| 2006 | Google buys YouTube.com for $1.6 billion |
| 1996 | Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in New York City |
| 1995 | "Garden District" opens at Circle in the Sq Theater New York City |
| 1995 | Israel begins W Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners |
| 1995 | Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits |
| 1995 | Robert E. Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics |
| 1994 | Lieutenant-General Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti |
| 1994 | MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings |
| 1994 | New York Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56 |
| 1994 | Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell |
| 1994 | Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar |
| 1993 | Browns Najee Mustafaa sets club rec for longest interception (97 yards) |
| 1993 | Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed |
| 1993 | Ted Kennedy, Jr. (32) weds psychiatrist Katherine Gershman (34) |
| 1992 | Actress Ally Sheedy weds actor David Lansbury |
| 1992 | Actress Heather Thomas weds entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham |
| 1992 | Floriade (Flower Show) closes at Hague, Netherlands |
| 1991 | Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers |
| 1991 | Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy |
| 1991 | U.S. cuts all foreign aid to Haiti |
| 1990 | Oakland A's sweep Red Sox in 4 games to win ALCS |
| 1990 | U.S. 67th manned space mission STS-41 (Discovery 11) returns from space |
| 1988 | 22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win |
| 1988 | Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club in 1989 |
| 1987 | Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love" |
| 1987 | Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks |
| 1987 | Giant's Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record home run in his 4th cons game |
| 1986 | 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador |
| 1986 | Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns |
| 1985 | Sudan adopts interim constitution |
| 1985 | U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody |
| 1983 | 17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins |
| 1983 | Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM |
| 1983 | Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers |
| 1982 | Brewers beat Angels in ALCS |
| 1982 | Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia |
| 1982 | Pope John Paul II canonizes Reverend M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint |
| 1982 | U.S. imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union |
| 1981 | Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo |
| 1980 | 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria |
| 1980 | Very Large Array radio telescope network dedicated |
| 1980 | Yankees lose 4-2 and are swept by Royals in AL Championship series |
| 1979 | Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood |
| 1979 | Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game |
| 1979 | Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone) |
| 1979 | Recorded trace of snow in Central Park New York City |
| 1978 | Aerosmith's Steve Tyler and Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb |
| 1978 | British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published |
| 1978 | Congress approves Susan B. Anthony Dollar |
| 1978 | Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya |
| 1978 | Steve Perry joins Journey |
| 1978 | Yankees and Dodgers play in World Series # 75 |
| 1977 | 11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins |
| 1976 | Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung's widow |
| 1976 | New Jersey Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens |
| 1976 | Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33 |
| 1975 | Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt |
| 1975 | Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton) |
| 1974 | A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley |
| 1974 | Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles |
| 1974 | Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
| 1974 | U.S. General George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series |
| 1973 | New York Mets beat Cincinnati Reds in Game 5 of the NLCS |
| 1973 | Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns |
| 1972 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open |
| 1971 | 1st game played at Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1 |
| 1971 | 5th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Pride wins |
| 1971 | Fenholt and Webber's musical "Jesus Christ Superstar," premieres in New York City |
| 1971 | Rain washes out Game 2, 1st World Series postponement since 1962 |
| 1970 | Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1968 | Detroit Tigers beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series |
| 1968 | George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd. |
| 1968 | Lee Evans of U.S. sets 400 meter record at 43.86 |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 | Brendan Behans "Norstal Boy," premieres in Dublin |
| 1965 | "Drat! - The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1965 | Supreme appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
| 1965 | "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn between 1423 and 1445 |
| 1964 | 18th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-2 at Toronto |
| 1964 | 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo |
| 1963 | Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die |
| 1963 | Netherland population hits 12,000,000 |
| 1963 | Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by U.S., UK, U.S.S.R. |
| 1962 | Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack |
| 1961 | "Milk and Honey" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 543 performances |
| 1961 | Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros and New York Mets |
| 1961 | Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court |
| 1961 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1960 | "Laughs and Other Events" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1960 | 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo |
| 1960 | Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die |
| 1960 | Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards |
| 1960 | WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1959 | "Happy Town" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1959 | Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki |
| 1959 | Pan Am begins regular flights around World |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1957 | Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale |
| 1957 | Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series |
| 1957 | Milwaukee Braves beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series |
| 1957 | President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1956 | Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match vs. Aus, Karachi |
| 1956 | On Skowron's grand slammer New York Yankees beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7 |
| 1954 | Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pulled out |
| 1951 | Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio's final game |
| 1949 | 3rd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Toronto |
| 1948 | Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland |
| 1947 | "Allegro" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 318 performances |
| 1947 | Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "Allegro," premieres in New York City |
| 1946 | Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer," premieres in Zurich |
| 1945 | Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series |
| 1944 | Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die |
| 1944 | U.S. takes Okinawa |
| 1943 | Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China |
| 1943 | U.S. bombers accidentally strike Enschede, Netherlands, causing 151 deaths |
| 1942 | 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt |
| 1941 | German U-boat torpedoes U.S. destroyer Kearney |
| 1938 | Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland |
| 1938 | Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st String Quartet |
| 1937 | New York Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series |
| 1936 | Bradman scores 212 in 202 minutes in a cricket testimonial game |
| 1935 | "Porgy and Bess," by George Gershwin, New York premiere |
| 1935 | Coup under General Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy |
| 1935 | George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway |
| 1935 | League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia |
| 1933 | 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter and Gamble, goes on sale |
| 1932 | "Betty and Bob" premieres on radio |
| 1932 | Dnjepr Dam in U.S.S.R. put into operation (world's biggest) |
| 1931 | A J Bennett hits H Garbarino for 1st scoring pass in Canada's Big 4 |
| 1931 | St. Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series |
| 1931 | William Waltons "Belshazzar's Feast," premieres in Leeds |
| 1930 | AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP and BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP |
| 1930 | Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years |
| 1926 | St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series |
| 1924 | Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca |
| 1924 | Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7 |
| 1923 | Saxony gets Social Democratic and Communist coalition government |
| 1923 | New York Giants and New York Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium |
| 1921 | NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10 |
| 1920 | 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) and 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss) |
| 1920 | Indians' Elmer Smith hits baseball's 1st post-season grand slam |
| 1920 | Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige) |
| 1920 | Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie |
| 1920 | Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play |
| 1920 | Indian's Elmer Smith hits 1st World Series grand slam |
| 1919 | Richard Strauss and Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna |
| 1918 | Baden's Geisz forms government |
| 1917 | Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter |
| 1917 | Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St. New York City |
| 1916 | In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3 |
| 1914 | German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I) |
| 1913 | British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill) |
| 1913 | Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic and Pacific waters mix |
| 1913 | Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China |
| 1911 | Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day) |
| 1908 | Baseball Writers Association, formed |
| 1904 | Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St. New York City |
| 1904 | Yankees 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader 41 game winner Chesbro loses 1st game and chance at pennant |
| 1904 | Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete games AL 1,098, NL 1,089 |
| 1902 | S Afr's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht |
| 1899 | IR Johnson patents bicycle frame |
| 1892 | Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan |
| 1888 | Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa) |
| 1886 | 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, New York (tuxedo) |
| 1874 | Fiji becomes a British possession |
| 1868 | 1st written account of a Canadian football game |
| 1868 | Cuba revolts for independence against Spain |
| 1865 | John Hyatts patents billard ball |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties) |
| 1857 | American Chess Association formed (New York City) |
| 1854 | U.S. Assay Office in New York City, New York opens |
| 1846 | Alexis the Tocqueville writes about "Algerian problem" |
| 1846 | Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell |
| 1845 | Naval School (now called U.S. Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis |
| 1839 | British troops under General Charles Napier occupy Beirut |
| 1802 | 1st non indian settlement in Oklahoma |
| 1799 | Convention of Alkmaar: English/Russian invasion army departs |
| 1787 | Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army |
| 1780 | Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean |
| 1760 | Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves) |
| 1733 | France declares war on emperor Charles VI |
| 1720 | French government proclaims strike on banknotes |
| 1695 | King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England |
| 1631 | Saxon army occupies Prague |
| 1578 | Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen |
| 1549 | Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector and imprisoned |
| 1471 | Battle of Brunkeberg Stockholm (Sten Sture beats Christian I) |
| 1375 | Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands |
| 680 | Battle at Kerbela: Kalief Yazid beats pretender al-Hussein |
