| 2012 | Following severe floods in southern France, hundreds of pilgrims are evacuated from the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes |
| 2012 | Noam Chomsky, a Jewish-American philosopher, linguist and human rights activist, visits Gaza for the first time, attending a seminar with Gazan thinkers and intellectuals |
| 2011 | Thailand's Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, reveals it is impossible to protect Bangkok from flooding; calls the floods a 'national crisis' |
| 2011 | President Barack Obama's Jobs Act fails to receive the sixty votes required to advance from the U.S. Senate |
| 2010 | Astronomers discover the new galaxy UDFy-38135539, the most distant object observed from earth |
| 2009 | European astronomers discover 32 extrasolar planets, or exoplanets - planets that orbit a star other than the Sun |
| 1997 | Richard Gnida, Limo driver in Detroit Red Wings crash, pleads guilty |
| 1997 | U.S. accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers |
| 1996 | "Summer and Smoke" closes at Criterion Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf |
| 1996 | Braves Andruw Jones is youngest player to homer in World Series |
| 1996 | Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf |
| 1996 | Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq gets cricket Test record 313 for 8th wkt |
| 1996 | Wasim Akram scores cricket 257 vs. Zimbabwe at Sheikhupura, 12 sixes |
| 1995 | STS-73 (Columbia 18), launches into orbit |
| 1995 | Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final |
| 1993 | Highest scoring World Series game Blue Jays 15, Phillies 14 in 4h14m |
| 1992 | 1st World Series game outside of U.S. - Toronto beats Atlanta |
| 1992 | David Houghton gets Zimbabwe's 1st Test ton (121 vs. India, debut) |
| 1991 | "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 9 performances |
| 1991 | 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die |
| 1991 | Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black |
| 1991 | Formal opening ceremony of International One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colorado |
| 1990 | 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida |
| 1990 | Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (for U.S. - Iraq war) |
| 1990 | Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland A's in 86th World Series |
| 1989 | Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India and WI on round-robin |
| 1989 | U.S. Senate impeaches U.S. District Judge Alcee L Hastings |
| 1988 | "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia |
| 1988 | Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA |
| 1988 | Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons" |
| 1988 | Los Angeles Dodgers beat Oakland A's in World Series 4 games to 1 |
| 1988 | Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St. subway station (New York City) |
| 1988 | Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated |
| 1988 | Dodgers win World Series, LA 1st to have both NBA and baseball champs as LA beats Oakland A's, 4 games to 1 in 85th World Series |
| 1987 | 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis |
| 1987 | Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts/608,120,000 shares traded (record) |
| 1987 | Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail |
| 1986 | Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa |
| 1984 | Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed |
| 1984 | Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick-4 goals |
| 1983 | IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released |
| 1982 | Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland A's |
| 1982 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler |
| 1982 | Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected |
| 1982 | St. Louis Cardinals beat Mil Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series |
| 1981 | 1st NBA game at Meadowlands Arena, New Jersey Nets lose to New York Knicks 103-99 |
| 1981 | 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery |
| 1981 | Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured |
| 1979 | Bob Dylan appears on SNL |
| 1979 | John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston |
| 1979 | John Tate beats Gerrie Coetze in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1978 | Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government |
| 1978 | Police's 1st U.S. concert (NY's CBGBs) |
| 1977 | David Mamet's "Life in the Theater," premieres in New York City |
| 1977 | Hamilton Deane and John Balderstons "Dracula," premieres in New York City |
| 1976 | 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince |
| 1976 | New York Nets Julius "Dr. J" Erving sold to Philadelphia 76ers |
| 1975 | Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning |
| 1974 | 1st broadcast of "Derrick" on ZDF |
| 1974 | Bard's presentation of "Richard III" opens at Lincoln Center New York City |
| 1973 | Canadian actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Marcy Lafferty |
| 1973 | Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz" |
| 1973 | OPEC oil embargo begins |
| 1973 | President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athelete of 1st century |
| 1973 | Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House |
| 1973 | U.S. president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox |
| 1973 | William Shatner marries Marcy Lafferty |
| 1973 | Solicitor General Bork, Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus resigned |
| 1973 | The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR and moves station from New York City to Scituate Mass |
| 1972 | Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia |
| 1971 | "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death" opens at Barrymore for 325 per |
| 1971 | West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1970 | American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1970 | Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit and Return) |
| 1969 | WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard, Kentucky (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | "Her 1st Roman" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 17 performances |
| 1968 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
| 1968 | Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis |
| 1968 | Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (2:20:26.4) |
| 1967 | 7 men are convicted of civil rights violations in Meridan Miss |
| 1967 | Charlie Finley names Bob Kennedy 1st manager of Oakland A's |
| 1967 | KMXN (now KJTV) TV channel 34 in Lubbock, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | 19th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal |
| 1965 | Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday" |
| 1965 | Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia |
| 1964 | "Golden Boy" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 569 performances |
| 1964 | Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
| 1964 | Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested) |
| 1963 | Alec Douglas-Home forms British government |
| 1963 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| 1963 | Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 8,390 yards |
| 1963 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Hillside Golf Open |
