| 2012 | Ending an extensive study on the wooly mammoth, scientists conclude that they were wiped out by multiple things, including climate change, human hunters, and shifting habitats |
| 2011 | Voters in Turkey go to the polls for a general election |
| 2011 | In the 2011 NBA Finals, he Dallas Mavericks win their first NBA title, winning 4 - 2 over the Miami Heat |
| 2010 | Chinese Buddhist monks and archaeologists reveal part of a skull believed to be Buddhism's founder, Siddartha Gautama |
| 2008 | Irish voters reject the Treaty of Lisbon |
| 2004 | Former President George H. W. Bush celebrates his 80th birthday by skydiving |
| 2002 | NBA Finals, Los Angeles Lakers beat New Jersey Nets 4 games to 0 |
| 1997 | 1st ever baseball inter-league game San Francisco Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3 |
| 1997 | MTV Movie Awards |
| 1996 | 3 Philadelphia Federal Court judges overturn U.S. indecency ban on internet |
| 1994 | Pope John Paul II visits Spain |
| 1994 | 48th Tony Awards: Angels in America: Perestroika and Passion win |
| 1994 | Cab Calloway suffered massive stroke at his home in White Plaines NY |
| 1994 | Liselotte Neumann wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1993 | "Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly hits #17 |
| 1992 | "Batman Returns" is released in USA |
| 1991 | 45th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1 |
| 1991 | Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation |
| 1991 | Mount Pinatubo volcano on Philippines erupts |
| 1990 | Egypt (500-1 longshot) ties favorite Netherlands 1-1 in World Cup game |
| 1990 | New York Yankee reliever Dave Righetti becomes 9th to record 200 saves |
| 1990 | Oakland A's Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases |
| 1990 | Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd place on the all-time list |
| 1990 | New York Mets beat Chicago Cubs 19-8 at Wrigley Field, Cubs outfielder Doug Dazcenzo pitched a scoreless 9th inning |
| 1989 | "Doctor Doctor," TV Comedy starring Matt Frewer, debuts on CBS-TV |
| 1989 | Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids |
| 1988 | 6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper |
| 1988 | Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy |
| 1988 | Mei-Chi Cheng wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| 1987 | Central Afr Rep ex-emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa sentenced to death |
| 1986 | P. W. Botha declares South African national emergency |
| 1983 | 29th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
| 1983 | Comet C/1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs of Earth |
| 1983 | Winston Davis takes 7-51 in Cricket World Cup match vs. Australia |
| 1982 | 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park New York City |
| 1982 | Battle of Mount Longdon, Falkland Islands |
| 1982 | Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel perform in Rotterdam |
| 1981 | "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" starring Harrison Ford premieres |
| 1981 | 3rd baseball strike starts |
| 1981 | Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike |
| 1981 | Larry Holmes TKOs Leon Spinks in 3 for WBC heavyweight boxing title |
| 1981 | Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti President election |
| 1980 | Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests |
| 1979 | Kevin St. Onge throws a playing card a record 185' |
| 1979 | Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Association meditation in Boston |
| 1979 | Sanista occupies parts of Managua |
| 1979 | Tigers fire manager Les Moss, hiring Sparky Anderson |
| 1979 | Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hours, 49 minutes |
| 1978 | David Berkowitz sentenced in New York Supreme Court to 25 years to life |
| 1978 | U.S. House of Representatives allows live radio coverage |
| 1977 | "Pippin" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 1944 performances |
| 1977 | 23rd LPGA Championship won by Chako Higuchi |
| 1977 | Ground-breaking ceremonies for President Kennedy library |
| 1975 | Billy Williams's 400th career home run |
| 1975 | Hank Aaron's 1st home run in Milwaukee since 1965 |
| 1973 | Close finish at Trent Bridge, New Zealand Cricket need 479 to win, all out 440 |
| 1973 | Yankees trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer |
| 1971 | Tricia Nixon and Edward F Cox marry at White House |
| 1970 | Pitts Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0 |
| 1968 | "What Makes Sammy Run?" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 540 performances |
| 1967 | Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio, 300 arrested |
| 1967 | Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus |
| 1967 | Washington Senators beat Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 22 innings |
| 1966 | Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan |
| 1966 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational |
| 1965 | "Bajour" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 232 performances |
| 1965 | "I Had a BaIl" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 199 performances |
| 1965 | "What Makes Sammy Run?" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 540 performances |
| 1965 | Beatles are awarded MBE |
| 1965 | Morio Shigematsu runs world record marathon (2:12:00) |
| 1965 | Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" |
| 1965 | Sonny and Cher make their 1st TV appearance, "American Bandstand" |
| 1965 | South Vietnam General Nguyen Cao Kentucky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier |
| 1965 | Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies know as blue galaxies |
| 1964 | Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa |
| 1963 | "Cleopatra" premieres in New York City |
| 1962 | 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz |
| 1962 | Laos prince Souvanna Phouma forms coalition government |
| 1962 | USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m |
| 1961 | An ailing Bill Veeck sells his interest in White Sox to Arthur Allyn |
| 1961 | Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20 |
| 1960 | KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begins |
| 1960 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| 1959 | San Francisco Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game |
| 1958 | "Make Me Laugh," TV Game Show; last airs on ABC-TV, syndicated 1979 |
| 1957 | Paul Anderson of U.S. back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs) |
| 1957 | Stan Musial plays in 823rd game (new NL consecutive-game streak) |
| 1955 | "Mr Peepers" (TV Comedy) starring Wally Cox airs for last time on NBC |
| 1954 | "Girl in Pink Tights" closes at Mark Hellinger New York City after 115 performances |
| 1954 | 86th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard High Gun wins in 2:30.8 |
| 1954 | Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock," is originally released |
| 1954 | Milwaukee Braves Jim Wilson no-hits Phillies, 2-0 |
