| 2012 | After thousands protest Brett Murray's controversial painting 'The Spear', the gallery that exhibited his painting agrees to take the image of the artwork down from its website |
| 2012 | Northern Italy, near Bologna, experiences a 5.8-magnitude earthquake; at least 24 people are killed |
| 2011 | Malta becomes the last country in the European Union to legalize divorce |
| 2011 | More than 100,000 homes in Michigan lose power after powerful storms hit the state |
| 2005 | French reject a referendum on the E.U. constitution |
| 1997 | 70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym |
| 1997 | Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil |
| 1996 | Space Shuttle STS-77 Endeavour 11 lands |
| 1994 | "Joseph and the Amazing" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 223 performances |
| 1994 | "Picnic" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| 1994 | Al Unser, Jr. wins 78th Indianapolis 500 in 3:06:29.006 (255.89 kph) |
| 1994 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1994 | Great comet-iceball seen above North sea |
| 1994 | Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election |
| 1994 | Patty Sheehan wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game |
| 1993 | Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany |
| 1993 | Texas Ranger Jose Canseco pitches 8th inning in 15-1 loss to Red Sox, he gives up 3 runs on 2 hits and 3 walks, he damages his arm |
| 1992 | New York Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at 3 games |
| 1992 | White Sox Tim Raines swipes his 700th career base |
| 1991 | "Les Miserables," opens at ACTEA Theatre, Auckland New Zealand |
| 1991 | Crevena Zvezda wins 36th Europe Cup I |
| 1990 | An earthquake hit Peru, killing 56 |
| 1990 | Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic |
| 1990 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,870.49 |
| 1990 | Mets replace manager Davey Johnson with Buddy Harrelson |
| 1990 | New York Mets fire manager Davey Johnson and hire Bud Harrelson |
| 1990 | Rickey Henderson steals record 893rd base, breaking Ty Cobb's record |
| 1989 | Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt, 39, retires |
| 1989 | Student protesters in China construct a replica of Statue of Liberty |
| 1988 | Graeme Hick scores his 1,000th run of 1st-class cricket season |
| 1988 | President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan |
| 1988 | Sherri Turner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1987 | "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor |
| 1987 | Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains |
| 1987 | Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games |
| 1986 | 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia |
| 1985 | Juventus wins 30th Europe Cup 1 in Brussels, 39 die in riot |
| 1984 | Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) and #4 (Joe Cronin) |
| 1983 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1983 | Yuri Dumchev of U.S.S.R. throws discus a record 71.86 m |
| 1982 | "I Know What Boys Like," by The Waitresses hits #62 |
| 1982 | Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war |
| 1981 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1980 | "Billy Bishop Goes to War" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1980 | 53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate |
| 1980 | Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan, Jr. National Urban League president |
| 1980 | J Turners "Juliet and Her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in New York City |
| 1980 | Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year |
| 1979 | Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black PM |
| 1979 | Radio's 1st rock network "Source" premieres |
| 1978 | 1st class postage now 15 cents (13 cents for 3 years) |
| 1978 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1977 | A. J. Foyt wins Indianapolis 500 for a record 4th time |
| 1977 | NBC News and Information Service (24 hour news) ends on radio |
| 1977 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1977 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1977 | Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indy 500 |
| 1977 | Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one |
| 1976 | "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash hits #29 |
| 1976 | Only home run of Joe Niekro's 22-year career, comes off brother Phil |
| 1974 | Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster |
| 1973 | Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles, California |
| 1973 | Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records |
| 1972 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1971 | Court Room by Clarence Carter hits #61 |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (underground) |
| 1969 | Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice |
| 1968 | Manchester United wins 13rd Europe Cup 1 in London |
| 1968 | Truth in Lending Act signed into law |
| 1968 | U.N. resolves sanctions on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia |
| 1967 | Australian Paul McManus water skis barefoot for 1:30:19 |
| 1967 | Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II |
| 1966 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies Golf Invitational |
| 1965 | Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' home run out of Connie Mack Stadium |
| 1962 | Barbra Streisand appears on "Garry Moore Show" |
| 1960 | Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1 |
| 1959 | Charles de Gaulle forms French government |
| 1958 | Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels |
| 1957 | Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators |
| 1957 | Laos government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns |
| 1957 | New York City Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the Giants and Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast |
| 1956 | Arnold Schonberg's "Modern Psalm," premieres |
| 1956 | WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, Florida (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1955 | Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns |
| 1954 | Kirk and Anne Douglas married |
| 1953 | Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest |
| 1952 | 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles and Suriname ends |
| 1951 | 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair |
| 1949 | Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC |
| 1946 | KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands |
| 1945 | U.S. 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa |
| 1944 | British troops occupy Aprilia, Italy |
| 1943 | Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower) |
| 1943 | Meat and cheese rationed in U.S. |
| 1942 | Bing Crosby records "White Christmas," greatest selling record to date |
| 1940 | Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec) |
| 1940 | Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich commissar of Hague, Netherlands |
| 1940 | In WW II, Germans capture Ostend and Ypres in Belgium and Lille in France |
| 1935 | Hague local museum opens |
| 1928 | Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car |
| 1922 | Ecuador becomes independent |
| 1922 | U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws |
| 1919 | Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster |
| 1919 | Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington |
| 1916 | New York Giants win 17th consecutive road game |
| 1916 | Official flag of president of U.S. adopted |
| 1916 | U.S. forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924 |
| 1914 | Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St. Lawrence R; 1024 die |
| 1912 | 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break |
| 1911 | 1st running of Indianapolis 500 |
| 1910 | Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers |
| 1909 | Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career home run |
| 1905 | Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania |
| 1902 | Dutch State Mine law forms |
| 1900 | 25th Preakness: H Spencer aboard Hindus wins in 1:48.4 |
| 1900 | Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co |
| 1897 | 31st Belmont: J Scherrer aboard Scottish Cheiftain wins in 2:23 |
| 1889 | August Strindberg's "Hemsoborna," premieres in Copenhagen |
| 1884 | 1st steam cable trams start in highgate |
| 1874 | Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect |
| 1864 | Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz |
| 1861 | Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army |
| 1849 | Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln |
| 1849 | Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and of people some of time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time" |
| 1848 | Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte |
| 1848 | Wisconsin becomes 30th state |
| 1790 | Rhode Is becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying Constitution |
| 1787 | "Virginia Plan" proposed |
| 1765 | Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!" |
| 1753 | Joseph Haydns "Krumme Teufel," premieres |
| 1727 | Peter II Aleksei (11) becomes czar of Russia |
| 1721 | South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony |
| 1692 | Battle at La Hogue: English and Dutch fleet beat France |
| 1692 | Royal Hospital Founders Day 1st celebrated |
| 1660 | Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth |
| 1652 | English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under lt-adm Tromp |
| 1630 | Governor John Winthrop begins "History of New England" |
| 1576 | Spanish army under Mondragon conquerors Zierik sea |
| 1506 | Earl Willem I van Nassau-Dillenburg weds countess Walburg van Egmont |
| 1453 | Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire |
| 1453 | French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated |
| 1415 | Council of Konstanz |
| 1176 | Battle at Legnano: Lombardi League beats Frederik Barbarossa |
| 1167 | Lombard League defeat Frederick Barbarossa at Battle of Legnano |
| 1138 | Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) overthrows self for Innocentius II |
| 757 | St. Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 526 | Antioch struck by Earthquake; about 250,000 die |
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