| 1998 | Week of Fed Cup |
| 1997 | 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards |
| 1997 | Bank One Senior Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Chicago Whites Sox retire Carlton Fisk's number, 72 |
| 1997 | Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Classic |
| 1997 | Loren Roberts wins CVS Charity Golf Classic with a 266 |
| 1996 | A's Mark McGwire is 13th player to hit 50-home runs in a season |
| 1996 | Dean Headley takes 3rd cricket hat-trick of season, Kent vs. Hampshire |
| 1996 | New York Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 home runs by a catcher |
| 1996 | Tara Dawn Holland (Kansas), 23, crowned 70th Miss America 1997 |
| 1994 | All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season |
| 1992 | 1st subway car completed to be exported from U.S. (to Taiwan) |
| 1991 | Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992 |
| 1991 | Freshman Marshall Faulk of San Diego State rushed for NCAA record |
| 1991 | Magic Johnson weds Erieatha "Cookie" Kelly |
| 1991 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1991 | 386 yards and scored 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific 55-34 |
| 1990 | Ken Griffey, Sr and, Jr., hit back-to-back home runs in 1st inning |
| 1989 | Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in U.S.S.R., win 4-2 |
| 1989 | Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons |
| 1989 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1988 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1987 | "Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest |
| 1987 | 107th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64) |
| 1987 | Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken |
| 1987 | Ivan Lendl defeat Mats Wilander to win U.S. Tennis Open in 4 hours 47 minutes |
| 1987 | Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 home runs vs Baltimore Orioles |
| 1986 | Bo Jackson's 1st home run - a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium) |
| 1986 | Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed |
| 1986 | Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed |
| 1986 | Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 1986 | Saskatchewan and Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game |
| 1985 | Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986 |
| 1984 | 1st MTV awards-Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd host |
| 1983 | U.S. House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner |
| 1982 | 36" snow Red Lodge, Montana |
| 1982 | Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel |
| 1982 | Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7" |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV |
| 1980 | "Charlie and Algernon" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 17 performances |
| 1980 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| 1980 | Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1979 | Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to New York City and back to Yates Center, Ks |
| 1978 | Braves' Jim Bouton, 38, beats Giants, his 1st win since 1970 |
| 1978 | Portugal government of Da Costa falls |
| 1977 | Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robbeneiland South Africa |
| 1975 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open |
| 1975 | Pope Paul VI declares Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st U.S. saint |
| 1975 | Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed and damaged in Amsterdam |
| 1975 | Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 games as a teen |
| 1974 | Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter |
| 1973 | Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise |
| 1973 | Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s |
| 1973 | President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout |
| 1972 | "Waltons" TV program premieres |
| 1972 | Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in New York City |
| 1972 | West Germany and Poland establish diplomatic relations |
| 1971 | Cleveland Indians and Washington Senators, play 20 innings |
| 1970 | Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright |
| 1969 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open |
| 1969 | Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage |
| 1968 | 1st broadcast of 60 Minutes on CBS-TV |
| 1968 | Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season |
| 1968 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow |
| 1968 | U.S.S.R.'s Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight |
| 1967 | Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named |
| 1967 | Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge and Sanctuary opens in Bronx |
| 1965 | "F-Troop" premieres |
| 1965 | 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened |
| 1964 | WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House |
| 1963 | Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, South Dakota, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls and a boy |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | Dmitri Shostakovich becomes member of CP of U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1 |
| 1960 | Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo |
| 1960 | Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form OPEC |
| 1960 | KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1959 | Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon |
| 1959 | WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open |
| 1958 | WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Yankees win 24th pennant, and 9th under Casey Stengel |
| 1957 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| 1957 | U.N. resolution deplores and condemns U.S.S.R. invasion of Hungary |
| 1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1956 | 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington D.C. |
| 1955 | Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245) |
| 1954 | B Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw," premieres in Venice |
| 1954 | Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record |
| 1954 | Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits New York City, $50 million damage |
| 1954 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1953 | Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marry |
| 1953 | Yankees clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians |
| 1951 | Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats |
| 1950 | Western allies rearm West Germany |
| 1948 | Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Michigan 5th Dist Representative primary |
| 1948 | Ground breaking ceremony for United Nations world headquarters |
| 1948 | Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater |
| 1947 | 61st U.S. Womens Tennis: A Louise Brough beats M O duPont (86 46 61) |
| 1947 | 67th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Frank A Parker (46 26 61 60 63) |
| 1944 | 6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru |
| 1944 | Gulpen, Meerssen and Maastricht freed |
| 1944 | Hurricane hits New England: 389 die |
| 1944 | U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid |
| 1944 | U.S. 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall |
| 1943 | Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marries |
| 1943 | Yankees clinch pennant #14 |
| 1942 | Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal |
| 1942 | German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1 |
| 1942 | Yankees clinch pennant #13 |
| 1940 | Congress passes 1st peace-time draft law |
| 1940 | German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die |
| 1939 | British fleet attacks German U-39 boat |
| 1939 | Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow |
| 1938 | Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight |
| 1936 | Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times |
| 1933 | 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire |
| 1933 | Schaduwproces-Rijksdagbrand opens in London |
| 1932 | Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri |
| 1930 | Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6 |
| 1930 | Nazis gain 107 seats in German election |
| 1929 | 49th U.S. Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (36 63 46 62 64) |
| 1929 | A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox |
| 1926 | Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens |
| 1924 | Walter Johnson elected AL MVP |
| 1923 | Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1923 | Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain |
| 1923 | Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play |
| 1919 | British regime forbids Sinn Fein Dail |
| 1917 | Kerenski regime declares Russian republic |
| 1917 | Provisional government of Russia forms, Republic proclaimed |
| 1916 | Christy Mathewson pitches and wins his final game |
| 1914 | German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn |
| 1914 | German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches |
| 1913 | 27th U.S. Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (62 75) |
| 1913 | Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0) |
| 1905 | Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated |
| 1905 | Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname |
| 1905 | RAC Tourist Trophy, 1st run, on Isle of Man |
| 1903 | New York Giant Red Ames no-hits St. Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game |
| 1899 | Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY) |
| 1894 | Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails |
| 1892 | AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo |
| 1891 | "Empire State Express" train goes from New York City to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M |
| 1886 | George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon |
| 1882 | British General Wolseley reaches Cairo |
| 1876 | Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda |
| 1876 | Leopold II closes Congo-conference |
| 1872 | Britain pays U.S. $15 M for damages during Civil War |
| 1868 | Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole) |
| 1862 | Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates |
| 1862 | Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates |
| 1862 | Battle of Munfordsville, Kentucky |
| 1862 | Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia |
| 1862 | Skirmish at Mountain MD (Boonesboro, Crampton's Gap, Fox's Gap) |
| 1856 | Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders |
| 1854 | Allied armies, including those of Britain and France, land in Crimea |
| 1852 | 18th Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Connecticut takes office |
| 1848 | Alexander Stewart opens 1st U.S. department store |
| 1847 | U.S. Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma) |
| 1834 | Charles Darwin's company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile |
| 1830 | Princess WFLC Marianne marries Albrecht of Prussia |
| 1829 | Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war |
| 1814 | Francis Scott Key inspired to write "Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 1812 | Napoleon occupies Moscow and fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th) |
| 1807 | Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge |
| 1759 | Austrian troops occupy Dresden |
| 1752 | U.S. and England adopts Gregorian calender (no Sept 3-Sept 13th) |
| 1741 | George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days |
| 1716 | 1st lighthouse in U.S. lit (Boston Harbor) |
| 1666 | St. Paul's in London destroyed by fire |
| 1662 | Netherlands and England sign peace treaty |
| 1629 | Spanish garrison surrenders to prince Frederik Henry |
| 1544 | Charles and Francois I sign Peace of Crepy |
| 1515 | Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory |
| 1163 | Pastor Frederik forms convent at Mariengaarde Friesland |
| 891 | Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
