| 2012 | Sarah West, a British naval officer Commander is appointed commander of HMS Portland, the Royal Navy frigate; she is the first female officer to take command of a major British warship |
| 2012 | Yahoo! sells off its stake in Alibaba Group for $7.1 billion |
| 2011 | Jimmy Choo, a U.S. company, is sold to Labelux, a private equity firm for $800 million |
| 2011 | Tornadoes hit Joplin, Missouri, and a state of emergency is declared; more tornadoes hit Minneapolis, Minnesota and warnings are announced in states from Texas to Michigan |
| 2010 | Air India Express Flight 812 crashes near Mangalore International Airport; eight passengers survive and 158 perish |
| 2004 | Stanley Cup Finals, Tampa Bay Lightnings beat Calgary Flames 4 games to 3 |
| 1998 | Federal rules that the Secret Service must testify in the Lewinsky case |
| 1996 | "Tartuffe: Born Again," opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 29 performances |
| 1996 | Emmy 23rd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 16th time |
| 1995 | Laverne and Shirley 20th anniversary reunionn special, televised |
| 1994 | Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1994 | Toronto NBA franchise unveils name "Raptors" and logo |
| 1993 | Riddick Bowe TKOs Jesse Ferguson in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1992 | California Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in New Jersey |
| 1992 | India launches its Agni rocket |
| 1992 | Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of Tonight Show |
| 1991 | Inter Milan wins 20th UEFA Cup at Rome |
| 1991 | NFL Owners agree to add 2 teams in 1994 |
| 1991 | Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea |
| 1990 | Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times |
| 1990 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23 |
| 1990 | Final episode of "Newhart" airs |
| 1990 | Microsoft releases Windows 3.0 |
| 1990 | North and South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen |
| 1988 | 34th LPGA Championship won by Sherri Turner |
| 1988 | Karoly Grosz succeeds party leader Janos Kadar in Hungary |
| 1987 | 30 killed in a Texas tornado |
| 1986 | Cher called David Letterman an asshole on Late Night on NBC |
| 1985 | Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader |
| 1985 | Real Madrid wins 14th UEFA Cup at Madrid |
| 1985 | U.S. sailor Michael L. Walker arrested for spying for U.S.S.R. |
| 1983 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Tournament |
| 1983 | Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit home run |
| 1981 | Soyuz 40 returns to Earth |
| 1980 | Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue marry |
| 1979 | Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau |
| 1979 | Commencement of 1st ICC Trophy (PNG vs. E Afr and Singapore vs. Arg) |
| 1977 | Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (94 years) |
| 1977 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
| 1977 | Red Sox (6) and Brewers (5) tie single game home run record of 11 |
| 1976 | NASA launches space vehicle S-179 |
| 1976 | St. Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 home run |
| 1975 | 8th ABA Championship: Kentucky Colonels beat Ind Pacers, 4 games to 1 |
| 1974 | Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly and dies 14 months later |
| 1974 | Soccer team Veendam forms |
| 1974 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1973 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1973 | President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up |
| 1972 | Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified |
| 1972 | Ton Sijbrands becomes world checker champion |
| 1972 | U.S. president Nixon begins visit Moscow |
| 1970 | Arab terrorists kill 9 children and 3 adults on a school bus |
| 1970 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1970 | Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0 |
| 1969 | Stafford and Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface |
| 1968 | Pittsburgh Pirate Willie Stargell hits 3 home runs, a double and a single |
| 1967 | "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," debuts on NET (now PBS) |
| 1967 | Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel |
| 1967 | Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium) |
| 1966 | 18th Emmy Awards: Fugitive, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore |
| 1966 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1965 | "Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious" hits #66 |
| 1965 | Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," single goes #1 |
| 1965 | Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| 1964 | Lyndon Baines Johnson presents "Great Society" |
| 1963 | A. C. Milan wins 8th Europe Cup 1 at London |
| 1963 | Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured |
| 1963 | Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade |
| 1962 | 14th Emmy Awards: Bob Newhart Show, E G Marshall and Shirley Booth |
| 1962 | Netherlands telephone net becomes completely automated |
| 1962 | Robert A. Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600m |
| 1962 | Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game |
| 1961 | "Mother-In-Law" by Ernie K-Doe hits #1 |
| 1961 | "Touchables In Brooklyn" by Dickie Goodman hits #42 |
| 1961 | 1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Needle in Seattle), opens |
| 1960 | Virtually all coastal towns between 37th and 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM |
| 1959 | Benjamin O Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black General-major in USAF |
| 1957 | KBTexas TV channel 3 in Bryan, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | Red Sox set AL record by smashing 4 home runs in 6th inning in 11-0 win |
| 1957 | South Africa government approves race separation in universities |
| 1956 | "Bob Hope Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1956 | KRIS TV channel 6 in Corpus Christi, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th |
