| 2012 | Volcanic activity alerts are issued in Chile and Argentina, in areas near the Copahue volcano, after it started to spew ash |
| 2012 | The launch of a space satellite into space by North Korea is disputed by South Korean defense ministry, who claim it was a disguised test of a 10,000 km range missile |
| 2011 | The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip enters the hospital to treat a blocked coronary artery |
| 2011 | North Korea states is will accept all South Korean delegations who wish to pay their respects to the late leader Kim Jong-il |
| 2010 | A male Algerian is fined by a court in Nice for insulting the French national flag; this was the first such penalty ever to be administered |
| 2010 | Some Greeks in the Greek Parliament protest sweeping cuts approved in the budget |
| 1997 | Chicago Bull's coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins |
| 1997 | Colorado Avalanche Jari Kurri is 8th NHLer to score 600 career goals |
| 1997 | Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing |
| 1997 | U.S. Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18 |
| 1997 | Woody Allen, 62 weds Soon-Yi Previn 27, adopted daughter of Mia Farrow |
| 1996 | 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history |
| 1994 | Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players |
| 1991 | NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns |
| 1990 | "Lettice and Lovage" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 284 performances |
| 1990 | Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia |
| 1987 | Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison |
| 1986 | Rutan and Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling |
| 1984 | Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG |
| 1983 | Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter |
| 1981 | Boycott becomes leading run-scorer in Test Crickets with 8033 |
| 1980 | Sam Shepard's "True West," premieres in New York City |
| 1979 | New York Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | Islanders scored 7 goals in 1 period against New York Rangers, Trottier scores 8 points vs Rangers, 5 goals-NHL record 6 pts in 1 period |
| 1975 | Congress passes Metric Conversion Act |
| 1975 | Peter Seitz makes Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally free agents |
| 1974 | "Good News" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| 1974 | Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjotakovitsj' Michelangelo-liederen |
| 1973 | "Young and Restless" premieres on TV |
| 1973 | 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices |
| 1973 | French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed |
| 1972 | 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannabalism |
| 1972 | 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die |
| 1972 | Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India vs. England at Delhi |
| 1972 | Islanders end 15 games winless streak |
| 1972 | "Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7 |
| 1970 | 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" (record) |
| 1970 | French author Regis Debray freed in Bolivia |
| 1970 | NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m) |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1968 | 1st U.S. case of space motion sickness |
| 1968 | 82 members of U.S. intelligence ship 'Pueblo' released by North Korea |
| 1968 | Borman, Lovell and Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon |
| 1968 | North Korea releases Pueblo crew |
| 1967 | Brussels: NATO-Council accept "Flexible Response"-strategy |
| 1966 | Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go," last program |
| 1964 | India and Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed |
| 1963 | Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig" |
| 1963 | Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die |
| 1962 | Cuba starts returning U.S. prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion |
| 1962 | Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers 20-17 in AFL championship game |
| 1961 | KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | Train accident in Italy, 70 die |
| 1961 | Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food and medical supplies |
| 1960 | De Quay's Dutch government falls |
| 1960 | King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power |
| 1958 | "Party with Comden and Green" opens at John Golden New York City for 38 performances |
| 1958 | Abdallah Ibrahim forms government of Morocco |
| 1957 | Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout and Bobby Simpson vs. South Africa |
| 1953 | Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim "Junior" Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1951 | Last Belgian communities get electricity |
| 1951 | 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game |
| 1947 | Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in Bell Labs |
| 1946 | Belgian Council of State forms |
| 1946 | Highest ridership in New York City subway history (8.8 million passengers) |
| 1946 | University of Tennessee refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game |
| 1945 | Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premieres in London |
| 1945 | Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church |
| 1944 | Beginning of harsh winter |
| 1943 | 1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel and Gretel), Schenectady, New York |
| 1943 | General Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day |
| 1942 | Allies air attack on Den Helder |
| 1941 | American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese |
| 1941 | British troops overrun Benghazi Libya |
| 1941 | Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma |
| 1940 | John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance," premieres in New York City |
| 1939 | Finnish counter offensive at Summa |
| 1939 | South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland |
| 1938 | Margaret Hamilton's costume catches fire in filming of "Wizard of Oz" |
| 1933 | Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251 |
| 1933 | Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death |
| 1933 | Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die |
| 1930 | Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in New York City |
| 1928 | NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network |
| 1926 | KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions |
| 1925 | Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah |
| 1923 | Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000 |
| 1922 | BBC Radio began daily newscasts |
| 1922 | Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano |
| 1920 | Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament |
| 1920 | King George V signs Home Rule Act |
| 1919 | 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched |
| 1919 | Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace |
| 1917 | 3 British warships come close to Holland |
| 1915 | J Kern/S Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie," premieres in New York City |
| 1913 | President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law |
| 1912 | 1st "Keystone Kops" film, titled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy" |
| 1912 | Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation |
| 1911 | Frank Wedekind's "Oaha, die Satire der Satire," premieres in Munich |
| 1911 | Opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin) |
| 1909 | Albert becomes king of Belgians |
| 1907 | 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa |
| 1899 | Field Marshal Lord Roberts departs Southampton to South Africa |
| 1899 | Southampton: field marshal lord Roberts departures to South Africa |
| 1899 | Tentative Turkish and German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway |
| 1894 | Debussy's ballet "L'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres in Paris |
| 1893 | Opera "Hansel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar) |
| 1888 | Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear |
| 1876 | Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed |
| 1867 | 1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightner) |
| 1862 | Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis |
| 1852 | 1st Chinese theater in U.S., Celestial John, opens in San Francisco |
| 1834 | Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs |
| 1832 | Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender |
| 1823 | "Visit from St. Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel |
| 1788 | Maryland votes to cede a 10 mile area for District of Columbia |
| 1783 | Washington resigns as U.S. Army's commander-in-chief |
| 1779 | Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct |
| 1776 | Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France |
| 1776 | Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls" |
| 1751 | France sets plan to tax clergymen |
| 1728 | Prussian Emperor Karel VI sign Treaty of Berlin |
| 1724 | Emperor Charles VI names Maria Elisabeth land guardian of Austria / Netherlands |
| 1715 | Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund |
| 1690 | John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered |
| 1688 | English king Jacob II flees to France |
| 1672 | Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn |
| 1620 | French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII |
| 1569 | St. Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible |
| 1482 | Peace of Atrecht |
| 619 | Boniface V begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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