| 2012 | The U.S. elections result in three states approving same-sex marriage: Maine, Maryland and Washington |
| 2012 | U.S. voters in the state of Massachusetts approve a referendum legalizing the use of medical marijuana; Colorado and Washington approve the legalization of recreational use of the drug |
| 2011 | Physician Conrad Murray, is found guilty of manslaughter in the death of the American entertainer Michael Jackson |
| 2010 | Queen Elizabeth II launches a page on Facebook; no one is allowed to 'poke' or 'befriend' her |
| 2010 | Over 40,000 runners compete in the New York Marathon; Gebre Gebremariam wins the men's marathon and Edna Kiplagat wins the women's marathon |
| 2009 | Eight Eastern Europeans are accused of stealing $9 million in a huge computer payroll scam |
| 2000 | Al Gore wins the popular vote but loses the electoral vote to George W. Bush |
| 2000 | Hilary Clinton is the first former First Lady elected to the Senate |
| 1997 | "Bean" opens in US |
| 1996 | "3 Sisters" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City |
| 1996 | NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times |
| 1996 | Wasim Jaffer gets 314* in 2nd cricket FC game for Mumbai vs. Saurashtra |
| 1995 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on WXDX 105.9 FM |
| 1995 | Howard Stern's 2nd book "Miss America" released (fastest selling ever) |
| 1993 | Betsy King wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament |
| 1992 | 1st NBA game at America West Arena, Phoenix Suns beat Clippers 111-105 |
| 1991 | "Brigadoon" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1991 | "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" opens at Music Box New York City |
| 1991 | 1st NBA game in Delta City, Utah Jazz beats Seattle 103-95 |
| 1991 | Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus and retires from Los Angeles Lakers |
| 1990 | "Little Night Music" closes at New York State New York City after 11 performances |
| 1990 | "Those Were The Days" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 126 performances |
| 1990 | Cleveland Indian Sandy Alomar, Jr. wins AL Rookie of Year, unanimously |
| 1990 | Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland |
| 1989 | Balt's Gregg Olson is 1st relief pitcher to win AL Rookie of Year |
| 1989 | Douglas Wilder elected 1st U.S. black governor (D-Va) |
| 1989 | New York City elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins) and female comp (Holtzman) |
| 1988 | MLB all stars beats Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7) |
| 1988 | Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde |
| 1987 | Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba |
| 1985 | Colombian troops end 27-hour siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice |
| 1984 | STS-51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds |
| 1983 | Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd New York Giant record 56 yard field goal |
| 1983 | Bomb explodes in U.S. Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries |
| 1982 | "Your Arms are Too Short to Box" closes at Alvin New York City after 69 performances |
| 1982 | Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner) |
| 1982 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Turkey adopts constitution |
| 1981 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1979 | Cub reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award |
| 1978 | Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP |
| 1978 | CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past |
| 1976 | 'Gone With the Wind' televised |
| 1975 | Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland |
| 1974 | 63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o) |
| 1973 | New Jersey becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league |
| 1973 | U.S. and Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links |
| 1972 | President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D) |
| 1970 | "Purlie" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 689 performances |
| 1970 | Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida |
| 1969 | John and Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK |
| 1968 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1967 | Carl B. Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1967 | Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting |
| 1967 | Richard G. Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana |
| 1967 | St. Louis Cardinals Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP |
| 1967 | Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon |
| 1966 | Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah," premieres in New York City |
| 1966 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1966 | Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US |
| 1965 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
| 1964 | NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, may move to Atlanta in 1966 |
| 1963 | Carole Joan Crawford, 20, of Jamaica, crowned 13th Miss World |
| 1963 | New York Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP |
| 1962 | Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie |
| 1961 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| 1960 | KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting |
| 1959 | 13th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 8 -3 at Eldorado CC California |
| 1957 | Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1957 | WEEQ (now WWTO) TV channel 35 in La Salle, IL (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1954 | U.S. spy plane shot down North of Japan |
