| 1996 | 30th Country Music Association Award: Brooks and Dunn win |
| 1995 | "Moon Over Buffalo" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 308 performances |
| 1995 | Seattle Mariners beat California Angels, 9-1 in a playoff game to win AL West |
| 1994 | "Show Boat," opens at Gershwin Theater New York City |
| 1994 | Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test |
| 1993 | Spike Lee weds Tonya Lewis |
| 1992 | Vice President Itamar Franco becomes President of Brazil |
| 1991 | Eric Lindros, refused to sign with Quebec Nordiques |
| 1991 | Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 pro tennis matches |
| 1991 | Toronto Blue Jays clinches AL East title and becomes 1st team to draw 4 million fans |
| 1990 | "Michael Feinstein in Concert -" opens at Golden New York City for 30 performances |
| 1990 | Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany |
| 1990 | Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die |
| 1990 | U.S. Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to Supreme Court |
| 1990 | Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors |
| 1988 | 24th Olympic games close at Seoul, Korea |
| 1988 | Gelindo Bordin wins 21st Olympics marathon (2:10:32) |
| 1988 | Minn Twins are 1st AL club ever to break 3 million season attendance |
| 1988 | Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections |
| 1988 | Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson and Robin Givens |
| 1988 | Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his Bernardsville New Jersey Mansion |
| 1986 | Failed assassination attempt on India premier Rajiv Gandhi |
| 1986 | Mike Scott is 3rd NL pitcher to strike out 300 in a season (306) |
| 1986 | New York Met Dwight Gooden is 1st to strike out 200 or more in 1st 3 seasons |
| 1986 | Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi |
| 1985 | Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris |
| 1985 | Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 home run seasons in both leagues |
| 1984 | 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit |
| 1984 | In 1st LCS game played with replacement umps, Cubs cbeat Padres 13-0 |
| 1984 | Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage |
| 1983 | Art Monk begins NFL streak of 136 plus consecutive game receptions |
| 1983 | Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat |
| 1983 | Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Bomb attack in Teheran, kills 60, injures 700 |
| 1981 | Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran |
| 1980 | Larry Holmes TKOs Muhammad Ali in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1980 | Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM) |
| 1978 | Syrian and Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed |
| 1978 | Yankees win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer and Pinella's fielding |
| 1977 | Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition |
| 1977 | Vivian Brownlee wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 1977 | Dusty Baker 30th home run joins teammates Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32), and Ron Cey (30) in make Dodgers 1st team to boast 4 30-home run hitters |
| 1976 | "Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater New York City after 106 performances |
| 1974 | Hank Aaron's 733rd career home run on his last NL at bat |
| 1972 | "From Israel with Love" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1972 | Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105 |
| 1972 | Bill Stoneman of Montreal pitches his 2nd no-hitter, beating Mets, 7-0 |
| 1972 | Danish population votes for European Common Market membership |
| 1972 | Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats New York Mets, 7-0 |
| 1972 | Ron Johnson becomes 1st New York Giant to score 4 touchdowns vs. Philadelphia |
| 1971 | Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race |
| 1970 | Billy Martin named manager of Detroit Tigers |
| 1970 | Plane carrying Wichita State University football team crashes killing 30 |
| 1969 | Seattle Pilots last game in Seattle, lose 3-1 to As in front of 5,473 |
| 1969 | U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians |
| 1968 | 1st London performance of "Promises Promises" presented |
| 1968 | Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts |
| 1968 | Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed |
| 1968 | Peru coup under General Velasco Alvarado, President Belaunde Terry flees |
| 1968 | Republic Guinea forms (day of republic) |
| 1968 | 1st time, 2 soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other Cards Bob Gibson beat Tigers Denny McLain 4-0 |
| 1967 | Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents |
| 1967 | Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia |
| 1967 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational |
| 1967 | Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice |
| 1966 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
| 1966 | Los Angeles Dodgers Sandy Koufax clinches 3rd Los Angeles pennant in 4 years |
| 1965 | Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant |
| 1965 | Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20 |
| 1965 | Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 New York Mets |
| 1965 | Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishop's helper of New Orleans |
| 1964 | Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds) |
| 1963 | Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 Yankees |
| 1963 | West German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to U.S.S.R. |
| 1962 | SF beats LA, 8-7 in 4h18m 9 inning playoff game |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| 1961 | "Ben Casey" premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | WETA TV channel 26 in Washington, D.C. (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | WHRO TV channel 15 in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament |
| 1959 | Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1958 | Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day) |
| 1958 | Musical show "Valmouth," 1st produced in London |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1957 | New York Yankees appear in their 25th World Series |
| 1957 | New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores |
| 1956 | 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC |
| 1955 | "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres |
| 1955 | 9th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 3-1 at Detroit |
| 1955 | Actress Joyce Randolph marries publisher Richard Charles |
| 1955 | Chiva Stoica becomes premier of Romania |
| 1955 | WHTN (now WOWK) TV ch 13 in Huntington-Charleston, WV (CBS) begins |
