| 1997 | Dr. Sam Sheppard's body (Fugitive) is exhumed for DNA test |
| 1996 | Dodger Hideo Nomo no-hits Colorado Rockies, 9-0 at Coors Field |
| 1995 | "Love! Valor! Compassion!" closes at Walter Kerr New York City after 276 performances |
| 1995 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 1994 | Andy Waller out handled the ball for Mashonaland CD vs. Mash U24 |
| 1994 | Heather Whitestone, 21, (Ala), crowned 68th Miss America 1995 |
| 1994 | Princess Christina separates |
| 1992 | House votes 280 to 128 to give FCC control of cable TV rates |
| 1992 | NFL decides to suspend World League Football |
| 1991 | 4,355 turn out to see Expos play New York Mets at Shea Stadium |
| 1991 | U.N. admits Estonia, Latvia, Lithuiania, North and South Korea, Marshall Islands and Micronesia |
| 1990 | Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep New York Post publishing |
| 1990 | Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties |
| 1989 | Hurricane Hugo, kills 85 in Charleston, South Carolina |
| 1989 | 41st Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Dana Delany and Candice Bergen win |
| 1989 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 1989 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 1989 | Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62 |
| 1989 | New York City court of appeals overturns lower court decision and returns America's Cup back to U.S. (from New Zealand) |
| 1988 | 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea |
| 1988 | Jeff Reardon becomes 1st to record 40 or more saves in both AL and NL |
| 1988 | Military coup in Haiti: Lieutenant General Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees |
| 1987 | Philadelphia celebrates 200th anniversary of Constitution |
| 1986 | Bomb attack in Paris, 6 killed |
| 1986 | Marina Stepanova of U.S.S.R. sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94) |
| 1986 | Mets clinch NL East Championship |
| 1986 | U.S. Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice |
| 1985 | Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station |
| 1984 | Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th Prime Minister succeeding John Turner |
| 1984 | Dwight Gooden ties record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games |
| 1984 | Reggie Jackson is 13th to hit 500 home runs |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1983 | Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship, |
| 1983 | Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, 1st black |
| 1982 | New Jersey Devils 1st exhibition game, beating Caps 3-1 in Hershey Pa |
| 1981 | Fernando Valenzuela sets NL rookie record with 8th shutout of season |
| 1980 | "Divine Madness" starring Bette Midler, premieres |
| 1980 | Iraq (Saddam Hussein) signs accord with Algeria |
| 1980 | Solidarity labor union in Poland forms |
| 1980 | South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death |
| 1980 | Oak A's Rick Langford is removed with 2 outs in 9th inning ending his consecutive complete-game streak at 22 |
| 1979 | Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72") |
| 1979 | Royals George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles/triples/home runs in a season |
| 1978 | 30th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Ed Asner and Sada Thompson win |
| 1978 | Begin, Sadat and Carter sign Camp David accord |
| 1978 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
| 1978 | Red Sox finally beat Yankees in Sept 1978, 7-3 |
| 1977 | 22nd Ryder Cup: U.S., 12 -13 at Royal Lytham and St. Annes England |
| 1977 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1977 | Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer, Reggie hits 2 more |
| 1977 | Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" is #1 for 19th straight week |
| 1976 | Amnesty International receives Erasmus-prize |
| 1976 | NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, California |
| 1976 | Ringo releases "Ringo's Rotogravure" album |
| 1975 | Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101) |
| 1974 | Courageous (U.S.) beats Southern Cross (Australia) in 23rd America's Cup |
| 1972 | "M*A*S*H," premieres on NBC TV |
| 1972 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Quality First Golf Classic |
| 1972 | Tanzania troops march in to Uganda |
| 1970 | Jordanian King Hussein moves against PLO guerrillas |
| 1970 | WSWP TV channel 9 in Grandview, WV (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Gaylord Perry (Giants) no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0 |
| 1968 | Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon |
| 1967 | "Mission Impossible" premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1967 | Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 in New Hampshire |
