| 2012 | Anglo-Irish poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis' archive, which inclues manuscripts and a letter from W. H. Auden are donated to Oxford University's Bodelian Library by Tamasin and Daniel Day-Lewis |
| 2012 | George Lucas sells Lucasfilm Ltd. to the Walt Disney Company for $4.05 billion; the sale includes the rights to the 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' franchises |
| 2011 | Australia's Qantas airlines and its unions are ordered to settle their industrial dispute within 21 days |
| 2011 | Columbian voters participate in local gubernatorial and mayoral elections which include Medellin, Cali and Bogota |
| 2010 | The U.S. launches a search for the people behind an attempt to mail bombs to synagogues and places of worship in Chicago, Illinois |
| 2010 | Eastern Japan braces itself as Typhoon Chaba heads its way, carrying winds of up to 162 kilometers per hour near its center |
| 1997 | "Cherry Orchard," opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City |
| 1997 | Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured |
| 1995 | Quebec Referendum votes to remain part of Canada |
| 1994 | Leftist coalition wins Marcedonia parliamentary election |
| 1994 | Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel's Pentium-processor on Internet |
| 1994 | U.S. wins Nichirei LPGA Golf International |
| 1993 | Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0 |
| 1992 | Metropolitan Transportation Authority begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles |
| 1991 | Colombian government negotiate with M-19-guerrilla |
| 1991 | Mark Sauer becomes CEO of Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1991 | Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain |
| 1991 | Singer Clint Black (34) weds actress Lisa Hartman (29) |
| 1990 | England and France complete Chunnel |
| 1989 | August A Busch III becomes CEO of St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1989 | Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal) |
| 1988 | 2 gambling clubs and 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot |
| 1988 | Beth Daniel wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship |
| 1988 | Jim Elliott (U.S.) completes 24-hour paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi |
| 1988 | New York Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time |
| 1986 | Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modification are made |
| 1985 | 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched |
| 1984 | Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award |
| 1982 | Portugal revises constitution |
| 1980 | Honduras and El Salvador settle their boundary dispute |
| 1980 | NASA launches Flt Satcom-4 |
| 1979 | NASA launches space vehicle S-203 |
| 1979 | Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham |
| 1978 | Uganda troops attack Tanzania |
| 1977 | Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07 |
| 1976 | "Going Up" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 49 performances |
| 1976 | Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show |
| 1976 | Reverend Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ |
| 1975 | Giants pitcher John "the Count of" Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1975 | John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| 1975 | Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain |
| 1975 | New York Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" |
| 1974 | California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH) |
| 1974 | Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award |
| 1974 | Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire |
| 1973 | Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award |
| 1972 | 45 die in a train crash in Chicago, Illinois |
| 1972 | Worst U.S. rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago |
| 1970 | KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, New Hampshire (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1968 | Jaqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios |
| 1968 | Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics) |
| 1968 | Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber) |
| 1968 | Queen Juliana opens IJ tunnel in Amsterdam |
| 1967 | Arthur Allyn says White Sox will play 9 games in Milwaukee in 1968 |
| 1967 | Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48,093 km) |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. Kosmos 186 and 188 make 1st automatic docking and Venmera 13 launch |
| 1966 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open |
| 1965 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open |
| 1965 | Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia |
| 1964 | Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam |
| 1963 | Morocco and Algeria signs cease fire |
| 1963 | Sandy Koufax wins NL MVP award |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| 1961 | Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb |
| 1961 | U.N. unanimously elects U Thant acting Secretary General of the U.N. |
| 1961 | Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square |
| 1960 | Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba |
| 1957 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
| 1957 | Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika |
| 1957 | WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1957 | WYTV TV channel 33 in Youngstown, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad |
| 1956 | Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961 |
