| 2012 | British Prime Minister David Cameron announces Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland as the location for the 39th G8 summit in June 2013 |
| 2012 | According to the United Nations World Meterological Organisation, greenhouse gases reached record levels in 2011 |
| 2011 | In Spain, voters go to the polls for the general election; the center-right Popular Party wins a parliamentary majority |
| 2011 | Abdullah Gul, President of Turkey, begins a three-day visit to the United Kingdom |
| 2010 | NATO nations reach an agreement to begin handing over Afghanistan's security to the Afghanistan military by 2014 |
| 2010 | The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Mahmoud Bahmani, resigns |
| 2009 | An ethnic conflict over fishing rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills 100 people, displaces 50,000 |
| 2003 | British consulate and bank bombed in Istanbul murdering 27 |
| 1997 | "Ivanov," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City for 51 performances |
| 1997 | Flyers Eric Lindros tries to bite San Jose defenseman Marty McSorley |
| 1997 | Last original Florida Marlin, Jeff Conine, traded to Kansas City Royals |
| 1997 | Mavericks' A C Green sets NBA record of 907 consecutive games played |
| 1997 | New York Islanders lose, beginning a 10 game losing streak |
| 1995 | "Beatles' Anthology, Vol 1" released |
| 1995 | "Racing Demon" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| 1995 | FDA approves new therapy for use as an initial AIDS treatment, 3TC |
| 1995 | Princess Di admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview |
| 1995 | STS-74 (Atlantis 15), lands |
| 1994 | "Flying Karamzov Brothers..." opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 50 performances |
| 1994 | "Shadow Box" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 49 performances |
| 1994 | Kosmos 2294/2295/2296 launches |
| 1994 | Patti Davis weds Paul Hayeland |
| 1993 | Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed |
| 1993 | Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Robin Romeo |
| 1993 | Winnie Mandela's driver/bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg |
| 1992 | Queen Elizabeth's home Windsor Castle catches fire |
| 1991 | Atlanta Braves Terry Pendleton wins NL MVP |
| 1990 | Oakland's Rickey Henderson wins AL MVP |
| 1990 | Sacramento Kings last NBA win on the road for over a year |
| 1990 | Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership |
| 1990 | U.S. 68th manned space mission STS-38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space |
| 1989 | Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount wins AL MVP |
| 1988 | "Les Miserables," opens a Bus and Truck tour in Tampa |
| 1986 | Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees |
| 1986 | UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS |
| 1985 | New York Yankee Don Mattingly easily wins AL MVP |
| 1984 | McDonald's made its 50 billionth hamburger |
| 1984 | Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1983 | "Marilyn: An American Fable" opens at Minskoff New York City for 16 performances |
| 1983 | 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war |
| 1983 | Cleveland Browns shutout Patriots 30-0 |
| 1983 | New York Giants Butch Woolfolk ties NFL record of 43 attempts rushing |
| 1982 | Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts Saturday Night Live |
| 1981 | Anatoly Karpov, U.S.S.R. retains world chess championship |
| 1981 | Burundia adopts its constitution |
| 1981 | El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "limited offensive" |
| 1981 | Ringo releases "Stop and Smell Roses" album |
| 1980 | Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year for the Oakland A's |
| 1980 | Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight |
| 1980 | UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting |
| 1979 | Sji'ieten occupies great mosque of Mecca, 100s killed |
| 1979 | U.S.'s 1st artificial blood transfusion occurs at University of Minnesota Hospital |
| 1977 | Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset |
| 1977 | Steve Largent begins NFL streak of 177 consecutive game receptions |
| 1977 | Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards |
| 1976 | George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live |
| 1976 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-Hong Kong Golf Open |
| 1975 | Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Republican nomination for president |
| 1974 | Rangers' Jeff Burroughs wins AL MVP |
| 1974 | The U.S. files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T |
| 1971 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1970 | U.N. General Assembly accepts membership of China PR |
| 1969 | Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans |
| 1969 | Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs. Australia Kanpur |
| 1969 | Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal |
| 1969 | San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey edges Tom Seaver as NL MVP |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 | U.S. population reaches 200 million |
| 1967 | At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million |
| 1967 | Mets pitcher Tom Seaver (16-12) is named NL Rookie of Year |
| 1966 | "Cabaret" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 1166 performances |
| 1966 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Success Golf Open |
| 1966 | Dallas sacks Pittsburgh quarterbacks an NFL record 12 times |
| 1966 | Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage |
| 1965 | "Pickwick" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 56 performances |
| 1965 | U.N. Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia |
| 1965 | WCNY TV channel 24 in Syracuse, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th/10th String Quartet premiers in Moscow |
| 1962 | Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, and U.S. lifts blockade |
| 1961 | WPLG TV channel 10 in Miami, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1959 | U.N. adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights |
| 1959 | WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal |
| 1957 | Morton Wishengrad's "Rope Dancers," premieres in New York City |
| 1955 | Kripal Singh scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, India vs. New Zealand |
| 1955 | Polly Umrigar scores India's 1st Test Cricket double century, 223 vs. New Zealand |
| 1954 | KTRK TV channel 13 in Houston, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1,300 MPH) |
| 1952 | Cubs slugger Hank Sauer wins NL MVP |
| 1952 | George Axelrods "7 Year Itch," premieres in New York City |
| 1952 | Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin |
| 1951 | Snowdonia becomes a National Park in Wales |
| 1949 | Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000 |
| 1948 | U.S. balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record) |
| 1947 | "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC |
| 1947 | 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey) |
| 1947 | Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten |
| 1947 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mediator Dei |
| 1947 | U.N. General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps |
| 1946 | Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," premieres in New York City |
| 1945 | 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany |
| 1945 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th Symphony under J Mravinski premieres |
| 1945 | Queen Wilhelmina opens parliament in Hague |
| 1944 | 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines) |
| 1944 | Amsterdam: Vondelpark closed because of kappen of trees |
| 1944 | Prince Bernhard establishes staff in Breda |
| 1943 | U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
| 1943 | U.S. forces land on Tarawa and Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island |
| 1942 | 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski |
| 1942 | British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya |
| 1942 | Hitler names Field Marshal Erich von Manstein becomes commanding |
| 1942 | NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over |
| 1942 | Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines |
| 1941 | Admiral Nomura and Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note |
| 1941 | German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia |
| 1940 | German air raid on Birmingham fails |
| 1940 | Hungary joins 3 Power pact |
| 1938 | 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over U.S. radio (by Father Coughlin) |
| 1934 | Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's home run, Japan beats U.S. 1-0 |
| 1934 | Lillian Hellman's "Children's Hour," premieres in New York City |
| 1934 | New Belgian government of Theunis, Francqui and Gutt (3 bankers) |
| 1934 | Tornoto Maple Leaf Harvey Jackson is 1st to score 4 goals in 1 period |
| 1932 | Earthquake at Uden Netherlands |
| 1931 | Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T) |
| 1929 | 1st broadcast of "Goldbergs" on U.S. radio |
| 1929 | Salvador Dali's 1st one-man show |
| 1928 | Boston Gardens opens, Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0 |
| 1928 | WGH-AM in Newport News Virginia begins radio transmissions |
| 1923 | Garrett Morgan invents and patents traffic signal |
| 1922 | Zoe Akins' "Texas Nightingale," premieres in New York City |
| 1920 | Nobel Peace Prize awarded to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson |
| 1919 | 1st municipally owned airport in U.S. opens (Tucson Az) |
| 1917 | 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines) |
| 1917 | Ukrainian Republic declared |
| 1915 | 7th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Rowing, 13-7 |
| 1914 | U.S. State Department starts requiring photographs for passports |
| 1911 | Gustav Mahlers "Tie Song of the Erde" premieres in Munich |
| 1910 | Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero |
| 1909 | Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game |
| 1906 | George Bernard Shaws "Doctor's Dilemma," premieres in London |
| 1902 | Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race |
| 1901 | Opera "Griselidis" is produced (Paris) |
| 1894 | U.S. intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua |
| 1890 | Pope Leo XIII encyclical On slavery in missions |
| 1889 | Gustav Mahlers 1st Symphony |
| 1888 | William Bundy patents timecard clock |
| 1873 | Rival cities of Buda and Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary |
| 1866 | 1st national convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org) |
| 1866 | Howard University founded (Wash, DC) |
| 1866 | Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle |
| 1865 | Howard University forms in Washington D.C. |
| 1862 | Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee |
| 1862 | Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under General Braxton Bragg |
| 1852 | Charles Reade/Tom Taylor's "Masks and Faces," premieres in London |
| 1833 | Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay |
| 1829 | Jews expelled from Nikolayev and Sevastopol Russia |
| 1817 | 1st Seminole War begins in Florida |
| 1815 | 2nd Peace of Paris: France and allies |
| 1815 | Russia, Prussia, Austria and England signs Great Alliance |
| 1805 | Beethoven's "Fidelio," premieres in Vienna |
| 1795 | Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday |
| 1789 | New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights |
| 1780 | Britain declares war on Holland |
| 1759 | Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French |
| 1755 | English minister William Pitt Sr resigns |
| 1719 | Sweden and Hannover sign peace Treaty of Stockholm |
| 1637 | Peter Minuit and 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden |
| 1616 | Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War |
| 1583 | Duke of Parma conquerors Aalst |
| 1521 | Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine |
| 1520 | Friesland hit by heavy hail storm |
| 1431 | 1st meeting of Order of Guilder Flies |
| 1347 | Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo beats nobles |
| 1342 | Pope Clemens VI names John IV of Arkel as bishop of Utrecht |
| 1272 | Edward I proclaimed King of England |
| 1168 | Giovanni di Struma elected anti-Pope |
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