| 1963 | South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and 8 others on conspiracy |
| 1963 | WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | "Mr President" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 265 performances |
| 1962 | Chinese army lands in India |
| 1962 | Musical, "Mr President," written by Irving Berlin, opens on Bdwy |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| 1960 | 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI |
| 1960 | Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager |
| 1959 | Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise |
| 1959 | WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1957 | Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings w/o losing a wkt |
| 1957 | Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary |
| 1956 | 58 degrees F (15 degrees C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high) |
| 1956 | Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft |
| 1955 | "No Time for Sergeants" opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith |
| 1955 | Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song) |
| 1955 | Ira Levin's "No Time for Sergeants," premieres in New York City |
| 1955 | Yankees begin 16-game exhibition in Japan |
| 1954 | "Peter Pan" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 149 performances |
| 1953 | WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya |
| 1947 | HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood |
| 1947 | Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years |
| 1947 | Robinson Jeffer's "Medea," premieres in New York City |
| 1946 | Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs New York Giants |
| 1945 | Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg |
| 1944 | Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland explodes, 135 die, 3,600 homeless |
| 1944 | Revolution by workers and students in Guatemala |
| 1944 | Russian/Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade |
| 1944 | U.S. 1st army wins battle of Aachen |
| 1944 | U.S. 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines |
| 1944 | U.S. forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines |
| 1942 | "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations |
| 1941 | Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia |
| 1940 | Cheese rationed in Netherlands |
| 1940 | Greenhouse rationing begins in Netherlands |
| 1939 | "All the Things You Are" recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orchestra |
| 1939 | Pope Pius XII publishes his 1st encyclical Summi pontificatus |
| 1936 | Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL |
| 1936 | Spanish government moves to Barcelona |
| 1935 | 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid |
| 1935 | Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels |
| 1935 | Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BBWAA, Wes Ferrell is runner-up |
| 1935 | Mao Tse Tung and his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China |
| 1934 | All-Star team led by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sails to Hawaii and Japan |
| 1934 | Richard Strauss completes his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau" |
| 1932 | Journalist, Robert Trout, joins CBS |
| 1931 | Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP |
| 1930 | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio |
| 1930 | British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land |
| 1929 | Bayshore Highway opens (SF) |
| 1926 | Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600 |
| 1922 | Kennelworth in Bronx renamed Dwight Place |
| 1920 | "1st Year" with Frank Craven premieres in New York City |
| 1918 | Germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions |
| 1912 | Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St. New York City |
| 1912 | Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2) |
| 1911 | Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St. New York City |
| 1911 | Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole |
| 1910 | 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series |
| 1910 | Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar |
| 1908 | King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium |
| 1906 | Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube) |
| 1905 | Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days |
| 1905 | Russian tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish |
| 1903 | U.S. wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska and Canada |
| 1899 | Battle at Talana Hill Natal: British army vs Boers |
| 1899 | Columbia (U.S.) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th America's Cup |
| 1898 | North Carolina Mutual and Provident Insurance Company forms |
| 1891 | 1st International 6 day bike race (New York MSG) begins |
| 1889 | Gerhart Hauptmann's "Vor Sonnenaufgang," premieres in Berlin |
| 1888 | Chicago and All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, New Zealand |
| 1883 | Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre," 1st performed |
| 1883 | Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile |
| 1880 | Amsterdam Free University opens |
| 1877 | Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres |
| 1873 | P. T. Barnum Hippodrome featuring "Greatest Show on Earth," opens (New York City) |
| 1864 | Lincoln formaly establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday |
| 1862 | Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname |
| 1856 | Arnhem-Oberhausen railway in Netherlands opens |
| 1847 | Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa |
| 1845 | Opera "Tannhauser" is produced (Dresden) |
| 1843 | 1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago/sails to Tahiti |
| 1833 | Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana |
| 1827 | Battle at Navarino: Engl/Russian/French fleet beat Turk/Egyptian fleet |
| 1822 | 1st edition of London Sunday Times |
| 1820 | Spain sells part of Florida to U.S. for $5 million |
| 1818 | 49th parallel forms as border between U.S. and Canada |
| 1818 | U.S. and Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country |
| 1817 | 1st Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage |
| 1813 | German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished |
| 1803 | U.S. Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase |
| 1786 | Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in U.S. |
| 1774 | Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment |
| 1751 | Royal ship Duc de Bourgogne launched at Rochefort |
| 1740 | Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia |
| 1714 | Georg Ludwig of Hannover crowned as King George I |
| 1634 | English King Charles I disbands new "Ship Money" tax |
| 1603 | Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed |
| 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns) |
| 1587 | Battle at Coultras: Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League |
| 1576 | Spanish troops occupies and plunder Maastricht |
| 1536 | Danish/Norw king Christian III leads reform in Catholic possessions |
| 1528 | Treaty of Gorinchem (Emperor and church) |
| 1097 | 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch |
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