| 1999 | Last upside down date until January 1, 6000 |
| 1997 | Roger Clemens wins his 4th AL Cy Young Award |
| 1997 | WNBA expands to Detroit and Washington D.C. |
| 1996 | Braves John Smoltz wins NL Cy Young Award |
| 1994 | Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000 |
| 1994 | Progress M-25 launched to space station Mir |
| 1993 | Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 2 days for fractured shoulder |
| 1992 | Anglican Church and Church of England OK female priests |
| 1990 | "Shadowlands" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 169 performances |
| 1990 | Calif's Chuck Finley and Seattle's Randy Johnson combine to pitch a no-hitter in exhibition game between U.S. and Japanese all-star teams |
| 1989 | "Prince of Central Park" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1989 | Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson |
| 1988 | Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science |
| 1987 | "Roza" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| 1987 | Judge Anthony M. Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court |
| 1987 | Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns |
| 1987 | Roger Clemens wins consecutive Cy Young Awards |
| 1987 | Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction |
| 1986 | Houston's Astro Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young Award |
| 1986 | Suriname government proclaims gold purification |
| 1985 | 1st AIDS theme TV movie - "An Early Frost" |
| 1985 | Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB |
| 1985 | Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools and housing |
| 1984 | "3 Musketeers" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| 1983 | 1st U.S. cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain |
| 1983 | President Reagan became 1st U.S. President to address Japan's legislature |
| 1983 | Wayne Phillips scores 159 on Test Cricket debut, vs. Pakistan at WACA |
| 1982 | 30th time Islanders shut-out-2-0 vs North Stars |
| 1982 | 5th space shuttle mission-Columbia 5-launched 1st coml flight |
| 1982 | Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters by Tyrus; kills 60 |
| 1982 | Joe Altobelli succeeds retiring Earl Weaver as Oriole manager |
| 1982 | Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is let out of jail in Poland |
| 1981 | "Oh, Brother!" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 3 performances |
| 1981 | Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie ever to win a Cy Young Award |
| 1980 | Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37 |
| 1980 | Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars |
| 1979 | Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center |
| 1978 | Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives |
| 1977 | Wings release "Mull of Kintyre" and "Girl's School" |
| 1975 | Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day) |
| 1975 | Australian Prime Minister removed by crown (1st elected Prime Minister removed in 200 yrs) |
| 1972 | Dow Jones Index moves above 1,000 for 1st time |
| 1972 | U.S. Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army |
| 1971 | Man-made earthslide at Kawasaki Japan, kills 15 |
| 1971 | Neil Simons "prisoner of Second Avenue," premieres in New York City |
| 1970 | Baltimore Oriole Boog Powell wins AL MVP |
| 1969 | Beatles with Billy Preston release "Get Back" in UK |
| 1969 | Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by FBI for drunkeness |
| 1968 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album |
| 1968 | Maldives (in Indian Ocean) become a republic |
| 1968 | Ron Hill sets record 10-mile run (46:44) at Leicester England |
| 1966 | Gemini 12 (Lovell and Aldrin) launched on 4-day flight |
| 1966 | Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church |
| 1965 | Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas |
| 1965 | Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by Prime Minister Ian D Smith |
| 1965 | William Alfred's "Hogan's Goat," premieres in New York City |
| 1964 | Murray Schisgal's "Luv," premieres in New York City |
| 1963 | Brian Epstein and Ed Sullivan sign a 3 show contract for Beatles |
| 1963 | Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 goal record |
| 1961 | Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots |
| 1961 | Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovitsj kicked out of Russia's Communist Party |
| 1961 | Stalingrad renamed Volgograd |
| 1960 | Largest New York Knick 49th St. MSG crowd-18,499 |
| 1959 | 1st episode of "Rocky and His Friends" airs |
| 1959 | Seals Stadium in San Francisco, demolished |
| 1958 | "La Plume de Ma Tante" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 835 performances |
| 1958 | AL announces Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959 |
| 1957 | Demolition begins on cable car barn at California and Hyde (SF) |
| 1953 | Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as Baltimore Orioles manager |
| 1949 | WTTV TV channel 4 in Bloomington-Indianapol, IN (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1946 | New York Knicks' 1st game at Madison Square Garden loses 78-68 to Chicago Stags |
| 1944 | New York Rangers set NHL record of 25 games without a win (0-21-4) |
| 1943 | Spud Chandler wins AL MVP; Stan Musial wins NL MVP |
| 1943 | U.S. air raid on Rabaul |
| 1942 | Last German offensive in Stalingrad |
| 1942 | 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz |
