| 2012 | In Haiti, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe announced plans to pay for a new education fund with a new 'sin' tax on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling |
| 2012 | The Libyan parliament passes a vote of no confidence for Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Prime Minister of Libya; Abdurrahim El-Keib again takes over the post |
| 2011 | With an unbeaten run of 14 wins, Australian mare Black Caviar ties the horse racing record for consecutive victories set by Phar Lap |
| 2011 | In western Ethiopia, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees opens new refugee camp for refugees from Sudan and South Sudan |
| 2010 | Japan's government approves a $60 billion economic stimulus package |
| 2007 | Marion Jones gives up 5 Olympic medals after admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs |
| 2005 | Earthquake in Kashmir kills approximately 80,000 people |
| 2003 | Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected the governor of California |
| 2001 | SAS flight 686 crashes near Milano-Linate, killing 114, crash caused by flight crew and tower confusion |
| 1998 | House of Representatives approves impeachment inquiry of President Clinton |
| 1995 | Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record |
| 1995 | Edgar Martinez drives home tying and winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees and win AL Division Series |
| 1994 | BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill |
| 1993 | Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts" |
| 1993 | Qn Elizabeth's nephew Viscount Linley (32) weds Serena Stanhope (24) |
| 1993 | U.N. lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa |
| 1992 | Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott |
| 1992 | Ottawa Sentors 1st NHL game |
| 1992 | Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus |
| 1990 | 24th Country Music Association Award: George Strait wins |
| 1990 | Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters |
| 1990 | U.S. doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize |
| 1989 | Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series |
| 1988 | Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage |
| 1988 | Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove |
| 1986 | Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0 |
| 1986 | RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs |
| 1985 | "Rembrandt and Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam |
| 1985 | Alain Boubil/Herbert Kretzner's "Les Miserables," premieres in London |
| 1985 | Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident |
| 1984 | 18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins |
| 1983 | 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7 |
| 1983 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to New York Islanders 8-7 |
| 1982 | New Jersey Devils 1st victory, beating New York Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands |
| 1982 | Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions |
| 1981 | 1st broadcast of "Cagney and Lacey" on ABC-TV |
| 1981 | President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral |
| 1980 | Bob Marley collapses on stage, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital |
| 1980 | British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro |
| 1980 | U.S.S.R. and Syria sign peace treaty |
| 1980 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1979 | "Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 1208 performances |
| 1979 | J McHugh and A Malvin's musical "Sugar Babies," premieres in New York City |
| 1978 | Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph) |
| 1978 | Yankees win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City |
| 1977 | Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant) |
| 1976 | Sex Pistols sign with EMI |
| 1973 | NLCS game 3 brawl between Cincinnatis' Pete Rose and New York Met Bud Harrelson |
| 1973 | Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece |
| 1972 | "From Israel with Love" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| 1972 | Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions |
| 1972 | In Game 2 of ALCS, A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher |
| 1972 | Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined and suspended |
| 1971 | John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine" |
| 1971 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1970 | Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 1968 | Aircraft carrier Charles Doorman sold to Argentina |
| 1966 | Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yards (54, 54, 52) |
| 1965 | Djakarta Moslems set fire to PKI-headquarter |
| 1965 | London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England |
| 1965 | Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms |
| 1965 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1964 | Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st U.S. chief engraver to retire (than die) |
| 1963 | Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya |
| 1962 | Algeria admitted as 109th member of U.N. |
| 1962 | North Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party |
| 1961 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Bill Brannin's Swing Parade Golf Tournament |
| 1961 | U.S. Constellation crashes at Richmond, Virginia, 74 die |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | Whitey Ford breaks Babe Ruth's World Series record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, running his streak to 32 |
| 1960 | Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer |
| 1959 | "At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 216 performances |
| 1959 | Conservatives win British election |
| 1959 | Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series |
| 1958 | Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time |
| 1958 | Dr. Ake Senning installs 1st pacemaker in Stockholm |
| 1958 | KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1957 | Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles |
| 1957 | Procter and Gamble-director N McElroy becomes U.S. Minister of Defense |
| 1957 | Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (New York City) |
| 1957 | Turkish and Syrian border guards exchange fire |
| 1956 | Don Larsen, New York, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn |
| 1955 | Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga launched |
| 1953 | Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in and drops white players from his group |
| 1953 | WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins |
| 1952 | 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England) |
| 1952 | Chinese offensive in Korea |
| 1951 | "Music in the Air" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 56 performances |
| 1951 | Ford Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 1950 | 4th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit |
| 1950 | Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17 |
| 1946 | Kwo-less-shrew selects General Chiang Kai-shek as president of China |
| 1946 | Military plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die |
| 1945 | Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada |
| 1944 | "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debut on CBS radio |
| 1944 | Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto," premieres |
| 1943 | Great Britain establishes bases on Azores |
| 1942 | Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley) |
| 1941 | Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built |
| 1940 | Cincinnati Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series |
| 1940 | German troops occupies Romania |
| 1939 | Germany annexes Western Poland |
| 1939 | New York Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win |
| 1938 | G Kaufman and Moss Hart's "Fabulous Invalid," premieres in New York City |
| 1935 | Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie and Harriet) |
| 1934 | Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son |
| 1933 | Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters |
| 1933 | Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish government |
| 1930 | Philadelphia A's beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series |
| 1929 | A's Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs |
| 1929 | Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi |
| 1928 | Cole Porter and E Ray Goetz' musical "Paris," premieres in New York City |
| 1928 | Eastern Soccer League forms in U.S. |
| 1927 | New York Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series |
| 1927 | Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation) |
| 1924 | British Labour government of MacDonald falls to Communists |
| 1922 | New York Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series |
| 1918 | 7 U.S. soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command and shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more |
| 1918 | Sergeant Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans |
| 1917 | Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet |
| 1915 | Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British and Germans killed |
| 1915 | Phillies win their 1st and only World Series game before 1980, beating |
| 1915 | Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally |
| 1912 | 1st Balkan War begins - Montenegro declares war on Turkey |
| 1912 | Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War |
| 1909 | Chicago Cubs beat New York Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant |
| 1908 | New York Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920) |
| 1906 | Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London |
| 1904 | 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, New York) |
| 1903 | J. M. Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen," premieres in Dublin |
| 1898 | 1st Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2 |
| 1897 | Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera |
| 1896 | Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks |
| 1895 | Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms |
| 1892 | Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow |
| 1887 | Phillies set club record 16th straight victory |
| 1886 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor" |
| 1873 | 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute |
| 1871 | Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin |
| 1871 | Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4miles (10 km) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation |
| 1865 | Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains |
| 1862 | Battle of Perryville, Kentucky-Confederate invasion halted |
| 1862 | Otto von Bismarck becomes German republic chancellor |
| 1860 | Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens |
| 1856 | Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War |
| 1842 | Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach |
| 1840 | 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reache James Island, Galapagos archipelago |
| 1822 | 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley |
| 1818 | 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves |
| 1815 | Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo, Italy |
| 1813 | Treaty of Ried between Bayern and Austria |
| 1806 | British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve |
| 1775 | Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army |
| 1740 | Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia |
| 1712 | French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast |
| 1690 | Turkish troops occupy Belgrade |
| 1633 | Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government |
| 1625 | Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz |
| 1604 | Supernova "Kepler's nova" 1st sighted |
| 1600 | San Marino adopts constitution |
| 1492 | Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico |
| 1085 | San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated |
| 876 | Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare |
| 451 | Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens |
| 314 | Battle at Cibalae: emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius |
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