| 2012 | Fox News reporter and Opus Dei member Greg Burke is selected by Pope Benedict XVI as secretariat of state |
| 2012 | The last known Pinta Island Tortoise, Lonesome George, is found dead in the Galapagos Islands |
| 2011 | The cell phone of Osama bin Laden's courier is reported to contain contacts with Harakat-ul-Mujahadeen, suggesting potential ties to Pakistan's intelligence agencies |
| 2011 | The European Central BAnk appoints Italy's Mario Draghi as its new President, set to replace Jean-Claude Trichet on November 1 |
| 2010 | Brazilian storms in Alagoas and Pernambuco states kill 46 people |
| 1997 | Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom |
| 1997 | 4-1, Mark McGwire his a 538 foot home run |
| 1997 | Seat Mariner Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Oakland A's but loses |
| 1995 | Stanley Cup: New Jersey Devils sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games |
| 1994 | 1st French "all news" TV, LCI, begins broadcasting |
| 1994 | Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 home runs in an inning |
| 1994 | Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman |
| 1993 | Arab terror group planning bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught |
| 1992 | Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville High School at 43 |
| 1992 | Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball |
| 1992 | Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel |
| 1992 | John Gotti begins life sentence in jail |
| 1991 | NHL adopts instant-replay and tenth of second clock in final minute |
| 1990 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| 1989 | Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th and 40th consecutive bases |
| 1988 | Cleveland pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves |
| 1988 | Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak |
| 1987 | CFL's Montreal Alouettes fold |
| 1987 | Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consec win streak |
| 1986 | Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years |
| 1986 | U.S. Senate approves tax reform |
| 1985 | 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth |
| 1985 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-51-F |
| 1984 | Joe Morgan sets career home run mark for 2nd basemen with #265 |
| 1984 | Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| 1983 | 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB |
| 1983 | Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters |
| 1982 | Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat |
| 1982 | Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16) |
| 1982 | Soyuz T-6 Launch (U.S.S.R.) |
| 1982 | Supreme Court rules President can't be sued for actions in office |
| 1980 | Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million |
| 1979 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1979 | Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland and steals his 1st base |
| 1977 | IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976 |
| 1976 | 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany |
| 1975 | Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport New York, kills 113 |
| 1975 | Moon tremor perceived, hit by Taurid meteors |
| 1974 | India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 minutes |
| 1974 | Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired |
| 1973 | Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8" |
| 1973 | Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open |
| 1972 | 'Troglodyte' by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6 |
| 1972 | Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of U.S., U.S. Air Force |
| 1972 | Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention |
| 1970 | "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters |
| 1970 | Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive home runs |
| 1970 | Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4 |
| 1970 | Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| 1968 | 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post |
| 1968 | Australia all out for 78 vs. England at Lord's |
| 1968 | Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion |
| 1968 | Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleveland 14-3 |
| 1968 | Joe Frazier TKOs Manuel Ramos in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1968 | Resurrection City in Washington D.C. closed permanently |
| 1967 | Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus |
| 1967 | Zaire adopts constitution |
| 1966 | Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die |
| 1966 | Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I |
| 1964 | FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages |
| 1963 | 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London |
| 1963 | Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government |
| 1963 | Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain |
| 1962 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament |
| 1962 | Jack Reed's 22nd-inning home run wins longest New York Yankee game in history |
| 1961 | "Happiest Girl in the World" closes at Martin Beck New York City after 97 performances |
| 1961 | Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby" |
| 1961 | Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait |
| 1960 | Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa vs. England Lord's |
| 1957 | "I Love Lucy," last airs on CBS-TV |
| 1956 | "Steve Allen Show," returns on NBC-TV |
| 1956 | 2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge |
| 1956 | WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st home run (off Billy Hoeff) |
| 1954 | "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" closes at Imperial New York City after 229 performances |
| 1953 | KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, New Mexico (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations |
| 1950 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open |
| 1950 | French government-Bidault resigns |
| 1950 | New York Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 home runs and a triple |
| 1949 | "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC) |
| 1949 | A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog arrested in Scheveningen, Netherlands |
| 1949 | Cargo airlines 1st licensed by U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board |
| 1948 | Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates New York Governor Thomas Dewey |
