| 2000 | WNBA Championships, Houston Comets beat New York Liberty 2 games to 0 |
| 1995 | Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucs vs. Glamorgan |
| 1995 | Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval |
| 1992 | "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 46 performances |
| 1991 | Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0 |
| 1990 | 2 slain college students found in Gainesville, Florida |
| 1990 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Northgate Golf Classic |
| 1990 | Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive home runs |
| 1989 | Trumbull Conn, is 1st U.S. team since 1983 to win Little League WS |
| 1987 | Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games |
| 1986 | Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38) |
| 1985 | Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels |
| 1985 | French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior |
| 1984 | Betsy King wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
| 1984 | Tatyana Kazankina of U.S.S.R. sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad |
| 1984 | Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record) |
| 1982 | NASA launches Telesat-F |
| 1981 | Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission |
| 1981 | Voyager 2 takes photo's of Saturn's moon Titan |
| 1980 | Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of Cheap Trick |
| 1979 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| 1978 | Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I |
| 1978 | Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6 |
| 1977 | Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77 |
| 1974 | Guinee-Bissau becomes independent of Portugal |
| 1974 | Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3 |
| 1973 | David Eisenhower writes his last sports column |
| 1973 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| 1973 | University of Texas (Arlington) is 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing |
| 1973 | 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, California, beating a field of 1,500 runners |
| 1972 | 20th Olympic games open at Munich, West Germany |
| 1972 | Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros |
| 1972 | N.Y. Cosmos beat St. Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1971 | Dutch Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia |
| 1971 | New York Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for New Jersey in 1975 |
| 1971 | Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game |
| 1967 | Beatles, Mick Jagger and Marienne Faithful meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
| 1967 | Dean Chance pitches a 2-1 no-hitter, and Twins sweep Cleveland |
| 1967 | Dutch 2nd Chamber demands U.S. stop bombing North Vietnam |
| 1966 | Baltimore Orioles Roznovsky and B Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch home runs |
| 1966 | KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Italians CP selects Luigi Longo as chairman |
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson nominated at Democratic convention |
| 1963 | W I beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy |
| 1962 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Salt Lake City Golf Open |
| 1962 | Minn Twins Jack Kralick no-hits Kansas City A's, 1-0 |
| 1961 | Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile |
| 1956 | KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Denver Golf Open |
| 1956 | Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC |
| 1955 | 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup) |
| 1952 | Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins |
| 1951 | Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart |
| 1950 | 39th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (4-1) |
| 1947 | 1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a home run on 1st at bat) |
| 1946 | George Orwell published "Animal Farm" |
| 1945 | Japanese diplomats board Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II |
| 1944 | Bulgaria announces withdrawal and German troops are to be disarmed |
| 1944 | De Gaulle marches to Champs-Elysees |
| 1944 | U.S. 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris |
| 1942 | 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France |
| 1942 | Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay |
| 1942 | Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow |
| 1942 | Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1940 | RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk |
| 1939 | 1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Brooklyn Dodgers (W2XBS New York) |
| 1939 | Belgium mobilizes |
| 1939 | Kroatia gets autonomous status |
| 1938 | British leaders and Arabians fight in Palestine |
| 1938 | Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL |
| 1937 | Franco's troops conquer Santander |
| 1937 | Pumping to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay is finished |
| 1935 | CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks |
| 1933 | Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km) |
| 1930 | Hack Wilson hits his 44th home run, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record |
| 1929 | 1st U.S. roller coaster built |
| 1922 | Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed |
| 1920 | 19th amendment passes - women's suffrage granted |
| 1920 | Percy Fender (Surrey vs. Northants) scores 100 in 35 minutes |
| 1918 | W Smith and F Bacons "Lightnin'," premieres in New York City |
| 1916 | Philadelphia A's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleveland, 5-0 |
| 1916 | Yankees turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6 |
| 1915 | German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia |
| 1914 | Russian army atacks Austrian army in Galicia |
| 1914 | Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army |
| 1913 | 33rd U.S. Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats R N Williams (64 57 63 61) |
| 1912 | 32nd U.S. Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats W F Johnson (36 26 62 64 62) |
| 1912 | Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends |
| 1909 | Frank Tarrant scores cricket 145 and 13-67 for Middlesex vs. Gloucs |
| 1909 | Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn and 31 in a single day |
| 1907 | Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec |
| 1903 | Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game |
| 1896 | Armenian revolutionairy assault on Ottoman Bank Constantinople |
| 1895 | Electric central at Niagara Falls gives 1st steam |
| 1894 | Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms |
| 1883 | Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000 |
| 1873 | 1st kindergarten public school opens in St. Louis |
| 1863 | Battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs) |
| 1846 | Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah," premieres |
| 1846 | W A Bartlett appointed 1st U.S. mayor of Yerba Buena (SF) |
| 1843 | Charles Thurber patents a typewriter |
| 1794 | French troops occupy Lock |
| 1791 | John Fitch grants U.S. patent for his working steamboat |
| 1745 | England, Prussia and Hannover sign treaty |
| 1652 | Sea battle at Plymouth: Ayscue vs De Ruyter |
| 1648 | People's uprising against Anna of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin |
| 1641 | West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola |
| 1634 | Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II and Spain beat Sweden and German protestants |
| 1629 | Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate |
| 1549 | Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels |
| 1545 | Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese, duke of Parma |
| 1541 | Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda/annexes Hungary |
| 1346 | Battle at Crecy-England's longbows defeat France, cannons used for 1st time in battle |
| 1278 | Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf van Habsburg defeats Ottokar II |
| 580 | Chinese invents toilet paper |
