| 2012 | The 2012 Summer Olympics is credited with helping the UK economy emerge from recession; official GDP figures show 1 percent growth from July to September |
| 2012 | Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Jamaica and heads towards The Bahamas |
| 2011 | In the U.S., 133 people in 26 states are suffering from the 2011 U.S. listeriosis outbreak, which killed 28 people to date |
| 2011 | The last nine-megaton B53 warheads, in service since 1962, are disassembled near Amarillo, Texas |
| 2010 | Sony takes its original cassette Walkman off the market |
| 2004 | World Series, Florida Marlins beat the New York Yankees 4 games to 2 |
| 1996 | Frank, brother of Yank manager Joe Torre, receives a heart transplant |
| 1995 | "Victor/Victoria," opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 738 performances |
| 1994 | Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them) |
| 1993 | Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead |
| 1993 | Canada Liberal Party/Bloc Quebecois wins parliamentary election |
| 1993 | Daryll Cullinan hits 337* for Transvaal, SAf 1st-class cricket record |
| 1992 | "Dancing at Lughnasa" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 421 performances |
| 1992 | "Jake's Women" closes at Neil Simon Theater New York City after 245 performances |
| 1992 | Rene Lachemann hired as Florida Marlins 1st manager |
| 1991 | Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs vs. India in cric 1-dayer at Sharjah |
| 1990 | Evander Holyfield KOs Buster Douglas in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1990 | New York Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991) |
| 1988 | ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets |
| 1988 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1987 | Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series |
| 1986 | International Red Cross ousted from South Africa |
| 1986 | Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS |
| 1986 | Trailing 5-3 with 2 out and no one on in bottom of 10th, New York rallies to win Game 6 of the World Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball |
| 1985 | Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract |
| 1985 | Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit |
| 1984 | "Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC) |
| 1984 | Hepatitis virus is discovered |
| 1984 | King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels |
| 1984 | Rangers beat Devils 11-2 |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1984 | West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption |
| 1983 | U.S. invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (U.S. Wins!) |
| 1982 | David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 minutes, SA vs. Victoria |
| 1981 | 11th New York City Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe in 2:25:29 |
| 1981 | 12th New York City Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:08:13 |
| 1981 | 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missiles |
| 1981 | Allison Roe (2:25:29) and Alberto Salazar (2:08:13) win New York City marathon |
| 1981 | George Steinbrenner scuffles with 2 fans in a hotel elevator |
| 1980 | Mike Weaver KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1980 | Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks and her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1978 | Israeli Government approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace |
| 1978 | Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL) |
| 1976 | 5th Enterprise, approach and lands test (ALT) flight |
| 1975 | Denv Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St. Louis Spirits |
| 1975 | U.S.S.R.'s Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing |
| 1974 | Air Force fires 1st ICBM |
| 1974 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad |
| 1974 | Wings release "Junior's Farm" |
| 1973 | Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship |
| 1973 | Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock and Vic Harris |
| 1973 | San Francisco Giants trade Willie McCovey to San Diego Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell |
| 1972 | Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hour |
| 1972 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks |
| 1971 | Belgium and China establish diplomatic relations |
| 1971 | General Meeting of United Nations agrees to admit China PR |
| 1971 | Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World |
| 1971 | U.N. votes to expel Taiwan and admit Red China |
| 1970 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Women's Golf Charities Open |
| 1968 | Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler |
| 1968 | Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby |
| 1966 | 6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam |
| 1965 | Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud" |
| 1964 | Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner |
| 1964 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1964 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1964 | Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety |
| 1963 | Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas |
| 1963 | Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden |
| 1962 | 110th member of United Nations admitted (Uganda) |
| 1962 | 1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation |
| 1962 | American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature |
| 1962 | Stevenson demands U.S.S.R. ambassador Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over" |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York City |
| 1960 | Cuba nationalizes all remaining U.S. businesses |
| 1957 | Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed |
| 1956 | White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him |
| 1955 | Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time since German occupation of 1938 |
| 1955 | Branch Rickey steps down as General Manager of the Pirates |
| 1955 | Tappan sells 1st microwave oven |
| 1953 | Cleveland Browns' quarterback Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles |
| 1953 | Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die |
| 1953 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony |
