| 2012 | In Oklahoma, airport workers discover a painted golden object with a hole in the bottom in the luggage of musician Wayne Coyne; they mistake the object for a live grenade and shut down the Will Rogers World Airport |
| 2012 | For the second time in four months, New Zealand's Mount Tongariro volano erupts; the volcano is located on the country's North Island |
| 2011 | In Cambodia, the three most senior surviving members of the Khmer Rouge regime are charged with genocide and crimes against humanity |
| 2011 | More sanctions are imposed against Iran's nuclear program by the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom |
| 2010 | President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects Iran's successful family planning program and urges young Iranian girls to marry at age 16 |
| 2010 | Jimmy Johnson becomes the first driver ever to win five straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championships |
| 2004 | Ukraine re-elects Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. but the election results were thrown out after large protests about the way the election was conducted |
| 1996 | "Rehearsal" opens at Criterion Theater New York City |
| 1995 | Dow Jones closes above 5,000 for 1st time |
| 1995 | Israel grants jailed U.S. spy Jason Pollard, citizenship |
| 1995 | New double Beatle CD released with new song "Free as a Bird" |
| 1994 | 1st-class cricket debut of Andrew Symonds (Queensland vs. NSW, SCG) |
| 1993 | "Cinderella" closes at New York State Theater New York City after 14 performances |
| 1993 | "Cyrano - The Musical" opens at Neil Simon Theater New York City for 137 performances |
| 1993 | Neo-fascists MSI win 36% of municipal elections in Rome |
| 1992 | Jan Karlsson swims world record 50m butterfly (23.80 sec) |
| 1992 | Jani Sievinen swims world record 100m medley (53.78 sec) |
| 1992 | Louise Karlsson swims world record 50m freestyle (31.19 sec) |
| 1992 | Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson |
| 1991 | Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela arrested in Cuba |
| 1990 | Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations |
| 1989 | Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush |
| 1989 | TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons |
| 1987 | Actress Demi Moore marries actor Bruce Willis |
| 1987 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Epitome, Ferdinand, Miesque, Sacahuista, Success Express, Theatrica, Very Subtle at Hollywood |
| 1986 | Central African Republic adopts constitution |
| 1986 | Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village |
| 1983 | "Doonesbury" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 104 performances |
| 1983 | New York Ranger Ron Greschner marries model Carol Alt |
| 1981 | 400,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against cruise missiles |
| 1981 | Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 and stays for 10 weeks |
| 1980 | Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill) |
| 1980 | Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84 |
| 1980 | Gene Michael named 25th Yank mgr, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns |
| 1980 | It is revealed Kristen shot J.R. Ewing on "Dallas" |
| 1980 | John and Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum |
| 1980 | MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas in fire; 84 die |
| 1979 | Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack U.S. embassy, 1 dies |
| 1978 | Bob Horner of Braves wins NL Rookie of Year Award |
| 1977 | 1st flight of Concorde, London to New York |
| 1977 | Orioles 1st baseman Eddie Murray wins AL Rookie of Year |
| 1975 | Linda McCartney drug charges in U.S. are dropped |
| 1974 | Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto |
| 1973 | Pete Rose wins NL MVP |
| 1973 | President Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18 minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate |
| 1972 | Red Sox Carlton Fisk wins AL Rookie of Year, Mets Jon Matlack wins NL |
| 1971 | New York Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period |
| 1971 | Richard Baker becomes teacher of San Francisco Zen Center |
| 1970 | New York Knicks 1st game against Cleveland Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at MSG |
| 1969 | KXIX (now KVCT) TV channel 19 in Victoria, Texas (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1969 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1968 | Cincinnati trades shortstop Leo Cardenas to Twins for pitcher Jim Merritt |
| 1968 | Supremes and Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" |
| 1968 | Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage |
| 1967 | Phillip and Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet |
| 1966 | Dutch government of Zijlstra forms |
| 1965 | 1st freighter arrives in Ashdod Port Israel |
| 1965 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1964 | "Something More!" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 15 performances |
| 1964 | "Zizi" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 49 performances |
| 1964 | Pope Paul VI signs 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council |
