| 2012 | In Tokyo, direct trading begins between the Japanese yuan and the Chinese yuan |
| 2012 | Madonna begins her MDNA Tour in Tel Aviv, Israel, the first of more than 65 cities she will perform at worldwide |
| 2011 | According to the UN, 2 million adolescents in the world live with HIV; 86 per cent of them live in sub-Saharan Africa |
| 2011 | The U.S. announces it will boycott an anti-racism conference at the United Nations due to concerns over anti-Semetism |
| 2010 | The transcript of the flight data recorders from the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash that killed 96 Polish officials and intellectuals is published |
| 2009 | En route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic ocean, killing all 228 on board |
| 2005 | Dutch reject a referendum on the E.U. constitution |
| 2001 | The heir to the Nepalese throne killed his parents and eight other family members before shooting himself, after an argument over his choice of a bride |
| 1997 | 10th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $5,400,186 |
| 1997 | 1st New York Women Film Festival opens |
| 1997 | 51st Tony Awards: Titanic and Last Night of Ballyhoo win |
| 1997 | Ameritech Senior Golf Open |
| 1997 | Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Michelob Light Classic |
| 1997 | Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race |
| 1997 | Heartland LPGA Classic |
| 1997 | Los Angeles Dodger Wilton Guerrero's bat breaks, revealing it is corked |
| 1997 | Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par |
| 1996 | MTV Movie Awards |
| 1996 | Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square |
| 1995 | 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis |
| 1995 | Rangers' Kenny Rogers scoreless inning streak ends after 39 |
| 1994 | FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts |
| 1994 | General H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery |
| 1994 | Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai |
| 1993 | Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News |
| 1993 | Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army |
| 1993 | Melchior Ndadaye elected President of Burundi |
| 1992 | America West Arena opens in Phoenix |
| 1992 | Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games |
| 1991 | Warsaw Pact officially dissolves |
| 1991 | Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years |
| 1991 | Roseanne Arnold and Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later |
| 1990 | "Cemetery Club" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 56 performances |
| 1990 | Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting |
| 1990 | Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 1974 |
| 1990 | Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97 |
| 1989 | 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator |
| 1989 | Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house |
| 1989 | Robin Givens and Mike Tyson granted final divorce in New Jersey |
| 1988 | "Les Miserables," opens at Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles |
| 1988 | "Morton Downey, Jr. Show," debuts in TV syndication |
| 1988 | Train crash in Zeeland, Netherlands, kills 2 |
| 1987 | Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530) |
| 1986 | 32nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley |
| 1986 | 40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport and Mystery of Edwin Drood win |
| 1985 | "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12 |
| 1985 | Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 vs. Warwicks cricket |
| 1985 | Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP |
| 1984 | Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner |
| 1984 | KWK-AM in St. Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD |
| 1984 | Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles |
| 1984 | Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of U.S.S.R. snatches a record 211 kg |
| 1982 | Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year |
| 1980 | 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network |
| 1980 | ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa |
| 1980 | Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in California |
| 1980 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship |
| 1980 | Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Dodger home run |
| 1980 | Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting |
| 1979 | 33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Washington Bullets, 4 games to 1 |
| 1979 | Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier |
| 1979 | Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to New York City |
| 1979 | Wings release "Old Siam, Sir" |
| 1978 | Cricket Test debut of David Gower, vs. Pakistan, Edgbaston, scores 58 |
| 1978 | High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten |
| 1977 | British Virgin Islands adopts constitution |
| 1977 | Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason |
| 1977 | South Carolina Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen |
| 1975 | "Chicago" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 947 performances |
| 1975 | 21st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
| 1975 | California Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Baltimore Orioles, 1-0 |
| 1975 | Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts |
| 1975 | Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist |
| 1974 | "My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford hits #12 |
| 1974 | Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK |
| 1973 | George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold |
| 1973 | Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic" |
| 1973 | Paul McCartney and Wings release "Live and Let Die" |
| 1972 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin |
| 1972 | Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa |
| 1972 | West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader |
| 1971 | "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" opens at Golden New York City for 31 performances |
| 1971 | Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS |
| 1970 | "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1 |
| 1970 | Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four" |
| 1970 | Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days |
| 1970 | Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player and swallows his tongue |
| 1969 | Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio and TV |
| 1968 | 100th Belmont: Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2 |
| 1968 | Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1 |
| 1967 | Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in U.S. and goes gold |
| 1967 | Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, D.C. |
| 1966 | 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights |
| 1966 | George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London |
| 1966 | Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic |
| 1966 | Shortwave station Radio New York Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW |
| 1965 | A Penzias and R Wilson detect 3 degrees K primordial background radiation |
| 1965 | coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236 |
| 1963 | "El Watusi" by Ray Barreto hits #17 |
| 1963 | Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya |
| 1963 | King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia |
| 1962 | Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit |
| 1962 | Roda JC soccer team reforms in Kerkrade |
| 1962 | USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m |
| 1961 | FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard |
| 1960 | "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| 1960 | WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1959 | 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area |
| 1959 | Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day) |
| 1958 | Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election |
| 1958 | Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France |
| 1958 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Gatlinburg Golf Open |
| 1957 | 1st U.S. runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) |
| 1955 | Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia |
| 1954 | Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2) |
| 1953 | KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, California (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cross Country Weathervane Golf Tournament |
