| 2012 | A new wing dedicated to Islamic art is opened at the Musee du Louvre in Paris, France; the area contains 3,000 from the seventh to the 19th century |
| 2012 | Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and the MEP for Belgium voice concerns that the Flemish N-VA party and the far right are 'the same'; N-VA responds by saying their criticism is 'gratuitous' |
| 2011 | In Santiago, the Chilean capitol, tens of thousands of students protest for increased education expenditure |
| 2011 | Pope Benedict XVI begins his state visit to Germany |
| 2010 | In accordance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1929, Russia bans arms sales to Iran |
| 1997 | Elton John releases Diana tribute 'Candle in the Wind 1997' |
| 1996 | 4th Solheim Cup: U.S. beats Europe 17-11 at St. Pierre Wales |
| 1994 | Rasmussen government in Denmark, resigns |
| 1993 | Nolan Ryan, 46, pitches his last game |
| 1993 | STS-51 (Discovery) lands |
| 1993 | Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin |
| 1992 | Heavy storm in South France, 34 die |
| 1991 | ABN and AMRO Dutch banks merge |
| 1991 | California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public |
| 1991 | Harry Gant wins NSACAR Goody's 500 |
| 1991 | Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula records his 300th career NFL victory |
| 1991 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 1990 | Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian and Yemeni envoys |
| 1990 | Andre Dawson steals his 300th base and is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 home runs, 300 steals and 2,000 hits |
| 1989 | Cards outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs |
| 1989 | IRA-bomb kills 10 British marines in Kent |
| 1988 | Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin |
| 1988 | South Korean coaches attack New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in |
| 1987 | 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins |
| 1987 | Dow-Jones index rises record 75.23 points |
| 1987 | Janet Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85) |
| 1987 | NFL players go on strike for 24 days |
| 1987 | Red Sox Wade Boggs ties AL record of 200 hits for 5 straight seasons |
| 1986 | 35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm |
| 1986 | India vs. Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie |
| 1986 | Los Angeles Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games |
| 1985 | 37th Emmy Awards: Cagney and Lacey, Cosby Show and Tyne Daly win |
| 1985 | Billy Martin's right arm is broken by pitcher Ed Whitson |
| 1985 | Earthquake strikes Mexico, 2,000 killed |
| 1985 | France premier confesses on attack of Rainbow Warrior |
| 1985 | Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes to become Heavyweight Boxing Champ |
| 1985 | Rock and country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill |
| 1985 | Val Skinner wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic |
| 1985 | St. Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man |
| 1984 | Brussels princess Astrid marries arch duke Lorenz of Austrian-Este |
| 1983 | Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years (Royal Albert Hall) |
| 1983 | NASA launches Galaxy-B |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1983 | Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4" |
| 1982 | Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka vs. India |
| 1982 | SF's cable cars made a final run before closing down for 20-month |
| 1980 | Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway |
| 1980 | Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins |
| 1980 | John and Yoko sign a recording contract with Geffin Records |
| 1979 | Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean |
| 1979 | Larry Parrish (Expos) home runs off Rawly Eastwick (Phillies) in DH |
| 1978 | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit |
| 1977 | Minn Twin Bert Blyleven no-hits California Angels, 9-0 |
| 1977 | Preston Jones' "Texas Trilogy," premieres in New York City |
| 1977 | West German RAF terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht |
| 1975 | Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in San Francisco California |
| 1975 | World Football League folds |
| 1973 | "Little Night Music" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway |
| 1973 | 20th Ryder Cup: U.S., 19-13 at Muirfield, Scotland |
| 1973 | Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry hits 3 triples vs Milwaukee Brewers |
| 1973 | Henry Kissinger, sworn in as Secretary of State |
| 1972 | Dictator Idi Amin throws 8,000 Asians out of Uganda |
| 1971 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1970 | President Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses |
| 1969 | "Music Scene" debuts on ABC-TV |
| 1969 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1969 | San Francisco Giant Willie Mays, becomes 2nd player to hit home run number 600 off Mike Corkins |
| 1968 | Iraq adopts constitution |
| 1968 | KMTC (now KDEB) TV channel 27 in Springfield, MO (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1968 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kings River Golf Open |
| 1968 | Twins' Cesar Tovar pitched a hitless inning and plays all 9 positions |
| 1968 | Zond 5 completes flight |
| 1967 | Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1966 | Edward Albee's "Delicate Balance," premieres in New York City |
| 1966 | KMEB TV channel 10 in Wailuku, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game |
| 1966 | Orioles beat A's 6-1 to clinch their 1st AL pennant |
