| 1997 | Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die |
| 1996 | 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's Swimathon '96 |
| 1995 | Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement |
| 1995 | STS-67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16 days |
| 1995 | Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada |
| 1994 | South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police |
| 1994 | Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands |
| 1994 | Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy |
| 1993 | "Sisters Rosensweig" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 556 performances |
| 1993 | Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell in New York City |
| 1993 | Sri Lanka beat England in Test match by 5 wickets |
| 1992 | "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 38 perf |
| 1992 | Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
| 1992 | Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion |
| 1992 | Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at Albury |
| 1991 | Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell |
| 1991 | Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round |
| 1991 | Philadelphia '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey |
| 1991 | Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games |
| 1990 | 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists |
| 1990 | 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends |
| 1990 | A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch |
| 1990 | Biggest U.S. art robbery, $100's millions at Gardner Museum, Boston |
| 1990 | Colleen Walker wins Circle K Tucson LPGA Golf Open |
| 1989 | 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth |
| 1989 | California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios |
| 1989 | Dino Ciccarelli sets Washington Capitals record of 7 pts in a game |
| 1989 | Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen |
| 1987 | Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica and Matthew) |
| 1987 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1986 | Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Qld |
| 1986 | Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money |
| 1985 | Capital Cities Communications Inc. acquires ABC |
| 1985 | Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle |
| 1984 | Chris Johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf Open |
| 1982 | Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident |
| 1981 | Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period (vs Toronto) |
| 1980 | Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50 |
| 1979 | "On the 20th Century" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 460 performances |
| 1979 | Battles between Kurds and Iranians break in Sananday Iran |
| 1979 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic |
| 1978 | 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario California |
| 1978 | Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death |
| 1977 | Clash releases their 1st recording "White Riot" |
| 1977 | U.S. restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Cambodia |
| 1977 | Vietnam hands over MIA to U.S. |
| 1975 | Kurds end fight against Iraqi army |
| 1974 | Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US |
| 1973 | "Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 296 performances |
| 1973 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| 1972 | AIAW 1st basketball champs, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48 |
| 1972 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1972 | Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225 games (Boston U) |
| 1972 | Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 pts in a game |
| 1971 | 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru |
| 1970 | Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees |
| 1970 | KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC) suspends broadcasting |
| 1970 | Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike |
| 1970 | NFL selects Wilson as official football and scoreboard as official time |
| 1969 | "Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| 1968 | Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve |
| 1968 | WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Beatles' "Penny Lane," single goes #1 |
| 1967 | Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock and spills oil |
| 1966 | "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 3 performances |
| 1966 | General Suharto forms government in Indonesia |
| 1966 | Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1 |
| 1965 | "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 220 performances |
| 1965 | Rolling Stones fined 5 pounds each for public urination |
| 1965 | U.S.S.R. launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 minutes) |
| 1963 | "Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 264 performances |
| 1963 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| 1963 | Supreme Court's Miranda Decision; defendants must have lawyers |
| 1963 | WGSF TV channel 28 in Newark, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | Algerian War ends after 7 years (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees |
| 1962 | Dmitri Shostakovich becomes member of Supreme Soviet of U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced |
| 1959 | Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws |
| 1959 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill |
| 1958 | Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958 |
| 1957 | WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus, MS (NBC) begins |
| 1955 | I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan |
| 1953 | 15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas 69-68 |
| 1953 | Boston Braves move to Milwaukee |
| 1953 | Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die |
| 1953 | KGNC (now KAMR) TV channel 4 in Amarillo, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | NL approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since 1903) |
| 1952 | 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia) |
| 1952 | Communist offensive in Korea |
| 1951 | Pat O'Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1950 | "Touch and Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 176 performances |
| 1950 | CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship |
| 1949 | NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, treaty ratified |
| 1949 | WGAL TV channel 8 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | France and Great Britain and Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels |
| 1948 | Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting |
| 1945 | 1,250 U.S. bombers attacks Berlin |
| 1945 | Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals |
| 1945 | U.S. Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu |
| 1944 | Nazi Germany occupies Hungary |
| 1944 | 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago, Illinois department store |
| 1943 | James Oglethorpe (U.S.) and Terkolei (Netherlands), torpedoed and sinks |
| 1943 | Red Army evacuates Belgorod |
| 1942 | Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters |
| 1942 | 2 black players, Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out |
| 1940 | Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France and Britain |
| 1938 | Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties |
| 1938 | New York 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women |
| 1938 | President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes U.S. and British oil companies |
| 1937 | Gas explosion in school in New London Texas: 294 die |
| 1933 | Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st radio transmission |
| 1933 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| 1933 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
| 1931 | 1st electric shavers go on sale in U.S. from Schick |
| 1931 | Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain |
| 1930 | Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game |
| 1929 | Dmitri Shostakovich' "The new Babylon," premieres in Leningrad |
| 1922 | 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale) |
| 1922 | British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to 6 years in prison for disobedience |
| 1922 | WBT-AM in Charlotte North Carolina begins radio transmissions |
| 1921 | 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged |
| 1921 | Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000 |
| 1920 | Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar |
| 1919 | Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City |
| 1918 | Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms |
| 1918 | Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam |
| 1915 | Failed British attack in Dardanelles |
| 1915 | French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed |
| 1914 | White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China |
| 1911 | North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law |
| 1910 | 1st opera by an U.S. composer (Converse) performed at the Met, New York City |
| 1909 | Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast |
| 1904 | 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)" |
| 1902 | Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record |
| 1902 | Schonberg's "Verklarte Nacht," premieres in Vienna |
| 1900 | Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms |
| 1899 | Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering |
| 1895 | 200 blacks leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia |
| 1892 | Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup) |
| 1891 | Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone |
| 1890 | 1st U.S. state naval militia organized (Massachusetts) |
| 1881 | Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (MSG) |
| 1877 | President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington D.C. |
| 1871 | Communards revolt in Paris |
| 1870 | 1st U.S. National Wildlife Preserve, Lake Meritt in Oakland California |
| 1865 | Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, Alabama |
| 1865 | Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time |
| 1864 | Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240 |
| 1859 | Vera Cruz besieged by Miramon (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform |
| 1858 | Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns |
| 1850 | Henry Wells and William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo |
| 1847 | 1st Dutch public telegram |
| 1835 | Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass |
| 1834 | 1st railroad tunnel in U.S. completed, in Pennsylvania (275 m long) |
| 1818 | Congress approves 1st pensions for government service |
| 1813 | David Melville, Newport, Rhode Island, patents apparatus for making coal gas |
| 1810 | "Converse," 1st U.S. opera, premieres in New York |
| 1793 | 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France |
| 1773 | Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer," premieres in London |
| 1766 | Britain repeals the Stamp Act |
| 1754 | Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier |
| 1673 | Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers |
| 1583 | Dutch States General and Anjou sign treaty |
| 1582 | Prince Willem of Orange injured in attack at Antwerp |
| 1541 | Hernan de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi R) |
| 1532 | English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome |
| 1509 | Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians of Netherlands |
| 1438 | Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany |
| 1229 | German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem |
| 1190 | Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St. Edmonds England |
| 1167 | Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks under Amalrik vs Syrians |
| 1123 | 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome |
| 731 | St. Gregory III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 417 | St. Zosimus begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