| 1948 | Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade |
| 1947 | 29th PGA Championship: Jim Ferrier at Plum Hollow CC Detroit |
| 1947 | Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career |
| 1947 | Jim Ferrier wins PGA golf tournament |
| 1946 | 11.72" (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen Wisconsin (state 24-hour record) |
| 1946 | Georges Bidault elected premier of France |
| 1945 | Schermerhorn government forms |
| 1943 | Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg |
| 1942 | Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered |
| 1942 | Africa Corps occupy Egypt |
| 1941 | Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated |
| 1941 | Germans advanced into Russia and took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas |
| 1940 | France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II |
| 1939 | Pan Am's 1st U.S. to England flight |
| 1938 | 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania |
| 1936 | Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 home runs in 1 inn, Yankees beat Browns 18-4 |
| 1932 | Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand |
| 1931 | U.S.S.R. and Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty |
| 1930 | 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC |
| 1930 | Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium |
| 1928 | 32nd U.S. Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill |
| 1924 | 59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake |
| 1923 | Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied |
| 1922 | AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears |
| 1920 | Chuvash Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR |
| 1917 | Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol |
| 1915 | 800 dies as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago |
| 1914 | King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent |
| 1913 | 53rd British Golf Open: J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake |
| 1911 | 17th U.S. Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago Golf Club in Illinois |
| 1910 | 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St. Andrews Scot |
| 1909 | 15th U.S. Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood Golf Club New Jersey |
| 1908 | Yankees replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost percentage of any Yankee manager 27-71 (.276) |
| 1903 | Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist |
| 1901 | 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris |
| 1901 | Jewish National Fund starts |
| 1900 | Dutch Social-Democratic Worker's party and Socialistenbond merge |
| 1898 | American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba |
| 1897 | Hail injures 26 in Topeka, Kansas |
| 1894 | Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years |
| 1885 | British government of Salisbury forms |
| 1885 | Samuel David Ferguson becomes 1st U.S. black bishop |
| 1884 | John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention |
| 1882 | NL expels umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty |
| 1881 | 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico |
| 1866 | 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army |
| 1863 | Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac |
| 1861 | Battle of Mathias Point, Virginia - U.S. attacks Confederate batteries |
| 1861 | Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US |
| 1859 | Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria |
| 1846 | Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished |
| 1843 | Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy |
| 1841 | Fordham University, then St. John's College, opens in the Bronx |
| 1821 | Battle of Carabobo; Bolivar defeats royalists outside of Caracas |
| 1817 | 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast |
| 1813 | Battle of Beaver Dam-British and Indian forces defeat U.S. forces |
| 1806 | English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires |
| 1795 | U.S. and Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st U.S. extradition treaty |
| 1793 | 1st republican constitution in France adopted |
| 1778 | David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia |
| 1717 | 1st Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London |
| 1692 | Kingston, Jamaica founded |
| 1690 | King Willem III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland |
| 1662 | Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed, Macau Day |
| 1658 | French fleet recaptures Duinkerk |
| 1648 | Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews and 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine |
| 1647 | Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council |
| 1619 | Tsar Michails father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow |
| 1610 | Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russia and Sweden |
| 1597 | Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java |
| 1572 | 5 clergymen of Enkhuizen, hanged |
| 1540 | Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves |
| 1535 | Anabaptists Protestants conquered and disbanded |
| 1535 | Hessische troops occupy Munster |
| 1529 | Zurich and catholic kantons sign Peace of Kappel |
| 1527 | Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking RC possessions |
| 1522 | Battle at La Bicocca: Emperor Karel V beats France |
| 1522 | Portuguese Antonio de Brita signs treaty island of Ternate Molukkas |
| 1509 | Henry VIII crowned King of England |
| 1497 | John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia) |
| 1472 | Zoe Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow |
| 1441 | Eton College founded by Henry VI |
| 1397 | Sultan Bajezid I release caught crusaders free, for ransom |
| 1396 | Crusaders under earl of Nevers reach Vienna |
| 1340 | Battle at Lock: English fleet beats France/Genuezen, 10-30,000 killed |
| 1340 | In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys French at Sluys |
| 1322 | Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time |
| 1314 | Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England |
| 1298 | Rindfleish Persecutions-Jews of Ifhauben Austria massacred |
| 1128 | Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa |
| 843 | Vikings destroy Nantes |
| 451 | 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
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