| 1997 | Chicago Cubs turn baseballs 68th triple play (vs San Francisco Giants) |
| 1996 | "Twister" premieres |
| 1996 | 2 U.S. Marine helicopters collided during joint U.S. and British war games |
| 1995 | 30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Reba McEntire wins |
| 1995 | Britain lifts a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Fein |
| 1995 | In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident |
| 1994 | "Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" opens at Lunt-Font New York City for 16 per |
| 1994 | Barbra Striesand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years |
| 1994 | Drew Barrymore (19) files for divorce from Jeremy Thomas (31) |
| 1994 | Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president |
| 1994 | Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian government with 5 neo-fascists |
| 1993 | Fire in clothing factory at Bangkok, kills 145 |
| 1993 | Last TV appearance of Mies Bouwman |
| 1993 | Paul Cezannes still life sells for $28,600,000 in New York City |
| 1993 | Premier Lubbers opens Terminal West on Schiphol |
| 1992 | "Hamlet" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| 1992 | Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem, Israel |
| 1992 | Jennifer Wyatt wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic |
| 1991 | Oakland A's Jose Canseco is seen leaving Madonna's apt |
| 1990 | "Zoya's Apartment" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| 1990 | French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph |
| 1990 | Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella |
| 1989 | FC Barcelona wins 29th Europe Cup II |
| 1989 | General Manuel Noriega's government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin |
| 1988 | Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000 |
| 1987 | Jody Rosentha wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| 1986 | "Rock Me Amadeus," by Falco hit #1 on U.K. pop chart |
| 1986 | Tommy Lee, drummer of Motley Crue, marries Heather Locklear |
| 1985 | Challenger transports back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
| 1984 | International Court of Justice rules on U.S. blockade of Nicaragua |
| 1983 | "Laverne and Shirley," last airs on ABC-TV |
| 1983 | Lee Chin Yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul |
| 1983 | Oilers 0-Isles 2-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
| 1982 | WABC New York City plays its last record, John Lennon's Imagine |
| 1982 | WABC joins ABC's All Talk radio network |
| 1981 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament |
| 1981 | Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for President of France |
| 1981 | Montreal Expo Charlie Lee no-hits San Francisco Giants, 4-0 |
| 1980 | "Happy New Year" closes at Morosco Theater New York City after 17 performances |
| 1979 | Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing |
| 1979 | John McMullen becomes CEO of Houston Astros |
| 1979 | Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hours, 28 minutes, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| 1978 | "Angel" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1978 | Liverpool wins 23rd Europe Cup I |
| 1975 | Brian Oldfield of U.S. put shot 75', an unofficial record |
| 1974 | 7th ABA championship: New York Nets beats Utah Stars, 4 games to 1 |
| 1973 | 27th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1 |
| 1973 | 9th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 8-4 |
| 1973 | Establishment of Frente Polisario in Mauritania |
| 1973 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2 |
| 1972 | Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77 |
| 1972 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1971 | U.S. special delivery rates go from 45 cents to 60 cents |
| 1970 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 1970 | Brave's Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in his 1,000th game, loses to Cards 6-5 |
| 1970 | Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games |
| 1969 | Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space |
| 1969 | Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times |
| 1969 | U.S. troop begin attack on Hill 937/Hamburger Hill |
| 1968 | Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the U.S. and North Vietnam |
| 1967 | Foundation Arizona soccer team forms in Alkmaar |
| 1967 | Hank Aaron only inside the park home run vs Jim Bunning |
| 1967 | Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges |
| 1967 | Stockholm Vietnam-Tribunal declares U.S. aggression in Vietnam/Cambodia |
| 1967 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1964 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Squirt Ladies' Golf Open Invitational |
| 1963 | Decca signs Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison |
| 1961 | "Beyond the Fringe," premieres in London |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia |
| 1960 | USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water |
| 1959 | Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Howard Johnson Golf Invitational |
| 1959 | Giants Jim Hearn allows 2 runs against Pirates, game is suspended, Hearn is released and charged with loss 2 months after his retirement |
| 1957 | 1st meeting of legislative of Cameroon |
| 1957 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsch 2nd Piano concert, premieres in Moscow |
| 1956 | French government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria |
| 1956 | KFSN TV channel 30 in Fresno, California (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Bolshoi-ballet does not appear in Paris |
| 1953 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open |
| 1953 | KCBD TV channel 11 in Lubbock, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | "Shuffle Along" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1951 | Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council |
| 1948 | 1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel |
| 1948 | Winston Churchill visits The Hague |
| 1947 | "Chocolate Soldier" closes at Century Theater New York City after 69 performances |
| 1947 | 73rd Preakness: Doug Dodson aboard Faultless wins in 1:59 |
| 1946 | Red Sox win 15th straight beat Yankees 5-4, DiMaggio hits Grand Slam |
| 1946 | Umberto II succeeds Victor Emmanuel III as king of Italy |
| 1945 | Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese |
| 1945 | Russian troops occupied Prague |
| 1944 | Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan |
| 1944 | Smith vs. Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal |
| 1941 | 67th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 1:58.8 |
| 1941 | Adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland |
| 1941 | England's House of Commons and Holborn Theater destroyed in a blitz |
| 1941 | Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason |
| 1940 | British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms |
| 1940 | Dutch torpedo boat Johan van Galen sinks |
| 1940 | Dutch-Indies Governor Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege |
| 1940 | French marines stationed on Aruba |
| 1940 | French troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands |
| 1940 | Nazi armies attack Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg |
| 1940 | Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister |
| 1938 | Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam |
| 1937 | Busmen strike in London |
| 1936 | Manuel Azana elected president of Spain |
| 1936 | Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt |
| 1933 | Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms |
| 1933 | Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany |
| 1933 | Paraguay declares war on Bolivia |
| 1933 | Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands |
| 1932 | Government declares "Wilhelmus" Netherlands national anthem |
| 1932 | Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France |
| 1931 | Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington, New Jersey |
| 1930 | Adler Planetarium, 1st U.S. planetarium, opens in Chicago |
| 1930 | Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 vs. Yorkshire at Sheffield |
| 1929 | 55th Preakness: Louis Schaefer aboard Dr. Freeland wins in 2:01.6 |
| 1929 | 64th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane |
| 1928 | WGY, Schenectady begins regular TV programming |
| 1926 | 52nd Preakness: John Maiben aboard Display wins in 1:59.8 |
| 1924 | J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI |
| 1922 | Dr. Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar |
| 1922 | WHB-AM in Kansas City Missouri begins radio transmissions |
| 1921 | Luigi Pirandello's "Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore," premieres |
| 1919 | 45th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:09.8 |
| 1919 | Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina, 2 blacks killed |
| 1918 | HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor |
| 1917 | Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks |
| 1916 | Disastrous fire in Ellendale, North Dakota |
| 1916 | Historic Shipport Museum opens in Amsterdam |
| 1915 | Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea |
| 1913 | 39th Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Goose aboard Donerail wins in 2:04.8 |
| 1913 | Yankees commit 8 errors and still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings |
| 1910 | 1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England) |
| 1910 | 36th Kentucky Derby: Fred Herbert aboard Donau wins in 2:06.4 |
| 1910 | Comet Halley's closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass |
| 1909 | Winchester's Fred Toney no-hits Lexington for 17 inning |
| 1908 | 1st Mother's Day observed |
| 1907 | Paul Dukas' opera "Ariane et Barbe Bleue," premieres in Paris |
| 1906 | Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time |
| 1905 | 31st Kentucky Derby: Jack Martin aboard Agile wins in 2:100.75 |
| 1893 | 19th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Kunze aboard Lookout wins in 2:39 |
| 1893 | Imperial Institute in London opens |
| 1889 | 17th Preakness: W Anderson aboard Buddhist wins in 2:17 |
| 1881 | Lighthouse on Ameland begins operation |
| 1880 | General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria |
| 1879 | Meteor falls near Estherville, Iowa |
| 1876 | Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia |
| 1872 | Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for U.S. president |
| 1871 | German-French peace treaty signed: France cedes Elzas |
| 1871 | Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France and Germany |
| 1870 | Jem Mace and defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hour and 17 minutes, and neither is struck by a punch |
| 1869 | Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinental RR |
| 1865 | Jefferson Davis captured at Irwinsville, Georgia |
| 1865 | Surrender of Sam Jones |
| 1864 | Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Ny River Virginia |
| 1862 | Battle of Plum Run Bend, Tennessee (Plum Point Bend) |
| 1861 | Union troops march on state militia in St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1857 | Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys of Meerut |
| 1857 | Sepoy-revolt in Meerutkazerne, Delhi |
| 1849 | Pack destroys Astor Place opera house in New York City (22 killed) |
| 1823 | 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Ft. Snelling |
| 1816 | English steamship "Defiance" arrives at Rotterdam harbor |
| 1797 | 1st Navy ship, the "United States," is launched |
| 1796 | French government arrest 10 utopists |
| 1796 | Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge |
| 1796 | Riot after disagreement of patriotic demand in Amsterdam |
| 1787 | Parliament impeaches Warren Hastings |
| 1775 | 2nd Continental Congress convenes in Pennsylvania issues paper currency for 1st time |
| 1775 | 2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander |
| 1775 | Green Mountain Boys capture Ft. Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution |
| 1774 | Louis XVI ascends to throne of France |
| 1752 | Benjamin Franklins 1st tests the lightning rod |
| 1676 | Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia government begins |
| 1655 | Jamaica captured by English |
| 1652 | John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Va |
| 1624 | Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist |
| 1570 | Czar Ivan IV becomes Protestant |
| 1559 | Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary |
| 1534 | French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland |
| 1525 | Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague |
| 1503 | Columbus discovers Cayman Islands |
| 1497 | Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World |
| 1427 | Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland |
| 1291 | Scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I |
| 1278 | Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining |
| 1267 | Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb |
