| 2006 | Japan elects Shinzo Abe as new Prime Minister of Japan |
| 1997 | Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey, Jr. hits his 56th home run of 1997 |
| 1996 | San Francisco Giant Bobby Bond is 2nd player to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases |
| 1996 | Space Shuttle STS-79 (Atlantis 17), lands |
| 1995 | "George" magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr |
| 1995 | Earliest 1st-class cricket in Australia season (Qld vs. Western Prov) |
| 1995 | Sri Lanka complete 2-1 Test Cricket series win in Pakistan from 0-1 |
| 1994 | Estonia government of Laar flees |
| 1993 | 30th Ryder Cup: U.S. beats Europe, 15-13 at The Belfry, England |
| 1993 | Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning |
| 1993 | Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium, beating Brewers 6-4 |
| 1993 | Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
| 1993 | Seattle's Randy Johnson joins 300-strikeout club |
| 1992 | Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova, 7-5, 6-3 |
| 1992 | Nigerian Hercules C-130 crashes at Lagos, 163 die |
| 1992 | Roseanne Barr Arnold gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
| 1992 | Tsuruhiko Kiuchi discovers comet Swift-Tuttle |
| 1992 | 1st time a positional player pitches for New York Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates |
| 1991 | 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins |
| 1990 | Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating |
| 1989 | Last Vietnamese soldier leaves Cambodia |
| 1989 | MPAA creates NC-17 rating for movies with adult themes |
| 1989 | Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet and U.S. chemical weapons |
| 1988 | Canada's Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test |
| 1988 | New York City's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark |
| 1988 | Polish Communist Party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM |
| 1988 | U.S. space shuttle STS-26 launched |
| 1987 | Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games |
| 1986 | RUN-DMC is 1st rap group to hit top 10 (Raisin' Hell) |
| 1986 | William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court |
| 1986 | Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season) |
| 1985 | Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya |
| 1984 | 5,251 turn out to see Phillies play New York Mets at Shea Stadium |
| 1984 | Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit |
| 1984 | Britain and China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
| 1984 | Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University |
| 1984 | Phila's Juan Samuel sets record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd |
| 1984 | President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa |
| 1983 | Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks New York Giant record 56 yard field goal |
| 1983 | Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-U.S. winner) |
| 1983 | Cosmonauts Titov and Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10 |
| 1983 | Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns |
| 1983 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
| 1983 | St. Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0 |
| 1982 | "Doll's Life" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1982 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 1981 | Houston Astro Nolan Ryan 5th no-hitter beats Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-0 |
| 1981 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1980 | Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed |
| 1980 | Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla" |
| 1980 | Soyuz 38 returns to Earth |
| 1979 | 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million |
| 1979 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1978 | RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service |
| 1978 | NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms |
| 1977 | Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat Patriots 30-27 |
| 1977 | Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY |
| 1976 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1976 | Denver's Rick Upchurch returns 2 punts for TDs against Cleveland |
| 1976 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Carlton Golf |
| 1976 | Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title |
| 1975 | Phillies and New York Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM |
| 1974 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1973 | Concorde flies from Washington D.C. to Paris in 3h 33m |
| 1973 | Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2 years) |
| 1973 | Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors |
| 1972 | American Museum of Immigration dedicated |
| 1972 | Norway rejects membership in European Common Market |
| 1971 | Jim Palmer is 4th Oriole to win at least 20 games this season |
| 1971 | Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
| 1971 | WGBY TV channel 57 in Springfield, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
| 1969 | Beatles release "Abbey Road" album |
| 1969 | Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1968 | 1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV |
| 1968 | Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal |
| 1968 | St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA |
| 1968 | Theatre censorship ends in Britain |
| 1967 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Violin concert, premieres in Moscow |
| 1966 | "Staten Island," 1st icebreaker to enter San Francisco bay |
| 1965 | 11th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie |
| 1965 | Minnesota gains its 1st AL pennant by defeating Washington, 2-1 |
| 1965 | Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of British Empire |
| 1964 | Braves (25) and Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn |
| 1963 | 1st edition of New York City Review of Books |
| 1962 | Los Angeles Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104) |
| 1962 | TV comedy series "Beverly Hillbillies" premieres on CBS |
| 1962 | Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day) |
| 1961 | "From the Second City" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 87 performances |
| 1961 | Roger Maris hits home run number 60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record |
| 1960 | 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon and Kennedy took place (Chicago) |
| 1960 | Fidel Castro gives a very long speech at the United Nations, 4 hours, 29 minutes |