| 1955 | Imtiaz Ahmed scores 209 vs. New Zealand, the record for a no 8 batsman |
| 1954 | Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry |
| 1954 | U.S. Armed Forces end segregation of races |
| 1953 | Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1952 | Clarence Birdseye sells 1st frozen peas |
| 1951 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1950 | David Diamond's 3rd Symphony, premieres |
| 1949 | "Lost in the Stars" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 281 performances |
| 1949 | Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's musical premieres in New York City |
| 1948 | 20 die and 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania |
| 1948 | Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee |
| 1947 | 23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva |
| 1947 | Darius Milhauds 3rd Symphony "Hymnus Ambrosianus," premieres in Paris |
| 1945 | Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals |
| 1945 | U.S. government announces end of shoe rationing |
| 1944 | Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," premieres in Washington D.C. |
| 1944 | Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen |
| 1944 | Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau |
| 1944 | Scottish Highlanders liberate Waalwijk |
| 1944 | Sweden announces intention to stay neutral and refuse sanctuary in WW II |
| 1944 | Tholen Island freed |
| 1943 | Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina |
| 1943 | Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN |
| 1943 | Soviet forces under Tolbuchin stick Sivash-bay about |
| 1942 | 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault |
| 1942 | U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea |
| 1941 | USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though U.S. is not in war |
| 1940 | Cole Porters musical "Panama hattie," premieres in New York City |
| 1939 | U.S.S.R. and Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews |
| 1939 | German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard |
| 1938 | Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds" |
| 1931 | W2XB TV channel 1 in New York City, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1930 | Turkey and Greece sign a treaty of friendship |
| 1925 | KUT-AM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions |
| 1922 | Anxious to compete with the Yankees, the New York Giants pay $65,000 and 3 players for Jack Bentley (hits .349 and is 13-1 as pitcher in 1922) |
| 1922 | Mussolini forms government in Italy |
| 1919 | Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball |
| 1918 | Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state |
| 1917 | British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration |
| 1914 | Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins |
| 1911 | Clark Griffith is named manager of Washington Senators |
| 1905 | "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties |
| 1905 | G.B. Shaw's "Mrs Warren's Profession," premieres in New York City |
| 1905 | Tsar of Russia accepts 1st Duma (Parliament) |
| 1901 | Battle at Bakenlaagte: Lt-colonel Bensons unit vs Boers |
| 1900 | 1st-ever U.S. auto show opens in Madison Square Garden in New York City |
| 1899 | Battle at Ladysmith Natal: Boers beat Lieutenant-General Whites army |
| 1899 | British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown |
| 1896 | Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator |
| 1894 | Daniel Cooper patents time clock |
| 1893 | Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 |
| 1888 | John J Loud patents ballpoint pen |
| 1888 | Ndebele-king Lobengula grants Cecil Rhodes, Mashonaland 100 pounds per month |
| 1886 | Great Britain/Germany divide boundaries in East-Africa |
| 1883 | Austria-Hungary/Germany/Romania signs military treaty |
| 1873 | P. T. Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth," debuts (New York City) |
| 1871 | Philadelphia Athletics beat Chicago for 1st National Association baseball pennant |
| 1868 | John Menard of Louisiana is 1st black elected to Congress |
| 1866 | Jesse James gang robs bank in Lexington Missouri ($2000) |
| 1864 | Helena, Montana's capital, founded |
| 1862 | Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun |
| 1851 | Alfred de Mussets "Bettine," premieres in Paris |
| 1772 | Captain Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown |
| 1768 | 1st Methodist church in U.S. initiated (Wesley Chapel, New York City) |
| 1739 | England declares war on Spain: War of Jenkin's Ear |
| 1697 | Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Netherlands/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War |
| 1629 | King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath |
| 1611 | Gustaaf II Adolf (17) becomes king of Sweden |
| 1534 | English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope |
| 1503 | Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against indians |
| 1493 | Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica |
| 1489 | Peace of Tours, between emperor Maximilian I and Flemings |
| 1485 | King Henry VII Tudor crowned "Yeomen of the Guard" |
| 1468 | Charles the Stout occupies and plunders Luik |
| 1389 | French king Charles VI visits pope Clemens VII |
| 1270 | 8th and last crusade is launched |
| 1077 | German king Henry IV gives away bisdom Utrecht county Staveren |
| 942 | Alberic nominates Pope Marinus II (Martinus III) |
| 701 | John VI of Greece begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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