| 1997 | NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 and Minneapolis-St. Paul and Columbus, Ohio in 2000 |
| 1996 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Syracuse New York on WAQX 95.7 FM |
| 1995 | "Who's Tommy" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 899 performances |
| 1994 | 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago |
| 1994 | O.J. Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, Los Angeles police chase his Ford Bronco for 1 hours, eventually gives up |
| 1993 | Indians' Carlos Baerga hits 3 home runs against Detroit |
| 1992 | Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker and WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day |
| 1992 | Philadelphia 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns |
| 1992 | Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, South Africa, kills 42 |
| 1991 | President Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died |
| 1991 | South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws |
| 1990 | "Some Americans Abroad" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City after 62 performances |
| 1990 | "Zoya's Apartment" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| 1990 | 90th U.S. Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 280 at Medinah CC in Medinah Il |
| 1990 | Chris Johnson wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic |
| 1989 | U.S. beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
| 1988 | Bruce Springsteen separates from Juliette Phillips |
| 1988 | Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens |
| 1988 | Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0 |
| 1988 | Soyuz TM-5 launches |
| 1988 | Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case |
| 1986 | Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated |
| 1985 | 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched |
| 1984 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| 1984 | John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada |
| 1982 | President Reagan 1st United Nations General Assembly address, "evil empire" speech |
| 1982 | President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat |
| 1981 | Battle between Moslems and Christians in Cairo, 14 killed |
| 1980 | Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour |
| 1979 | "Sarava" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 140 performances |
| 1979 | 79th U.S. Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 284 at Inverness Club in Toledo |
| 1979 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
| 1978 | "Cheeseburger In Paradise" by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32 |
| 1978 | Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs |
| 1976 | ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets and Spurs) merges into NBA |
| 1976 | Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor |
| 1975 | Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with U.S. |
| 1973 | 1st du Maurier Golf Classic (La Canadienne): Jocelyne Bourassa |
| 1973 | 73rd U.S. Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC PA |
| 1973 | Russian party leader Brezhnev visits U.S. |
| 1972 | "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38 |
| 1972 | 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate |
| 1972 | Chile president Allende forms new government |
| 1972 | Looking Glass releases "Brandy" |
| 1972 | White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National headquarters at the Watergate Hotel |
| 1970 | Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera |
| 1968 | Belgium government of Eyskens-Merlot forms |
| 1968 | KQEC TV channel 32 in SF, California (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold |
| 1967 | "Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5 |
| 1967 | 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes |
| 1967 | Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park performed |
| 1967 | Longest doubleheader 9:15 (Tigers and Athletics) |
| 1966 | Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers |
| 1965 | 11.08" (28.14 cm) of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record) |
| 1965 | 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon) |
| 1965 | Kinks arrive in New York City beginning their 1st U.S. tour |
| 1963 | British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair |
| 1963 | Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools |
| 1962 | 62nd U.S. Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC PA |
| 1962 | Brazil Beats Czechoslovakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago |
| 1962 | Lou Brock is 2nd to home run into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers |
| 1962 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
| 1961 | "Billy Barnes People" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| 1961 | 61st U.S. Golf Open: Gene Littler shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Michigan |
| 1961 | Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt |
| 1960 | Ted Williams hit his 500th home runs |
| 1959 | Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland |
| 1958 | Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy |
| 1957 | "So Rare" by Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra peaks at #2 |
| 1957 | Tuskegee boycott begins, Blacks boycotted city stores |
| 1956 | Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister |
| 1954 | CIA exile army lands in Guatemala, JF Dulles and United Fruit Co |
| 1954 | Rocky Marciano beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1954 | Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends |
| 1953 | Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox) |
| 1953 | Riots in East Germany for reunification |
| 1953 | Supreme Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary |
| 1952 | 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium |
| 1951 | "Flahooley" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 40 performances |
| 1950 | 1st kidney transplant, Chicago |
| 1950 | Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria sign security pact |
| 1948 | Joe Cronin pinch hit home runs in both ends of a doubleheader |
| 1947 | 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves New York City |
| 1947 | Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin |
| 1947 | Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline |
| 1946 | SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St. Louis |
| 1945 | Day of Unity in West Germany, National Day |
| 1944 | French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba |
| 1944 | Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons |
| 1944 | Iceland declares independence from Denmark at Thingvallir, Iceland |
| 1944 | Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London |
| 1943 | Player-manager Joe Cronin of Red Sox hits two 3-run pinch home runs |
| 1942 | 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast) |
| 1940 | France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II |
| 1940 | General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London |
| 1940 | Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland |
| 1940 | U.S.S.R. occupies Estonia |
| 1938 | Japan declares war on China |
| 1937 | Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in New York |
| 1933 | Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops and 1 gangster killed by mob |
| 1932 | Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada |
| 1930 | Bradman scores 131 in the 1st Test cricket at Trent Bridge |
| 1930 | Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games |
| 1928 | Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz) |
| 1920 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law |
| 1919 | "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres |
| 1917 | British king George V takes the name Windsor |
| 1916 | 1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java |
| 1916 | U.S. troops under General Pershing march into Mexico |
| 1915 | League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia |
| 1911 | Belgium government of De Broqueville forms |
| 1898 | U.S. Senate agrees to annex Hawaii |
| 1897 | William Frank Powell, New Jersey educator, named minister to Haiti |
| 1895 | U.S. Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan |
| 1894 | 1st U.S. poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont |
| 1885 | Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City |
| 1882 | Tornado kills 130 in Iowa |
| 1880 | John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo |
| 1876 | 1st to hit 2 home runs; and score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's) |
| 1876 | Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother |
| 1864 | Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia |
| 1864 | 640m long ponton bridge over James River Virginia finished |
| 1864 | General John B Hood replaces General Johnston |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Mud Creek/Noyes's (Nose) Creek, Georgia |
| 1863 | Battle at Middleburg, Virginia |
| 1863 | Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia |
| 1863 | Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta |
| 1863 | Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered, 1st accident insurer |
| 1861 | Battle of Boonville, MI-Brigadier General Lyon defeats Confederate forces |
| 1856 | Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia |
| 1855 | Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed |
| 1850 | Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio, 206 die |
| 1837 | Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent |
| 1824 | Bureau of Indian Affairs established |
| 1815 | Stephen Decatur conquerors Algerian frigate Mashouda |
| 1789 | 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly |
| 1775 | Battle of Bunker Hill, actually it was Breed's Hill |
| 1745 | American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French |
| 1734 | French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine |
| 1700 | Mass orders priest to leave the colony |
| 1665 | Battle at Viciosa: English and Portuguese army beat Spain |
| 1609 | Netherlands, England and France sign 12 year Covenant |
| 1583 | Brabant: duke of Parma beats French mercenaries |
| 1580 | Battle at Hardenberg: Spanish troops beat rebels |
| 1579 | Anti-English uprising in Ireland |
| 1579 | Francis Drake entered San Francisco Bay |
| 1579 | Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California |
| 1535 | English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights |
| 1397 | Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden and Norway |
| 1291 | Akko reconquered after 200 years by French crusaders, and destroyed |
| 1119 | Charles the Good becomes earl of Flanders |
| 1091 | Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland |
| 676 | Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 656 | Ali ibn Abu Talib chosen kalief of Islam |
| 653 | St. Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
