| 2012 | A debate among EU commissioners on a proposal to accept a 40 percent quota for women on corporate boards is delayed until November 2012 |
| 2012 | In London, the 23rd James Bond film, 'Skyfall' receives its Royal premiere at the Royal Albert Hall |
| 2011 | Former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's autopsy reveals that he was killed by a gunshot wound to the head |
| 2011 | The city of Van in eastern Turkey experiences a 7.2-magnitude earthquake; 100 people are killed |
| 2010 | The U.N. compound in Herat, western Afghanistan, is attacked by a suicide bomber |
| 2010 | If trends in diet and exercise continue, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project estimate 1 in 3 adult Americans will have diabetes by 2050 |
| 1997 | "Triumph of Love," opens at Royale Theater New York City |
| 1997 | At 6:11 AM San Francisco experiences a black out |
| 1997 | Dow Jones drops 186.88 pts |
| 1997 | Les Alexander, owner of Houston Rockets buys NHL's Edmonton Oilers |
| 1996 | New York Yankees set record by coming back from 6-0 in World Series game to beat Atlanta Braves 8-6, also set record of 7th straight road win |
| 1994 | 3rd Solheim Cup: U.S. beats Europe, 13-7 at Greenbrier WV |
| 1993 | 7 killed by IRA-bomb attack in Belfast |
| 1993 | Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara Kashmir |
| 1993 | Tor Blue Jays beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2, in 89th World Series |
| 1991 | "Les Miserables," opens at Mogador Theatre, Paris |
| 1991 | Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
| 1991 | Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women |
| 1990 | Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages |
| 1989 | Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass |
| 1989 | George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976 - 1989" album |
| 1989 | Hungary proclaims itself a republic and declares communist rule ended |
| 1989 | U.S. 62nd manned space mission STS-34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space |
| 1989 | William Nicholson's "Shadowlands," premieres in London |
| 1988 | Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid |
| 1988 | Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by U.S. Senate |
| 1987 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1987 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1984 | Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young |
| 1984 | NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine |
| 1984 | STS-51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1983 | 13th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:00 |
| 1983 | 14th New York City Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 2:08:59 |
| 1983 | 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile |
| 1983 | Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 241 U.S. personnel in Beirut |
| 1980 | "Tintypes" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 93 performances |
| 1980 | McCosker (168) and Dyson (152) make 319 opening stand cricket, NSW vs. WA |
| 1980 | Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness |
| 1979 | Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minnesota marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches |
| 1978 | CBS raises LP prices to $8.98 |
| 1978 | China and Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension |
| 1978 | Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in New York City |
| 1977 | 7th New York City Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:43:10 |
| 1977 | 8th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:38 |
| 1977 | Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties |
| 1977 | Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 3.4-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered |
| 1975 | Battle between Cuba and South Africa troops in Angola |
| 1975 | Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0 |
| 1974 | Cubs trade Billy Williams to A's for Manny Trillo, Knowles and Locker |
| 1974 | Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation dedicated |
| 1973 | Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica |
| 1973 | UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted |
| 1973 | Yankee General Manager and President Lee MacPhail named AL president |
| 1972 | "Pippin" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 1944 performances |
| 1972 | Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain |
| 1972 | WNJS TV channel 23 in Camden, New Jersey (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1971 | WXLT (now WWSB) TV channel 40 in Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida (ABC) begins |
| 1970 | Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph) |
| 1969 | "Jimmy" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 84 performances |
| 1968 | "Maggie Flynn" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 82 performances |
| 1968 | Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 minutes 34.9 seconds) |
| 1967 | "Henry, Sweet Henry" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 80 performances |
| 1967 | New Jersey Americans (later NY/New Jersey Nets) play 1st ABA game |
| 1966 | Sandra Spuzich/Jack Rule wins Haig and Haig Scotch Mixed Foursome Golf |
| 1964 | Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball |
| 1964 | Time Magazine uses term "op art" for 1st time |
| 1963 | Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park," premieres in New York City |
| 1962 | Adlai Stevenson speaks at United Nations about Cuba crisis |
| 1962 | USAF Major Robert A. Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800m |
