| 2012 | Ahead of his cabinet and his December 1st inauguration, Mexico's President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico names his 'transition team' |
| 2012 | Scientists create a 'magic carpet' using optical fibers to help prevent elderly people from falling by detecting when unusual footsteps are taken |
| 2011 | A new world record is set by Jamaica's 4x100-meter relay team of Nesta Carter, Usain Bolt, Michael Frater and Yohan Blake |
| 2011 | Sonya Thomas is declared the winner of the U.S. Chicken Wing Eating Championship after consuming 183 Buffalo wings in 12 minutes |
| 2010 | The 2010 Canterbury earthquake leads the town of Christchurch, New Zealand, to declare a curfew and state of emergency |
| 2010 | Iran's Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, convicted of adultery and sentenced to death, faces the whip |
| 2009 | North Korea claims it has entered the final phase of uranium enrichment, tells the United Nations it is open to dialogue |
| 2004 | Hurricane Frances hits Florida, causing $40 billion in damage. |
| 1997 | 14th MTV Awards |
| 1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Louisville, Kentucky on WTFX 100.5 FM |
| 1996 | 13th MTV Awards: Alanis Morrisett and Smashing Pumpkins wins |
| 1995 | Jerry Lewis' 30th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,800,000 |
| 1995 | Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
| 1994 | Bulgarian government of Berov falls |
| 1994 | Cleveland Browns is 1st team in NFL to score a 2-point conversion |
| 1994 | Kansai International airport officially opens |
| 1993 | Jim Abbott pitches 4-0, no-hit win over Indians at Yankee Stadium |
| 1993 | Miklos Horthy appointed Hungarian admiral |
| 1993 | Mats Wilander defeats Mikael Pernfors 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in 4 hours 1 minutes U.S. Open Tennis match concluding at 2:26 AM |
| 1992 | "Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC and PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah |
| 1991 | "Most Happy Fella" opens at New York State Theater New York City |
| 1991 | Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, last drive-in in New Jersey, closes |
| 1991 | Panel of 8 baseball experts vote to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris home run record and determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings |
| 1989 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 1989 | Jerry Lewis' 24th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $42,737,219 |
| 1988 | Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, New York |
| 1988 | Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game |
| 1986 | 189.42 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 1986 | Claude Brochu becomes CEO of Montreal Expos |
| 1985 | Igor Paklin of U.S.S.R. set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12 |
| 1985 | New York Mets Gary Carter's 2 home runs ties record of 5 home runs in 2 games |
| 1984 | Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years |
| 1983 | "Joseph and the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Royale New York City after 747 performances |
| 1983 | 83rd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel |
| 1983 | Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship |
| 1983 | Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph) |
| 1982 | Arson fire engulfs apt-hotel in LA, 25 die |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1981 | Longest game at Fenway Park completed in 20, Mariners-8, Red Sox-7 |
| 1981 | Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC |
| 1981 | Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7, in 20 inn (started 9/3) |
| 1981 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1980 | Yes performs its last concert (MSG) |
| 1979 | India need 438 to win vs. England, game ends at 8-429 |
| 1979 | Iran army conquerors Baneh |
| 1978 | Jerry Lewis' 13th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $29,074,405 |
| 1978 | New York Yankee pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3 season) |
| 1978 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 1977 | "Godspell" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 527 performances |
| 1977 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Rail Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic |
| 1976 | Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus |
| 1974 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1973 | William E. Colby, becomes 10th director of CIA |
| 1972 | U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1971 | Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska) |
| 1970 | George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single |
| 1970 | Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum |
| 1970 | Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile |
| 1968 | Nigerian troops conquer Aba Biafra |
| 1967 | 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200 |
| 1967 | Jerry Lewis' 2nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| 1967 | Train crash at Arnhem, Netherlands, kills 5 |
| 1966 | Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7 |
| 1966 | Jim Hogan wins Europe marathon (2:20:04.6) |
| 1965 | Beatles' "Help!," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks |
| 1965 | KREZ TV channel 6 in Durango, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | Rock group Who's wan is vandalized with $10,000 in equipment stolen |
| 1964 | Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile |
| 1964 | Longest bridge in Europe opens (Scottish 4th Road Bridge) |
| 1964 | NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1) |
| 1962 | Beatles record "How Do You Do It" at EMI |
| 1962 | French president De Gaulle visits West Germany |
| 1961 | Carol Burnette - Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio |
| 1961 | U.S. authorizes Agency for International Development |
| 1960 | Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in Caribbean and US |
| 1957 | Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel |
| 1957 | Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school |
| 1954 | 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed |
| 1954 | Peter B Cortese of U.S. achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania |
| 1953 | WATR (now WTXX) TV channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (NBC) begins |
| 1953 | WGEM TV channel 10 in Quincy-Hannibal, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Yankees become 1st team to win 5 consecutive championship |
| 1951 | 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman |
| 1951 | 71st U.S. Mens Tennis: F A Sedgman beats Elias V Seixas, Jr. (64 61 61) |
| 1951 | NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network |
| 1951 | President Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference |
| 1950 | 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines |
| 1950 | D McI Hodgson of St. Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna |
| 1950 | Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250 |
| 1949 | Marie Robie sinks 393 yd hole-in-one (1st hole in Furnace Brook) |
| 1948 | "Angel in the Wings" closes at Coronet Theater New York City after 308 performances |
| 1948 | Queen Wilhelmina abdicates Dutch throne |
| 1945 | Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded |
| 1945 | U.S. regains possession of Wake Island from Japan |
| 1944 | 2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt |
| 1944 | 64th U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank Parker beats Wm F Talbert (64 36 63 63) |
| 1944 | British 2nd Armoured pantzer division frees Antwerp |
| 1944 | Finland breaks diplomatic contact with nazi-Germany |
| 1944 | U.S. 1st Army frees Namen |
| 1943 | British 8th army lands at Taranto South Italy |
| 1942 | Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1941 | New York Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season) |
| 1941 | U.S. destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652 |
| 1941 | Yankees beat Red Sox 6-3 and clinch their 12th and earliest pennant |
| 1940 | Gerbrandy becomes premier of Dutch government in exile |
| 1940 | Mussert sends telegram, that Hitler has captured the Dutch |
| 1940 | Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Netherlands in Hitler's hands |
| 1939 | Dutch 2nd Chamber affirms Netherlands in a State of War |
| 1939 | German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia |
| 1939 | German troops move into Danzig |
| 1939 | Netherlands and Belgium declare neutrality |
| 1939 | Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated |
| 1939 | RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen |
| 1938 | Vainio Muinonen wins 2nd European marathoner (2:37:28.8) |
| 1937 | Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4) |
| 1936 | Franco troops conquer Irun and Talavera de la Reina Spain |
| 1936 | Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier |
| 1934 | Bradman scores 149* Australia vs. England XI, 104 minutes, 17 fours 4 sixes |
| 1933 | 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il |
| 1933 | Coup on Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista |
| 1932 | 15th PGA Championship: Olin Dutra at Keller Golf Club St. Paul, Minnesota |
| 1930 | Cambridge Theater opens in London |
| 1927 | Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour |
| 1923 | A Charlot and N Cowards revue "London Calling," premieres in London |
| 1923 | New York Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia A's, 2-0 |
| 1922 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000m (5:26.3) |
| 1920 | Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria) |
| 1919 | 39th U.S. Mens Tennis: William M Johnston beats Wm T Tilden (64 64 63) |
| 1919 | British intervene in Petrograd |
| 1918 | Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier |
| 1918 | U.S. troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months |
| 1916 | Christy Mathewson and Mordecai Brown final baseball game |
| 1914 | British, French and Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany |
| 1914 | General von Moltke ceases German advance in France |
| 1912 | 1st accident (collision) in Londoner Underground: 22 injured person |
| 1911 | Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft) |
| 1908 | Caledonia and Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship |
| 1906 | New York Highlanders win 5th straight doubleheader |
| 1904 | Dali Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet |
| 1899 | 8.3 earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay, Alaska |
| 1894 | In New York City, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops |
| 1894 | Soccer team Veendam 1894 forms |
| 1893 | English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit |
| 1888 | George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera and registers "Kodak" |
| 1886 | Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war |
| 1885 | 1st cafeteria opens (New York City) |
| 1882 | 1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station) |
| 1870 | 3rd French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king |
| 1866 | 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published |
| 1864 | Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama |
| 1862 | General Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops |
| 1862 | North Beach and Mission Railway Company organized in SF |
| 1854 | English/French assault on Petropavlovsk Kamchatka |
| 1842 | Work on Koln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus |
| 1833 | 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun) |
| 1813 | 1st U.S. relig newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer)) |
| 1807 | Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat |
| 1805 | 1st edition of Batavian State-Current published |
| 1786 | Orange troops plunder Hattem/Elburg |
| 1781 | Los Angeles founded by 44 in Bahia de las Fumas, (Valley of Smokes) |
| 1778 | City Amsterdam signs trade agreement with U.S. rebels |
| 1695 | French garrison of castle Names surrenders for Willem III |
| 1682 | English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet |
| 1618 | "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed |
| 1571 | Catholic coup in Scotland |
| 1479 | King Alfonso I of Portugal recognizes Isabella as queen of Castilie |
| 1414 | Peace of Atrecht: John the fearless and Armagnacs |
| 1282 | King Pedro III of Aragonorth annexes Sicily |
| 1260 | Battle at Montaperti-Guelfen vs Ghibellijnen |
| 1024 | Conrad II the Sailor chosen German king |
| 476 | Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed |
| 422 | St. Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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