| 1952 | Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index |
| 1951 | 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada) |
| 1951 | International Cheese treaty signed |
| 1950 | WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1949 | 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek) |
| 1949 | British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence |
| 1949 | KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1949 | Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz wed for the second time |
| 1949 | Microfilm copies of "Newsweek" magazine 1st offered |
| 1948 | Israel and Arabs agree to a cease fire |
| 1947 | OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands |
| 1947 | Photosensitive glass developed |
| 1946 | 78th Belmont: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:30.8 |
| 1946 | Spijkenisse soccer team forms in Spijkenisse |
| 1945 | WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minnesota changes call letters to KUOM |
| 1944 | General Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth |
| 1944 | Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots |
| 1943 | Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die |
| 1943 | Pirates Rip Sewell 1st throws his dew-drop (eephus) ball in a game |
| 1941 | 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington Kansas (state 24-hour record) |
| 1941 | British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq |
| 1941 | Germany bans all Catholic publications |
| 1941 | Germany occupies Kreta |
| 1941 | New York Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th home run and his 1,500th RBI |
| 1940 | Coffee and tea rationed in Holland |
| 1940 | General-major Bernard Montgomery returns to London |
| 1940 | Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard |
| 1939 | 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer |
| 1939 | 1st night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2) |
| 1939 | British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard |
| 1939 | Retired German Colonel General Gerd von Runstedt returns to service |
| 1938 | Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters |
| 1938 | Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1 |
| 1937 | Chicago White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St. Louis Browns, 8-0 |
| 1937 | Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier |
| 1936 | "Lux Radio Theater" moved from New York City to Hollywood |
| 1936 | Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in New York |
| 1935 | Yankees set solo home run record with 6 beat Boston 7-2 |
| 1934 | AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar |
| 1933 | Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago |
| 1933 | Charlie Chaplin weds Paulette Goddard |
| 1932 | Lunteren soccer team forms in Lunteren |
| 1931 | Rozenburg soccer team forms in Rozenburg |
| 1930 | 6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (36 86 63 61) |
| 1930 | 6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (62 61) |
| 1930 | Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine |
| 1930 | Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia vs. Hampshire, 240 minutes, 26 fours |
| 1926 | Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland |
| 1925 | Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consec games) |
| 1923 | New York Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning |
| 1921 | Race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 61 people killed |
| 1920 | RKSV Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam |
| 1919 | Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden |
| 1918 | Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis |
| 1918 | White Sox losing 5-4 against New York Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play |
| 1917 | Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I |
| 1916 | German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun |
| 1915 | 1st Zeppelin air raid over England |
| 1914 | Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km) |
| 1912 | Stormvogels soccer team forms in Ijmuiden |
| 1911 | 1st U.S. group insurance policy written, Passaic, New Jersey |
| 1910 | South Carolina Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede |
| 1909 | Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle |
| 1908 | John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of U.S., which took 357 days |
| 1907 | -27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record) |
| 1905 | Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon |
| 1902 | Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms |
| 1900 | British army occupiers Pretoria South Africa |
| 1899 | Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes and Victor Trumper in Grace's last |
| 1898 | Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha |
| 1893 | Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin) |
| 1890 | U.S. census at 62,622,250 |
| 1888 | California gets its 1st seismograph |
| 1881 | Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange |
| 1880 | 1st pay telephone installed |
| 1880 | U.S. census at 50,155,783 |
| 1877 | Society of American Artists forms |
| 1877 | U.S. troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico |
| 1872 | 6th Belmont: James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58 |
| 1869 | Voting machine patented by Thomas A. Edison |
| 1868 | Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin |
| 1866 | General Dutch Typographer Union forms |
| 1866 | Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft. Erie, Ontario from U.S. |
| 1864 | Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm) |
| 1864 | Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English |
| 1862 | 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Virginia (11,165 casualties) |
| 1862 | General Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines |
| 1862 | Slavery abolished in all U.S. possessions |
| 1861 | 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Virginia |
| 1861 | British territorial waters and ports off-limits during Civil War |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Arlington Mills, Virginia |
| 1861 | U.S. and Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange |
| 1855 | U.S. adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery |
| 1845 | Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days |
| 1843 | It snows in Buffalo and Rochester New York and Cleveland Ohio |
| 1843 | Sojourner Truth leaves New York to begin her career as antislavery activist |
| 1836 | Charles Darwin returns to Capetown |
| 1835 | 6th national black convention in Philadelphia |
| 1834 | HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street |
| 1813 | Captain John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship" |
| 1809 | Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a mile round trip from his home |
| 1808 | 1st U.S. land-grant university founded at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio |
| 1796 | Last of Britain's troops withdraws from U.S. |
| 1796 | Tennessee admitted as 16th U.S. state |
| 1794 | English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French |
| 1792 | Kentucky admitted as 15th U.S. state |
| 1789 | 1st U.S. congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths) |
| 1774 | Boston Port Bill, British government orders Port of Boston closed |
| 1746 | French troops conquer Antwerp |
| 1679 | Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scottish |
| 1670 | English king Charles II and French king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty |
| 1657 | 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (New York) |
| 1649 | Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow |
| 1641 | France and Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant |
| 1638 | 1st earthquake recorded in U.S., at Plymouth, Mass |
| 1608 | Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-govt |
| 1568 | Duke van Alva beheads 18 nobles in Brussels |
| 1562 | Emperor Ferdinand and Sultan Suleiman signs treaty |
| 1533 | Anna Boleyn crowned queen of England |
| 1526 | Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief |
| 1495 | 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller |
| 1459 | Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua |
| 1283 | Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market |
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