| 1962 | WCIV TV channel 4 in Charleston, South Carolina (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | "Kwamina" opens at 54th St. Theater New York City for 32 performances |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1959 | Chinese troops move into India, 17 die |
| 1958 | De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave" |
| 1958 | Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam |
| 1957 | 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3 |
| 1956 | 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast |
| 1956 | Revolt against Stalinist policies begins in Hungary |
| 1955 | Dominican League moves to winter baseball for 1st time |
| 1954 | Britain, England, France and U.S.S.R. agree to end occupation of Germany |
| 1954 | West Germany joins NATO |
| 1954 | Pakistan governor-general Ghoelan Mohammed disbands parliament |
| 1954 | WSAU TV channel 7 in Wausau, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | France grants Laos' sovereignty |
| 1953 | West Germany applies to NATO |
| 1953 | WTRF TV channel 7 in Wheeling-Steubenville, WV (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1947 | NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN |
| 1947 | Husband and wife Dr. Carl Cori and Dr. Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes |
| 1946 | U.N. General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st New York City-Flushing Meadows) |
| 1945 | Jackie Robinson signs Montreal Royal contract |
| 1944 | 1st Central Kitchen opens in Amsterdam |
| 1944 | Gulf of Leyte battle begin |
| 1944 | Soviet army invades Hungary |
| 1944 | Vice-Admiral Kurita's sailboat Atago sinks |
| 1943 | 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau |
| 1943 | Burma railway opens |
| 1942 | 1st ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk |
| 1942 | During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt |
| 1942 | German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad |
| 1941 | Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released |
| 1935 | Gabby Hartnett selected NL MVP |
| 1935 | Johnny Revolta wins PGA golf tournament |
| 1934 | Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlen attain balloon height of 17.341 m (rec) |
| 1932 | "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio |
| 1932 | Pieter G. Marais, South Africa minister of Education/Development aid |
| 1927 | Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan Strauss |
| 1923 | Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform |
| 1923 | Giants defeat Baltimore Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day |
| 1922 | Channing Pollock's "Fool," premieres in New York City |
| 1922 | Conservative A Bonar forms new government in England |
| 1921 | Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis |
| 1921 | Leos Janacek's opera "Kat'a Kabanova," premieres in Brno |
| 1920 | Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal |
| 1919 | Romberg and Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in New York City |
| 1918 | Actor Charlie Chaplin (29) weds Mildred Harris (17) |
| 1917 | 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st U.S. shot in WW I |
| 1917 | Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin and Trotsky |
| 1915 | 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa) |
| 1915 | 25,000 women march in New York City, demanding right to vote |
| 1910 | Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight |
| 1910 | Philadelphia A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series |
| 1910 | Ritz Hotel in Madrid opens: 200 chambers/100 bathtubs |
| 1905 | Edward Milton Royle's "Squaw Man," premieres in New York City |
| 1893 | C Dazey's "In Old Kentucky" premieres in New York City (27 seasons) |
| 1890 | Opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St. Petersburg) |
| 1888 | Pelham Bay Park in Bronx, vested |
| 1886 | St. Louis Browns win World Championship by beating Chicago 4-3 in 10 |
| 1884 | 1st World Series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats New York Mets (AA) 6-0 |
| 1876 | New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office |
| 1871 | Columbia and Sappho (U.S.) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup |
| 1864 | Battle of Westport, Missouri |
| 1864 | Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price |
| 1854 | The Times give precise British positions in Krim |
| 1853 | Maastricht-Aken railway in Netherlands opens |
| 1824 | 1st steam locomotive is introduced |
| 1814 | 1st plastic surgery is performed (England) |
| 1812 | Failed coup against emperor Napoleon |
| 1805 | Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340 |
| 1775 | Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army |
| 1760 | 1st Jewish prayer books printed in U.S. |
| 1702 | Battle in Bay of Vigo: Netherlands/English fleet destroy Spanish/French fleet |
| 1690 | Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking |
| 1684 | Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted |
| 1681 | French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Staatsburg |
| 1679 | Meal Tub Plot against James II of England |
| 1668 | Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade |
| 1644 | Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Admiral Thijssen beats Denen |
| 1642 | Battle at Edgeville (Warwick): King Charles I vs English parliament |
| 1588 | Medina Sidonia's Spanish Armada returns to Santander |
| 1520 | King Carlos I crowned, German emperor Charles V |
| 1229 | Otto II becomes earl of Gelre |
| 1086 | Battle of Zalaka: Alfonso VI vs Almoravids |
| 787 | Byzantine empress Irene recovers Iconclastic cult at Nicaea |
| 585 | Burgundy king Guntram opens synod of Macon (Mastico) |
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