| 2000 | NBA Finals, Los Angeles Lakers beat Indiana Pacers 4 games to 2 |
| 1999 | Stanley Cup Finals, Dallas Stars beat Buffalo Sabres 4 games to 2 |
| 1997 | "Forever Tango!," opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City |
| 1995 | New York Yankees announce agreement with Darryl Strawberry |
| 1994 | "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" closes at Helen Hayes New York City after 50 performances |
| 1994 | "She Loves Me" closes at Atkinson Theater New York City after 294 performances |
| 1994 | "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" closes at Cort New York City after 72 performances |
| 1994 | 94th U.S. Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont Pa |
| 1994 | Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia |
| 1994 | Lisa Kiggens wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament |
| 1994 | Tigers tie record of hitting home runs in 25th consecutive games |
| 1993 | Boon completes 15th Test cricket century, 164* vs. England at Lord's |
| 1993 | Mandy Smith (Bill Wyman's ex-wife) weds Pat van den Hauwe |
| 1992 | "Batman Returns" opens |
| 1992 | Evander Holyfield beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavywgt boxing title |
| 1992 | Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is shot twice in New York City |
| 1992 | Inkhata-blood bath in Boipatong South Africa |
| 1992 | New York Yankees 1st game in Baltimore Oriole's Camden Yards |
| 1991 | 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie |
| 1991 | Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police |
| 1991 | New York Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987 |
| 1990 | Gary Carter catches his 1,862nd career game breaks Al Lopez's NL mark |
| 1989 | Mets Dwight Gooden wins his 100th game (100-37) |
| 1988 | 88th U.S. Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Country Club Mass |
| 1988 | Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie |
| 1988 | Namphy takes control of Haitian government |
| 1988 | Shirley Furlong wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1988 | World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 miles long |
| 1988 | 32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle,to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hours 20 minutes |
| 1987 | ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed |
| 1987 | Geffen records sign their 1st artist, Donna Summer |
| 1987 | Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation |
| 1987 | Ben and Jerry Ice Cream and Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia |
| 1986 | Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup |
| 1985 | Reggie Jackson hits his 513th home run to move into 10th place |
| 1984 | "Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair |
| 1984 | 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger, Nightline |
| 1983 | "Octopussy" premieres in US |
| 1983 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1981 | Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified |
| 1981 | European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit |
| 1981 | Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa |
| 1981 | India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched |
| 1980 | Battle between police and demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed |
| 1979 | In New York 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as Yank manager |
| 1979 | Mali's constitution goes into effect |
| 1978 | "Best Little Whorehouse..." opens at 46th St. New York City for 1577 performances |
| 1978 | Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip |
| 1978 | Ian Botham takes 8-34 vs. Pakistan, his best Test cricket bowling |
| 1977 | 77th U.S. Golf Open: Hubert Green shoots a 278 at Southern Hills Tulsa |
| 1977 | Indians fire manager Frank Robinson and replace him with Jeff Torborg |
| 1977 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| 1977 | Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st U.S. male saint |
| 1977 | Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 home runs, all against Yankees |
| 1976 | King Charles XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Dutchess Silvia Sommerlath |
| 1976 | U.S. Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth |
| 1974 | Kansas City Royal Steve Busby 2nd no-hitter beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0 |
| 1974 | Yemen Arab Republic, North Yemen, suspends constitution |
| 1973 | "Rocky Horror Picture Show," stage production opens in London |
| 1973 | Pete Rose and Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000 |
| 1972 | Hurricane Agnes, kills 118 in New York and Florida |
| 1972 | 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer |
| 1971 | Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance |
| 1970 | A Nikolayev and V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9 |
| 1970 | Conservatives win British parliamentary election |
| 1970 | Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published |
| 1970 | Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days |
| 1969 | State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances |
| 1968 | 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign |
| 1967 | Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army |
| 1967 | Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD |
| 1966 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
| 1965 | Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne, President Ben Bella fired |
| 1965 | KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia |
| 1964 | Bob Dylan completes U.K. tour |
| 1964 | Cambuur Leeuwarden BVO soccer team forms in Leeuwarden |
| 1964 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27 |
| 1963 | 2 Russian space missions return to Earth |
| 1963 | Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen |
| 1963 | Greek government of Pipinolis forms |
| 1963 | Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth |
| 1961 | "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)" by Coasters peaks at #23 |
| 1961 | Charlie Finley, changes A's manager Joe Gordon (26-33) for Hank Bauer |
| 1961 | Kuwait declares independence from U.K. |
| 1961 | New York Yankee Roger Maris hits his 25th of 61 home runs |
| 1961 | U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God |
