| 2012 | The 52-foot iconic statue known as Big Tex, is destroyed by fire during the final days of the 2012 State Fair of Texas |
| 2012 | Andrew Mitchell, the Chief Whip of the British Conservative Party, resigns over remarks he made to police officers in Downing Street |
| 2011 | Queen Elizabeth II makes her 16th visit to Australia, commencing in the capital city of Canberra |
| 2011 | In Major League Baseball's World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals win Game 1 against the Texas Rangers |
| 2010 | American Idol producer Simon Cowell signs a three-year deal with ITV for 'The X Factor' and 'Britain's Got Talent' |
| 2010 | Naheed Nenshi, the first Muslim in Canada's history is elected mayor of Calgary in Alberta, Canada |
| 2006 | Dow closes above 12,000 for the first time |
| 2005 | Saddam Hussein's trial begins in Iraq |
| 1997 | "Annie," closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City |
| 1997 | 700th World Series home run (Sandy Alomar, Cleveland Indians) |
| 1997 | David Duval wins Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Hyatt Regency Maui Kaanapali Senior Golf Classic |
| 1996 | Braves beat New York Yankees by record tying 11 runs, 12-1 in a World Series |
| 1995 | "Hello Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 118 performances |
| 1994 | 160 killed at battles in Tsjetsjenie |
| 1994 | Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22 |
| 1993 | U.N. authorizes arms, miltary and police supply embargo against Haiti |
| 1991 | Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs) |
| 1991 | Lonnie Glieberman purchased Ottawa Rough Riders from CFL |
| 1990 | HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, forms in Prague |
| 1989 | "Dangerous Games" opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| 1989 | Astor Piazzolla and Wm Finn's musical "Dangerous Games" premieres in New York City |
| 1989 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1988 | 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel |
| 1988 | Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members |
| 1988 | Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border |
| 1988 | Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album |
| 1988 | South Africa anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize |
| 1988 | Senate passes bill curbing ads during children's TV shows |
| 1987 | "Anything Goes" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 804 performances |
| 1987 | "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record |
| 1987 | Dow Jones Index drops 508.32 points (22%) (record) |
| 1987 | U.S. warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf |
| 1987 | Woody Woodward resigns as New York Yankee General Manager, Lou Piniella is named General Manager and Billy Martin is named New York Yankee manager for 5th and final time |
| 1986 | "Flamenco Puro" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 40 performances |
| 1986 | "Raggedy Ann" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1986 | Allan Border scores the 10,000th run in Tests (v India, Bombay) |
| 1986 | U.S.S.R. expels 5 U.S. diplomats |
| 1983 | Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility |
| 1983 | Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council" |
| 1983 | Philadelphia Flyers begin 13 NHL game win streak |
| 1983 | Senate establishes Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday |
| 1982 | Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty) |
| 1981 | Los Angeles Dodgers beat Montreal Expos for NL pennant |
| 1981 | Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser) |
| 1980 | Steve McPeak rides 101'9" unicycle |
| 1977 | Corpse of kidnapped West German, H. M. Schleyer, found |
| 1977 | Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in New York City |
| 1975 | "Chorus Line" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 6137 performances |
| 1975 | Cleveland Browns' Don Cockroft kicks club record 5 field goals |
| 1975 | Hamlisch and Klebans musical "Chorus Line" premieres in New York City |
| 1975 | Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Japan Golf Classic |
| 1974 | Detroit Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Washington Caps |
| 1974 | Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90) |
| 1973 | Ringo releases "Photograph" |
| 1972 | "Mother Earth" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1971 | Last issue of "Look" magazine is published |
| 1970 | "Rothschilds" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 505 performances |
| 1970 | Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale California |
| 1970 | John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun |
| 1969 | J. Bock and S. Harnicks musical "Rothschilds," premieres in New York City |
| 1969 | Mary Mills wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
| 1969 | Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21) |
| 1968 | Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars |
| 1967 | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of U.S.S.R., sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4" |
| 1967 | Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus |
| 1966 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1966 | Yardbird 1st U.S. tour (New York City) |
| 1963 | Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand" |
| 1962 | Stalin-monument removed in Prague |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1960 | France grants Mauritania independence |
| 1960 | KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in |
| 1960 | U.S. imposes embargo on exports to Cuba |
| 1959 | Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel |
| 1959 | William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in New York City |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1957 | "Damn Yankees" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 1,022 performances |