| 1966 | Surveyor 2 crashes on Moon |
| 1965 | India and Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect |
| 1964 | "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 3242 performances |
| 1964 | "Man from U.N.C.L.E," premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1963 | Czechoslovakian premier Sikory deposed by Josef Lenart |
| 1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1962 | Bob Dylan plays New York City Carnegie Hall |
| 1961 | Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hours 10 min |
| 1961 | Jim Gentile's ties record of 5 grand slams in a year |
| 1960 | Mali, formerly French Sudan, declares independence from France |
| 1959 | Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant |
| 1958 | KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, Arizona (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | U.S. nuclear sub USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record) |
| 1957 | "Maverick" premieres |
| 1957 | Duke Snider's 39th and 40th home runs are last hit at Ebbets Field |
| 1955 | Hurricane Janet, kills 500 in Caribbean |
| 1955 | Commercial TV begins in England |
| 1955 | Heavyweight champ Rocky Mariano KOs Archie Moore in 9 |
| 1954 | Bkln Dodger Karl Spooner strikes out 15 New York Giants in his 1st game |
| 1953 | Islamic uprising in Atjeh at Indonesia |
| 1950 | Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner) |
| 1950 | Omar N. Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general |
| 1949 | WFMY TV channel 2 in Greensboro-High Point, North Carolina (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1947 | Dodgers clinch NL pennant |
| 1945 | Stan Musial gets 5 hits off 5 pitchers on 5 consecutive pitches |
| 1944 | Boulogne reoccupied by Allies |
| 1944 | Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel |
| 1944 | U.S. troops land on Ulithi |
| 1943 | British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz |
| 1943 | Destroyer Itchen torpedoed and sinks |
| 1943 | Destroyer Keppel sinks U-229 |
| 1942 | Meulenberg robs of church bells |
| 1941 | British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro |
| 1937 | Forest fire kills 14 and injures 50 in Cody Wyoming |
| 1935 | Boston Braves lose NL record 110th game of year en route to 115 |
| 1932 | Hungarian government of Karolyi falls |
| 1927 | Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney) |
| 1927 | Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1927 | Yankees Earle Coombs hits 3 triples |
| 1926 | Belgian crown prince Leopold and Swedish princess Astrid get engaged |
| 1925 | Yank Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park-homers |
| 1921 | Estonia and Lithuania admitted to League of Nations |
| 1921 | Music Box Theater opens at 239 W 45th St. New York City |
| 1920 | Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series |
| 1915 | Red Sox ask Braves for use of their larger park for World Series |
| 1915 | Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class |
| 1915 | Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in U.S., opens in NO LA |
| 1914 | 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die |
| 1913 | Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico |
| 1913 | George Cohan's "7 Keys to Baldpate," premieres in New York City |
| 1912 | Eddie Collins repeats record of stealing 6 bases in a game (9/7/12) |
| 1911 | Cy Young beats Pitts 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511 |
| 1910 | England's 1st aircraft flight |
| 1910 | Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms |
| 1908 | Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey) |
| 1905 | 11th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 314 at Myopia Club Mass |
| 1903 | Italo Marchiony granted patent for ice cream cone |
| 1893 | 1st auto built in U.S. (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield |
| 1869 | Richard Wagner's opera "Rhine Gold," premieres in Munich |
| 1864 | Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia, General Early Retreats to Brown's Gap |
| 1864 | Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg VA |
| 1862 | President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1 |
| 1817 | John Quincy Adams becomes Secretary of State |
| 1792 | Origin of French Republican Era |
| 1789 | Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department |
| 1784 | Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK |
| 1756 | Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University |
| 1753 | Pangeran Gusti installed as sultan of Banten |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlies army returns to Edinburgh |
| 1735 | Robert Walpole is 1st British Prime Minister to live at 10 Downing Street |
| 1733 | Polish King Lesczynski flees to Danzig |
| 1711 | French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro |
| 1699 | People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter |
| 1692 | Last (8) person hanged for witchcraft in U.S. (Salem Mass) |
| 1665 | Molieres "L'amour Medecin," premieres in Paris |
| 1656 | All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her) |
| 1586 | Battle at Zutphen: English vs Dutch army |
| 1529 | Cardinal Thomas Wolsey lays-off English Lord Chancellor |
| 1504 | Settle engagement of Karel of Luxembourg and Claudia the Beaujeu |
| 1504 | Treaty of Blois: Philip van Bourgondie and Maximilian I and Louis XII |
| 530 | Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 530 | St. Felix IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 530 | [Discorus] begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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