| 1953 | KIEM TV channel 3 in Eureka, California (NBC/CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine "Donald Duck" |
| 1952 | French president inaugurates Donzere-Mondragonstuw Dam |
| 1952 | Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistan's 1st Test century 124* vs. India |
| 1951 | Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom |
| 1950 | Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life |
| 1950 | Jean Anouilh's "La Repetition, ou L'Amour Pani," premieres in Paris |
| 1950 | Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia |
| 1948 | Special Council of Annulment convicts F. Weinreb for collaboration |
| 1947 | "Under the Counter" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 27 performances |
| 1947 | Bradman scores 156 for SA vs. the Indians, 152 minutes, 22 fours |
| 1947 | Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan and Fred Saigh for $4M |
| 1946 | 1st trial against nazi war criminals in Neurenberg |
| 1945 | Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek |
| 1944 | Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink |
| 1944 | Battle at Samar-island |
| 1944 | Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed |
| 1944 | Gas output stopped in Amsterdam |
| 1943 | Burma railroad completed and opens |
| 1942 | 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive |
| 1942 | Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins |
| 1942 | Field Marshal Rommel back in North-Africa |
| 1941 | 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa, Ukraine |
| 1941 | Germany attacks Moscow |
| 1941 | Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia |
| 1940 | Benjamin O. Davis became 1st Black general in U.S. Army |
| 1940 | Col Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General |
| 1940 | Duke, Latouche and Felter's musical premieres in New York City |
| 1940 | U.S. Army General Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general |
| 1939 | George Kaufman/Moss Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner," premieres in New York City |
| 1939 | Nylon stockings go on sale in U.S. for 1st time |
| 1939 | William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," premieres in New York City |
| 1938 | Japanese troops occupies Hankou and Wuhan |
| 1937 | Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money |
| 1937 | Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees |
| 1935 | Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie and Jacmel Haiti |
| 1932 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant |
| 1932 | Mussolini promises to remain dictator for 30 years |
| 1930 | 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center |
| 1930 | 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began |
| 1929 | Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe |
| 1926 | Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach and General Manager of New York Rangers |
| 1925 | Lester Patrick takes over New York Rangers |
| 1925 | Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno |
| 1924 | "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published |
| 1923 | Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal |
| 1918 | Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die |
| 1917 | In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power |
| 1917 | Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd |
| 1915 | Atty James L. Curtis named minister of Liberia |
| 1907 | Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden |
| 1906 | U.S. inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting |
| 1903 | Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin |
| 1902 | Maksin Gorki's "Na dne," premieres in Moscow |
| 1902 | Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die |
| 1900 | England annexes Transvaal |
| 1893 | Battle of Shangani, Matabeleland: Dr. Jameson beats Ndebeles |
| 1891 | 1st International 6 day bike race (New York MSG) ends |
| 1885 | John Brahms' 4th Symphony in E, premieres |
| 1884 | 1st World Series OK by AA, Providence (NL) sweeps New York Mets (AA) in 3 |
| 1881 | Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Clanton engage in "Shootout at OK Corral" |
| 1875 | Peter Tsjaikofsky's "1st Pianoconcert up. 23" premieres in Boston |
| 1870 | Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore |
| 1870 | Postcards 1st used in U.S. |
| 1864 | Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River, Kansas (Mine Creek) |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Mine Creek, KS and Turkeytown, AL |
| 1861 | Battle of Wilson's Creek, MI (Springfield) |
| 1859 | Merchant vessel Royal Charter runs aground at Liverpool, 459 die |
| 1854 | Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die |
| 1854 | Prince Menshikov of Krim occupies British base at Balaclava |
| 1825 | Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean |
| 1812 | U.S. frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian |
| 1764 | John Adams marries Abigail Smith, marriage lasts 54 years |
| 1760 | George III ascends British throne |
| 1671 | Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn |
| 1666 | Brandenburg/Brunswick/Denmark/Netherlands form anti-French Quadruple Alliance |
| 1621 | Governor Bradford of U.S. colony Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day |
| 1616 | VOC-ship "The Eendracht" discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia |
| 1596 | Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland |
| 1577 | Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns |
| 1555 | Emperor Karel puts son Philip II in charge of Netherlands/Naples/Milan |
| 1521 | Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam |
| 1492 | Christopher Columbus and ship Santa Maria land in Dominican Republic |
| 1492 | Columbus' fleet sites "Zandislands" (Ragged Island Range, Bahamas) |
| 1492 | Columbus' ship Santa Maria lands at Dominican Republic |
| 1415 | Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeat armored knight |
| 1415 | John IV van Bourgondy becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg |
| 1241 | Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241) |
| 1147 | Battle at Doryleum: Arabs beat Koenraad III's crusaders |
| 1147 | King Afonso I of Portugal occupiers Lisbon |
| 1131 | Crowning of Louis VII the Young, King of France |
| 625 | Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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