| 2012 | Burmese President Thein Sein and National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi meet U.S. President Barack Obama, the country's first visit from a sitting U.S. President |
| 2012 | Expedition 33 ends and Expedition 34 begins as astronauts Yuri Malenchenko, Sunita Williams, and Akihiko Hoshide return to Earth with spacecraft Soyuz TMA-05M |
| 2011 | Part of the Prompt Global Strike program, a U.S. hypersonic weapon system undergoes a successful test, proving capable of striking targets 3,700 kilometres (2,300 miles) away in under 30 minutes |
| 2011 | Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi, is captured in Libya; he will be tried for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court |
| 2010 | The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, says cultural genocide is happening as a result of the Chinese law requiring Mandarin as the language of instruction in Tibetan schools |
| 2010 | Many nations urge lower fishing rates on the Atlantic bluefin tuna; quota limits on the critically endangered fish are discussed by major fishing nations in Paris |
| 2008 | Claudia Castillo has a successful trachea transplant from stem-cell created organ |
| 1997 | "Eugene Onegin," opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City |
| 1997 | "Old Neighborhood," opens at Booth Theater New York City |
| 1997 | STS-87 (Columbia 24) launches into orbit |
| 1996 | "God Said, Ha!," opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 22 performances |
| 1996 | "Sex and Longing" closes at Cort Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Albert Belle, signs record five-year, $55 million with White Sox |
| 1996 | Space Shuttle STS-80 (Columbia 21), launches into space |
| 1995 | "Beatle Anthology" premieres on ABC-TV |
| 1995 | "Sacrilege" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 21 performances |
| 1995 | "School for Scandal" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 23 performances |
| 1995 | 83rd CFL Grey Cup: Baltimore Stallions defeats Calgary Stampeders, 37-20 |
| 1995 | Keelin Curnuck, 23, Ms Venus Swimwear 1994, crowned Miss New York USA |
| 1995 | Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16 |
| 1994 | Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World |
| 1994 | Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson |
| 1993 | Algerian Moslem fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed |
| 1993 | Curaeaose vote to remain part of Dutch Antilles |
| 1992 | "3 From Brooklyn" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| 1991 | Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken wins his 2nd AL MVP |
| 1990 | Greyhound files reoganization plan so they can be traded publically |
| 1990 | Iraq announces it will free all German hostages |
| 1990 | Pittsburgh's Barry Bonds wins NL MVP |
| 1989 | U.S. beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st qualification since 1950 |
| 1988 | LA Law's Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays |
| 1987 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1986 | Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins NL MVP |
| 1986 | Tina Howe's "Coastal Disturbances," premieres in New York City |
| 1985 | Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport," premieres in New York City |
| 1985 | President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time |
| 1984 | Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die |
| 1984 | New York Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year |
| 1983 | Edmonton Oilers beat New Jersey Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils "a Mickey Mouse organization" |
| 1980 | CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields |
| 1979 | Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract |
| 1978 | Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time |
| 1977 | Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel |
| 1977 | Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders |
| 1977 | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel |
| 1977 | Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt |
| 1976 | George Harrison releases "This Song" |
| 1976 | Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail |
| 1975 | Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP |
| 1973 | Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair |
| 1972 | "Ambassador" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| 1972 | "Dear Oscar" closes at Playhouse Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1972 | Gershwin Theater (Uris) opens at 1633 Broadway New York City |
| 1972 | KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI suspends broadcasting |
| 1972 | Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election |
| 1970 | Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California state historical landmark |
| 1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1969 | Apollo 12's Conrad and Bean become 3rd and 4th humans on Moon |
| 1969 | WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Mali military coup, president Modibo Keita flees |
| 1968 | Yankees pitcher Stan Bahnsen wins AL Rookie of Year |
| 1967 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational |
| 1966 | Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| 1965 | ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report |
| 1965 | Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created |
| 1963 | Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal |
| 1962 | Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons |
| 1962 | KOET (now KULC) TV channel 9 in Ogden, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | SN Behrman's "Lord Pengo," premieres in New York City |
| 1962 | Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria |
| 1961 | Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs New York Titans (49-13) |
| 1960 | Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team |
| 1959 | "Rocky and His Friends" debuts on ABC |
| 1959 | Ford cancels Edsel |
| 1958 | First 2 F-27 Fokker's Friendships delivered on Aer Lingus |
| 1957 | Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia |
| 1955 | KXMB TV channel 12 in Bismarck, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | U.S. Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business |
| 1953 | U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits Hanoi |
| 1952 | North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH |
| 1952 | Spain joins UNESCO |
| 1951 | Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday |
| 1951 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1950 | U.S. General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe |
| 1949 | Prince Rainier III coronation as 30th ruling Prince of Monaco |
| 1948 | Belgian government of Spaak, forms |
| 1947 | 200" mirror arrives at Mount Palomar |
| 1946 | Bradman scores 119 South Australia vs. Victoria, 183 minutes, 8 fours |
| 1943 | U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
| 1942 | Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden" |
| 1942 | Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front |
| 1940 | Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler |
| 1940 | German air raid on Birmingham fails |
| 1939 | Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship |
| 1933 | Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing) |
| 1932 | Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game |
| 1932 | Shaft and Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor |
| 1928 | 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover |
| 1926 | British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends |
| 1923 | Bela Bartok's "Tancsuite," premieres |
| 1922 | Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent |
| 1919 | U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations |
| 1911 | New York receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy |
| 1910 | Ferenc Moln rs "Tester," premieres in Budapest |
| 1909 | Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption |
| 1906 | London selected to host 1908 Olympics |
| 1903 | Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate |
| 1896 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Sussex Vampire" |
| 1895 | Frederick E. Blaisdell patents the pencil |
| 1894 | 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 and 5 Ap) |
| 1894 | Dutch troops occupy and plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok |
| 1893 | 1st newspaper color supplement (New York World) |
| 1887 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective" |
| 1879 | National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter |
| 1874 | William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall in New York City convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment |
| 1863 | Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score and 7 years..." |
| 1861 | Julia Ward Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper |
| 1850 | Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate |
| 1837 | Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens |
| 1824 | Storm causes St. Petersburg flood, killing 10,000 |
| 1794 | Jakobonen Club forms in Paris |
| 1794 | Jay Treaty, 1st U.S. extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain |
| 1700 | Battle at Narva: Swedish king Karel XII beats Russians |
| 1644 | 1st protestant ministry society in New England |
| 1621 | Rabbi Isaiah b Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel |
| 1620 | Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast |
| 1544 | Pope Paul III opens council of Trente |
| 1523 | Giulio de' Medici chosen as Pope Clemens VII |
| 1521 | Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France and occupy Milan |
| 1493 | Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage |
| 1367 | League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV |
| 1302 | Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree "Unam sanctam" |
| 615 | Pope Deusdedit/Adeodatus I elected to succeed Boniface IV |
| 498 | Anastasius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 461 | St. Hilary begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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