| 1957 | Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals |
| 1954 | Egypt and Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs |
| 1954 | KAKE TV channel 10 in Wichita, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service |
| 1953 | Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey |
| 1952 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betty Jameson Golf Tournament |
| 1951 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Texas Women's Golf Open |
| 1951 | President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany |
| 1950 | Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated |
| 1950 | U.N. forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea |
| 1949 | A's trade 2nd baseman Nellie Fox to White Sox for Joe Tipton |
| 1949 | Yankees trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds |
| 1948 | "My Romance" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 95 performances |
| 1947 | De Gaulles RPF wins French municipal elections |
| 1944 | British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow |
| 1944 | Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg |
| 1944 | John Van Druten's "I Remember Mama," premieres in New York City |
| 1944 | Navy says black women can join WAVES |
| 1944 | U.S. forces land in Philippines |
| 1943 | Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow |
| 1943 | Theater Guild presentation of "Othello" opens at Shubert |
| 1943 | Yankee 2nd baseman Joe Gordon announces retirement (hates New York) |
| 1941 | 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico |
| 1939 | Goering begins plunder through Nazi's occupied areas |
| 1936 | H. R. Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 days |
| 1935 | Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi |
| 1933 | Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936 |
| 1932 | Austria forbids demonstration by Nazi's and anti fascists |
| 1932 | British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union |
| 1932 | Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech |
| 1932 | Jimmie Foxx wins AL MVP and Chuck Klein wins NL MVP |
| 1930 | Jules Ladoumegue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6) |
| 1926 | John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle |
| 1926 | Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky and followers |
| 1925 | Italian army takes Somalia |
| 1924 | General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hour work day in Belgium |
| 1923 | Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks |
| 1923 | Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Volkischer Beobachter |
| 1919 | 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman |
| 1919 | Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox scandal as 8 White Sox throw series |
| 1915 | Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria |
| 1914 | U.S. Post Office 1st used an automobile to collect and deliver mail |
| 1912 | Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control |
| 1911 | Royal Mint in London sends dies for $1 coin to Ottawa Branch |
| 1907 | 1st printing of Dutch Tribune (Wijnkoop/Van Ravesteyn/Ceton) |
| 1906 | Georges Chemenceau succeeds Sarien premier of France |
| 1901 | Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March," premieres in Liverpool |
| 1901 | Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower |
| 1900 | Henry O. Tanner, painter, wins Medal of Honor at Paris Exposition |
| 1900 | South African President Paul Kruger departs for Europe |
| 1888 | Moshav Gederah is attacked by Arabs |
| 1882 | Pierre de Brazza meets Henry Morton Stanley |
| 1879 | Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign |
| 1879 | Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light |
| 1874 | Mary Walsh and Charles Colson are 1st couple to be married in a balloon |
| 1872 | World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales |
| 1870 | 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps |
| 1870 | British SS Cambria leaves for Noth sea coast, 196 killed |
| 1864 | Approx 25 Confederates make surprise attack on St. Albans, Vermont |
| 1864 | Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Confederate attackers |
| 1864 | U.S. Brigadier General Emory Upton (25) promoted to general-major |
| 1863 | Battle of Buckland Mills, VA |
| 1859 | Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope |
| 1856 | James Kelly and Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne |
| 1853 | 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations |
| 1849 | Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman in U.S. to receive medical degree |
| 1845 | Richard Wagners opera "Tannhauser," premieres in Dresden |
| 1818 | U.S. and Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty |
| 1812 | Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow |
| 1781 | Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends |
| 1765 | Stamp Act Congress met in New York, wrote declaration of rights and liberties |
| 1739 | England declares war on Spain |
| 1722 | French C. Hopffer patents fire extinguisher |
| 1682 | English Lord Shaftesbury flees to Holland |
| 1655 | Swedish King Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow |
| 1634 | Beach Island in North sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood |
| 1630 | In Boston the 1st general court is held |
| 1576 | Dutch provinces begin consultation about Spanish existence |
| 1492 | Columbus sites "Isabela" (Fortune Island, Bahamas) |
| 1466 | 2nd Peace of Thorn |
| 1453 | 2nd Battle at Castillon: France beats English, end of hundred year war |
| 1298 | Rindfleish-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered |
| 1031 | Abbot Humbertus van Echternach opens grave of Saint Willibrord |
| 615 | St. Deusdedit I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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