| 1960 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
| 1960 | Loretta Lynn records "Honky Tonk Girl" |
| 1956 | Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films |
| 1955 | 55th U.S. Golf Open: Jack Fleck shoots a 287 at Olympic CC in SF |
| 1955 | Mickey Mantle hits career home run # 100 |
| 1955 | Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history |
| 1954 | 54th U.S. Golf Open: Ed Furgol shoots a 284 at Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey |
| 1954 | Betty Jameson wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| 1954 | Tasmanian Devil, debuts in "Devil May Hare" by Warner Bros |
| 1953 | Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council |
| 1953 | WCSouth Carolina TV channel 5 in Charleston, South Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WTPennsylvania (now WHTM) TV channel 27 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1952 | "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host |
| 1948 | Panama and Costa Rica recognize Israel |
| 1948 | U.S.S.R. blocks access road to West Berlin |
| 1947 | 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca |
| 1946 | 1st TV sports spectacular - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn |
| 1944 | Battle of Philippines Sea, 300 Japanese aircraft shot down |
| 1944 | French troops free Elba |
| 1944 | Heavy air raid on U.S. fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot" |
| 1944 | Japanese troops conquer Changsha China |
| 1943 | "Shiek Of Arahy" Spike Jones and City Slickers peaks at #19 |
| 1943 | NFL's Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on Dec 5) |
| 1942 | Paul Waner, is 7th to get 3,000 hits |
| 1941 | Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal |
| 1941 | Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani |
| 1941 | U.S. president Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act |
| 1940 | "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago |
| 1940 | German 7th Armour division under General-Major Rommel occupies Cherbourg |
| 1940 | Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses and ships |
| 1938 | "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47 |
| 1938 | Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris |
| 1938 | Paul Waner (Pirates) homers off Pete Sivess (Phillies) in DH |
| 1938 | Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless innings to 21 2/3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in 4th |
| 1937 | Franco-troops conquer Bilbao Basques |
| 1936 | Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl |
| 1936 | German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis |
| 1936 | Joe McCarthy is named to manage AL All-Stars, rather than high-strung Mickey Cochrane, who is very close to a nervous breakdown |
| 1934 | Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created |
| 1933 | Austrian government-Dollfuss bans nazi-organizations |
| 1932 | Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR |
| 1931 | 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct |
| 1926 | DeFord Bailey is 1st black to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry |
| 1924 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m (3:52.6) |
| 1923 | "Moon Mullins," Comic Strip, debuts |
| 1923 | Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war |
| 1922 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2) |
| 1921 | Turk and Christian of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews |
| 1917 | After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames, they take the name Windsor |
| 1914 | 54th British Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 306 at Prestwick Club |
| 1912 | Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A and L State College |
| 1910 | 1st airship in service "Germany" |
| 1910 | Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash) |
| 1894 | 28th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Henry of Navarre wins in 1:56 |
| 1893 | Lizzie Bordon acquitted |
| 1889 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip" |
| 1881 | Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan |
| 1875 | Formal opening of U.S. Marine Hospital at Presidio |
| 1868 | Major General E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC |
| 1867 | 1st Belmont: J Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05 |
| 1865 | Siege of Richmond, Virginia |
| 1865 | Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas |
| 1864 | CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Pine Knob Georgia |
| 1863 | Battle at Middleburg Virginia, 100+ casualties |
| 1862 | Slavery outlawed in U.S. territories |
| 1861 | Anaheim Post Office established |
| 1861 | Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia |
| 1850 | Swedish/Norwegian crown prince Charles weds Dutch princess Wilhelmina |
| 1848 | Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott open 1st women's rights convention |
| 1846 | 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1 |
| 1835 | New Orleans gives U.S. government Jackson Square to be used as a mint |
| 1829 | Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies) |
| 1825 | Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims," premieres |
| 1778 | Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge |
| 1770 | General Church of New Jerusalem established |
| 1754 | Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies and Iroquois indians |
| 1669 | Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king |
| 1631 | Peace of Cherasco: Charles de Gonzaga-Nevers becomes duke of Mantua |
| 1621 | Battle at Dragetsani: Turkish army beats Greece |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada heavily destroyed in storm at Coruna |
| 1586 | English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, North Carolina |
| 1572 | Garrison under Adrian van Swieten occupy Oudewater |
| 1502 | Emperor Maximilian I and England sign treaty of Antwerp |
| 1464 | French King Louis XI forms postal service |
| 1369 | Duke Philip the Stout marries Margaretha van Male |
| 1286 | Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim |
| 1269 | King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame |
| 1205 | Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne |
| 987 | Louis IV, crowned king of France |
