| 1997 | Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7) |
| 1996 | John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days |
| 1994 | "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden New York City for 347 performances |
| 1994 | Miami Heat beat New York Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak |
| 1993 | 55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Michigan 77-71 |
| 1993 | 73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1 |
| 1993 | Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to New York Mets 3-0 |
| 1993 | Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| 1993 | Florida Marlins 1st game - beat Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3 |
| 1993 | Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad |
| 1992 | "Search and Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 46 performances |
| 1992 | 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62 |
| 1992 | 4th Seniors Golf Tradition: Lee Trevino |
| 1992 | Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka |
| 1992 | Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International |
| 1992 | Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees sweep New York Mets 6-5 at Shea |
| 1992 | Peru's President Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution and dissolved Congress |
| 1992 | Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president |
| 1992 | Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome, Hulk Hogan DQs Sid Justice |
| 1991 | Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games |
| 1991 | Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan |
| 1991 | Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23 |
| 1991 | Space Shuttle STS-37, Atlantis 8, launched |
| 1991 | U.S. begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq |
| 1990 | John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 years in a row |
| 1990 | New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary |
| 1990 | Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity |
| 1989 | David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo |
| 1989 | Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak |
| 1989 | Solidarity grants legal status in Poland |
| 1988 | Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their President candidate |
| 1987 | 16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
| 1987 | Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children |
| 1987 | Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title |
| 1986 | Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m) |
| 1986 | U.S. soldier and Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing |
| 1984 | "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 13 performances |
| 1984 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421) |
| 1983 | France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats |
| 1983 | New York Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment |
| 1982 | British fleet sails to Falkland Islands |
| 1982 | Cards' Jim Kaat, pitches in record 24th consecutive season |
| 1982 | Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war |
| 1981 | 10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
| 1981 | Philadelphia Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes |
| 1979 | Baltimore manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper |
| 1979 | Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia |
| 1977 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1976 | Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of England |
| 1976 | Tom Stoppard's "Dirty Linen," premieres in London |
| 1975 | "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 18 performances |
| 1975 | Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely |
| 1974 | Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers and Rohan Kanhai |
| 1974 | Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories) |
| 1973 | NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie quarterbacks, 1-19) |
| 1973 | Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter |
| 1972 | Baseball season is delayed due to a strike |
| 1972 | Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub |
| 1971 | Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole |
| 1971 | Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy |
| 1971 | U.S. Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life |
| 1971 | WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton, New Jersey (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, Illinois (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens |
| 1968 | U.S. marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled |
| 1967 | 76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds |
| 1967 | ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit |
| 1966 | WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft. Pierce-Vero Beach, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1965 | 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison and J Andrews win |
| 1965 | Lava Lamp Day celebrated |
| 1965 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1964 | 1st driverless trains run on London Underground |
| 1964 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open |
| 1963 | Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me) |
| 1963 | Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa |
| 1962 | Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns," premieres in New York City |
| 1962 | NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m |
| 1962 | St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands |
| 1961 | Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show" |
| 1961 | Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council |
| 1959 | 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall, Jr. wins, shooting a 284 |
| 1955 | Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him |
| 1954 | Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right" |
| 1953 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1953 | WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title |
| 1951 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death |
| 1950 | Prague espionage trial against bishops and priests begins |
| 1948 | WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, Illinois (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1946 | 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony |
| 1945 | Almelo Netherlands freed |
| 1945 | Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki |
| 1944 | 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse |
| 1943 | Allies bomb Mortsel |
| 1943 | Japanese troops conquer Indin |
| 1943 | Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days |
| 1941 | In San Francisco, Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses |
| 1939 | Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory |
| 1938 | Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland |
| 1936 | Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die |
| 1935 | Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election |
| 1932 | Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions |
| 1930 | England out for 849 vs. WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325 |
| 1929 | Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact |
| 1927 | Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 and 200 m free style |
| 1925 | Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election |
| 1925 | Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in North Carolina due to an ulcer |
| 1923 | Firestone puts their inflatable tires into production |
| 1922 | KOB-AM in Albuquerque, New Mexico begins radio transmissions |
| 1922 | WDZ-AM in Decatur, Illinois begins radio transmissions |
| 1919 | Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann |
| 1919 | Heavyweight Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in Havana |
| 1919 | Polish Army executes 35 young Jews |
| 1916 | French troops occupy Bois de Caillette |
| 1915 | French begin Woevre-offensive |
| 1915 | Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1911 | MCC tour match vs. Jamaica finishes in a tie |
| 1911 | Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer |
| 1908 | British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns |
| 1906 | St. Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland" |
| 1905 | James Barrie's "Alice-sit-by-the-fire," premieres in London |
| 1902 | Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte," premieres in Paris |
| 1902 | Soccer match riot between Scotland and England kills 25 |
| 1900 | Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails |
| 1896 | 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens |
| 1895 | Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students" |
| 1895 | Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices |
| 1894 | 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn |
| 1894 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Empty House" |
| 1893 | Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks) |
| 1889 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Copper Beeches" |
| 1887 | Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller |
| 1881 | Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty |
| 1874 | "Die Fledermaus" 1st performed, in Vienna |
| 1874 | Johann Strauss Sr's opera "Die Fledermaus," premieres in Vienna |
| 1865 | Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville Virginia (Appomattox Campaign) |
| 1862 | Siege of Yorktown, Virginia |
| 1861 | Federals abandon Ft. Quitman, Texas |
| 1815 | Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java) |
| 1814 | Netherlands Bank issues it's 1st banknotes |
| 1812 | Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French and Spanish |
| 1806 | Isaac Quintard patents apple cider |
| 1803 | 1st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D |
| 1792 | George Washington casts 1st presidential veto |
| 1768 | 1st U.S. Chamber of Commerce forms (New York City) |
| 1762 | British take Grenada, West Indies, from French |
| 1753 | British Museum forms and opens in 1759 |
| 1751 | Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden |
| 1739 | French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty |
| 1722 | Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island |
| 1648 | Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples |
| 1621 | Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England |
| 1614 | 2nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments) |
| 1614 | Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe |
| 1603 | New English king James I departs Edinburgh for London |
| 1585 | Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch |
| 1566 | 200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition |
| 1242 | Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights |
| 1242 | Battle on the More of Pskov Estonia |
| 1058 | Bishop John "Minchio," [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X |
| 823 | Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I, co-emperor of France |
