| 2012 | Amid tension with China, Keen Sword, the biennial naval training exercise between the United States and Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force, takes place off the shore of Okinawa |
| 2012 | Standard & Poor's credit rating agency receives a ruling by an Australian judge that they misled investors in their rating of two-pre-crisis issues of structured debt |
| 2011 | In the People's Republic of China, 45 trapped coal miners are pulled to the surface in Sanmenxia; 8 miners died |
| 2011 | Two police officers and five alleged members of the Taliban are indicted in Pakistan for murdering Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto |
| 2010 | U.S. television pundit, Keith Olbermann, is indefinitely suspended from MSNBC for making three political donations to Democratic Party candidates |
| 2010 | Spain protests against the visit of Pope Benedict XVI |
| 2007 | Writers Guild of American goes on strike |
| 2006 | Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging by an Iraqi court |
| 1997 | 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns, he is named AL Manager of Year |
| 1997 | French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages |
| 1996 | Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is the unanimous choice as AL Rookie of |
| 1995 | STS-73 (Columbia 18), lands |
| 1995 | Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament |
| 1995 | 1st NBA game at General Motors Place, Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minnesota Timberwolves 100-98 in OT |
| 1994 | Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun |
| 1994 | Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (55,291 km) |
| 1994 | Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed |
| 1994 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country |
| 1993 | 1st NBA game in Alamodome, San Antonio Spurs beat Warriors 91-85 |
| 1992 | "Show Off" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| 1992 | Bobby Fisher beats Boris Spassky to with Chess title in Belgrade |
| 1991 | Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan |
| 1991 | Richard J. Kerr, ends term as acting director of CIA |
| 1989 | "Threepenny Opera" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 65 performances |
| 1989 | 19th New York City Women's Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen in 2:25:30 |
| 1989 | 20th New York City Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01 |
| 1989 | Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 cons pass completions |
| 1989 | Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| 1989 | U.S. plays El Salvador, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
| 1988 | 1st NBA game at Bradley Center, Milwaukee Bucks lose to Los Angeles Clippers 111-9 |
| 1988 | 1st NBA game at Miami Arena, Miami Heat loss to Los Angeles Clippers, 111-91 |
| 1988 | 1st NBA game at Palace of Auburn Hills, Pistons beat Hornets 94-85 |
| 1988 | Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage |
| 1988 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1988 | Gulch wins Breeder's Cup |
| 1988 | Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7) |
| 1988 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Alysheba, Gt Communicator, Gulch, Is It True, Miesque, Open Mind, Personal Ensign at Churchill Downs |
| 1987 | "Into the Woods" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 764 performances |
| 1987 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1987 | Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic |
| 1987 | South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed |
| 1987 | Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine's musical "Into the Stars," premieres |
| 1987 | Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admitted using marijuana |
| 1985 | "News" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| 1983 | New York Rangers and Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 seconds of 3rd period |
| 1983 | Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden |
| 1982 | Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record) |
| 1982 | George Harrison releases "Gone Troppo" album |
| 1981 | Charles Fuller's "Soldier's Play," premieres in New York City |
| 1981 | Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, and possession of cocaine |
| 1979 | Iran government of Bazargan resigns |
| 1979 | Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares U.S. The Great Satan |
| 1978 | Iranian Prime Minister Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi |
| 1978 | Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran |
| 1978 | Oakland Raider's John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games |
| 1977 | NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson, Brigham Young) |
| 1976 | Baltimore Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award |
| 1976 | New AL franchises in Seattle and Toronto fill up their rosters |
| 1976 | Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen and $100,000 to A's for manager Chuck Tanner |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1975 | British government sends troops to Belize |
| 1975 | Sao Tome and Principe adopts constitution |
| 1974 | Dmitri Sjotakovitch completes Michelangelo-liederen |
| 1974 | Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman U.S. Governor not related to previous gov |
| 1974 | Walter E. Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Washington D.C. |
| 1973 | BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service |
| 1972 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic |
| 1971 | Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping |
| 1971 | NBA's Los Angeles Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak |
| 1968 | 1st AL pitcher to win MVP, Denny McLain (wins unanimously) |
| 1968 | Nixon (R) beats Vice President Humphrey (D) and George C. Wallace for presidency |
| 1967 | ATS-3 launched by U.S. to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk |
| 1967 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
| 1967 | New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24 |
| 1967 | U.S. troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam |
| 1967 | Yemen president Sallal flees |
| 1966 | Brigham Young QB Virgil Carter sets NCAA record of 599 yards gained |
| 1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1964 | U.S. launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned |
| 1963 | U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visits Netherlands |