| 1954 | Cleveland Browns' Chet Hanulak sets club record with 7 punt returns and win by their largest margin of victory (59) beating Washington 62-3 |
| 1953 | WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, South Carolina (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | Constitution of Jordan passes |
| 1950 | Carlo Terron's "Processo Agli Innocenti," premieres in Milan |
| 1950 | French women and children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta |
| 1949 | King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament |
| 1946 | "Bal Negre" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 54 performances |
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R) |
| 1944 | Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die |
| 1943 | Detroit Lions 0, New York Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL |
| 1942 | 1st U.S. president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French |
| 1942 | Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km) |
| 1941 | British air attack on Berlin, Mannheim and Ruhrgebied |
| 1940 | Stravinsky's Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago |
| 1940 | Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash |
| 1936 | Battle of Madrid begins |
| 1935 | 23rd CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Winnipegs defeats Hamilton Tigers, 18-12 |
| 1934 | Arthur L Mitchell, becomes 1st black Democratic congressman (Ill) |
| 1933 | Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports |
| 1932 | 1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio |
| 1932 | Bradman scores 238 NSW vs. Victoria, 200 minutes, 32 fours |
| 1931 | Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung |
| 1929 | Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City |
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover (R) elected president |
| 1925 | Italians liberal-national party joins fascist |
| 1921 | Ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in New York City |
| 1919 | U.S. police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers |
| 1918 | Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets |
| 1918 | United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed |
| 1918 | Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Misteriya Buff," premieres in Petrograd |
| 1917 | British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks |
| 1917 | October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power |
| 1916 | Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising |
| 1916 | Jeannette Rankin, Representative-R-Montana 1917 - 1919 and 1941 - 1943, elected 1st woman Representative |
| 1916 | Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president |
| 1915 | Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 killed) |
| 1914 | Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai |
| 1909 | Knights and Ladies of St. Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama |
| 1908 | Dutch capture Venezuelan navy |
| 1907 | Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico |
| 1907 | Test tokens are struck in 1st production of Canadian coins |
| 1893 | State Colorado accept female suffrage |
| 1885 | Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie |
| 1876 | Edward Bouchet, is 1st African-American to receive a PhD in U.S. college, Yale |
| 1876 | Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennesse College |
| 1876 | President Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R) |
| 1875 | Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa |
| 1874 | 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast |
| 1872 | U.S. cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from New York on a journey which ended when it is found mysteriously abandoned the following month |
| 1865 | London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded |
| 1864 | 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes |
| 1863 | Battle of Rappahannock Station and Kelly's Ford, VA |
| 1861 | Battle of Belmont, MO |
| 1861 | Battle of Port Royal Bay, South Carolina (Ft. Walker, Ft. Beauregard) |
| 1848 | General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US |
| 1831 | State Gran Colombia disbands |
| 1824 | St. Petersburg flood |
| 1820 | James Monroe elected 5th U.S. president |
| 1814 | 1st sitting of States-general in Hague |
| 1805 | Lewis and Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean |
| 1794 | French troops conquer Nijmegen |
| 1775 | Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army |
| 1747 | Organgist in Netherlands revolt under Daniel Raap |
| 1733 | France and Spain sign Escoriaal Treaty |
| 1722 | Richard Steele's "Conscious Lovers," premieres in London |
| 1667 | Jean Racine's "Andromaque," premieres in Paris |
| 1665 | 1st edition of "London Gazette" |
| 1659 | Peace of Pyreneeen: French king Louis XIV and Spanish king Philip IV |
| 1651 | King Louis XIV of France (13) declarer of full age |
| 1637 | Anne Hutchinson banished from Mass bay colony as a heretic |
| 1631 | Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler |
| 1597 | Emilia of Nassau weds Dom Emanuel of Portugal |
| 1581 | Queen Elizabeth I and Francois of Anjou wed |
| 1558 | French king Henri II occupies Calais |
| 1519 | University of Leuven convicts teaching of Luther |
| 1512 | Medici's discharge Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence |
| 921 | Treaty of Bonn: East France and West France recognize each other |
| 680 | 3rd Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens |
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