| 2009 | North Korea announces a successful nuclear test in North Hamgyong, the U.N. Security Council condems the test |
| 2008 | NASA's Phoenix spacecraft lands in the polar region on Mars |
| 2002 | China Airlines flight 611 crashes near Taiwan, killing 225, crash probably due to structural failure |
| 1997 | Bell Atlantic Senior Golf Classic |
| 1997 | David Frost wins Golf's Colonial Final in Ft. Worth Texas |
| 1997 | Indianapolis 500 race |
| 1997 | Minnesota Twins retire Kirby Puckett's uniform number |
| 1997 | Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Classic |
| 1997 | Todd and Mel Stottlemyre become 1st father and son to win 100 games |
| 1996 | Jennifer Maria Holsten, 18, crowned Miss Filipino-American |
| 1994 | Emmy 21st Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci not nominated |
| 1992 | Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "Tonight Show" |
| 1992 | New York Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inn, beat Brewers 13-7 |
| 1992 | Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy |
| 1991 | "People Are Still Having Sex," by LaTour hits #35 |
| 1991 | Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews |
| 1991 | Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Minnesota North Star, 4 games to 2 |
| 1989 | Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots |
| 1989 | Mariners trade Mark Langston to Montreal for Randy Johnson |
| 1989 | Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union |
| 1989 | Stanley Cup: Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2 |
| 1989 | Weird Al Yankovic records "She Drives Like Crazy" |
| 1988 | PSV wins Europe Cup |
| 1986 | 30,000,000 watch "Live Aid," a massive benefit concert |
| 1986 | 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida |
| 1986 | Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed |
| 1986 | Hands Across America - 6 million people hold hands from California to New York |
| 1986 | Kansas City Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit |
| 1986 | Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1986 | Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia |
| 1985 | Allan Border scores 4th successive 1st class 100 (v Derbyshire) |
| 1985 | Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed |
| 1984 | Detroit Tigers lose to Seattle 7-3 ends record tying 17 consecutive wins |
| 1984 | Red Sox trade pitcher Dennis Eckersley to Cubs for Bill Buckner |
| 1983 | "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released |
| 1983 | 1st National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed |
| 1983 | Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357 |
| 1983 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1983 | Kirk Gibson (Tigers) and Jorge Orta (Blue Jays) hit inside park home runs |
| 1982 | Ferguson Jenkins becomes 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters |
| 1982 | Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar |
| 1982 | STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1981 | Carl Yastrzemski is 4th to get 3,000 hits (Cobb, Musial and Aaron) |
| 1981 | Daniel Goodwin, climbs Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours |
| 1981 | Rangers' Bill Stein sets AL record with 7 consecutive pinch hits |
| 1980 | "Musical Chairs" closes at Rialto Theater New York City after 15 performances |
| 1980 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1980 | Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8") |
| 1979 | American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275 |
| 1979 | Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt |
| 1979 | Raul Gonzales of Mexico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4 |
| 1978 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2 |
| 1977 | "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released |
| 1977 | "Brady Bunch Hour," last airs on ABC-TV |
| 1977 | Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election |
| 1977 | Liverpool wins 22nd Europe Cup 1 in Rome |
| 1977 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1976 | Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Richard Dunn in Munich |
| 1975 | 29th NBA Championship: Golden Warriors sweep Washington Bullets in 4 games |
| 1975 | Cleveland's Dennis Eckersley, debuts shuting out the A's 6-0 |
| 1975 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA American DefenderGolf Classic |
| 1973 | Argentine Peronist Hector Campora installed as president |
| 1973 | Borussia Monchengladbach wins 2nd UEFA Cup at Monchengladbach |
| 1973 | George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in the United Kingdom |
| 1973 | U.S. launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz |
| 1972 | Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander |
| 1972 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1970 | 3rd ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars, 4 games to 2 |
| 1969 | "Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating |
| 1969 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
| 1969 | Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup |
| 1968 | BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Jim Stefanich |
| 1968 | BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Dotty Fothergill |
| 1968 | Gateway Arch in St. Louis dedicated |
| 1968 | Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash" |
| 1968 | Unicorn by The Irish Rovers hits #7 |
| 1967 | Celtic wins 12th Europe Cup 1 in Lisbon |
| 1967 | John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce |
| 1966 | Peru and Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die |
| 1965 | Dave Davies of Kinks stumbles and is knocked unconscious on stage |
| 1965 | India and Pakistan border fights |
| 1965 | Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1965 | Roel van Duyn, Martijn Ananar and Rob Faado align in Provo |
