| 2012 | Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf, Chairman of Libya's legislative authority, the General National Congress, says al-Qaeda elements who fought with rebels in Libya's civil war number "up to 200" in Libya |
| 2012 | Japan appoints its new finance minister, Koriki Jojima, and Seiji Maehara as its new minister of national strategy and economic policy |
| 2011 | Heavy fighting continues in Libya's heavily besieged city of Sirte; growing fears of humanitarian disaster builds |
| 2011 | China asks Myanmar to protect Chinese corporate interests after Burma's President Thein Sein shut down the Myitsone Dam project |
| 2010 | The first dedicated 3D TV channel in Europe, Sky 3D, launches in the UK |
| 2010 | Scientists announce the discovery of Inkayacu, an extinct genus of prehistoric penguin that lived in the Late Eocene period |
| 1997 | Carolina Hurricanes 1st game vs Tampa Bay Lightning |
| 1995 | Bermuda begins using new area code 441 |
| 1995 | Gail Graham wins FieldCrest Cannon/Carolina LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1995 | Indians set record of 30 game lead over 2nd place team |
| 1995 | Mike Mussina tosses Balt's 5th consecutive shutout 4-0 win over Tigers |
| 1995 | New York Yankees win 1st baseball wildcard ever |
| 1995 | Rockies are 1st team to make postseason before 7th year in existence |
| 1994 | Boon completes his 19th Test century (114 vs. Pak, Karachi) |
| 1994 | Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic |
| 1994 | South African President Nelson Mandela visits U.S. |
| 1994 | Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curaeao |
| 1993 | Lennox Lewis TKOs Frank Bruno in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1992 | "Oba Oba '93" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 22 performances |
| 1992 | Cartoon Cable Network premieres |
| 1992 | Greater Pittsburgh International Airport opens |
| 1992 | Ross Perot re-enters presidental race |
| 1991 | Howard Stern adds Baltimore to his radio network on WJFK-AM |
| 1990 | 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda |
| 1990 | Meteorite explodes above Pacific Ocean |
| 1990 | President Bush at U.N., condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait |
| 1990 | Serbs in Croatia proclaim autonomy |
| 1989 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic |
| 1989 | Dallas Cowboy, Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle |
| 1989 | Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany |
| 1989 | U.S. issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus |
| 1989 | Batting titles decided on final day Puckett goes 2-for-5 edges Carney Lansford .339 to .336, Gwynn's 3-for-4 edges Will Clark .336 to .333 |
| 1988 | Bradley Center in Milwaukee opens |
| 1988 | Lowest batting avg for NL champion (Tony Gwynn .313) |
| 1988 | Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of Soviet Union |
| 1988 | Robert Englund, actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth |
| 1987 | "Roza" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1987 | 6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA |
| 1987 | Fiji's constitution is suspended |
| 1986 | President Carter's presidential library dedicated in Atlanta |
| 1985 | Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed |
| 1984 | Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus |
| 1984 | Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball |
| 1983 | Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia crowned Miss Teen of America |
| 1982 | EPCOT Center opens in Orlando, Florida |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1982 | West Germany's Parliament ousts Helmut Schmidt for Helmut Kohl |
| 1981 | J Chodorov/N Panama's "Talent for Murder," premieres in London |
| 1981 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1980 | Cosmonauts Ryumin and Popov break space endurance record of 176 days |
| 1979 | Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes president |
| 1979 | Pope John Paul II begins visit of US |
| 1979 | RKO radio network begins operation |
| 1979 | U.S. returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years |
| 1978 | Comoros adopts constitution |
| 1978 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
| 1978 | Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from U.K. |
| 1978 | Yankees lose 9-2 to Indians forcing a playoff game with Red Sox |
| 1977 | Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games |
| 1977 | Department Of Energy established |
| 1977 | Elton John honored by MSG Hall of Fame |
| 1977 | Peter Schats opera "Houdini" premieres in Amsterdam |