| 1954 | 80th Preakness: Johnny Adams aboard Hasty Road wins in 1:57.4 |
| 1954 | KREX TV channel 5 in Grand Junction, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed |
| 1953 | President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill |
| 1953 | Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yankees beat Washington 12-4 |
| 1950 | Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey |
| 1950 | Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize |
| 1950 | Richard Strauss' "4 Last Songs" (4 letzte Lieder) in London |
| 1947 | "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece |
| 1947 | 1st U.S. ballistic missile fired |
| 1946 | Yankees turn triple-play and defeat Tigers' 5-3 |
| 1945 | 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa |
| 1945 | NSB-Fuhrer Rost van Tonningen attempts and fails at suicide |
| 1943 | 1st jet fighter is tested |
| 1943 | RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander" |
| 1943 | Stalin disbands Komintern |
| 1942 | Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany and Japan |
| 1941 | British troops attack Baghdad |
| 1940 | Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis |
| 1940 | Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris |
| 1939 | Hitler and Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel" |
| 1938 | Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field |
| 1933 | Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly sighted by John Mackay |
| 1933 | World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated |
| 1931 | Canned rattlesnake meat 1st goes on sale in Florida |
| 1930 | Ruth hits 3 consecutive home run (8th-10th of 60 in 1930) |
| 1930 | Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 home runs in a game |
| 1928 | U.S. Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act |
| 1927 | 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed |
| 1927 | Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4 |
| 1926 | "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1 |
| 1926 | Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China |
| 1926 | Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop |
| 1924 | In Chicago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks |
| 1923 | Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier |
| 1916 | French troops occupy parts of Fort Douaumont Verdun |
| 1915 | Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland) |
| 1911 | Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row |
| 1909 | 1st San Francisco fireboat, David Scannell, launched |
| 1907 | Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Mddx vs. Somerset |
| 1906 | 10th anniversary Olympic games close at Athens, Greece |
| 1906 | 31st Preakness: Walter Miller aboard Whimsical wins in 1:45 |
| 1906 | Wright Brothers patent the aeroplane |
| 1905 | Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School |
| 1902 | 36th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Mastermam wins in 2:22.6 |
| 1900 | Associated Press organizes in New York City as non-profit news cooperative |
| 1900 | Edwin S Votey patents pneumatic piano player |
| 1893 | Montreal Athletic Association beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game |
| 1892 | Dr. Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube |
| 1891 | 1st motion picture shown to National Federation of Women's Clubs |
| 1888 | Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers |
| 1885 | 13th Preakness: Jim McLaughlin aboard Tecumseh wins in 2:49 |
| 1884 | 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters |
| 1883 | Cub's Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strikes out |
| 1877 | 3rd Kentucky Derby: Billy Walker aboard Baden-Baden wins in 2:38 |
| 1872 | Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500) |
| 1868 | Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in cash |
| 1864 | Battle of N Anna River, Virginia (Totopotamy River, Haw's Shop, Hanovertown) |
| 1863 | General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg |
| 1863 | War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops |
| 1858 | Confederacion Granadina (now Colombia) forms |
| 1856 | Violence in Senate, South Carolina Representative Brooks used a cane on Massachusetts Senator Sumner |
| 1849 | Abraham Lincoln patents a buoying device |
| 1843 | 1st wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon |
| 1836 | Felix Mendelssohn's oratorium "St. Paul," premieres in Dusseldorf |
| 1819 | 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga) |
| 1807 | Former Vice President Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Virginia (acquitted) |
| 1807 | Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks in Philadelphia |
| 1803 | 1st public library opens (Connecticut) |
| 1784 | Ceylonese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy |
| 1762 | Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty |
| 1761 | 1st life insurance policy in U.S., issued in Philadelphia |
| 1746 | Russia and Austria signs treaty of cooperation |
| 1712 | Emperor Karel VI crowned king of Hungary |
| 1659 | France, England and Netherlands sign "Hedges Concerto" treaty |
| 1629 | Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign Peace of Lubeck |
| 1594 | Earl Mauritius and Willem Louis begins siege of Groningen |
| 1570 | 1st atlas, with 70 maps, published |
| 1526 | Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence and Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac |
| 1455 | Open battle in England's 30-year War of the Roses (St. Albans) |
| 1455 | Richard of York takes St. Albans, kidnapping King Henry VI |
| 1370 | Jews are expelled/massacred from Brussels Belgium |
| 1200 | Peace of Goulet |
| 1176 | Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo |
| 760 | 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
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