| 2012 | After a classified 469-day orbital mission, the U.S. air force's robotic Boeing X-37-B spaceplane returns to Earth |
| 2012 | Egypt's voters go to the polls for a second round of voting in their first presidential election |
| 2011 | Prince Harry of Wales is cleared to return to service in the Afghan War |
| 2011 | The auction record for paintings by Sir Stanley Spencer were broken twice within minutes at Sotheby's in London |
| 2010 | In response to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, BP agrees to finance a $20 billion fund to compensate those whose livelihood has been damaged |
| 2001 | NBA Finals, Los Angeles Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers 4 games to 1 |
| 1998 | Stanley Cup Finals, Detroit Red Wings beat Washington Capitals 4 games to 0 |
| 1997 | 31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and LeAnn Rimes |
| 1996 | 1st competitive game played on turf in Holland (in third grade) |
| 1996 | 50th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Seat Supersonic, 4 games to 2 |
| 1996 | 96th U.S. Golf Open: Steve Jones shoots a 278 wins at Oakland Hills CC |
| 1996 | Liselotte Neumann wins First Bank Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1995 | Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hits his 400th NL career home run (429) |
| 1995 | Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002 |
| 1994 | Martin Brodeur becomes 1st Devil to win Calder Trophy |
| 1993 | Ken Griffey, Jr. slugs his 100th career home run in Seattle's |
| 1992 | Colorado Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game |
| 1992 | Great British postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill |
| 1992 | Jeff King is 5th to be thrown out twice trying to steal in an inning |
| 1992 | Red Sox Mark Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yankees 1-0) |
| 1992 | Longest salami is 68'9 and 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway |
| 1991 | "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 241 performances |
| 1991 | New York City Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week" |
| 1991 | 91st U.S. Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 282 at Hazeline National Golf Club Minnesota |
| 1991 | Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR |
| 1991 | Colleen Walker wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1991 | Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row |
| 1991 | Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day |
| 1991 | With 3 runs in 9th, Baltimore ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5 |
| 1990 | Nelson and Winnie Mandela visit Leidseplein, Amsterdam |
| 1989 | "Ghostbusters II" premieres |
| 1989 | Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956 |
| 1989 | Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since U.S. open began, today 4 more are made all on 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate and Price) |
| 1988 | Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home |
| 1988 | In Santa Barbara, California, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 miles in 75 hours 20 minutes |
| 1987 | Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens |
| 1987 | Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted after shooting 4 youths who tried to rob him |
| 1986 | 1 day general strike in South Africa |
| 1985 | 85th U.S. Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills CC Michigan |
| 1985 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| 1985 | T. C. Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of U.S. Open |
| 1985 | Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58'11 ") in Indianapolis quadruple bogies 5th hole and never recovers |
| 1984 | Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race |
| 1984 | Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d) |
| 1983 | Charlos Vieira completes 191 hour "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal |
| 1983 | European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10 |
| 1983 | Pope John Paul II visits Poland |
| 1983 | Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. party leader Yuri Andropov elected president |
| 1982 | Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners |
| 1980 | "Blues Brothers," premieres in Chicago |
| 1980 | Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patented |
| 1979 | "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6 |
| 1979 | Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit |
| 1979 | Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo, Syria |
| 1978 | Cincinnati Red Tom Seaver no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 |
| 1978 | Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough" |
| 1977 | "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway |
| 1977 | Fianna Fail-party wins Irish elections |
| 1977 | Leonid Brezhnev named president of U.S.S.R. |
| 1977 | Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over Kansas City Royals |
| 1976 | Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa, Soweto Day |
| 1975 | Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber and Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players |
| 1975 | Italy's Communist party PCI, wins |
| 1975 | Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD |
| 1975 | Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation |
| 1974 | 74th U.S. Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot Golf Club New York |
| 1974 | Sandra Haynie wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Open |
| 1973 | Leonid I Brezhnev visit U.S. |
| 1971 | Groningen soccer team forms in Groningen |
| 1971 | Racial disturbance in Jacksonville, Florida |
| 1970 | Kenneth A. Gibson elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey |
| 1970 | Race riots in Miami, Florida |
| 1969 | Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. from House |
| 1968 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA "500" Ladies Golf Classic |
| 1968 | 68th U.S. Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill CC NY |
| 1968 | Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's U.S. open under par |
| 1967 | 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival |
| 1966 | "Rowan and Martin Show," debuts on NBC-TV |
| 1966 | 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade and Man of La Mancha win |
| 1964 | Quake strikes Niigata Japan |
| 1963 | Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM |
| 1963 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open |
| 1963 | Valentina Tereshkova (U.S.S.R.) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6 |