| 1977 | Yankees win 2nd consecutive AL East title |
| 1976 | 1st Dutch casino opens |
| 1975 | Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles |
| 1975 | Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu" |
| 1975 | Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Joe Frazier in Manilla |
| 1975 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1975 | Reunion Island stops printing stamps, France takes over production |
| 1974 | Watergate cover-up trial opens in Washington D.C. |
| 1973 | Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R.-West Germany gas tunnel opens |
| 1972 | "Don't Play Us Cheap" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 164 performances |
| 1972 | 1st games of World Hockey Association |
| 1972 | 2nd New York City Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 3:08:41 |
| 1972 | 3rd New York City Marathon won by Sheldon Karlin in 2:27:52 |
| 1972 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic |
| 1971 | Joseph Luns becomes Secretary-General of NATO |
| 1971 | Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens |
| 1970 | 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy |
| 1970 | Last game at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phils-2 Expos-1 |
| 1969 | Concorde 001 test flight breaks sound barrier |
| 1969 | Guernsey and Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1968 | "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh |
| 1967 | KBFI (now KDAF) TV channel 33 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (IND) begins |
| 1967 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' LA Golf Open |
| 1967 | Pink FLoyd's 1st U.S. tour (arrives in New York City) |
| 1966 | Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times" |
| 1966 | WAEO (now WJFW) TV channel 12 in Rhinelander, WI (NBC) begins |
| 1965 | Failed coup under Lieutenant Colonel Untung in Indonesia |
| 1965 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| 1964 | 1st official broadcast of Trans World Radio on Bonaire |
| 1964 | 2nd Dutch televisienet begins broadcastings |
| 1964 | Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley |
| 1964 | San Francisco cable cars declared a national landmark |
| 1964 | WSJU TV channel 18 in Carolina, Puerto Rico begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | WTSJ TV channel 18 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | WWAY TV channel 3 in Wilmington, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1963 | 1st time since 1910 no AL player, played in every game |
| 1963 | Nigeria becomes a republic within Commonwealth |
| 1962 | Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia) |
| 1962 | Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage Beatles through 1977 |
| 1962 | James Meredith became 1st black at University of Mississippi |
| 1962 | Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests |
| 1962 | Lucy Show premieres |
| 1962 | SF beats Dodgers, 8-0 in 1st of best-of-3 NL playoff |
| 1962 | U.N. gives Netherlands control of New-Guinea |
| 1962 | U.S. National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope |
| 1962 | WEDH TV channel 24 in Hartford, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha |
| 1961 | East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon |
| 1961 | KGIN TV channel 11 in Grand Island, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Open |
| 1961 | Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovitsch' 12nd Symphony |
| 1961 | Roger Maris sets record of 61 home runs off of Tracy Stallard |
| 1961 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | WOLO TV channel 25 in Columbia, South Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | WYAH TV channel 27 in Portsmouth, Virginia (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | 14th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 2-1 at Montreal |
| 1960 | KCBY TV channel 11 in Coos Bay, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1960 | South Korean troops cross 38th parallel into North Korea |
| 1959 | 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a New York team (LA vs Chic) |
| 1958 | Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia |
| 1958 | Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA |
| 1957 | B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of U.S.S.R. attack |
| 1956 | Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track |
| 1956 | Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens |
| 1955 | "Honeymooners" premieres |
| 1955 | Piet Lieftinck becomes director v/h IMF (World bank) |