| 1942 | During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France |
| 1942 | Jews in Free Zone of France ordered to wear yellow star of David |
| 1942 | Lieutenant-General Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java |
| 1942 | Transport nr 45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany |
| 1941 | Czechoslovakian premier general Eliasj arrested by nazis |
| 1940 | 1,000s Paris students lay reath at Grave of Unknown Soldier |
| 1940 | Blizzard strikes midwestern U.S. killing over 100 |
| 1940 | British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet |
| 1940 | Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle - Jeep |
| 1939 | Kate Smith 1st sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" |
| 1938 | German and Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi |
| 1938 | Kristallnacht; Jews forced to wear Star of David |
| 1937 | Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies world record 610.4 kph |
| 1937 | Nobel prize for physics awarded to C. J. Davisson and G. P. Thomson |
| 1935 | Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD |
| 1934 | 1st penalty shot vs Toronto Maple Leafs, Mondou (Mont) unsuccessful |
| 1934 | WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa splits from WHO-WOC and becomes KICK-AM |
| 1933 | "Great Black Blizzard" 1st great dust storm in Great Plains |
| 1931 | Cornerstones laid for Opera House and Veteran's Building |
| 1928 | France's 5th government of Poincare forms |
| 1928 | KXO-AM in El Centro California begins radio transmissions |
| 1928 | WGL-AM in Ft. Wayne IN begins radio transmissions |
| 1928 | WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions |
| 1928 | WOL-AM in Washington D.C. begins radio transmissions |
| 1926 | Eddie Collins is released as White Sox manager |
| 1925 | Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD |
| 1925 | Louis Armstrong records 1st of Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings |
| 1925 | Night of Kersten - Colijn Dutch government falls by SGP-amendement |
| 1925 | Robert Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays |
| 1924 | Martin Beck Theater opens at 302 W 45th St. New York City |
| 1924 | Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (SF) |
| 1923 | Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph |
| 1922 | Largest U.S. flag displayed (150' X 90') expanded in 1939 (270' X 90') |
| 1921 | President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Arlington Cemetary) |
| 1919 | Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political/business views |
| 1918 | Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution |
| 1918 | Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates |
| 1918 | Poland declares independence |
| 1918 | Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front) |
| 1918 | Germany surrenders ending WW I, Allies and Germany sign armistice |
| 1909 | Construction of Navy base at Pearl Harbor begins |
| 1909 | J. M. Synge's "Tinker's Wedding," premieres in London |
| 1906 | Ethel Smyth' "Standrecht," premieres in Leipzig |
| 1901 | Maurice Ravel composition "Jeux d'eau" premieres |
| 1899 | Stuart/Rubens/Boyd-Jones' "Floradora," premieres in London |
| 1896 | Jules Vandenpeereboom becomes Belgium's minister of War |
| 1895 | Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony |
| 1890 | D. McCree patents portable fire escape |
| 1889 | Washington admitted as 42nd state |
| 1868 | 1st American amateur track and field meet (New York City) |
| 1865 | Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor |
| 1865 | Thomas Robertsons "Society," premieres in London |
| 1864 | Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Shoal Creek, AL |
| 1862 | Opera "La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St. Petersburg Russia) |
| 1851 | Alvan Clark patents telescope |
| 1838 | Emma Wedgwood accepts Charles Darwins marriage proposal |
| 1836 | Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru |
| 1813 | Dresden surrenders to allied armies |
| 1811 | Cartagena Colombia declares independence from Spain |
| 1790 | Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China |
| 1778 | Iroquois Indians in New York kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre |
| 1752 | Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlies army enters England |
| 1725 | Georg F. Handels opera "Tamerlano," premieres in London |
| 1714 | A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street |
| 1688 | Prince Willem III's invasion fleet sails to England |
| 1671 | Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine |
| 1648 | Dutch and French agree to divide St. Maarten, Leeward Islands |
| 1647 | Massachusetts passes 1st U.S. compulsory school attendance law |
| 1640 | John Pym, earl of Strafford locked in Tower of London |
| 1620 | 41 pilgrims land in Massachusetts, sign Mayflower Compact (just and equal laws) |
| 1606 | Turkey and Austria sign Treaty of Zsitva-Torok |
| 1572 | Duke of Alva's son Don Fredrik begins siege for Haarlem |
| 1503 | Pope Julius II elected |
| 1500 | Treaty of Granada: France and Aragon divide Naples |
| 1493 | Columbus discovers Saba |
| 1417 | Oddo Colonna elected as Pope Martinus V |
| 1215 | 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome |
| 1208 | Otto van Wittelsbach chosen German king |
| 1158 | Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy |
| 887 | Parliament in Tribur: King Charles III resigns |
| 537 | St. Silverius ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
