| 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 |
