| 2015 | Japanese protesters gather outside the nation's parliament building to oppose changes proposed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to allow Japanese combat defense aid to allied nations for cases in which Japan itself is not under attack |
| 2014 | In the face of signs that Russian troops and equipment are aiding rebels in eastern Ukraine, the E.U. proposes further sanctions against Russia; President Vladimir Putin denies the charges while calling for independent statehood of the region |
| 2014 | Legislators in California pass a ban on disposable plastic grocery bags; if approved by Governor Jerry Brown, the ban will be the first implemented across a state, though many cities across the U.S. already have such bans in place |
| 2013 | An area located off the coast of the Aleutian Islands records a magnitude 7.0 earthquake |
| 2013 | In Greenland. a canyon over 800km long is discovered up to 800m deep in different places below the ice sheet covering the country; the canyon is longer than Arizona's Grand Canyon; it was carved out by a river over four million years ago |
| 2012 | A large crude deposit of oil is found by Permex, Mexico's state-owned oil company, in the northern state of Tamaulipas; deposits could contain 250 - 400 million barrels of oil |
| 2012 | A report on the nuclear program of Iran released by the IAEA, highlights concern over Iran's nuclear program as the country reportedly has doubled its number of centrifuges as the Fordow facility |
| 2011 | New England's state of Vermont experiences the worst flooding in 100 years |
| 2011 | The National Diet of Japan, Japan's bicameral legislature, approves Yoshihiko Noda as its new Prime Minister |
| 2010 | In Chile, 33 miners trapped half a mile beneath the surface make contact with their families for the first time in three weeks since the incidentally |
| 2010 | Sumatra's Sinaburg volcano continues to erupt, two people are killed and 21,000 are evacuated from the vicinity |
| 1998 | State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
| 1997 | 1st WNBA Championshion: Houston Comets beat New York Liberty |
| 1997 | Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (U.S. Open) |
| 1995 | Cable News Network joins internet |
| 1995 | Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell play in 1,914 game together tying AL record |
| 1994 | Gund Arena in Cleveland opens |
| 1994 | Largest U.S. Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618 |
| 1993 | Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest mosque in the world |
| 1992 | "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 160 performances |
| 1992 | "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 229 performances |
| 1992 | 92nd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard |
| 1992 | David Lewett and Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun |
| 1992 | Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge |
| 1991 | Dan O'Brien sets U.S. decathalon record with 8,812 points |
| 1991 | France beats U.S. by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14 to 13 |
| 1991 | Mike Powell of U.S., sets then long jump record at 29' 4 " (8.95m) |
| 1991 | Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi |
| 1990 | Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, Jr. become 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning |
| 1989 | Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner |
| 1988 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1988 | Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen |
| 1988 | Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games |
| 1988 | Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills |
| 1987 | 87th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair |
| 1987 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship |
| 1987 | Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec |
| 1987 | Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 home runs in Minnesota 10-6 win over Milwaukee |
| 1987 | Stefka Kostadonova of Bulgaroa sets high jump woman's record (6'10") |
| 1987 | Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57) |
| 1987 | Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls |
| 1986 | Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54) |
| 1986 | Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (U.S. News World Report) |
| 1984 | 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days) |
| 1984 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1984 | Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36 |
| 1984 | Sotherby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla |
| 1983 | 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days) |
| 1983 | Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, New York, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA |
| 1983 | WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Philadelphia |
| 1983 | Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space |
| 1982 | PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut |
| 1981 | Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1980 | Polish government recognizes Solidarity |
| 1979 | 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs) |
| 1979 | Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match |
| 1979 | Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in U.S. Tennis Open, she loses |
| 1979 | President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga |
| 1979 | Wildest U.S. Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated |
| 1976 | Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show |
| 1976 | Turks and Caicos Islands adopts constitution |
| 1975 | KTW-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX) |
| 1974 | Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153 |
| 1974 | Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg |
| 1974 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1973 | Danny Seiwell quits Wings |
| 1972 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden |
| 1971 | WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | 120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival |
| 1969 | 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash |
| 1969 | 69th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk |
| 1969 | Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida |
| 1968 | 1st record under Apple label, Beatle's Hey Jude |
| 1968 | John and Yoko's "One on One" benefit for children at MSG |
| 1967 | U.S. Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice |
| 1965 | Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball |
| 1965 | Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland |
| 1964 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open |
| 1963 | Hot Line communications link between Washington D.C. and Moscow begins |
| 1961 | J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a U.S. District Court |
| 1961 | Last Spanish troops leave Morocco |
| 1961 | Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. says it will resume nuclear testing |
| 1960 | Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7 |
| 1960 | East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean |
| 1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1957 | U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights |
| 1956 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests) |
| 1956 | White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas |
| 1954 | Hurricane Carol, kills 68 |
| 1953 | Future New York City mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in New York City |
| 1951 | U.S. and Philippines sign mutual defense pact |
| 1949 | Roly Jenkins (Worcs vs. Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game |
| 1949 | WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1945 | 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753) |
| 1945 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th Symphony |
| 1945 | General MacArthur lands in Japan |
| 1945 | Hong Kong liberated from Japan |
| 1944 | 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769) |
| 1944 | Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta," premieres in New York City |
| 1944 | Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania |
| 1942 | Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg |
| 1941 | Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II |
| 1941 | St. Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0 |
| 1939 | 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456) |
| 1939 | General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army |
| 1939 | Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet |
| 1939 | New York Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph) |
| 1939 | Poland mobilizes |
| 1937 | Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1933 | Air France forms |
| 1933 | Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE) |
| 1932 | Hermann Goering elected chairman (Reichstag) |
| 1928 | Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India |
| 1927 | 41st U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64) |
| 1926 | Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey vs. Middlesex) |
| 1925 | 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium |
| 1922 | Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922 |
| 1919 | Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin |
| 1918 | Czechoslovakia forms independence republic |
| 1918 | Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin |
| 1918 | Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded after speech |
| 1916 | Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St. Louis Browns, 4-0 |
| 1916 | Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany |
| 1914 | 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed |
| 1914 | Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army |
| 1913 | Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled |
| 1912 | St. Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1 |
| 1910 | Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleveland 5-0 in 11 |
| 1906 | Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game |
| 1906 | New York Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs |
| 1905 | Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa |
| 1905 | Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro |
| 1904 | Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km) |
| 1901 | Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner |
| 1900 | Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed |
| 1895 | Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education |
| 1894 | Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger |
| 1893 | 13rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (64 36 64 64) |
| 1888 | Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day |
| 1885 | 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda |
| 1862 | 2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union |
| 1862 | Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, Kentucky |
| 1862 | Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee |
| 1860 | 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead) |
| 1854 | John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels |
| 1850 | Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city |
| 1843 | 1st blacks participation in national political convention (Liberty Party) |
| 1831 | Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle |
| 1799 | Bataafse fleet surrender to English |
| 1781 | French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War |
| 1776 | U.S. Army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, New York City |
| 1757 | Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia |
| 1751 | Georg Friedrich Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha" |
| 1721 | Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War |
| 1682 | William Penn left England to sail to New World |
| 1673 | Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands and Lutherans form anti-French covenant |
| 1645 | Dutch and Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY)) |
| 1563 | Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled |
| 1481 | 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Kazimierz IV |
| 1464 | Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II) |
| 1146 | European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending war for all time |
| 1125 | Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany |
| 257 | St. Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
