 | Bradman scores 187 in 1st Test Cricket vs. England at the Gabba |
| 1945 | 33rd CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 35-0 |
| 1944 | Biggest and last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground |
| 1942 | 109 U boats sunk this month (729,000 ton) |
| 1942 | 30th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Hurricanes defeats Winnipeg Bombers, 8-5 |
| 1942 | Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of New York Giants minor league system |
| 1942 | German scout ship Altmark explode and sinks off Yokohama |
| 1941 | 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes it's last run |
| 1941 | 13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton) |
| 1941 | Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano |
| 1940 | 32 U boats sunk this month (147,000 ton) |
| 1940 | Lucille Ball weds Desi Arnaz |
| 1939 | 21 U boats sunk this month (52,000 ton) |
| 1939 | Paul Osborn's "Mornings at 7," premieres in New York City |
| 1939 | U.S.S.R. invades Finland, bombs Helsinki |
| 1938 | Fascist coup in Romania, fails |
| 1938 | Germany bans Jews being lawyers |
| 1937 | 3rd Heisman Trophy Award: Clint Frank, Yale (HB) |
| 1936 | London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by fire |
| 1933 | CCC Camps are established in Cleveland Park District |
| 1931 | Crystal Palace in Hyde Park London destroyed by fire |
| 1931 | His Master's Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI |
| 1929 | 17th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 14-3 |
| 1928 | Test Cricket debut of Don Bradman, who scored 18 and 1 vs England |
| 1924 | 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC) |
| 1924 | Last French/Belgian troops leave Ruhrgebied |
| 1923 | Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms |
| 1922 | 1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho |
| 1922 | Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich |
| 1915 | St. John Ervine's "John Ferguson," premieres in Dublin |
| 1912 | 4th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Alerts defeats Toronto Argonauts, 11-4 |
| 1907 | Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle |
| 1900 | A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles |
| 1891 | Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published |
| 1887 | 1st indoor softball game (Chicago) |
| 1886 | 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo |
| 1885 | Opera "El Cid" premieres (Paris) |
| 1872 | 1st International soccer game, Scotland-England 0-0 (Glasgow) |
| 1866 | Work begins on 1st U.S. underwater highway tunnel, Chicago |
| 1864 | Battle of Franklin, Tennessee: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualities |
| 1864 | Battle of Honey Hill South Carolina (Broad River) 96 dead/665 wounded |
| 1863 | Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas |
| 1861 | Harper's Weekly publishes EE Beers' "All quiet along the Potomac" |
| 1838 | Mexico declares war on France |
| 1813 | Prince Willem Frederik returns to Netherlands |
| 1804 | Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins |
| 1803 | Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France |
| 1787 | Spanish governor leaves Philippines |
| 1782 | Britain signs agreement recognizing U.S. independence |
| 1776 | Captain Cook begins 3rd and last trip to Pacific (South Sea) |
| 1753 | Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny |
| 1747 | Dutch State of Zealand declare governorship hereditary for women |
| 1735 | States of Holland forbid Free Masonry |
| 1731 | Beijing hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die |
| 1700 | King Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia at Narva |
| 1700 | Turkey declares war on Russia |
| 1700 | Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/IJsselstein go on Gregoria calendar |
| 1678 | Roman Catholics banned from English parliament |
| 1648 | English army captures King Charles I |
| 1630 | 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague |
| 1554 | England reconciles with Pope Julius III |
| 1523 | Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics |
| 1406 | Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII |
| 1215 | Pope Innocent III closes 4th council of Lateranen |
| 722 | Pope Gregory II names Boniface as missionary bishop |
| 306 | St. Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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