| 1964 | World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (New York City) |
| 1963 | John F. Kennedy flies to Texas |
| 1960 | Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down |
| 1959 | Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet |
| 1956 | Don Newcombe, wins NL MVP and 1st-ever Cy Young Award |
| 1955 | Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Peron |
| 1955 | KTVO TV channel 3 in Ottumwa-Kirksville, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax |
| 1953 | WKJG TV channel 33 in Ft. Wayne, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | 1st U.S. postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced |
| 1952 | Dodgers pitcher Joe Black wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1949 | Bill Veeck sells Indians for $22 million |
| 1947 | Bill Longson beats Lou Thesz in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ |
| 1946 | Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria |
| 1946 | Harry Truman becomes 1st U.S. president to travel in a submerged sub |
| 1945 | Benjamin Britten's 2nd String quartet in C, premieres |
| 1945 | General Motors workers go on strike |
| 1944 | Personnel and executive staff of Philips demonstrate for more food |
| 1943 | 7 Belgian ministers in London sentence King Leopold III |
| 1942 | Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in "Tale of Two Kitties" |
| 1940 | Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands |
| 1938 | Belgian king Leopold III visits Netherlands |
| 1938 | Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia and declared them German citizens |
| 1937 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 5th Symphony premieres in Lenningrad |
| 1935 | 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper) |
| 1935 | Jean Giraudoux' "La Guerre de Troie n'Aura," premieres in Paris |
| 1934 | "Uiver" returns from Schiphol in London-Melbourne air race |
| 1934 | New York Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League) |
| 1933 | 1st U.S. ambassador to U.S.S.R., W.C. Bullitt, begins service |
| 1925 | Red Grange plays final University of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears |
| 1924 | British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with U.S.S.R. |
| 1922 | Rebecca L. Felton sworn in as 1st female U.S. Senator |
| 1920 | Karel Capek's "Vec Makropulos," premieres in Prague |
| 1920 | Mussolini's squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna Italy |
| 1918 | 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die |
| 1918 | Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland |
| 1917 | M Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer |
| 1914 | Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game |
| 1914 | British army conquerors Bazra |
| 1906 | China prohibits opium trade |
| 1905 | 1st game ever played in the Australian Tennis Open |
| 1902 | 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0 |
| 1902 | Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League |
| 1901 | Richard Strauss' opera "Feuersnot," premieres in Dresden |
| 1895 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" |
| 1880 | Henry Stanley and Pierre de Brazza quarrel about possession of Congo |
| 1877 | Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph) |
| 1876 | Skirmish between HM Stanley's expedition and natives |
| 1871 | Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter (New York City) |
| 1871 | The 1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot |
| 1865 | Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC |
| 1852 | Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College |
| 1849 | Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna |
| 1848 | Alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris |
| 1848 | Cincinnati Turngemeinde founded |
| 1847 | Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200 |
| 1837 | Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times |
| 1834 | HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile |
| 1824 | 1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC |
| 1818 | Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine |
| 1813 | Stettin surrenders to allied armies |
| 1806 | Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England |
| 1794 | Honolulu Harbor discovered |
| 1789 | North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th U.S. state |
| 1787 | Andrew Jackson admitted to bar |
| 1783 | Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight |
| 1759 | Battle at Maxen: Prussian army surrenders to Austrians |
| 1729 | Netherlands signs Treaty of Seville |
| 1696 | J Vanbrughes "Relapse or Virtue in Danger," premieres in London |
| 1654 | Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia |
| 1620 | Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass |
| 1620 | Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod |
| 1492 | Pinta under Martin A Pinzon separates from Columbus' fleet |
| 1317 | Frederik of Sierck/Zyrick becomes bishop of Utrecht |
| 695 | Pope Sergius names Willibrord as archbishop Clemens of Friezen |
| 496 | St. Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 235 | St. Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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