| 1997 | 101st Boston Marathon won by Lameck Aguta of Kenya in 2:10:34 |
| 1997 | 26th Boston Women's Marathon won by Fatuma Roba of Ethopia in 2:26:23 |
| 1997 | Ashes of Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit |
| 1996 | "Delicate Balance," opens at Plymouth Theater New York City |
| 1996 | 57th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Hale Irwin |
| 1996 | Barb Mucha wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Golf Championship |
| 1996 | Chicago Bulls win NBA record 72 games (72-8) |
| 1996 | Matabeleland beat Mashonaland Country Dist to win Logan Cup |
| 1996 | Wayne James scores 99 and 99 and ct 11 stp 2 in Logan Cup Final |
| 1995 | Boston Celtics final game at Boston Gardens, New York Knicks win 98-92 |
| 1995 | FBI arrested Timothy McVeigh and charge him with Oklahoma City bombing |
| 1994 | "Picnic" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| 1994 | Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit home runs in a games (11 times) |
| 1994 | Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed |
| 1993 | "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" opens at Circle in Sq New York City for 30 performances |
| 1993 | Brazil votes against a monarchy |
| 1993 | Rolling Stone Bill Wyman weds Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria |
| 1992 | "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway |
| 1992 | Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill |
| 1991 | 52nd PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus |
| 1991 | Jakov Tolstikov wins 4th World Cup marathon (2:09:17) |
| 1991 | Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14) |
| 1991 | Greatest extra-inning comeback, Pitts scores 6 in bottom of 11th erasing 5 run Cub lead, Pirates also trailed 7-2 in bottom of 9th |
| 1990 | "Cartoon All Stars to Rescue" shown on all 4 TV networks |
| 1990 | National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards |
| 1990 | Reds win running their record to 9-0, best start in club history |
| 1989 | George W. Bush and Edward W. Rose become CEO of Texas Rangers |
| 1989 | Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom |
| 1988 | 1st four-day games in County Cricket Championship commence |
| 1988 | Barbra Streisand records "You'll Never Know" |
| 1987 | Brewers lose, ending AL season-opening winning streak at 13 games |
| 1987 | Dow Jones Avg soared 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history |
| 1987 | Milwaukee Brewers lose after 13th straight victory to start season |
| 1987 | Richard Hadlee makes highest Test Cricket score of 151* (v Sri Lanka) |
| 1987 | Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed |
| 1986 | 15th Boston Women's Marathon won by I Kristiansen of Norway in 2:24:55 |
| 1986 | 90th Boston Marathon won by Rob de Castella of Australia in 2:07:51 |
| 1986 | Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz) |
| 1986 | Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV and finds nothing |
| 1985 | Bomb attacks in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels |
| 1985 | Flyers 5-Isles 2-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead |
| 1985 | Ingrid Kristiansen wins London Marathon in a record 2:21:06 |
| 1985 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| 1984 | After 37 weeks, "Thriller" is knocked off as top album by "Footloose" |
| 1984 | Centers for Disease Control says virus discovered in France causes AIDS |
| 1984 | Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph |
| 1984 | Montreal Expo David Palmer no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 in a perfect 5 inn game |
| 1983 | Soyuz T-8 is launched |
| 1983 | 1 pound coin introduced in United Kingdom |
| 1982 | Atlanta Braves win their 13th straight game |
| 1982 | Dr. Michael E. Bakey performs 1st successful heart implant |
| 1982 | Dutch Queen Beatrice addresses U.S. Congress |
| 1981 | U.S. furnish $1 billion in arms to Saudi-Arabia |
| 1980 | 84th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:12:11 |
| 1980 | Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWWW Detroit, Michigan |
| 1980 | 9th Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Gareau of Canada in 2:34:28, Rosie Ruiz disqualified as women's champ she hadn't run entire course |
| 1979 | "Carmelina" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 17 performances |
| 1977 | "Annie" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 2377 performances |
| 1977 | Billy Martin pulls Yankee line-up out of a hat, beats Blue Jays 8-6 |
| 1977 | Broadway play "Annie" opens, 1st of 2,377 performances |
| 1977 | C Strouse and M Charnins musical "Annie," premieres in New York City |
| 1977 | Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh |
| 1976 | Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1975 | 4th Boston Women's Marathon won by Liane Winter of W Germ in 2:42:24 |
| 1975 | 79th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:55 |
| 1975 | Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years |
| 1975 | Liane Winter wins world record female Boston marathon (2:42:24) |
| 1974 | 28th Tony Awards: River Niger and Raisin win |
| 1974 | 3rd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jo Ann Prentice |
| 1972 | John Young and Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16) |
| 1972 | Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched |
| 1971 | Original Codex Reguis (with Edda-liederen) returns to Iceland |
| 1970 | Reds clout 7 home runs by 6 batters, Braves counter with 3 home runs, 6 for one team and 9 different batters for two teams, all tie or set records |
| 1969 | 73rd Boston Marathon won by Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan in 2:13:49 |
| 1968 | 22nd Tony Awards: Rosencranz and Guilderstern and Hallelujah Baby! win |
| 1968 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 1967 | Dodgers 1st rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games) |
| 1967 | EO, Evangelical Broadcasting, begins in Netherlands |
| 1967 | Josef Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to U.S. |
| 1967 | Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier |
| 1967 | Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in New York City |
| 1966 | Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica |
| 1965 | New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd and final season |
| 1964 | Pirates and Cubs combine for 9 home runs, Pirates win 8-5 |
| 1963 | Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time |
| 1963 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sunshine Women's Golf Open |
| 1962 | Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington |
| 1961 | Dirk U. Suffocated chosen as Secretary-General of NATO |
| 1961 | French army revolts in Algeria |
| 1961 | USAF Major Robert M. White takes X-15 to 32,000 m |
| 1960 | Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil |
| 1959 | 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod |
| 1959 | Alf Dean using a rod and reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark |
| 1957 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1957 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fidei Donum |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel," becomes #1 |
| 1955 | Brooklyn Dodgers win, then record 10th straight game to begin a season |
| 1955 | J Lawrence and R E Lee's "Inherit the Wind," premieres in New York City |
| 1955 | Minas Gerais Argentina tunnel caves in; 30 die |
| 1954 | Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of U.S.S.R. |
| 1954 | USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam |
| 1952 | BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route) |
| 1951 | 5th NBA Championship: Rochester Royals beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 3 |
| 1951 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 1 |
| 1948 | 1st Polaroid camera was sold in US |
| 1948 | 2nd NBA Championship: Baltimore Bullets beat Philadelphia Warriors, 4 games to 2 |
| 1946 | SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany |
| 1945 | Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory |
| 1945 | He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die |
| 1945 | Ivor Nivello's "Perchance to Dream," premieres in London |
| 1945 | Russia army arrives at outskirts of Berlin |
| 1945 | U.S. 7th Army occupies Neurenberg |
| 1944 | NFL Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers merge (dissolves on Dec 3) |
| 1941 | Greece surrenders to nazi-Germany |
| 1940 | 1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It," on CBS Radio |
| 1940 | Netherlands beats Belgium 4-2 in soccer |
| 1935 | King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties |
| 1934 | Moe Berg, Senators catcher, plays AL record 117th cons errorless game |
| 1930 | Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322 |
| 1930 | Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid," premieres in Moscow |
| 1925 | Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR |
| 1925 | No baseball games played in NL due to Charles Ebbets' funeral |
| 1925 | Noel Coward's "Fallen Angels," premieres in London |
| 1920 | John Galsworthy's "Skin Game," premieres in London |
| 1914 | U.S. Marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico, stay 6 months |
| 1913 | German passenger ship Imperator runs aground |
| 1913 | Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper |
| 1910 | Cleveland Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Detroit Tigers 5-0 |
| 1908 | Frederick A. Cook claims to reach North Pole, he didn't |
| 1904 | Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League) |
| 1898 | Phillies' pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on 1st at bat |
| 1898 | Spanish-American War begins |
| 1894 | George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man," premieres in London |
| 1892 | Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St. Louis Mo |
| 1884 | Potters Field reopened as Madison Park |
| 1878 | New York installs 1st firehouse pole |
| 1878 | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Inscrutabili |
| 1878 | Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia |
| 1865 | Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington |
| 1863 | Declaration of Baha'u'llah; Baha'i Feast of Ridvan (Jalal 13, 20) |
| 1862 | Congress establishes U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado |
| 1862 | Ellen Price Wood's "East Lynne, premieres in Boston |
| 1857 | Alexander Douglas patents the bustle |
| 1855 | 1st train crosses Mississippi River's 1st bridge, Rock Island, Illinois to Davenport Iowa |
| 1836 | Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from Mexico |
| 1828 | Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary |
| 1818 | Franz Grillparzer's "Sappho," premieres in Vienna |
| 1794 | New York City formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect New York City from British |
| 1789 | John Adams sworn in as 1st U.S. Vice President (9 days before Washington) |
| 1785 | Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges |
| 1739 | Spain and Naples-Austria sign peace accord |
| 1689 | William III and Mary Stuart proclaimed king and queen of England |
| 1654 | England and Sweden sign trade agreement |
| 1649 | Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship |
| 1600 | 1st date in James Clavell's novel Shogun |
| 1572 | France and England sign anti-Spanish military covenant |
| 1526 | Battle at Panipat: Mogol Emperor Babur beats sultan Ibrahim Lodi |
| 1521 | Battle at Villalar: Emperor Charles I beats Communards |
| 1509 | Henry the VIII becomes King of England |
| 1477 | Maximilian of Habsburg marries Maria of Bourgondie at proxy |
| 1453 | Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople |
| 1420 | Treaty of Saint Maartens Dike |
| 953 | Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights |
