| 2007 | Multiple suicide bombings kill over 550 people in Qahtaniya, Iraq |
| 2006 | U.N. cease fire takes effect in Lebanon |
| 2003 | After an Ohio FirstEnergy power plants shut down unexpectedly, a power outtage occurs for over ten hours all over northeastern North America |
| 2000 | Two onboard torpedoes explode on the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea, which eventually killed all onboard, despite a rescue operation |
| 1997 | "1776," opens at Criterion Theater New York City |
| 1997 | Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death |
| 1997 | Karrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Open |
| 1997 | Oklahoma Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh |
| 1997 | Soyuz TM-25 lands |
| 1995 | Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st woman to attend the Citadel |
| 1994 | 76th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 269 at Southern Hills Tulsa |
| 1994 | Doc Gooden leaves Betty Ford Center |
| 1994 | Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open |
| 1994 | Maggie Will wins Children's Medical Center LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1993 | Dr. William Masters (78) weds college sweetheart Geraldine Oliver (76) |
| 1993 | Nigerian presidential election |
| 1993 | Reggie Jackson Day - New York Yankees retire 13th # (#44) |
| 1993 | Shari Beadley weds Christopher Martin (Kid 'n Play) |
| 1993 | St. Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves |
| 1991 | Comedian Jackie Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld (37) |
| 1991 | Twins Dave Winfield is 23rd to hit 400 HR |
| 1990 | Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside park grandslam |
| 1990 | Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise |
| 1989 | President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns |
| 1988 | 70th PGA Championship: Jeff Sluman shoots a 272 at Oak Tree Golf Club Edmond |
| 1988 | Detroit beats Sox, 18-6, at Fenway, ends Boston winning streak at 24 |
| 1987 | "Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Szeged Hungary |
| 1987 | Oakland's Mark McGwire sets rookie HR record at 39, en route to 49 |
| 1986 | Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested |
| 1986 | Phillies and Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days |
| 1984 | IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0 |
| 1984 | West Indies complete 5-0 series annihilation of England |
| 1983 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| 1983 | Robert de Castella wins Helsinki marathon 2:10:03 |
| 1982 | Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over Padres |
| 1982 | Iran "Ramadan-offensive" in Iraq |
| 1982 | Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron) |
| 1981 | George Foster hits his 8th HR into red seats at Riverfront |
| 1981 | Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career HR off New York Met Mike Scott |
| 1980 | Democratic Convention in New York City nominates Jimmy Carter |
| 1980 | In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk, Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike |
| 1979 | Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration |
| 1978 | French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%) |
| 1977 | 59th PGA Championship: Lanny Wadkins shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach Cal |
| 1977 | 77,691 see New York Cosmos beat Ft. Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad |
| 1977 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA Long Island Charity Golf Classic |
| 1976 | 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast |
| 1975 | Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman |
| 1975 | Dmitri Shotakovitch, buried at the Novodevitshi-convent |
| 1975 | Norwegian King Olav V opens Longyearbyen Airport on Spitsbergen |
| 1974 | Congress authorizes U.S. citizens to own gold |
| 1974 | Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus |
| 1974 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1974 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1973 | Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Baltimore Colts |
| 1973 | U.S. ends secret bombing of Cambodia |
| 1972 | Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13 |
| 1972 | East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156 |
| 1971 | Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule |
| 1971 | Cards Bob Gibson, 35, no-hits Pirates, 11-0 |
| 1971 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1970 | City University of New York inaugurates open admissions |
| 1970 | Steven Stills arrested for drug possession |
| 1969 | British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland |
| 1969 | New York Mets fall 9 games back, later to win pennant |
| 1968 | Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1968 | Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL |
| 1967 | Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered |
| 1967 | Radio Scotland and Radio Swinging Holland go off the air |
| 1966 | 1st U.S. lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon |
| 1966 | Cleveland Stadium's 1st rock concert is held, featuring Beatles |
| 1966 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 1965 | Beatles tape an appearance for Ed Sullivan Show |
| 1965 | Continental Football League plays 1st games |
| 1965 | Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1 |
| 1964 | Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer |
| 1964 | Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market |
| 1962 | French and Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel |
| 1962 | NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m |
| 1962 | U.S. mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million |
| 1961 | Philadelphia Phillies lose 17th straight game |
| 1959 | 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000) |
| 1959 | AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver and Houston |
| 1958 | Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21) |
| 1958 | KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99 |
| 1954 | WGR TV (now WGRZ) TV channel 2 in Buffalo, New York (NBC) begins |
