| 2013 | Viacom loses its billion-dollar copyright infringement suit against YouTube |
| 2013 | Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f, two planets resembling planet Earth are discovered revolving around the star Kepler-62 in the habitable zone, an area around the stars whose atmospheric pressure can suport liquid water at the surface |
| 2012 | The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission together complete rules to limit which firms are required to register with either or both agencies as 'swap dealers' |
| 2012 | Naples' Casoria Contemporary Art Museum begins burning its artworks to protest government budget cuts affecting cultural institutions |
| 2011 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates, begins an anti-piracy conference |
| 2011 | A landslide in Indonesia's East Java province kills 100 people |
| 2010 | President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for 'alien troops' to leave and suggests that the regional nations be allowed to settle things themselves |
| 1996 | "Funny Thing Happened," opens at St. James Theater New York City for 715 performances |
| 1995 | Houston Post folds after 116 years |
| 1995 | Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football |
| 1994 | "Beauty and the Beast" opens at Palace Theater New York City |
| 1994 | 23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45 |
| 1994 | 98th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:07:15 |
| 1994 | Arsenio Hall announces he will end his show in May 1994 |
| 1994 | Brian Lara scores 375 for WI vs England to beat Sobers' record |
| 1994 | Cricketer Brian Lara hits 375 runs on 1 day (world record) |
| 1994 | Former President Nixon suffered a stroke and dies 4 days later |
| 1994 | Lebanon drops relations with Iran |
| 1994 | Roseanne Barr Arnold files for divorce from Tom Arnold |
| 1994 | STS-59 (Endeavour) lands |
| 1993 | "Ain't Broadway Grand" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 25 performances |
| 1993 | 54th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Tom Wargo |
| 1993 | Beirut-hostage Terry Anderson marries Madeleine Bassil |
| 1993 | David Lee Roth arrested in New York City for purchasing marijuana for |
| 1993 | Trish Johnson wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship |
| 1992 | Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown) |
| 1992 | Tennis ace Stefan Edberg marries Annette Olsen in Sweden |
| 1991 | Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census |
| 1991 | Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike |
| 1991 | John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136 |
| 1990 | Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines |
| 1990 | Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in WLAF |
| 1989 | Zimbabwe gains independence |
| 1988 | 17th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:24:30 |
| 1988 | 92nd Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:43 |
| 1988 | Barbra Streisand records "Warm All Over" |
| 1987 | An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air |
| 1987 | Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race |
| 1987 | Mike Schmidt hits 500th home run vs Robinson-Pirates |
| 1987 | Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph) |
| 1987 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| 1986 | Robert M. Gates, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 1986 | Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB |
| 1985 | Flyers 3-Isles 0-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead |
| 1984 | Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
| 1984 | Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43) |
| 1983 | 12th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:22:43 |
| 1983 | 87th Boston Marathon won by Greg Meyer of Mass in 2:09:00 |
| 1983 | Suicide bomber kills 63, at U.S. Embassy in Lebanon |
| 1983 | Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for "The Color Purple" |
| 1983 | KMO-AM in Tacoma Washington changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO) |
| 1983 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for "Color Purple" |
| 1983 | Rangers 3-Isles 1-Patrick Div Finals-Series tied at 2-2 |
| 1982 | Atlanta Braves win record 11th straight opening game (beat Astros) |
| 1982 | Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act |
| 1982 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International |
| 1982 | Zimbabwe capital Salisbury renamed Harare |
| 1981 | Pawtucket and Rochester start a 33-inning baseball game |
| 1980 | Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK |
| 1979 | "Real People" premieres on NBC TV |
| 1979 | Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent |
| 1978 | Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999 |
| 1977 | "Side by Side by Sondheim" opens at Music Box New York City for 390 performances |
| 1977 | 6th Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:48:33 |
| 1977 | 81st Boston Marathon won by Jerome Drayton of Canada in 2:14:46 |
| 1977 | Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize |
| 1977 | Eddie Murray hits his 1st home run |
| 1977 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box" |
| 1977 | Stephen Sondheim's musical "Side by Side" premieres in New York City |
| 1976 | 30th Tony Awards: Travesties and Chorus Line win |
| 1976 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Karsten- Ping Golf Open |
| 1975 | John Lennon releases "Stand by Me" |
| 1974 | Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi |
| 1972 | "Lost in the Stars" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 39 performances |
| 1971 | Gavaskar makes 220 in 2nd inning vs. WI after 124 in 1st |
| 1971 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic |
| 1969 | Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund |
| 1968 | 178,000 employees of U.S. Bell Telephone System go on strike |
| 1968 | 1st ABA basketball championship began |
| 1968 | Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms |
| 1968 | London Bridge is sold to U.S. oil company to be erected in Arizona |
| 1968 | Mart Crowley's "Boys in the Band," premieres in New York City |
| 1968 | Peter Luke's "Hadrian VII," premieres in London |
| 1968 | San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice demolished |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1966 | Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics) |
| 1964 | "Cafe Crown" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 3 performances |
| 1964 | "Foxy" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 72 performances |
| 1964 | Artisans strike in Belgium ends |
| 1964 | Sandy Koufax is 1st to strike out the side on 9 pitches |