| 1955 | WORA TV channel 5 in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico (TCI) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation |
| 1953 | Indian state of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras |
| 1953 | KJEO TV channel 47 in Fresno, California (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | KYTV TV channel 3 in Springfield, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WATE TV channel 6 in Knoxville, Tennessee (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WREX TV channel 13 in Rockford, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or |
| 1952 | Liberal Party wins Japanese elections |
| 1952 | Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion) |
| 1951 | 1st Giant-Dodgers playoff game, Giants win 3-1 |
| 1951 | 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson |
| 1951 | 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated |
| 1950 | Phillies win NL pennant on last day of season (10th inning home run) |
| 1950 | South Korean troops exceed 38 degrees latitude |
| 1950 | Browns lose to Giants, setting club record for fewest points scored by both teams (tied in 1979), New York 6, Cleveland 0 |
| 1949 | People's Rep of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung (National Day) |
| 1949 | Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa |
| 1948 | California Supreme Court voids state statue banning interracial marriages |
| 1948 | Radio Denmark begins transmitting |
| 1947 | 1st helicopter air mail and express service |
| 1947 | NHL Pension Society founded |
| 1947 | U.S. control of Haitian customs and governmental revenue ends |
| 1947 | William Wister Haines' "Command Decision," premieres in New York City |
| 1946 | 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg |
| 1946 | 1st NL playoffs, Dodgers vs Cards (St. Louis wins 2 games to 0) |
| 1946 | Bob Feller 348th strikeout of season |
| 1945 | Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army |
| 1945 | U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) disbands |
| 1944 | Newspaper editor Alejandro Cordova assassinated in Guatemala |
| 1944 | St. Louis Browns win their only AL pennant |
| 1943 | Allied forces captured Naples during WW II |
| 1943 | Averell Harriman named U.S. ambassador to Moscow |
| 1943 | Germans attack Jews in Denmark |
| 1943 | King's Dragon Guards liberates suburbs of Naples |
| 1942 | Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st U.S. jet, makes maiden flight |
| 1942 | Little Golden Books (children books) begins publishing |
| 1941 | D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow |
| 1941 | H Martin/R Blanes musical "Best Foot Forward," premieres in New York City |
| 1941 | Yankees beat Dodgers 3-2 at Yankee Stadium in opener of World Series |
| 1940 | Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens |
| 1939 | Churchill calls Soviets "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" |
| 1938 | Cubs clinch NL pennant |
| 1938 | Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia) |
| 1937 | Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters |
| 1936 | Generalissimo Francisco Franco establishes state of Spain |
| 1934 | Adolph Hitler expands German army and Navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles |
| 1933 | Antwerp Sports arena opens |
| 1933 | Packers make 5 1st downs, Giants make 0, but still win 10-7 |
| 1933 | Washington Senator coach Nick Altrock plays in a game at age 57 |
| 1932 | NHL readmits Ottawa and drops Pittsburgh |
| 1932 | Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists |
| 1932 | World Series moves to Chicago, In 5th inning, Babe Ruth waits until he has 2 strikes, points and hits next pitch into center field bleachers |
| 1931 | Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage |
| 1931 | World Series is a rematch as A's seek 3rd straight title vs Cards |
| 1930 | Soccer team WHC forms |
| 1930 | World Series opens at Phila's Shibe Park, Philadelphia A's beat St. Louis 5-2 |
| 1928 | Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium bicycled 76 miles 504 yards in 1 hour |
| 1928 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 15m (46:49.6) |
| 1928 | U.S.S.R. launches its 1st 5 year plan |
| 1927 | Pirates clinch NL pennant with a 9-6 win over Reds |
| 1924 | Fokker F-7 1st flight (Amsterdam to Batavia) |
| 1924 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 4 mile (19:15.4) and 5 mile (24:06.2) |
| 1924 | Landis bans Giants Jimmy O'Connell and Cozy Dolan from World Series after they admit an attempt to bribe Phils shortstop Heinie Sand |