| 1953 | 20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818) |
| 1953 | KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, Montana (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Matyas Rakosi appointed premier of Hungary |
| 1949 | Military coup under colonel Sami Hinnawi in Syria |
| 1948 | 14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain |
| 1948 | Bradman's last Test Cricket innings |
| 1948 | England all out for 52 vs. Australia at Cricket Oval |
| 1947 | India granted independence within British Commonwealth |
| 1947 | Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000 |
| 1947 | Pakistan gains independence from Britain |
| 1945 | V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II |
| 1944 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica |
| 1944 | Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive |
| 1944 | Russian offensive at Weichsel |
| 1943 | 1st allied air raid on Borneo |
| 1943 | U.S. 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina |
| 1942 | Dwight D. Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa |
| 1941 | Atlantic Charter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill |
| 1940 | Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland |
| 1939 | 1st night games at Comiskey Park (White Sox 5, Browns 2) |
| 1938 | BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague) |
| 1937 | China declares war on Japan |
| 1937 | Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St. Louis Browns |
| 1936 | 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin) |
| 1935 | Social Security Act becomes law |
| 1933 | Jimmie Foxx hits for cycle and sets AL record with 9 RBIs |
| 1932 | 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes |
| 1932 | Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game |
| 1932 | Philips makes 1 millionth radio |
| 1929 | Jewish Agency for Palestine forms |
| 1928 | Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "Front Page," premieres in New York City |
| 1925 | Mount Rushmore 1st proposed |
| 1922 | 1st "old time" musicians broadcasted on radio (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta) |
| 1920 | Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia |
| 1920 | Olympic Games open in Antwerp |
| 1919 | White Sox Happy Felsch ties record of 4 outfield assists in a game |
| 1919 | Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play |
| 1917 | China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I |
| 1917 | Leeuwen soccer team forms |
| 1915 | British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000 |
| 1914 | British field marshal John French and General Wilson land in France |
| 1912 | 2,500 U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua; U.S. remains until 1925 |
| 1911 | General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti |
| 1910 | 6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, D.C. |
| 1908 | Race riot in Springfield Illinois |
| 1907 | "Ha-Tikva" adopted as official Zionist hymn |
| 1905 | Ngindo-rebellion killed 5 RC German clergymen in East-Africa |
| 1903 | James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 10 for heavywgt boxing title |
| 1901 | SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska and sinks killing 70 |
| 1900 | 1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht) |
| 1900 | 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion |
| 1893 | France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test |
| 1890 | Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria) |
| 1882 | Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo |
| 1880 | Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248) |
| 1876 | Prairie View State University forms |
| 1875 | Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl |
| 1873 | "Field and Stream" begins publishing |
| 1864 | Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia |
| 1864 | 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia: Federal assault |
| 1862 | Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with U.S. president |
| 1861 | 79th New York troops mutinies |
| 1848 | Oregon Territory created |
| 1846 | Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance |
| 1842 | Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma |
| 1825 | Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out |
| 1824 | General Lafayette returns to U.S. |
| 1820 | 1st U.S. eye hospital, the New York Eye Infirmary, opens in New York City |
| 1816 | Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha |
| 1813 | British warship Pelican attacks and captures U.S. war brigantine Argus |
| 1790 | Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Verela |
| 1782 | Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies |
| 1765 | Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree) |
| 1762 | English fleet occupies Havana |
| 1758 | Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russia, 1000s killed |
| 1756 | French capture Fort Oswego, New York |
| 1743 | Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War |
| 1678 | Battle of Mons-French repulse William of Orange |
| 1642 | Able Tasmans ships Heemskerck/Zeehaen depart out of Batavia |
| 1636 | Spanish troops occupy Corbie at Amiens |
| 1624 | Dutch fleet ceases Callao the Lima in Peru |
| 1597 | Cornelis de Houtmans fleet is 1st Dutch visit to Java |
| 1585 | Queen Elizabeth I refuses sovereignty of Netherlands |
| 1559 | Spanish explorer de Luna lands in Pensacola Bay,Fla |
| 1551 | Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli |
| 1498 | Columbus landed at the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela |
| 1457 | Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg) |
| 1395 | Utrecht bishop Frederik of Blankenheim occupies Coevorden |
| 1385 | Battle at Aljubarotta-Portugal defeats Castilie |
| 1385 | Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence |
| 1281 | Kublai Khans invading fleet disappears in typhoon near Japan |
| 1248 | Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun |
| 554 | Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines military governor in Italy |