| 1964 | Van Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" |
| 1963 | "Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1963 | Dr. James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant |
| 1963 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1 |
| 1962 | 16th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
| 1959 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1 |
| 1958 | Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra Indonesia |
| 1958 | NL single-game record of 78,682, Giants lose to Dogers 6-5, in Los Angeles |
| 1956 | Egypt and Israel agree to a cease fire |
| 1956 | Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony) |
| 1955 | "Ankles Aweigh" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 176 performances |
| 1955 | 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed |
| 1955 | 1st Bandoeng Conference - Afro-Asian conference opens |
| 1954 | Colonel Nasser seizes power and becomes Prime Minister of Egypt |
| 1954 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1953 | "Pal Joey" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 542 performances |
| 1951 | "Make a Wish" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 102 performances |
| 1951 | Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms |
| 1951 | France, West Germany and Benelux form European Steel and Coal Community |
| 1951 | New York Yankee Mickey Mantle goes 1-for-4 in his 1st game |
| 1950 | 1st opening night-game, Cards beat Pirates, 4-2 |
| 1950 | 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip |
| 1950 | Polish Catholic church and government sign accord over relations |
| 1950 | Sam Jethroe is 1st black to play for Boston Braves |
| 1950 | Yankees win 15-10 after trailing Red Sox 9-0 in 6th |
| 1949 | Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth |
| 1948 | International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands |
| 1946 | "Call Me Mister" opens at National Theater New York City for 734 performances |
| 1946 | Jackie Robinson debuts as 2nd baseman for the Montreal Royals |
| 1946 | League of Nations dissolves, 3 months after United Nations starts |
| 1946 | Rome/Auerbach/Horwitt's musical "Call Me Mister," premieres in New York City |
| 1946 | U.S. recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government |
| 1945 | 1 armed outfielder, St. L Brown Pete Gray, 1st game he goes 1 for 4 |
| 1945 | Epe freed (by corporal G van Aken) |
| 1945 | Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops |
| 1944 | 48th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:31:50.4 |
| 1944 | Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins' ballet premieres in New York City |
| 1942 | "Stars and Stripes" paper for U.S. Armed Forces starts |
| 1942 | James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo and other Japanese cities |
| 1942 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3 |
| 1939 | Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey |
| 1939 | Hubert Pierlot forms Belgian government |
| 1936 | Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu |
| 1935 | General Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters |
| 1935 | Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote) |
| 1934 | 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Ft. Worth, Texas) |
| 1934 | Hitler names J von Ribbentrop, ambassador for disarmament |
| 1929 | Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire |
| 1927 | Chiang Kai-Shek forms anti-government in China |
| 1926 | Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf Germany |
| 1925 | World's fair opens in Chicago |
| 1924 | 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon and Schuster) |
| 1923 | 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium |
| 1923 | Poland annexes Central Lithuania |
| 1922 | Netherlands soccer team defeats Denmark 2-0 |
| 1921 | Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Springs Colo |
| 1921 | Philip James Barry's "Punch for Judy," premieres in New York City |
| 1918 | Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play |
| 1909 | Joan of Arc declared a saint |
| 1908 | Tommy Burns KOs Jewy Smith in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1907 | Augustus Thomas' "Witching Hour," premieres in New York City |
| 1907 | Fairmont Hotel opens |
| 1906 | 8.25 earthquake shakes San Francisco California |
| 1906 | Calvinist Reformed Union in Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht |
| 1906 | San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 and destroys 75% of city |
| 1904 | L'Humanite, under Jean Jaures begins publishing |
| 1902 | Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals |
| 1899 | John McGraw, at 36, managerial debut as Oriole manager |
| 1890 | New York Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton |
| 1881 | Natural History Museum of South Kensington England opens |
| 1879 | Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on indians citizen rights begins |
| 1876 | Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hours 32 min |
| 1869 | 1st international cricket match, held in SF, wins by Californian |
| 1868 | San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed |
| 1865 | Confederate General Johnson surrendered to General Sherman in North Carolina |
| 1864 | Battle of Poison Springs, AR (Camden Expedition) |
| 1862 | Battle of Ft. Jackson, Ft. St. Philip and New Orlean's, Louisiana |
| 1861 | Battle of Harpers Ferry, Virginia |
| 1861 | Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies |
| 1856 | Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns |
| 1853 | 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km) |
| 1838 | Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails |
| 1835 | William Lamb Lord Melbourne forms British Government |
| 1834 | Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia |
| 1809 | 1st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England |
| 1797 | France and Austria signs cease fire |
| 1775 | Paul Revere and William Dawes warn "British are coming!" |
| 1775 | Paul Revere rides from Charleston to Lexington |
| 1676 | Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians |
| 1666 | Peace of Kleef: Netherlands and bishop Von Galen of Munster |
| 1663 | Osman declares war on Austria |
| 1599 | Valencia arch duke Albrecht of Austrian marries Isabella of Spain |
| 1552 | Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz |
| 1521 | Parliament of Worms: Cardinal Alexander questions Maarten Luther |
| 387 | Bishop Ambrosius of Milan baptizes Augustinus |
| 310 | St. Eusebius begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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