| 1967 | New Orleans Saints 1st NFL game, they lose to Los Angeles Rams 27-13 |
| 1967 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational |
| 1966 | Cleveland pitchers set AL record striking out 19 batters in 1st 9 innings |
| 1965 | WPHL TV channel 17 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | "Bewitched" premieres on ABC TV |
| 1964 | Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas) |
| 1964 | Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999, 2000 and 2001 and his 450th home run |
| 1964 | Supremes release "Baby Love" |
| 1963 | "Fugitive" premieres on ABC TV |
| 1963 | Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32 |
| 1962 | Justice Department files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools |
| 1962 | U.S. space officials announce selection of 9 new astronauts |
| 1961 | Minnesota Vikings' 1st NFL game (beat Chicago Bears 37-13) |
| 1961 | Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," premieres in New York City |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | "Vintage '60" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| 1960 | Cuba nationalizes U.S. banks |
| 1959 | 59th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus |
| 1959 | Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit |
| 1959 | Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan and Korea |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1957 | KETV TV channel 7 in Omaha, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for 1st powered flight |
| 1957 | Thailand military coup under marshal Sarit Thanarat |
| 1957 | 2 male attorneys "stand in" as actress Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti wed by proxy in Juarez, Mexico |
| 1956 | Black students enter Clay Kentucky elementary school |
| 1956 | Yankees clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of year |
| 1955 | "Ankles Aweigh" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 176 performances |
| 1955 | Future Hall of Famer Oriole Brooks Robinson goes 2-4 in his 1st game |
| 1954 | Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1953 | 1st successful separation of Siamese twins |
| 1953 | Ernie Banks becomes Chicago Cubs 1st black player |
| 1952 | "I am an American Day" and "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day" |
| 1951 | "Borscht Capades" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 90 performances |
| 1951 | Romanian bishop A Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years |
| 1950 | San Francisco 49ers (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, lose 21-17 |
| 1949 | 128 die as fire guts Canadian passenger steamer Noronic in Toronto |
| 1949 | 8th Ryder Cup: U.S. beats Europe, 7-5 at Ganton GC, England |
| 1949 | North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time |
| 1949 | WFAA TV channel 8 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | KCOP TV channel 13 in Los Angeles/Hollywood, California (IND) begins |
| 1948 | WLS TV channel 7 in Chicago, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of Year by Sporting News |
| 1947 | James Forrestal sworn in as 1st U.S. Secretary of Defense |
| 1947 | U.S. Department of Defense forms |
| 1946 | "Gypsy Lady," opens at Century Theater New York City for 79 performances |
| 1946 | "If the Shoe Fits," opens at Century Theater New York City for 20 performances |
| 1944 | British Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S. |
| 1944 | Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers |
| 1944 | Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem, Netherlands |
| 1943 | Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station |
| 1943 | Red Army recaptures Brjansk |
| 1941 | Cards' Stan Musial makes his major league debut, going 2-for-4 |
| 1940 | Hitler begins invasion of England (operation Seelowe) |
| 1940 | Nazis deprive Jews of possessions |
| 1939 | German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die |
| 1939 | Poland's president Moscicki and Prime Minister Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania |
| 1939 | Russia invades Eastern Poland, takes 217,000 Poles prisoner |
| 1939 | Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II |
| 1938 | 52nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Nancye Wynne Bolton (60 63) |
| 1938 | 58th U.S. Mens Tennis: J Donald Budge beats C Gene Mako (63 68 62 61) |
| 1938 | British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich |
| 1938 | Don Budge wins U.S. Tennis open and completes Grand Slam |
| 1937 | 1st NFL game in Washington, D.C.; Redskins beat New York Giants 13-3 |
| 1935 | Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina chosen 1st president of Philippines |