| 1922 | Former Chicago Staleys play 1st NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0 |
| 1922 | Rogers Hornsby's 3-for-5 ups avg to .401 |
| 1921 | WJZ, Newark New Jersey begins broadcasting |
| 1920 | Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day |
| 1919 | World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (Black Sox Scandal) |
| 1912 | Yankees lose game #100 en route to a 50-102 season |
| 1911 | United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hour day |
| 1910 | Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair) |
| 1910 | Explosion at Los Angeles Times kills 21 |
| 1910 | Regina Rugby Club's 1st game, losing to Moose Jaw Tigers, 16-6 |
| 1908 | 1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague) |
| 1908 | Henry Ford introduces Model T car |
| 1908 | Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory, beats Walter Johnson 2-1 |
| 1907 | Plaza Hotel (5th Av and 59th Str, New York) opens |
| 1906 | Hugh Jennings resigns as Baltimore manager to take over at Detroit in 1907 |
| 1904 | JB van Heutsz becomes Governor-General of Netherland Indies |
| 1904 | Netherlands and Portugal lay down bounderies splitting Timor |
| 1903 | 1st baseball World Series, Pittsburgh Pirates vs Americans Pilgrims (Red Sox) |
| 1898 | Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens |
| 1898 | Henry Huntington buys LA Railway |
| 1898 | Jews are expelled from Kiev, Russia |
| 1896 | Sherlock Holmes adventure "Veiled Lodger" takes place |
| 1896 | Yosemite becomes a National Park |
| 1895 | Romanians in Costantinople massacred |
| 1894 | Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska |
| 1893 | 3rd worst hurricane in U.S. history kills 1,800 (Mississippi) |
| 1892 | University of Chicago opens |
| 1890 | Congress creates Weather Bureau |
| 1890 | Yosemite National Park forms |
| 1889 | Soccer team HFC Haarlem forms |
| 1889 | Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum |
| 1888 | National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time |
| 1886 | U.S. Mint at Carson City, Nevada closes |
| 1885 | Special delivery mail service begins in US |
| 1880 | John Philip Sousa becomes new director of U.S. Marine Corps Band |
| 1879 | Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause |
| 1874 | Rotterdam opens drink water pipes |
| 1871 | General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht |
| 1869 | 1st postcards are issued (Vienna) |
| 1868 | 1st edition of Maasbode published |
| 1867 | Karl Marx' "Das Kapital," published |
| 1866 | Dutch Eindhoven-Venlo railway opens |
| 1864 | Cyclone strikes Calcutta: 70,000 killed |
| 1864 | John S Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for President Lincoln |
| 1863 | 5 Russian warships welcomed in New York City |
| 1863 | Dutch Breda-Tilburg railway opens |
| 1851 | 1st Hawaiian stamps issued |
| 1847 | Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet |
| 1838 | Civil Code enforced (- Jan 1, 1992) |
| 1837 | "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico) |
| 1837 | Treaty with Winnebago Indians |
| 1833 | Charles Darwin reaches Rio Tercero, Argentina |
| 1830 | General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam |
| 1801 | England and France signs Preliminary of London |
| 1800 | Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty |
| 1795 | France annexes Southern Netherlands |
| 1791 | 1st session of new French legislative assembly |
| 1791 | Dutch prince Willem Frederik marries his niece princess Frederika Louise Wilhelmina of Prussia |
| 1768 | English troops under general Gauge lands in Boston |
| 1746 | Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France |
| 1705 | Parliament declares Hungary independently/French Rakoczi becomes king |
| 1688 | Prince Willem III accept invitation of English crown to occupy |
| 1670 | Battle at Simbirsk a/d Wolga: Russian army beats Boers |
| 1661 | Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James |
| 1657 | Treaty of Raalte: Willem II no longer viceroy of Overijssel |
| 1653 | Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine |
| 1632 | Battle at Castelnaudary: Duke Henri de Montmorency's rebel army loses |
| 1606 | Spanish troops under Spinola occupies fort Rhine birch |
| 1574 | Storm breaks Leiden dike; drowns 20,000 Spanish soldiers |
| 1569 | Duke of Norfolk arrested |
| 1529 | Meeting between Maarten Luther and Huldrych Zwingli |
| 1273 | Earl Rudolf van Habsburg becomes Roman Catholics-German king |
| 965 | John XIII Crescentii elected to succeed Pope Leo VIII |
| 704 | Aengibald gives away bishop Willibrord estate in Waalre |
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