| 2012 | After last months extensive flooding, North Korea asks the United Nations for food aid |
| 2012 | At least one person is killed from an explosion in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya |
| 2011 | A skull believed to be 20-million years old is discovered in a Uganda; the skull is believed to be from a tree-climbing ape |
| 2011 | The U.S. credit rating is downgraded from A+ to A by the Chinese Dagong Global Credit Rating |
| 2010 | South Africa's top police officer, Jackie Selebi, former chief of Interpol, is sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption |
| 2010 | Convicted for transporting soldiers during the Rwandan Genocide, Dominique Ntawukuriryayo is sentenced to 25 years in prison |
| 2000 | The Republican party nominates George W. Bush to run for president |
| 1997 | 25th du Maurier Golf Classic: Colleen Walker wins |
| 1997 | BankBoston Senior Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Garth Brooks performs a free concert in Central Park New York for HBO |
| 1997 | Phil Mickelson wins golf's Sprint International |
| 1995 | CNN en Espanol premieres |
| 1994 | 102.4 degrees F (39.1 degrees C) in Tokyo Japan: record |
| 1994 | 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot) |
| 1992 | Dodgers win 3,000th game since moving to Los Angeles (3,000-2,531) |
| 1992 | Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot |
| 1991 | Giant Victory, driven by Jack Moiseyev, wins Hambletonian |
| 1991 | Pan Am games open in Havana |
| 1990 | "Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 11 performances |
| 1990 | 98.8 degrees F (37.1 degrees C) in Cheltenham, Glos. (UK record) |
| 1990 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th home run in 1st 72 at bats |
| 1990 | Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion |
| 1990 | U.S. announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions |
| 1990 | For 3rd time in 1990 a no-hitter is broken up with 2 outs in 8th inning. Doug Drabek of Pitts still beats Philadelphia 11-0 |
| 1989 | 5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez) |
| 1989 | Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river |
| 1989 | Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in 9 seasons |
| 1989 | Cincinnati Reds send record 20 men to bat with a record 16 hits in 1 inning as they score 14 runs in 1st inning |
| 1988 | Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to New York City |
| 1987 | Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo) |
| 1987 | Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26 |
| 1987 | Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2 lose |
| 1987 | Twins Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound and is ejected |
| 1986 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am |
| 1986 | Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, and Ernie Lombardi inducted in Hall of Fame |
| 1985 | "Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, New Jersey |
| 1985 | Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed |
| 1984 | 365.7 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 1984 | Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed |
| 1983 | John Sain of South Bend, Indiana builds 3.91 m house of cards |
| 1983 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1982 | Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as New York Yankee manager |
| 1981 | 13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike |
| 1981 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1980 | 22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, U.S.S.R. |
| 1980 | Kaline, Snider, Klein, and Tom Yawkey inducted into Hall of Fame |
| 1980 | Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1979 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1977 | Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered |
| 1975 | 500 drown when 2 river boats collide and sink in China's West River |
| 1975 | Louisiana Superdome is dedicated |
| 1975 | Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans |
| 1975 | Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1974 | "Little Night Music" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 601 performances |
| 1974 | "Words and Music" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 127 performances |
| 1974 | Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan and joins Doobie Brothers |
| 1973 | Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park, Isle of Man, UK |
| 1973 | National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections |
| 1972 | British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike |
| 1971 | Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings |
| 1970 | 4 day NFL strike ends |
| 1970 | Christopher Hampton's "Philanthropist," premieres in London |
| 1970 | Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history |
| 1970 | Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try |
| 1969 | Reds beats Phillies 19-17 |
| 1969 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
| 1968 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1967 | 45,000 U.S. soldiers sent to Vietnam |
| 1967 | James Law rides entire New York City subway in 22 hours 12 minutes |
| 1966 | South African government bans Beatle records |
| 1963 | "No Strings" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 580 performances |
| 1963 | Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda" |
| 1963 | Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool |
| 1963 | Great Train Robbery - 2.5 M pounds ($3.25 M) robbed |
| 1962 | 29th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20 (65,000) |
| 1962 | New York Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th home run in 3 games |
| 1960 | Niger gains independence from France |
| 1959 | 27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA |
| 1959 | 50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau |
| 1959 | AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium) |
| 1958 | USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap |
| 1957 | British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman |
| 1956 | Willie Williams of U.S. sets 100 meter record at 10.1 |
| 1955 | Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing |
| 1955 | Hurricane Connie begins pounding U.S. for 11 days |
| 1955 | Roger Moens runs world record 800 m (1:45.7) |
| 1954 | 1st VTOL, Vertical Take-off and Land, flown |
| 1953 | Frank Blair becomes news anchor of Today Show |
| 1952 | 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland |
| 1951 | William H. Jackson, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| 1949 | Republic Indonesia proclaims cease fire |
| 1949 | Basketball Assoc of America and National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association |
| 1948 | Cleveland's Satchel Paige make his 1st start and goes 7 innings |
| 1948 | Franklin D. Roosevelt advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a "communist" |
| 1946 | Belgian government of Huysmans, forms |
| 1944 | Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma |
| 1944 | Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies |
| 1944 | General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter |
| 1944 | Lieutenant-general Stilwells troops occupy Myitkyina Burma |
| 1944 | Tommy Brown, just 16 years and 8 months old, plays shortstop for Dodgers |
| 1943 | Gen. Patton slaps a U.S. GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice |
| 1943 | Nazi occupiers attack city Orel, leave it in fire |
| 1941 | Benzine sales limited in U.S. |
| 1941 | Gas sales limited in U.S. |
| 1941 | German troops conquer Roslavl U.S.S.R. |
| 1941 | Browns pitcher Johnny Niggling gets Joe DiMaggio in 4 at bats to stop DiMaggio's streak of 74 games in reaching base |
| 1940 | German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters and English and French movies |
| 1940 | Italian troops invade British Somalia |
| 1940 | Lithuanian SSR is accepted into U.S.S.R. |
| 1940 | Seaplane Clare makes 1st British passagiersvlucht to the U.S. |
| 1939 | Jean Genets "Ondine," premieres in Paris |
| 1933 | Yankees are shut out for 1st time after 308 games (since Aug 2, 1931) |
| 1930 | 2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games |
| 1928 | Ray Barbuti saves U.S. team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 sec) |
| 1926 | Traffic lights installed on Piccadilly Circus |
| 1925 | Last U.S. troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912) |
| 1924 | Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist |
| 1923 | Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding |
| 1923 | V.P. Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president |
| 1921 | 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars) |
| 1921 | Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball |
| 1914 | 1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal |
| 1914 | Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army |
| 1914 | French fleet sails to North-Africa |
| 1914 | German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina |
| 1914 | Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France in WW I |
| 1914 | Great Britain declares war on Germany |
| 1914 | Turkey signs military pact with Germany |
| 1914 | World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through Churches forms |
| 1914 | Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning |
| 1906 | Washington National's pitcher Tom Hughes hits home run to win his own game 1-0 in 10th |
| 1904 | British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa |
| 1897 | John McNally's musical "Good Mr. Best," premieres in New York City |
| 1882 | Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration |
| 1881 | Boers signs Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal semi-autonomous |
| 1881 | U.S. Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes "Nation" from name |
| 1880 | American Canoe Association founded at Lake George, New York |
| 1863 | Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in New York |
| 1863 | Saratoga Racetrack, New York, opens |
| 1861 | Federal fleet bombs Galveston, Texas |
| 1855 | Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens |
| 1852 | 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths |
| 1833 | HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro |
| 1829 | Gioacchino Rossini's "William Tell," premieres in Paris |
| 1797 | Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in "Countries of Bohemian Crown" to marry non Jews |
| 1778 | Teatro alla Scala opens in Milan |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides |
| 1708 | Battle at Trencsen: Austria beats Hungarian rebellion army |
| 1704 | English/Dutch fleet under Rooke/Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar |
| 1692 | Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English/Dutch army |
| 1678 | Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon |
| 1676 | Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia" |
| 1650 | Viceroy Willem II and Amsterdam reach accord about standing army |
| 1645 | Battle of Allersheim: French defeat Bavarians |
| 1640 | 2,000 men VOC-army surrounds the city of Malakka |
| 1640 | Zorilla's "Bire el Ojo," premieres in Toledo |
| 1596 | David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star) |
| 1557 | Dutch States-General meet at Valenciennes |
| 1529 | "Ladies' Peace" (treaty of Cambrai)-emperor Charles V and King French I |
| 1492 | All Jews are expelled from Spain |
| 1492 | Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for "Indies" |
| 1312 | Power of Luik Patriarch murders over 200 |
| 1108 | Louis VI, "the Fat One," King of France, crowned |
| 881 | Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings |
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