| 2012 | Jan van Eyck is credited as the painter of 'The three mary's at the tomb' a painting from the 1430's held in a Rotterdam museum |
| 2012 | Only two days after being named to his new post, Shinichi Nishimiya, the newly-appointed Japanese ambassador to China is hospitalized after collapsing in Tokyo |
| 2011 | In Pakistan, over 5,000 people reportedly are infected with Dengue fever |
| 2011 | In Sweden, four men arrested for the 2011 failed Gothenburg terrorist attack are believed to be linked to the Al-Qaeda terrorist network |
| 2010 | Raul Castro, head of the Cuban government, declares they will lay off half a million state workers to improve their economy by the middle of 2011 |
| 2010 | The United Nations appoints Russia diplomat, Yury Fedotov, to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime |
| 2007 | Burj Dubai becomes the world's largest structure |
| 1998 | SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Carolina Hurricane's 1st exhibition game beat New York Islanders 4-1 |
| 1997 | Katherine Shindle (Ill), 24, crowned 71st Miss America 1998 |
| 1996 | Phil Simmons scores 171 and takes 6-14 for Leics vs. Durham |
| 1994 | George Burns, undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain |
| 1994 | Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun |
| 1993 | Israeli Minister of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord |
| 1993 | Junxia Cheek runs ladies world record 3000m (8:06.11) |
| 1993 | Queens New York begins required recycling |
| 1992 | 112th U.S. Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Pete Sampras (36 64 76 62) |
| 1992 | New York Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28 |
| 1992 | Nancy Lopez wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
| 1992 | Steffan Edberg beats Pete Sampress to win U.S. Open |
| 1991 | 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium |
| 1991 | Joe Carter is 1st to have 3 consec 100-RBI seasons with 3 differ teams |
| 1991 | Joe Coleman 3rd 100 RBI season in a row 3 teams (Cleveland, San Diego and Toronto) |
| 1991 | Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts |
| 1990 | Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die |
| 1990 | Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait |
| 1990 | Robert E. Nederlander appointed New York Yankee managing general partner |
| 1990 | Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter |
| 1989 | "Les Miserables," opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit |
| 1989 | Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa |
| 1989 | Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner |
| 1988 | 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams |
| 1988 | 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in New York |
| 1988 | Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere |
| 1987 | Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro |
| 1987 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
| 1987 | Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours |
| 1986 | Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 home runs in a season |
| 1986 | Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987 |
| 1985 | 2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen |
| 1985 | John Williams introduces new Today Show theme |
| 1984 | STS-41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1984 | Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed |
| 1983 | Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save |
| 1983 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 1983 | Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season |
| 1983 | Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 minutes, Lancs vs. Leics |
| 1983 | U.S. Mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle) |
| 1982 | 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain |
| 1982 | Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game |
| 1981 | 101st U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (46 62 64 63) |
| 1981 | 33rd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Hill St. Blue, Judd Hirsh and Isabel Sanford wins |
| 1981 | April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yards and 13" |
| 1981 | Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay) |
| 1981 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| 1981 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1980 | 1st United Negro College Fund |
| 1979 | China performs nuclear test |
| 1979 | South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of South Africa) |
| 1978 | 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet |
| 1978 | New York Yankees win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back |
| 1977 | 1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap |
| 1977 | General Motors introduces 1st U.S. diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88) |
| 1976 | 2nd Enterprise, approach and lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s) |
| 1975 | Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean and U.S. |
| 1974 | 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague |
| 1974 | 1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV |
| 1974 | Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St. Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17 |
| 1974 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1973 | ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics |
| 1973 | Congress passes and sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout |
| 1973 | Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea |
| 1972 | 1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS |
| 1971 | 11 guards and 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison |
| 1971 | Frank Robinson hits his 500th home run |
| 1971 | Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow |
| 1971 | WIIQ TV channel 41 in Demopolis, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1971 | World Hockey Association forms |
| 1970 | 1st New York City Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38 |
| 1970 | 84th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61) |
| 1970 | 90th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (26 64 76 63) |
| 1970 | IBM announces System 370 computer |
| 1970 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open |
| 1970 | Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania |
| 1969 | Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title |
| 1969 | Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player |
| 1969 | Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko and Eric Clapton) 1st live performance |
| 1968 | Albania leaves Warsaw pact |
| 1966 | Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa |
| 1965 | Beatles release "Yesterday" |
| 1965 | Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964 |
| 1965 | Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast |
| 1965 | Willie Mays's 500th home run (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win |
| 1964 | 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome |
| 1964 | 78th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Carole Graebner (61 60) |
| 1964 | 84th U.S. Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Frederick S Stolle (64 62 64) |
| 1964 | Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1964 | St. Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2 |
| 1964 | WKEF TV channel 22 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1963 | "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV |
| 1963 | Barbra Striesand and Elliot Gould marry |
| 1963 | Jim Bouton's 20th win clinches Yankees 28th pennant |
| 1963 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV |
| 1961 | Battles between United Nations and Katanga troops in Congo |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit |
| 1960 | Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law |
| 1959 | 73rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64) |
| 1959 | 79th U.S. Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64) |
| 1959 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open |
| 1959 | U.S.S.R.'s Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body |
| 1958 | Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times |
| 1958 | Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam |
| 1956 | Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes |
| 1956 | Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice |
| 1954 | Reds Ted Kluszewski scores a run in record 17 consecutive games |
| 1954 | WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Philadelphia A's |
| 1952 | Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico |
| 1951 | St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0 |
| 1949 | Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in New York City |
| 1948 | Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress |
| 1947 | WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1946 | Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant |
| 1944 | 30th Infantry division of U.S. 1st Army frees Margraten |
| 1944 | Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen |
| 1944 | U.S. 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall |
| 1943 | Chiang Kai-shek became president of China |
| 1943 | German counter attack at Salerno |
| 1943 | Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected president |
| 1942 | Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal |
| 1942 | Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning |
| 1942 | German forces attack Stalingrad |
| 1940 | Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt |
| 1938 | Alexander Cartwright selects to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 1936 | Cleveland Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 in a game (vs Philadelphia A's) |
| 1934 | Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000 |
| 1932 | New York Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant |
| 1931 | Captain G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph) |
| 1931 | Right-radical coup of Dr. Pfrimer fails in Austria |
| 1930 | 50th U.S. Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 16 64 16-14) |
| 1930 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4) |
| 1930 | Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament |
| 1930 | Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St. John's Rugby, 7-3 |
| 1928 | KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions |
| 1927 | Yankees clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 home runs (52 en route to 60) |
| 1927 | Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees |
| 1925 | 1st U.S. University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans |
| 1925 | Bkln Dodger Dazzy Vance no-hits Phillies, 10-1 |
| 1924 | 19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0) |
| 1923 | With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera |
| 1922 | 136.4 degrees F (58 degrees C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record) |
| 1919 | Guy Bolton and George Middleton's "Adam and Eve," premieres in New York City |
| 1918 | Train accident at Weesp, Netherlands, kills 42 |
| 1910 | Regina Rugby Club forms |
| 1909 | Ty Cobb clinches AL home run title with his 9th home run (all inside-the-park) |
| 1907 | Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Foot Ball |
| 1906 | 1st airplane flight in Europe |
| 1898 | 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike |
| 1898 | Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film |
| 1890 | Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland and Salisbury |
| 1883 | Cleveland Hugh Daily no-hits Philadelphia 1-0 |
| 1883 | Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia |
| 1882 | Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt |
| 1881 | Lewis Latimer invents and patents electric lamp with a carbon filament |
| 1869 | Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to control U.S. gold market |
| 1867 | General E R S Canby orders South Carolina courts to impanel blacks jurors |
| 1861 | 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla |
| 1858 | Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire and sinks, 471 die |
| 1849 | 1st U.S. prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy) |
| 1847 | American-Mexican war: U.S. General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City |
| 1800 | Curacao in English hands (until Jan 1803) |
| 1791 | France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution |
| 1789 | 1st loan to U.S. Government (from New York City banks) |
| 1788 | New York City becomes 1st capital of US |
| 1787 | Prussian army moves into Netherlands |
| 1775 | Gotthold Lessing's "Die Juden," premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main |
| 1759 | British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec) |
| 1751 | England signs Austrian and Russian alliance |
| 1743 | England, Austria and Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms |
| 1663 | 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia) |
| 1631 | Admiral Tholen conquerors 30+ Spanish frigates |
| 1625 | 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem |
| 1579 | Breda forms Union of Utrecht |
| 1574 | Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis |
| 1556 | Charles V and Maria of Hungary march into Spain |
| 1553 | English Hugh Latimer arrested |
| 1549 | Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna |
| 1515 | Battle at Marignano: France beats Habsburgers and Pope Leo X |
| 1125 | Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III |
| 604 | Sabinian begins his reign as Pope replacing Pope Gregory the Great |
| 122 | Building begins on Hadrian's Wall |
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