| 2012 | Wade Davis' non-fiction book, 'Into the Silence', wins the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize |
| 2012 | The European Physical Society's annual Edison Volta Prize is awarded to CERN Director General, Rolf-Dieter Heuer |
| 2011 | In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigns, as an emergency government takes his place to deal with the country's economic crisis |
| 2011 | U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls on Iran to respond to the IAEA report stating Iran is working on nuclear bomb technology |
| 2010 | The Mount Bulusan volcano in the Philippines erupts again, spreading an ash plume up to 700 meters above the volcano's crater |
| 2001 | American Airlines flight 587 crashes in Belle Harbor, New York, killing 265, vertical stabilizer failure |
| 1999 | Earthquake kills 700 in Duzce, Turkey |
| 1998 | New York Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak |
| 1997 | Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004 |
| 1997 | Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award |
| 1996 | Toronto's Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award |
| 1995 | 25th New York City Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06 |
| 1995 | 26th New York City Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00 |
| 1995 | Last day of Test cricket for Martin Crowe |
| 1995 | Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003 |
| 1995 | New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority raises subway and bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50 |
| 1995 | STS-74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit |
| 1992 | New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time |
| 1991 | "Full House" 100th episode-twins are born |
| 1991 | Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award |
| 1991 | Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die |
| 1989 | "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 1018 performances |
| 1989 | Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years |
| 1989 | George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in New York City |
| 1988 | Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7) |
| 1988 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1987 | "Teddy and Alice" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 77 performances |
| 1987 | Heavy snow closes schools from Washington D.C. to Maine |
| 1987 | Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World |
| 1986 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1986 | Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously |
| 1985 | R. Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match vs. Australia at Brisbane |
| 1985 | STS-61-B vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1985 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct |
| 1984 | Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together" |
| 1984 | Space shuttle astronauts retreive a satellite - 1st space salvage |
| 1983 | 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas |
| 1983 | New Jersey Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3 |
| 1982 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as U.S.S.R. leader |
| 1982 | Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket vs. India, goes to 215 |
| 1981 | 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed, Double Eagle V |
| 1981 | 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2) |
| 1981 | Bill C. Davis' "Mass Appeal," premieres in New York City |
| 1981 | Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year for the Oakland A's |
| 1981 | Great Britain performs nuclear test |
| 1981 | Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World |
| 1980 | Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award |
| 1980 | U.S. space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn |
| 1979 | President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil |
| 1979 | Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal |
| 1979 | U.S. halts Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets |
| 1978 | "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 33 performances |
| 1978 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
| 1977 | Ernest N. Morial elected mayor of New Orleans |
| 1977 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1977 | New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial |
| 1975 | New York Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award |
| 1975 | Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired after 36 years |
| 1974 | South Africa suspended from United Nations General Assembly over racial policies |
| 1973 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 14th String Quartet premieres |
| 1970 | 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die |
| 1970 | Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103 |
| 1970 | Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell |
| 1969 | Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union |
| 1969 | Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP |
| 1969 | U.S. Army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19 |
| 1969 | WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1968 | KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional |
| 1967 | Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
| 1967 | Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7 |
| 1966 | Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| 1966 | Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record |
| 1966 | High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame |
| 1965 | Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines |
| 1965 | General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka |
| 1965 | Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ |
| 1965 | Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus |
| 1964 | Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg |
| 1964 | Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH |
| 1963 | Train crash in Japan, kills 164 |
| 1960 | Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails |
| 1959 | White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP |
| 1958 | Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award |
| 1956 | Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted |
| 1955 | 1st West German officers sworn in |
| 1955 | E. Arcaro, E. Sande and G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame |
| 1954 | Ellis Island, immigration station in New York Harbor, closed |
| 1953 | David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel |
| 1953 | U.S. district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games |
| 1952 | Philadelphia A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP |
| 1951 | "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 289 performances |
| 1951 | 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Ala |
| 1950 | Gene Roberts sets NFL New York Giant rushing record (218 yards) vs Chicago Cards |
| 1948 | Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal |
| 1947 | KPO-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR) |
| 1947 | Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced |
| 1946 | 1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago) |
| 1946 | Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released |
| 1945 | Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) |
| 1944 | RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway |
| 1943 | Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands |
| 1942 | In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began |
| 1941 | Germany's drive to take Moscow halted |
| 1941 | WOV-AM and WNEW-AM in New York City swaps call letters |
| 1940 | Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes) |
| 1939 | Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David |
| 1938 | Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland |
| 1936 | Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill |
| 1936 | Oakland Bay Bridge opens |
| 1936 | St. Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes and William O DeWitt |
| 1933 | 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal) |
| 1933 | 1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate's Forbes Field, lose to Brooklyn Dodgers 32-0 |
| 1933 | 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken |
| 1933 | Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany |
| 1932 | 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion |
| 1931 | Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chicago Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1 |
| 1931 | Sibelius/Ashton's ballet "Lady of Shalott," premieres in London |
| 1928 | British steamer "Vestris" capsizes and sinks off Virginia, kills 110 |
| 1927 | 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey opens |
| 1927 | Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green |
| 1927 | Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator |
| 1925 | U.S. and Italy sign peace accord about war debts |
| 1924 | Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron |
| 1923 | In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power |
| 1921 | Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments |
| 1920 | Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner |
| 1919 | Ross and Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia |
| 1918 | Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic |
| 1915 | Britain annexes Gilbert and Ellice archipelago |
| 1915 | Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry |
| 1914 | Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war |
| 1912 | Robert Scott's diary and dead body found in Antarctica |
| 1910 | 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon |
| 1906 | C W Gregory (NSW vs. Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps |
| 1900 | World's Fair in Paris opens, 50 million visitors |
| 1899 | British troops reach Durban Natal |
| 1892 | Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player |
| 1892 | Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football |
| 1885 | Montreal and Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game |
| 1873 | Bay District Race Track opens |
| 1859 | Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name |
| 1823 | Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens |
| 1813 | Allied troops occupy Zwolle, Netherlands |
| 1775 | General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks |
| 1727 | France and Bavaria renew secret treaty |
| 1682 | Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy |
| 1673 | Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn |
| 1614 | Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends |
| 1591 | Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza |
| 954 | Lotharius becomes king of France |
| 607 | Boniface III ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 295 | Origin of Era of Ascension |
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