| 1954 | 8th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Detroit 2-2 at Detroit |
| 1954 | Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal |
| 1954 | New York Giants sweep Cleveland Indians, in 51st World Series |
| 1953 | "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" opens at John Golden New York City for 849 perf |
| 1953 | Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in World Series |
| 1951 | 1st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel) |
| 1951 | Dodgers beat Giants 10-0, in 2nd game of play-offs |
| 1950 | 1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks," later "Peanuts" in 9 papers |
| 1950 | Mao Tse Tung proclaims in telegram to Stalin, China intervenes Korea |
| 1950 | Red Sox Dom DiMaggio leads AL with only 15 stolen bases |
| 1950 | Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions |
| 1950 | Chicago Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Baltimore Colts (55-13) |
| 1949 | St. Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3 |
| 1949 | U.S.S.R. recognizes People's Republic of China |
| 1949 | Yankees and Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play final game of season. Yankees win 5-3 and clinch pennant #16 |
| 1948 | "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 725 performances |
| 1947 | "Music in My Heart" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 124 performances |
| 1947 | Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted |
| 1947 | Yankee Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a World Series homer |
| 1946 | 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont |
| 1944 | Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people |
| 1944 | U.S. B-17's drops pamphlets on Walcheren |
| 1943 | Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island |
| 1943 | Yankees sweep 14th doubleheader of year, beating Browns, 5-1 and 7-6 |
| 1942 | "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338 |
| 1942 | 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago |
| 1941 | 6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo |
| 1941 | Germans launch attack on Moscow |
| 1940 | 17 German aircrafts shot down above England |
| 1940 | British Council receives British Charter |
| 1940 | British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk |
| 1939 | Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF |
| 1938 | Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times) |
| 1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State |
| 1936 | 1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas |
| 1936 | Amsterdam's Calvinist Churches reject nazism |
| 1936 | French franc devalued |
| 1936 | New York Yankees score World Series record 18 runs, beating Giants 18-4 |
| 1936 | Tony Lazzeri becomes 1st Yank to hit a World Series grand slam |
| 1935 | Mussolini's Italian armys attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
| 1935 | NY Hayden Planetarium, 4th in U.S., opens |
| 1933 | Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness," premieres in New York City |
| 1932 | New York Yankees sweep Chicago Cubs in 29th World Series |
| 1932 | Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0 |
| 1931 | Pope Pius XI encyclical On economic crisis |
| 1926 | Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game |
| 1924 | League of Nations approves protocols of Geneva |
| 1923 | British occuping army leaves Constantinople |
| 1923 | Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day, hitting .403 |
| 1921 | New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits then record 59th home run |
| 1920 | Only tripleheader of century (Reds win 13-4, 7-3 then Pirates win 6-0) |
| 1919 | 1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Netherlands |
| 1919 | President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed |
| 1916 | Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of year |
| 1916 | San Diego Zoo founded |
| 1915 | 7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley Nevada |
| 1913 | Phillies beat New York Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader |
| 1910 | 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy) |
| 1910 | Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record) |
| 1909 | 1st rugby match (Twickenham) |
| 1908 | Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row |
| 1907 | Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader vs Giants |
| 1906 | Tommy Burns KOs Jim Burns in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1901 | 1st Royal Naval submarine launched at Barrow |
| 1900 | Belgium crown prince Albert von Saksen-Coburg weds Elisabeth of Bayern |
| 1899 | Orange Free state mobilizes |
| 1895 | 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper |
| 1889 | 1st Pan American conference (Washington D.C.) |
| 1879 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" |
| 1872 | Morgan State University founded |
| 1871 | Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy |
| 1870 | Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital |
| 1866 | J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener |
| 1861 | Former Vice President John C. Breckinridge flees Kentucky |
| 1853 | Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land |
| 1836 | Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle (after 5 years) |
| 1833 | Charles Darwin rides through Corunda to Santa Fe, Argentina |
| 1833 | New York Anti-Slavery Society organized |
| 1804 | England mobilizes to protect against French invasion |
| 1799 | Duke of York and Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands |
| 1795 | Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao |
| 1792 | Baptist Missionary Society forms in London |
| 1787 | Maagden House opens in Amsterdam |
| 1760 | Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin |
| 1700 | Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne |
| 1656 | U.S. colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers |
| 1614 | French king Louis XIII (13) declared an adult |
| 1608 | Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey |
| 1586 | Battle at Zutphen: English-Dutch army |
| 1572 | Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen |
| 1540 | Venice/Turkey signs peace |
| 1535 | Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal) |
| 1518 | English cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan |
| 1492 | King Henry VII of England invades France |
| 1187 | Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders |
| 1134 | Storm flood ravages Zeeland county |
| 976 | Hisham II appointed kalief of Cordoba |
| 939 | Battle at Andernach: King Otto and Hermann of Zwaben beat Eberhard of France and Giselbert of Lutherans |