| 1960 | Ted Williams last at bat is his 521st home run off Jack Fisher |
| 1959 | Japan hit by typhoon Vera; about 5,000 die |
| 1959 | Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty |
| 1959 | San Francisco Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 |
| 1958 | Columbia (U.S.) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1957 | "West Side Story" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 734 performances |
| 1957 | Bernstein and Sondheim's musical "West Side Story," premieres in New York City |
| 1957 | Dag Hammarskjold re-elected Secretary-General of UN |
| 1957 | Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1955 | NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929 |
| 1954 | Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of Tsugaru, 1172 die |
| 1954 | KODE TV channel 12 in Joplin, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | KUTV TV channel 2 in Salt Lake City, UT (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Ardmore Golf Open |
| 1954 | Typhoon hits Japan - 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600 |
| 1954 | WANE TV channel 15 in Fort Wayne, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | WCAX TV channel 3 in Burlington, VT (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | A's defeats Yankees 8-6 in last game franchise will play in Philadelphia |
| 1954 | Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd and Mickey Mantle plays shortstop |
| 1953 | Billy Hunter is last St. Louis Browns player to homer in a game |
| 1953 | KERO TV channel 23 in Bakersfield, California (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Polish government fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski |
| 1953 | U.S. and Spain sign defense treaty (4 U.S. bases in Spain) |
| 1952 | Yankees clinch 4th straight and 19th AL pennant, beating A's 5-2 |
| 1951 | Professor Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris |
| 1950 | Australia wins Davis Cup tennis tournament |
| 1950 | Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England |
| 1950 | Phils pitcher Jim Konstanty makes record 71st appearance of year |
| 1950 | U.N. troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul |
| 1948 | Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914 |
| 1947 | Happy Chandler announces Ford and Gillette to sponsor World Series |
| 1946 | 1st edition of Tintin (Kuifje), publishes until June 1993 |
| 1945 | All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid |
| 1944 | British and Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem) |
| 1944 | Soviet forces occupy Estonia |
| 1941 | Nazi's slaughter about 34,000 Jews of Kiev |
| 1940 | Airplane manufacturer in Woolston bombed, 30 killed |
| 1940 | Japanese troops attack French Indo-China |
| 1939 | German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed) |
| 1938 | Hitler issues ultimatum to Czechoslovakian government, demanding Sudenten Land |
| 1934 | British liner Queen Mary is launched |
| 1933 | Sidney Kingsley's "Men in White," premieres in New York City |
| 1931 | Earl Claus von Stauffenberg marries Freiin Nina von Lerchenfeld |
| 1929 | John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria |
| 1927 | St. James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St. New York City |
| 1926 | JB Fagan's "And So to Bed," premieres in London |
| 1926 | Shortest double header, Yankees lose 6-1 in 72 minutes and lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns. Yankees had already clinched pennant |
| 1925 | 8th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Olympia Fields CC Matteson Ill |
| 1925 | Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead |
| 1923 | Stresemann Government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied |
| 1921 | Yankee Ruth hits home runs 57 and 58 to beat Indians 8-7 |
| 1919 | U.S. President Wilson hit by a heart attack |
| 1918 | Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WW I |
| 1917 | British assault on Menin-street, France |
| 1916 | Bishop speak against Catholics in trade unions |
| 1914 | Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce |
| 1914 | Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels |
| 1908 | Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Dodgers in a doubleheader |
| 1907 | New Zealand declares independence from U.K. |
| 1906 | Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game |
| 1904 | Charles Kleins "Music Master," premieres in New York City |
| 1904 | Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada |
| 1904 | GB Shaw's "How He Lied to Her Husband," premieres in New York City |
| 1901 | Boer General Botha captures Fort Itala in Natal |
| 1901 | Great Britain annexes Gold Coast (Ghana) |
| 1898 | Victor Herbert/Harry Smith' musical premieres in New York City |
| 1895 | Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea |
| 1892 | 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ) |
| 1892 | Diamond Match Co patented book matches |
| 1890 | U.S. stops minting $1 and $3 gold coin and 3 cent piece |
| 1887 | Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone |
| 1884 | Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed |
| 1876 | 1st Belgian parachute jump (Glorieux) |
| 1874 | 1st Grand International Rifle match held |
| 1861 | 2nd British Golf Open: Tom Morris Sr shoots a 163 at Prestwick Club |
| 1835 | Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor," premieres in Naples |
| 1831 | Robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator," premieres in New York City |
| 1824 | Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives |
| 1815 | Russia, Prussia and Austria sign Holy Alliance |
| 1789 | Jefferson appointed 1st Secretary of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; |
| 1786 | England and France sign trade agreement |
| 1777 | British troops occupy Philadelphia during American Revolution |
| 1772 | New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine |
| 1771 | Denis Diderot's "Le Fils Naturel," premieres in Paris |
| 1733 | France, Spain and Sardinia sign anti-German covenant |
| 1687 | Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks and Venetians |
| 1680 | Tax revolt in Gorinchem due to tax on cereal |
| 1655 | Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft. Casimir from Swedish in Delaware |
| 1629 | Sweden and Poland signs Peace of Altmark |
| 1580 | Francis Drake with Spanish treasure returns to England |
| 1404 | Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established |
| 1396 | Sultan Bajezid I beheads 100s of crusaders |
| 1371 | Battle of Maritsa: Serbia-Turkey |
