| 2007 | 8.0 Earthquake in Peru kills over 500 people, injures over 1,500 |
| 1998 | Bill Clinton confesses to Hilary about the Monica Lewinsky affair |
| 1998 | Twenty nine murdered by Irish terrorists in Omagh, Northern Ireland |
| 1997 | Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners 3,000th home run |
| 1997 | Dow Jones drops 247.37 pts |
| 1997 | Los Angeles Dodgers retire Tommy Lasorda's #2 |
| 1995 | Keylee Sue Sanders, 18, of Kansas, crowned 13th Miss Teen USA |
| 1994 | South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning |
| 1994 | Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum, Sudan |
| 1993 | "Goodbye Girl" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 188 performances |
| 1993 | 75th PGA Championship: Paul Azinger shoots a 272 at Inverness Club Oh |
| 1993 | Cindy Schreyer wins LPGA Sun-Time Challenge Golf Tournament |
| 1993 | New York City radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes for 2nd time |
| 1993 | Nolan Ryan, 324th and final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1 |
| 1993 | Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte |
| 1992 | Actress Susan Anton marries actor Jeff Lester |
| 1992 | Colombo '92 closes in Genoa, Italy |
| 1991 | 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park |
| 1991 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1990 | 51st PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player |
| 1990 | Mark McGwire is 1st to hit 30 home runs in each of his 1st 4 seasons |
| 1990 | Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990) |
| 1989 | Cancer sufferer/San Francisco Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky breaks arm on mound |
| 1989 | Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa |
| 1989 | Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69) |
| 1989 | U.S. Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle |
| 1989 | In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines |
| 1988 | "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 176 performances |
| 1988 | At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts |
| 1988 | New York City begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments |
| 1987 | U.S. beats Cuba in Pan-Am baseball |
| 1986 | President Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger |
| 1985 | Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa |
| 1985 | Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg |
| 1983 | Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone, beaten in fight-undergoes brain surgery |
| 1982 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution |
| 1981 | Botham scores a century in 86 balls vs. Australia at Old Trafford |
| 1981 | Robin Leamy of U.S. swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m |
| 1979 | Andrew Young resigns as United Nations ambassador |
| 1978 | House of Representatives approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA |
| 1977 | England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Australia |
| 1977 | SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome |
| 1976 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
| 1975 | Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed |
| 1975 | Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges |
| 1974 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1974 | Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed |
| 1974 | Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days)) |
| 1974 | South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination |
| 1973 | Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens |
| 1973 | David Storey's "Cromwell," premieres in London |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1971 | Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0) |
| 1971 | KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins |
| 1971 | President Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents |
| 1971 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open |
| 1970 | Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando) |
| 1969 | Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm) |
| 1968 | Romanian president Ceausescu visits Prague |
| 1968 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| 1967 | Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae |
| 1966 | Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission |
| 1965 | 47th PGA Championship: Dave Marr shoots a 280 at Laurel Valley Golf Club Pennsylvania |
| 1965 | Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium |
| 1965 | Mary Mills wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open |
| 1965 | Japanese community of San Francisco holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues |
| 1964 | Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke) |
| 1964 | Mayor Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago |
| 1964 | Phillies triple-play New York Mets |
| 1964 | Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 27' 3" |
| 1963 | Fulbert Youlou, resigns as President of Congo-Brazzaville |
| 1962 | Netherlands and Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea |
| 1962 | Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia |
| 1960 | CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium |
| 1960 | Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo) |
| 1960 | Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France |
| 1960 | Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 |
| 1958 | 25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000) |
| 1958 | Buddy Holly weds Maria Santiago |
| 1958 | Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank |
| 1958 | Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank |
| 1957 | David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon |
| 1955 | WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia (ABC) begins |
| 1954 | Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay |
| 1954 | WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins |
| 1952 | 19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316) |
| 1952 | 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34 |
| 1950 | 8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000 |
| 1950 | Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1950 | Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium |
| 1950 | Indies Constitution goes into effect |
| 1950 | Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier |
| 1950 | President Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia |
| 1950 | Rotterdam harbor strike begins |
| 1949 | WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | 3rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson Zaharias |
| 1948 | Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day) |
| 1947 | India declares independence from UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan |
| 1947 | Pakistan, formerly West Pakistan, declares independence from UK |
| 1945 | A riot ensued in San Francisco while the city was celebrating the end of WW II |
| 1945 | South Korea liberated from Japanese rule |
| 1945 | U.S. wartime rationing of gasoline and fuel oil ends |
| 1945 | Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually |
| 1944 | Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed |
| 1944 | German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day |
| 1944 | Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast |
| 1944 | Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence |
| 1944 | U.S. 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orleans |
| 1944 | U.S. 7th Armour division reaches Chartres |
| 1943 | Allies land on Kiska Aleutians |
| 1942 | 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel |
| 1941 | Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto |
| 1940 | 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi) |
| 1940 | Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircrafts damaged |
| 1939 | "Wizard of Oz" premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood |
| 1939 | In 1st night game at Comiskey Park, Sox beat Browns 5-2 |
| 1931 | Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi) |
| 1931 | Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as Assistant Secretary |
| 1931 | Spakenburg soccer team forms |
| 1925 | Norway annexes Spitsbergen |
| 1925 | White Sox Dickie Kerr, 1st appearance since winning 2 world series games in 1919 |
| 1923 | Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State |
| 1923 | Mexico and U.S. reaches accord over oil concession of 1917 |
| 1918 | 1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania) |
| 1918 | Russia severs diplomatic ties with U.S. |
| 1915 | Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia |
| 1914 | 13th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in New York (3-2) |
| 1914 | Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs |
| 1914 | German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured |
| 1914 | Japan joins side of allies |
| 1914 | Panama Canal opens (under cost) |
| 1912 | Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game |
| 1911 | Procter and Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening |
| 1906 | 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago |
| 1905 | Philadelphia A's Rube Waddell no-hits St. Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings |
| 1901 | Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro |
| 1899 | Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game |
| 1893 | U.S. no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea |
| 1892 | 4th and last British government of Gladstone forms |
| 1886 | Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game |
| 1876 | U.S. law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find |
| 1870 | Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado |
| 1867 | 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England |
| 1864 | Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners |
| 1863 | Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars |
| 1858 | Regular mail to Pacific coast begins |
| 1848 | M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair |
| 1843 | National black convention meets (Buffalo New York) |
| 1843 | Tivoli Park in Copenhagen opens |
| 1832 | Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism and religious indifferentism |
| 1824 | Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia |
| 1795 | Joseph Haydn leaves England forever |
| 1785 | French cardinal De Rohan arrested |
| 1760 | Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria and Russia |
| 1748 | United Lutheran Church of U.S. organized |
| 1741 | French troops attack the Rhine |
| 1684 | Spain and Germany sign cease fire with France |
| 1668 | Rijnbond disbands |
| 1658 | France/Sweden/Bavarian/Brunswick/Munster/Hessen-Kassel form Rijnbond |
| 1653 | Dutch ship "Sperwer" stranded at Tsjedzjoe Korea |
| 1635 | 1st recorded U.S. hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony |
| 1620 | Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims |
| 1549 | Portuguese missionaries Franciscus Xaverius lands in Kagoshima Japan |
| 1548 | Mary queen of Scotland (6) arrives in France |
| 1535 | Asuncion, Paraguay founded |
| 1534 | Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits |
| 1519 | Panama City founded |
| 1457 | Earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," completed |
| 1308 | Johannieter knights conquer Rhodos on the Greece |
| 778 | Battle at Roncevalles: Basques beat Charles the Great |
