| 2009 | Nearly 300 people are killed and 1,500 injured near L'Aquila, Italy, after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes |
| 1997 | "3 Sisters" closes at Criterion Theater New York City |
| 1997 | 9th Seniors Golf Tradition: Gil Morgan wins |
| 1997 | Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge |
| 1997 | Brad Faxon wins Freeport-McDermott Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Progress M-34 Launch (Russia) |
| 1997 | Twelve Bridges LPGA Classic |
| 1996 | Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game |
| 1995 | "Having Our Say" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 308 performances |
| 1994 | 1st scheduled Indians night game at Jacobs Field is rained out |
| 1994 | Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home |
| 1994 | Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe vs. Wade) resigns |
| 1994 | Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis and himself |
| 1994 | Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records |
| 1993 | 1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow) |
| 1993 | Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to Los Angeles Dodgers) |
| 1992 | 1st game at Camden Field, Baltimore Orioles beat Indians 2-0 |
| 1992 | 54th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Michigan 71-51 |
| 1992 | Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin and TV-AM radio licenses |
| 1992 | Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0 |
| 1992 | Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens, beating Cleveland 2-0 |
| 1992 | Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo |
| 1992 | Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps |
| 1991 | Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy |
| 1991 | New York - New Jersey Knights 1st home game (Giant Stadium) lose to Frankfurt 27-17 |
| 1991 | Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher |
| 1991 | Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use |
| 1989 | Orel Hershiser ends his record 59 consecutive scoreless streak |
| 1988 | Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington |
| 1988 | New Jersey Devils' 1st playoff game; lose to Isles 4-3 (OT) in 1st round |
| 1987 | 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams Jr |
| 1987 | Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler |
| 1987 | Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy |
| 1986 | 15th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley |
| 1986 | Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hours |
| 1985 | Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale |
| 1985 | Bombay beat Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final |
| 1985 | Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab |
| 1985 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1984 | 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched |
| 1984 | 1st time 11 people in space |
| 1983 | Caps 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Semifinals- Isles hold 1-0 lead |
| 1982 | Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands |
| 1982 | Largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in Minnesota 52,279 |
| 1981 | Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo |
| 1980 | 9th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
| 1980 | Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season |
| 1980 | Post It Notes, introduced |
| 1979 | Rod Stewart and Alana Collins wed |
| 1978 | Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by inn and 193 to win Ranji Trophy |
| 1977 | Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released |
| 1977 | Kingdome opens, Seattle Mariners 1st game, loses to Angels 7-0 |
| 1976 | 1st quadrophonic movie track: "Ladies and Gentlemen the Rolling Stones" |
| 1975 | "Night... Made America Famous" closes at Barrymore New York City after 75 performances |
| 1975 | "Rocky Horror Show" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| 1975 | Fastest hat trick by a Washington Capitals 3 minutes 26 seconds (Stan Gilbertson) |
| 1974 | 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam" |
| 1974 | Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 11/16 |
| 1974 | Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, beat Indians 6-1 |
| 1973 | Harbor strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium |
| 1973 | Indies troops invade Sikkim |
| 1973 | Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter and Saturn |
| 1973 | Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his number |
| 1973 | Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks |
| 1972 | Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan |
| 1968 | 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution |
| 1968 | Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Dave Davis |
| 1968 | Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va) |
| 1968 | HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas |
| 1967 | Premier Pompidou forms new French government |
| 1966 | Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India |
| 1965 | Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous communication satellite |
| 1964 | Egypt and Belgium restore diplomatic relations |
| 1959 | 31st Academy Awards - "Gigi," Susan Hayward and David Niven win |
| 1958 | Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-Masters |
| 1957 | New York City ends trolley car service |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests) |
| 1956 | Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison |
| 1955 | "3 for Tonight" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 85 performances |
| 1955 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1955 | Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam |
| 1954 | Montreal Canadians score 3 goals in 56 sec in playoff game against Detroit |
| 1954 | TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson and Sons |
| 1954 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| 1952 | 16th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 286 |
| 1950 | John F. Dulles becomes advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Acheson |
| 1947 | 11th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 281 |
| 1947 | 1st Tony Awards: Arthur Miller, David Wayne and Patricia Neal win |
| 1945 | Coevorden freed from nazis |
| 1945 | Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa |
| 1945 | Massive kamikaze-attack on U.S. battle fleet near Okinawa |
| 1945 | U.S. Marines explore Tsugen Shima near Okinawa |
| 1944 | Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis |
| 1943 | British and U.S. Army link up in Africa during WW II |
| 1943 | British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia |
| 1943 | Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested |
| 1941 | 8th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Wood wins, shooting a 280 |
| 1941 | Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die) |
| 1941 | British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa |
| 1941 | German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes) |
| 1941 | Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British and Ethiopian forces |
| 1939 | Great Britain and Poland sign military pact |
| 1939 | U.S. and U.K. agree on joint control of Canton and Enderbury Island in the Pacific |
| 1938 | Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett |
| 1936 | 3rd Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 285 |
| 1936 | ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam |
| 1936 | Tornado, kills 203 and injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia |
| 1935 | H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses and sinks 371 more |
| 1934 | 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany |
| 1931 | 1st broadcast of "Little Orphan Annie" on NBC-radio |
| 1930 | 1st transcontinental glider tow completed |
| 1930 | Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar |
| 1926 | Stanley Cup: Montl Maroons beat Victoria Cougars (WHL), 3 games to 1 |
| 1925 | 1st film shown on an British Air flight |
| 1924 | 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight |
| 1924 | Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament |
| 1924 | Volkische Block (Nazi's) receives 17.8% of vote in Bayern |
| 1920 | French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau |
| 1917 | U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I |
| 1916 | German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare |
| 1912 | Electric starter 1st appeared in cars |
| 1909 | 1st credit union forms in US |
| 1909 | North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson |
| 1906 | 1st animated cartoon copyrighted |
| 1903 | General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws) |
| 1900 | James J Jeffries KOs Jack Finnegan in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1896 | 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece, American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history |
| 1893 | Andy Bowen and Jack Burke box 7 hours 19 minutes to no decision (111 rounds) |
| 1893 | Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah dedicated |
| 1890 | French troops under captain Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan |
| 1889 | George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time |
| 1886 | City of Vancouver BC incorporated |
| 1886 | Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga |
| 1883 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Speckled Band" |
| 1869 | 1st plastic, Celluloid, patented |
| 1868 | Brigham Young marries his 27th and final wife |
| 1865 | Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off |
| 1862 | Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee |
| 1859 | U.S. recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform |
| 1849 | Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Le Prophete," premieres in Paris |
| 1848 | Jews of Prussia granted equality |
| 1841 | Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri |
| 1830 | Joseph Smith and 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, New York |
| 1815 | English militia shoots prisoners, 100's killed |
| 1789 | 1st U.S. Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, New York City |
| 1757 | English king George II fires minister William Pitt, Sr. |
| 1727 | Denmark signs Covenant of Hannover |
| 1724 | Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 1722 | Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards |
| 1672 | France declares war on Netherlands |
| 1664 | France and Saksen sign alliance |
| 1663 | King Charles II signs Carolina Charter |
| 1652 | Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established |
| 1652 | John of Riebeeck lands/establishes VOC-post in Capetown |
| 1634 | Heeren XIX asks "to secure Eylands Curaeao" |
| 1516 | A Willaert installed as singer of cardinal Ippolito I d'Este |
| 1362 | Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France |
| 1327 | Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura |
| 774 | Charles the Great affirms Pippins promise of Quiercy |
| 610 | Lailat-ul Qadar, night koran descended to Earth |
| 402 | Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten |
