| 2012 | Riot police are sent out to greet thousands of protesters in Madrid, Spain, who demand that the government quit |
| 2012 | The GAA names Karl Lacey of Donegal its All Stars Footballer of the Year |
| 2011 | In the U.K., researchers use a new gene therapy technique to treat those who suffer ocular defects such as retinal choroideremia |
| 2011 | A World War II-era bomb is discovered in the German city of Halle; 12,000 people are evacuated |
| 2010 | A free trade accord between India and Malaysia is announced; it would become effective July 2011 |
| 2010 | In a BBC interview, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said it was 'impossible' for coalition forces to secure victory in Afghanistan |
| 2004 | World Series, Boston Red Sox beat Saint Louis Cardinals 4 games to 0 |
| 2002 | World Series, Anaheim Angels beat San Francisco Giants 4 games to 3 |
| 1999 | World Series, New York Yankees beat Atlanta Braves 4 games to 0 |
| 1997 | Dow Jones crashes record 554 pts to 7161 |
| 1997 | Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million |
| 1997 | Microsoft argues it should be "free from government interference" |
| 1997 | U.S. releases a redesigned $50 bill |
| 1996 | U.S. beats Japan, 21 -14, at Nichirei International Golf Tournament |
| 1995 | Contract finalizing Cleveland Browns' move to Baltimore is signed |
| 1995 | Meyrick Pringle takes cricket hat-trick in England tour game at Soweto |
| 1993 | Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcasting in El Paso, Texas |
| 1992 | Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies |
| 1992 | Fox is to launch Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to Decemeber |
| 1992 | Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of Tolkien |
| 1992 | Tipper Gore (wife of future Vice President) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink |
| 1991 | "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 9 performances |
| 1991 | "Homecoming" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 49 performances |
| 1991 | John Brodie wins Security Pacific Senior Golf Classic |
| 1991 | Minn Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win World Series in 7 |
| 1990 | "Michael Feinstein in Concert" closes at Golden New York City after 30 performances |
| 1990 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled |
| 1988 | "ET" released to home video (14 million presold) |
| 1988 | Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione and Sinatra |
| 1987 | Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections |
| 1987 | Peter Shaffer's "Lettice and Lovage," premieres in London |
| 1987 | South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution |
| 1986 | New York Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series |
| 1986 | Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head" |
| 1985 | 15th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34 |
| 1985 | 16th New York City Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34 |
| 1985 | Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions |
| 1985 | Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time |
| 1985 | Hurricane Juan ravages U.S. Gulf states and east coast, 49 die |
| 1985 | Kansas City Royals beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series |
| 1985 | Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's and 2 Renoir's |
| 1984 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1984 | Washington State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing |
| 1982 | China announces its population at 1 billion people plus |
| 1982 | IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics |
| 1981 | Andrew Young, former United Nations Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia |
| 1980 | Astros owner John McMullen replaces General Manager Tal Smith with Al Rosen |
| 1980 | Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph |
| 1979 | Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds |
| 1979 | St. Vincent and Grenadines becomes independent of U.K. (National Day) |
| 1979 | Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide |
| 1978 | Begin and Sadat win Nobel Peace prize |
| 1978 | President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill |
| 1977 | Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped |
| 1977 | NASA launches space vehicle S-200 |
| 1975 | Covers of both Time and Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen |
| 1974 | Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24) |
| 1973 | 1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2 |
| 1973 | Alabama sets offensive record (828 yards), beats Virginia Tech 77-6 |
| 1972 | Golden Gate National Recreation Area created |
| 1971 | Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire |
| 1971 | Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan |
| 1970 | "Light, Lively and Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 87 performances |
| 1969 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen |
| 1969 | Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders |
| 1969 | St. Vincent and Grenadines gains associated status with Britain |
| 1968 | 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1968 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Golf Invitational |
| 1967 | 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records |
| 1967 | Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada |
| 1967 | NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen |
| 1966 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1966 | U.N. deprives South Africa of Namibia |
| 1966 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1965 | WCFT TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | "Ben Franklin in Paris" opens at Lunt Fontanne New York City for 215 performances |
| 1964 | Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians |
| 1964 | Singers Sonny and Cher wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms |
| 1963 | Bob Simpson completes 359 for NSW vs. Qld at Gabba |
| 1963 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament |
| 1962 | "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 673 performances |
| 1962 | Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test |
| 1961 | American Basketball League starts play |
| 1961 | Outer Mongolia and Mauritania become 102nd and 103rd members of UN |
| 1960 | AL admits LA and Washington to the league |
| 1960 | Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" and "Stand By Me" |
| 1959 | Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico |
| 1958 | General Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan |
| 1958 | WEDU TV channel 3 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey |
| 1957 | WOWL TV channel 15 in Florence, AL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | WPTA TV channel 21 in Fort Wayne, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | Argentine peso devalued |
| 1955 | Satomi Myodo, renews Zen nun vows and takes Buddhist name of Daien Myodo |
| 1954 | B. O. Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black general in USAF |
| 1954 | President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem |
| 1954 | WISN TV channel 12 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | "My Darlin' Aida" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 89 performances |
| 1950 | Paul Creston's 3rd Symphony "Triumph of St. Joan," premieres |
| 1948 | Albert Camus' "L'etat de Siege," premieres in Paris |
| 1948 | Israel recaptures Nizzanim in Negev |
| 1947 | "You Bet Your Life," with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio |
| 1947 | WMAR TV channel 2 in Baltimore, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1946 | Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%) |
| 1945 | "Carib Song" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 36 performances |
| 1945 | 1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine) |
| 1944 | Hertogenbosch and Tilburg freed from nazi occupation |
| 1944 | Tito reaches free Belgrade |
| 1942 | 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/Australian advance |
| 1942 | U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz |
| 1941 | Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan |
| 1941 | Nazi's directs gypsy ghetto in Belgrade |
| 1938 | DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon" |
| 1935 | SDAP and NVV launchs "Plan for Work" in Utrect Netherlands |
| 1931 | Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2" |
| 1927 | Queen Wilhelmina opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen |
| 1925 | Water skis patented by Fred Waller |
| 1924 | Uzbek SSR forms |
| 1922 | 1st commemoration of Navy Day |
| 1922 | Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws |
| 1920 | League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva |
| 1920 | Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins |
| 1919 | U.S. Congress sign Volstead Act |
| 1916 | 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety) |
| 1914 | British battleship Audacious sunk by mine |
| 1913 | President Wilson says U.S. will never attack another country |
| 1901 | 1st complete performance of Debussy's "Nocturnes" |
| 1896 | 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!) |
| 1893 | Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Georgia and Charleston SC |
| 1886 | Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia |
| 1884 | Architect Henry Hardenberghs Dakota-complex opens in New York City |
| 1880 | Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday |
| 1871 | Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after New York Times exposed his corruption |
| 1867 | Garibaldi marches on Rome |
| 1864 | Battle of Boydton Plank Road, Virginia (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad) |
| 1864 | Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia near Richmont |
| 1864 | Battle of Newtonia, MI |
| 1864 | Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed/sinks |
| 1864 | Siege of Petersburg, VA |
| 1863 | Dutch railway to Harlingen opens |
| 1858 | RH Macy and Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106 |
| 1830 | Major-General Baron D Chasse bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution) |
| 1810 | U.S. annexes West Florida from Spain |
| 1795 | Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi |
| 1787 | Federalist letters start appearing in New York newspapers |
| 1775 | U.S. Navy forms |
| 1702 | English troops plunder St. Augustine, Florida |
| 1688 | King James II fires premier Robert Spencer |
| 1676 | Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw |
| 1662 | England sells Duinkerken to France for 2.5 million livres |
| 1651 | English troops occupy Limerick Ireland |
| 1644 | 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies |
| 1627 | English assault on French Il de Re |
| 1605 | Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk |
| 1523 | English troops occupy Montalidier France |
| 1492 | Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain |
| 625 | Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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