| 1964 | 16th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore |
| 1964 | Frank Gilroy's "Subject is Roses," premieres in New York City |
| 1964 | Ground is broken for a new stadium in St. Louis |
| 1964 | Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut |
| 1963 | "Hot Spot" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 43 performances |
| 1963 | Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game |
| 1963 | Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket |
| 1963 | Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania and Zambia |
| 1962 | Isley Brothers release "Twist and Shout" |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) |
| 1962 | U.S. unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade |
| 1961 | NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m |
| 1960 | George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit home run |
| 1959 | Khrushchev visits Angola |
| 1959 | Supreme court rules La prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional |
| 1957 | "Shinbone Alley" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 49 performances |
| 1956 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas |
| 1955 | Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas and most of Blackwell Okla |
| 1953 | 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada |
| 1953 | 1st non-commercial educational television station, Houston, Texas |
| 1953 | Braves Max Surkont strikes out record 8 Reds in a row |
| 1951 | New York Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5) |
| 1950 | Bkln-Battery Tunnel opens in New York City |
| 1949 | Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai |
| 1948 | 30th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills CC St. Louis |
| 1948 | San Francisco receives its 1st telecast |
| 1947 | Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111 |
| 1946 | Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan |
| 1946 | Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1945 | Arthur C. Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit |
| 1944 | Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia |
| 1943 | Riot at Mobile Alabama shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers |
| 1943 | Trident conference in Washington D.C. (operation plan '43 against Japan) |
| 1941 | 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India |
| 1941 | Ted Williams raises his batting avg over .400 for 1st time in 1941 |
| 1940 | German troops conquer Boulogne |
| 1940 | Golden Gate International Expo reopens |
| 1939 | Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president |
| 1937 | 1st airmail letter to circle globe returns to New York |
| 1935 | Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs. Pirates |
| 1935 | Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour |
| 1934 | Bela Bartok's "Enchanted Deer," premieres |
| 1927 | Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A) |
| 1923 | Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader |
| 1922 | Babe Ruth suspended 1 day and fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump |
| 1919 | Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap |
| 1915 | 2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties |
| 1915 | Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pitts (Federal League), 10-0 |
| 1914 | British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule |
| 1911 | Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz |
| 1906 | After 20 straight wins, Boston Pilgrims lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0 |
| 1904 | 38th Belmont: George Odom aboard Delhi wins in 2:06.6 |
| 1900 | Eyre M. Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics |
| 1899 | 33rd Belmont: R. Clawson aboard Jean Beraud wins in 2:23 |
| 1898 | 1st U.S. troop transport to Manila leaves San Francisco |
| 1895 | 20th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 1:50 |
| 1895 | Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite |
| 1887 | Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die |
| 1878 | Gilbert/Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore," premieres in London |
| 1876 | 1st tie in NL history (Athletics and Louisville, 2-2 in 14) |
| 1876 | 4th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Shirley wins in 2:44.75 |
| 1870 | Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Quebec |
| 1868 | Australia Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins vs. Surrey Gentlemen |
| 1864 | Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia |
| 1862 | Battle of Winchester, Virginia |
| 1861 | John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ |
| 1844 | 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot |
| 1825 | American Unitarian Association founded |
| 1812 | Earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela |
| 1810 | Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (National Day) |
| 1793 | Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st U.S. Roman Catholic priest ordained |
| 1787 | Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding |
| 1784 | Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek |
| 1721 | John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent |
| 1720 | "Le Grand St. Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000 |
| 1661 | King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Braganca |
| 1660 | English King Charles II lands in Dover |
| 1659 | Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector |
| 1632 | Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen |
| 1522 | Emperor Karel I returns to Spain |
| 1241 | 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany |
| 1085 | King Alfonso VI of Castily/Leon occupy Toledo on Moren |