| 1934 | RCA Victor re leases 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven's 5th) |
| 1934 | U.S.S.R. joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switzerland and Portugal vote no) |
| 1931 | 1st LP record demonstrated (RCA Victor, New York City), venture failed |
| 1931 | Operetta "Victoria and Her Husband," premieres in London |
| 1931 | Red Sox Earl Webb sets record with 65 en route to 67 doubles |
| 1929 | British troops begin evacuating |
| 1928 | 48th U.S. Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats F T Hunter (46 64 36 75 63) |
| 1928 | Henri Cochet wins U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1928 | Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee Florida drowning 1,800-2500 |
| 1928 | Pitcher Ray Boggs hits 3 batters in 1 inning |
| 1927 | 47th U.S. Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats William T Tilden (119 63 119) |
| 1927 | Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco |
| 1926 | Hurricane hits Miami and Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die |
| 1924 | Italy signs treaty of Rapallo |
| 1923 | Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound," premieres in London |
| 1922 | Bicyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ |
| 1922 | Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station) |
| 1920 | Cards set a record of 12 consecutive hits in 4th (10) and 5th (2) innings |
| 1920 | National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Professional Football Association |
| 1916 | 40,000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right |
| 1912 | Center fielder Casey Stengel breaks in with Brooklyn and hits 4 singles |
| 1911 | 25th U.S. Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats F Sutton (8-10 61 97) |
| 1908 | Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight |
| 1906 | Playing as "Sullivan," Columbia U jr Eddie Collins debuts with A's |
| 1903 | Boston Pilgrims clinch AL pennant, beating Cleveland, 14-3 |
| 1902 | U.S. protests anti-semitism in Romania |
| 1901 | Battle at Blood River Port: Boer General Botha beats Major Goughs cavalry |
| 1901 | Battle at Elands River Port: Boer General Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers |
| 1900 | Queen Victoria disbands British parliament |
| 1899 | 1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa |
| 1897 | 3rd U.S. Golf Open: Joe Lloyd shoots a 162 at Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Illinois |
| 1873 | 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University |
| 1872 | Phillip W Pratt patents his sprinkler system for extinguishing fires |
| 1871 | Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens |
| 1864 | Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
| 1863 | Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada |
| 1862 | Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals |
| 1862 | Battle of Mumfordville, Kentucky-U.S. Col J Wilder surrenders city |
| 1862 | Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of Civil War, 23,110 die |
| 1861 | 1st day school for freedmen forms at Fortress Monroe Virginia |
| 1861 | Hampton Institute forms |
| 1859 | Man in San Francisco claims himself Norton I, emperor of America |
| 1850 | Great fire in San Francisco |
| 1835 | Charles Darwin lands on Chatham Galapagos-archipelago |
| 1819 | 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii |
| 1789 | William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn |
| 1787 | Prussian troops conquer Gorinchem |
| 1787 | U.S. constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention |
| 1778 | 1st treaty between the U.S. and Indian tribes signed (Fort Pitt) |
| 1776 | Presidio of San Francisco forms as a Spanish fort |
| 1745 | Edinburg occupied by Jacobites under Young Pretenders |
| 1737 | Georg-August University opens in Gottingen |
| 1730 | Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees |
| 1697 | Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen of Savoye beats Turks |
| 1691 | Colony Massachusetts Bay gets new charter |
| 1683 | Antonie van Leeuwenhoek reports existence of bacteria |
| 1678 | France and Spain signs peace treaty |
| 1644 | French troops occupy Mainz |
| 1631 | Battle of Breitenfeld: King Gustaaf Adolf defeats General Tilly |
| 1598 | Netherland sailors discover Mauritius |
| 1595 | Pope Clemens VIII recognizes Henri IV as king of France |
| 1584 | Gent surrenders to duke of Parma |
| 1562 | Council of Trente takes ecclesiastical canon |
| 1394 | Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI |
| 1156 | Markgraafschap Austria becomes a temple (Privilegium minus) |
| 642 | Arabs conquer Alexandria, library destroyed |
| 335 | Church of Heilig Grave initiated in Jerusalem |