| 1952 | U.S.S.R. declares peace treaty with Japan invalid |
| 1950 | 2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die |
| 1950 | Connie Mack named Honorary Manager of the All-Star Game |
| 1948 | "Hold It!" closes at National Theater New York City after 46 performances |
| 1948 | "Sleepy Hallow" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| 1948 | "William Tell Overture" by Spike Jones peaks at #6 |
| 1948 | 48th U.S. Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 276 at Riviera CC in LA |
| 1948 | 80th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:28.2 |
| 1948 | Bradman scores 138 in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge |
| 1947 | Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win British Women's Amateur Golf Champ |
| 1945 | U.S. 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa |
| 1944 | 1st V-1 rocket assault on London |
| 1944 | British 12th airborne batallion/13th and 18th Hussars conquer |
| 1944 | British 12th battalion conquers Breville |
| 1944 | Churchill/Marshall/Arnold visit Montgomery's HQ in Chateau de Creully |
| 1944 | U.S. troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy |
| 1943 | Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos |
| 1942 | Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present, Amsterdam |
| 1942 | Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples |
| 1942 | Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City |
| 1939 | 43rd U.S. Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Philadelphia CC in Philadelphia |
| 1939 | Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York |
| 1937 | 41st U.S. Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills, Michigan |
| 1937 | U.S.S.R. executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues |
| 1936 | 1st 50 KW U.S. radio station, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| 1935 | Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco, Bolivia vs Paraguay |
| 1935 | Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15 hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words) |
| 1934 | Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Air Lines |
| 1933 | Financial and Economy World conference opens, 66 countries |
| 1931 | Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury |
| 1930 | 34th U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen CC Minnesota |
| 1930 | Heavyweight Max Schmeling KOs Jack Sharkey in New York City |
| 1930 | Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for hw boxing title |
| 1928 | New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples and 2 home runs to be White Sox 15-7 |
| 1926 | 58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2 |
| 1926 | Brazil leaves League of Nations |
| 1925 | William DeHart Hubbard of U.S., sets long jump record at 25' 10 3/4" |
| 1923 | Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City |
| 1922 | German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich |
| 1922 | St. Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times |
| 1922 | St. Louis gets record 10 hits in a row and beats Phillies 14-8 |
| 1920 | 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2 |
| 1920 | Farmer Labor Party organized, Chicago |
| 1919 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education |
| 1918 | 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France |
| 1917 | Secret Service extends protection of president to his family |
| 1916 | 30th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Louise Raymond (60 61) |
| 1916 | Tennis legend Bill Tilden's 1st appearance at U.S. tennis championship |
| 1915 | 29th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Hazel Wightman (46 62 60) |
| 1913 | "Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released |
| 1910 | PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle |
| 1909 | "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1 |
| 1908 | Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours, New York City |
| 1907 | Yankees commit 11 errors and lose 14-6 to Tigers |
| 1903 | Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city |
| 1900 | German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power |
| 1898 | Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to U.S. control |
| 1897 | Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll) |
| 1892 | Netherlands Society for Currency and Coin collecting forms |
| 1889 | Single tornado kills 119, injures 146, New Richmond, Wisconsin |
| 1885 | Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France |
| 1880 | 1st baseball perfect game, John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleveland |
| 1880 | John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest City 0 |
| 1875 | 9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42 |
| 1867 | Austro-Hungarian Empire forms |
| 1864 | Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road Georgia, about 57 dies in battle |
| 1861 | Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state |
| 1859 | Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered |
| 1849 | Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Kentucky |
| 1845 | George Abernethy becomes 1st governor of Oregon Country |
| 1840 | Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands |
| 1839 | 1st baseball game played in America |
| 1838 | Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Massachusetts |
| 1838 | Iowa Territory forms |
| 1819 | Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra |
| 1817 | Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course |
| 1812 | Napoleon invades Russia |
| 1792 | George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver BC |
| 1787 | Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old |
| 1776 | Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights |
| 1775 | 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (U.S.) captures Margaretta (Br) |
| 1714 | Prussia and Russia sign secret treaty |
| 1701 | Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover |
| 1691 | Pope Innocent XII succeeds Alexander VIII |
| 1683 | Rye House-plot against English king Charles II uncovered |
| 1673 | Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral |
| 1672 | French army under General Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith |
| 1667 | Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet |
| 1665 | English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out |
| 1653 | Battle at North Foreland: English fleet beats Dutch |
| 1575 | William of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon |
| 1553 | King Edward VI accept archbishop Cranmers "42 Articles" |
| 1552 | Land guardians of Netherlands attacks Verdun |
| 1534 | Turkish Admiral Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap and plunder Naples |
| 1523 | Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested |
| 1442 | King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples |
| 28 | Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome |
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