| 1997 | Albert Belle's Chicago White Sox tying 27-game hitting streak ends |
| 1997 | Liberals beat Conservatives in France |
| 1997 | Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168 |
| 1996 | 50th Tony Awards: Master Class and Rent win |
| 1996 | 51st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam |
| 1996 | 9th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
| 1995 | John Valentin hits 3 home runs |
| 1994 | 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian |
| 1994 | Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland, 29 killed |
| 1994 | Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" |
| 1994 | Sharon Stone files $12m suit against her jeweler |
| 1992 | Former NFL New York Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery |
| 1992 | Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album "Shadows and Light" |
| 1991 | 45th Tony Awards: Lost in Yonkers and Will Rogers Follies win |
| 1991 | 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
| 1991 | Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| 1991 | Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1" |
| 1991 | Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin |
| 1990 | "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13 |
| 1990 | Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0 |
| 1989 | "Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams, premieres |
| 1989 | 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee |
| 1989 | Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle |
| 1989 | Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith |
| 1989 | 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing |
| 1988 | 61st National Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal |
| 1988 | Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile |
| 1987 | Mariners draft Ken Griffey, Jr. #1 |
| 1986 | New York City transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token |
| 1986 | Regular TV coverage of U.S. Senate sessions begins |
| 1985 | 31st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
| 1985 | 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues and Big River win |
| 1985 | Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece |
| 1985 | RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco |
| 1984 | "Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr. Demento airs on NBC-TV |
| 1984 | Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy |
| 1984 | Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines |
| 1983 | 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," released in Germany |
| 1983 | Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati |
| 1982 | "Blues in the Night" opens at Rialto Theater New York City for 53 performances |
| 1981 | Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be |
| 1980 | "Your Arm's Too Short to Box..." opens at Ambassador New York City for 149 performances |
| 1979 | John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland) |
| 1979 | NASA launches space vehicle S-198 |
| 1979 | Pope John Paul II visits Poland |
| 1977 | New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City |
| 1976 | East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia |
| 1975 | James A. Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine) |
| 1975 | Vice President Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA |
| 1974 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Baltimore Golf Classic |
| 1974 | Malta's constitution goes into effect |
| 1973 | "Nash at Nine" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 21 performances |
| 1971 | Ajax wins 16th Europe Cup 1 |
| 1969 | Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open |
| 1968 | Canadians must get government permission to export silver |
| 1968 | WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, Kentucky (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1967 | Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston |
| 1966 | U.S. Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing |
| 1965 | 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000, Ganges R India |
| 1964 | "Follies Bergere" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 191 performances |
| 1964 | Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India |
| 1964 | Rolling Stones 1st U.S. concert tour debuts in Lynn, Massachusetts |
| 1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1962 | 32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62) |
| 1960 | Broadway theaters close, labor dispute between owners and Actors Equity |
| 1959 | Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," San Francisco |
| 1958 | Alan Freed joins WABC (New York City) radio |
| 1958 | Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays |
| 1958 | Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record |
| 1957 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| 1957 | U.S. TV interviews Khrushchev |
| 1956 | Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow |
| 1954 | John Costello becomes premier of Ireland |
| 1953 | Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey |
| 1952 | 650,000 metal workers go on strike in U.S. |
| 1952 | Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette |
| 1951 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones |
| 1950 | St. Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Washington Senators |
| 1949 | Transjordan renamed Jordan |
| 1947 | "Louisiana Lady" opens at Century Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| 1947 | Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns |
| 1946 | Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy, National Day |
| 1944 | Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery dine in Portsmouth |
| 1944 | Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands |
| 1943 | 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission, over Italy |
| 1943 | German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins |
| 1942 | Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator |
| 1940 | Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach |
| 1936 | Gen. Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua |
| 1935 | Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player |
| 1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House |
| 1933 | WNJ-AM in Newark New Jersey goes off the air |
| 1932 | Franz von Papen "Cabinet of the Baron" premieres |
| 1930 | Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in U.S., Cincinnati |
| 1928 | Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft |
| 1924 | Snyder Act: U.S. citizenship granted to all American Indians |
| 1922 | Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances |
| 1920 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon |
| 1919 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers |
| 1916 | German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux |
| 1914 | Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome |
| 1913 | 1st strike settlement mediated by U.S. Department of Labor-RR clerks |
| 1913 | Demonstrations for general voting right in Netherlands |
| 1910 | 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel, C S Rolls, England |
| 1910 | Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea |
| 1909 | 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan aboard Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6 |
| 1908 | 33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4 |
| 1904 | Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis |
| 1903 | Netherlands Korfball League forms |
| 1903 | Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers |
| 1902 | 2nd statewide initiative and referendum law adopted, in Oregon |
| 1901 | Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday, New York |
| 1899 | Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings |
| 1896 | 30th Belmont: Henry Griffin aboard Hastings wins in 2:24 |
| 1896 | Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio |
| 1886 | Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency, Frances Folsom |
| 1883 | 1st night baseball under lights, Ft. Wayne Indiana |
| 1883 | Chicago's "El" opens to traffic |
| 1882 | Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris |
| 1881 | Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens |
| 1875 | James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US |
| 1873 | Construction begins on Clay St. (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad |
| 1869 | Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game, vs Cincinnati Red Stockings |
| 1866 | Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to U.S. forces |
| 1865 | At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept |
| 1864 | Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2 |
| 1863 | Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves |
| 1862 | General Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC |
| 1862 | Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington D.C. |
| 1858 | Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer |
| 1857 | James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine |
| 1851 | 1st U.S. alcohol prohibition law enacted, Maine |
| 1835 | P. T. Barnum and his circus begin 1st tour of US |
| 1834 | 5th national black convention meet, New York City |
| 1797 | 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack New York (C Broadhead) |
| 1780 | Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London |
| 1774 | England passed Quartering Act, mandating Colonists must board English troops in their homes |
| 1746 | Russia and Austria sign agreements |
| 1697 | Monarch August van Saksen becomes Catholic |
| 1676 | Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet |
| 1633 | Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne |
| 1627 | English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company |
| 1625 | Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand |
| 1619 | England and Netherlands signs treaty about business in the Indies |
| 1129 | Fulco V's son Godfried marries king Henry I's daughter Mathildis |
| 657 | St. Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 575 | Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 455 | A D Gaiseric and the Vandals sacked Rome |