| 1961 | India's premier Nehru arrives in New York |
| 1961 | St. Louis Cardinals Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas |
| 1959 | AFL announced with 8 teams |
| 1958 | "Maria Golovin" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1958 | KGLD (now KSNG) TV channel 11 in Garden City, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1957 | Felix Gaillard forms government in France |
| 1957 | Mrs Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2 cents soccer pool ticket |
| 1956 | Britain and France land forces in Egypt |
| 1956 | Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized |
| 1956 | Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh, reopening Gulf of Aqaba |
| 1956 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Datis nuperrime |
| 1955 | Mont Canadien Jean Beliveau scores 2nd fastest hat trick (44 seconds) |
| 1955 | New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria) |
| 1955 | Date returned to in "Back to the Future" and "Back to the Future II" |
| 1953 | Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke |
| 1953 | Paul Searls saws a 32" log in 86.4 seconds |
| 1953 | Terence Rattigans' "Sleeping Prince," premieres in London |
| 1951 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1950 | Cleveland Browns' Tommy James intercepts 3 passes, club record |
| 1950 | Philippines president Quirino ends emergency crisis |
| 1946 | John F. Kennedy elected to House of Representatives |
| 1944 | Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren |
| 1944 | Canadian and British troops liberate Dinteloord |
| 1944 | German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die |
| 1943 | Vatican bombed |
| 1942 | Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris |
| 1942 | Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission |
| 1941 | Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor |
| 1940 | Dutch submarine departs Dundee |
| 1940 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R) |
| 1940 | Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Washington Senators, loses Maryland congressional race |
| 1938 | Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return |
| 1938 | Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 years as Rutgers Stad dedicated |
| 1937 | Hitler informs his military leader of his intentions of going to war |
| 1936 | French writer Andre Gide criticizes Soviet regime |
| 1935 | Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of M to admit (black) Donald Murray |
| 1935 | Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly |
| 1933 | Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0) |
| 1933 | Spanish Basques vote for autonomy |
| 1932 | Mussolini frees 16,000 criminals |
| 1930 | Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt" |
| 1927 | 10th PGA Championship: Water Hagen at Cedar Crest CC Dallas |
| 1927 | Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa for 4th consecutive PGA title |
| 1925 | Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties |
| 1922 | Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent |
| 1919 | Ir Steringa Idzerda begins hosting "soiree-musical" on Dutch radio |
| 1917 | General Pershing and U.S. troops see action on Western Front for 1st time |
| 1917 | Supreme Court decision (Buchanan vs. Warley) strikes down Lousiville Kentucky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas |
| 1916 | Emperor Wilhelm II and French Jozef I establishes kingdom of Poland |
| 1916 | Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage |
| 1914 | Great Britain and France and Russia declares war on Turkey |
| 1913 | Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria |
| 1912 | Arizona, Kansas and Wisconsin vote for female suffrage |
| 1912 | Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water |
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) and President Taft (R) |
| 1911 | Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tipoli and Cyrenaica |
| 1911 | Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (84 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, New York, Sept 17) |
| 1898 | Gerhart Hauptmanns "Fuhrmann Henschel," premieres in Berlin |
| 1895 | 1st U.S. patent granted for auto, George B. Selden |
| 1895 | George Selden patents 1st gasoline-driven car |
| 1895 | King Edward VII says "We are all Socialists nowadays" |
| 1895 | U.S. state Utah accepts female suffrage |
| 1894 | Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki |
| 1894 | Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegels," premieres |
| 1887 | Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion championship |
| 1883 | Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army |
| 1883 | Musical "Cordelia's Aspirations" premieres in New York City |
| 1882 | Bedrich Smetana's "Ma Vlast," premieres |
| 1881 | French government-Ferry resigns |
| 1876 | Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe |
| 1872 | Susan B. Anthony fined for trying to vote |
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant re-elected U.S. president |
| 1862 | Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac |
| 1862 | Battle at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties |
| 1854 | Crimean War: British and French defeat Russian force of 50,000 |
| 1846 | Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C, premieres |
| 1838 | Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation |
| 1811 | El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence |
| 1789 | Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname |
| 1789 | French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law |
| 1781 | John Hanson elected 1st "President of U.S. in Congress assembled" |
| 1757 | Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French and Indian War) |
| 1725 | Spain and Austria sign secret treaty |
| 1678 | Brandenburgse troops occupy Greifswald in Sweden |
| 1639 | 1st post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts |
| 1630 | Spain and England sign peace treaty |
| 1605 | Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered and leader Guy Fawkes hanged |
| 1556 | Akbar (14) succeeds his father Humajun on as Sultan of Delhi |
| 1556 | Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu |
| 1530 | St. Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast |
| 1492 | Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba |
| 1414 | Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens |
| 1228 | Wu MeKuan, a collection of 48 Zen koans, compiled in China |
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