| 1962 | 2 U.S. Army officers killed in Saigon |
| 1961 | Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host |
| 1961 | Discoverer 25 launched |
| 1961 | Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris |
| 1960 | "Psycho," opens in New York |
| 1958 | "Flip Top Box" by Dicky Doo and The Don'ts hits #46 |
| 1958 | Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia |
| 1957 | French offensive in Algeria |
| 1957 | White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 home runs to beat Washington Senators 8-6 |
| 1956 | 56th U.S. Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill CC NY |
| 1956 | 88th Belmont: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:29.8 |
| 1955 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| 1955 | Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine President Juan Peron |
| 1954 | Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months |
| 1954 | Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam |
| 1953 | Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yankees lose ending 18 game win streak and also ending St. Louis Brown 14 game losing streak |
| 1952 | Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down |
| 1951 | 51st U.S. Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Oakland Hills CC Michigan |
| 1951 | 83rd Belmont: David Gorman aboard Counterpoint wins in 2:29 |
| 1949 | Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa |
| 1947 | 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington" |
| 1947 | Pravda denounces Marshall Plan |
| 1946 | "Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 1147 performances |
| 1946 | 46th U.S. Golf Open: Lloyd Mangrum shoots a 284 at Canterbury Golf Club Cleveland |
| 1945 | 71st Preakness: Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8 |
| 1945 | Boo Ferriss loses to Yankees 3-2 after starting his career with 8 wins |
| 1944 | Iceland adopts constitution |
| 1944 | U.S. bombs Kyushu Japan |
| 1941 | 1st U.S. federally owned airport opened Washington D.C. |
| 1940 | Communist government installed in Lithuania |
| 1940 | General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux |
| 1938 | Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by Browns |
| 1938 | St. Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row |
| 1937 | Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA |
| 1936 | Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge |
| 1936 | Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert, Dutch Nazi collaborator |
| 1935 | U.S. Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal" |
| 1933 | National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down |
| 1933 | U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, FDIC, created |
| 1932 | Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights |
| 1932 | President Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention |
| 1932 | Sutcliffe and Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorks vs. Essex |
| 1931 | Austrian government of Ender falls |
| 1929 | Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (New York to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days) |
| 1927 | 31st U.S. Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont CC in Pa |
| 1924 | South Africa all out 30 vs. England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7 |
| 1923 | Sun Yat Sen founds military academy |
| 1922 | Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics |
| 1917 | 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia |
| 1917 | 49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8 |
| 1916 | Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0 |
| 1909 | 1st U.S. airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000 |
| 1909 | Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals |
| 1903 | 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox |
| 1903 | Ford Motors incorporates |
| 1903 | Pepsi Cola company forms |
| 1899 | Victor Trumper's 1st Test Cricket century 135* vs. England, Lord's |
| 1898 | China's emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei |
| 1896 | Temperature hits 127 degrees F at Fort Mojave, California |
| 1893 | R. W. Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack |
| 1884 | On Coney Island, the 1st roller coaster begins operating |
| 1883 | 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (New York Gothams beat Cleveland Spiders 5-2) |
| 1882 | 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa |
| 1881 | Austria-Hungary and Serbia sign military treaty |
| 1880 | Salvation Army forms in Londo |
| 1879 | Gilbert and Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater New York City |
| 1873 | President Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians |
| 1871 | Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, New York City |
| 1864 | Battle of Lynchburg, Virginia |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Golgotha Georgia |
| 1864 | Union General Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia |
| 1861 | Battle of Vienna, Virginia and Secessionville, South Carolina, James Island |
| 1858 | Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" |
| 1842 | Natchex Mississippi, hit by tornado; about 500 die |
| 1836 | London Working Men's Association forms |
| 1832 | Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Illinois |
| 1823 | King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp |
| 1822 | Denmark Vesey, leads slave rebellion in South Carolina |
| 1815 | Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia |
| 1815 | Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French |
| 1794 | 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch) |
| 1779 | In support of the U.S., Spain declares war on England |
| 1779 | Vice-Admiral Hardy sails out of Isle of Wright against Spanish Armada |
| 1775 | Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it is Breed's Hill) |
| 1775 | Liberty Bell rang for the 2nd Continental Congress |
| 1755 | British capture Fort Beausejour, expel Acadians |
| 1746 | Battle at Piacenza: Austria and Sardinia beat Spanish and French army |
| 1745 | English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St. Lawrence River |
| 1673 | Peace of Vossem: French King Louis XIV and Frederik Willem of Brandenburg |
| 1624 | Judge directs U.S. colony Virginia to English crown |
| 1567 | Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland |
| 1487 | Battle at Stoke: Henry VII beats John de la Pole and Lord Lovell |
| 1338 | German monarch declares pope and king's decree redundant |
| 632 | Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era |
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