| 2012 | A dense fog near Beaumont, Texas, causes a a 100-vehicle pileup , leaving 120 people injured and 2 killed; the incident forced the Interstate 10 in Southeast Texas to close in both directions |
| 2012 | Russia lifts a ban imposed in 1996 on the import of British beef and lamb; the ban, imposed when Britain suffered from mad cow disease (BSE) had been lifted worldwide in 2006 |
| 2011 | Scientists in New Britain discover the first orchid known to flower at night, Bulbophyllum nocturnum, over the cost of Papua New Guinea |
| 2011 | Lynn Margulis, an American evolutionary biologist, dies at age 73 |
| 2010 | Germany holds its first pirate trial in 400 years, placing ten SomaliaÕs on trial for attacking a German ship |
| 2010 | A stampede occurs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, during the Khmer Water Festival celebrations, killing at least 339 people |
| 2005 | XBox 360 video game is released by Microsoft |
| 2005 | Ted Koppel's last show as host of Nightline |
| 1998 | ITT LPGA Tour Championship |
| 1996 | O. J. Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true" |
| 1995 | Rosemary West, found guilty in England, of killing 10 women |
| 1993 | "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" opens at Richard Rodgers New York City for 320 perf |
| 1992 | Sandra Volker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.57 sec) |
| 1992 | Washington Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women |
| 1991 | New York Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for 2 yr extension |
| 1990 | George Bush visits U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia |
| 1990 | Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister |
| 1990 | Dr. Amos Sawyer installed as interim President of Liberia |
| 1989 | Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World |
| 1989 | Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Moon |
| 1989 | Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins contract |
| 1989 | U.S. 63rd manned space mission STS-33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit |
| 1989 | Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired |
| 1987 | Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0 |
| 1986 | Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick in 2 for heavyweight WBC boxing title |
| 1986 | Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| 1985 | Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-61-C |
| 1985 | Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become U.S. citizens |
| 1985 | PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election |
| 1984 | Fred Rogers of PBS' "Mr Rogers? Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution |
| 1982 | Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas |
| 1981 | "Marlowe" closes at Rialto Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| 1981 | 69th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-23 |
| 1981 | Browns' quarterback Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times |
| 1981 | San Diego Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21) |
| 1981 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1980 | Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak |
| 1977 | Regular Concorde passenger service between New York and Europe begins |
| 1976 | Algeria Constitution goes into effect |
| 1976 | Comic strip "Cathy," by Cathy Guisewhite, debuts |
| 1975 | Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain |
| 1974 | Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge and Viv Richards, at Bangalore |
| 1974 | U.N. General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty |
| 1972 | Belgium government of Eyskens resigns |
| 1972 | Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak |
| 1972 | Pitts Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2:07) |
| 1972 | U.S. ends 22 year travel ban to China |
| 1971 | "Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 144 performances |
| 1969 | Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard |
| 1968 | 1st interracial TV kiss, Star Trek-Kirk and Uhura |
| 1968 | Beatles release "Beatles," (White Album) their only double album |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 | BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles |
| 1967 | Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York |
| 1967 | U.N. Sec council passes resolution 242 - Israel must give back occupied land |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1966 | 32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (quarterback) |
| 1965 | "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Washington Square Theater New York City for 2329 performances |
| 1965 | Bob Dylan weds Sara Lowndes |
| 1965 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Floyd Patterson in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1964 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational |
| 1964 | WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1963 | Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in UK |
| 1963 | Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th U.S. president |
| 1961 | Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues |
| 1961 | St. Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws |
| 1961 | Producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star |
| 1960 | French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons |
| 1959 | AFL's 1st draft - New York Titans choice George Izo, quarterback, Notre Dame |
| 1959 | Boston Patriots enters AFL |
| 1957 | Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP |
| 1957 | Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY |
| 1957 | Simon and Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom and Jerry" |
| 1956 | 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne |
| 1956 | Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games |
| 1955 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1955 | RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records and Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss |
| 1954 | Humane Society forms |
| 1952 | A's Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year |
| 1950 | 7,021 see lowest NBA score, Ft. Wayne Pistons 19, Minneapolis Lakers 18 |
| 1950 | 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY |
| 1945 | "Day before Spring" opens at National Theater New York City for 167 performances |
| 1945 | Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record) |
| 1944 | Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen |
| 1943 | FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan |
| 1943 | Lebanon declares independence from French administration |
| 1943 | RAF begins air bombing of Berlin |
| 1943 | U.S. troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island |
| 1942 | General-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov |
| 1942 | Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man |
| 1941 | British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis |
| 1941 | New Zealand troops conquer Ft. Capuzzo Libya |
| 1940 | 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis |
| 1936 | 19th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pinehurst CC Pinehurst NC |
| 1935 | China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight |
| 1934 | "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show |
| 1932 | Pump patented that computes quantity and price delivered |
| 1931 | Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite," premieres |
| 1930 | 1st Irish Sweepstake run |
| 1930 | 1st U.S. football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0) |
| 1930 | Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit |
| 1929 | Bradman scores 157 for NSW against the MCC at cricket SCG |
| 1928 | "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly (Paris) |
| 1927 | 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc) |
| 1927 | George Gershwin's "Funny Face," premieres in New York City |
| 1927 | Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St. New York City |
| 1926 | Imperial Conference ends-giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth |
| 1925 | Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college |
| 1924 | England orders Egyptians out of Sudan |
| 1923 | Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death |
| 1922 | British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader |
| 1922 | Library Ave in Bronx named |
| 1922 | Wilhelm Cuno forms new German government |
| 1919 | 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam |
| 1919 | Labor conference committee in U.S. urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week |
| 1918 | Bathe: grand duke Frederik II resigns |
| 1918 | King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels |
| 1918 | Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland |
| 1918 | Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov) |
| 1917 | NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands |
| 1914 | Ypres Belgium burned by German bombing |
| 1910 | Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs |
| 1908 | 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0 |
| 1906 | International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help |
| 1905 | British, Italian, Russisan, French and Austria-Hungary fleet attack Lesbos |
| 1899 | Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army) |
| 1898 | Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome) |
| 1886 | Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia |
| 1884 | T Thomas Fortune starts New York Freeman (New York Age) newspaper |
| 1872 | Franz Grillparzer's "Die Judin von Toledo," premieres in Prague |
| 1864 | Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties |
| 1864 | Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death |
| 1861 | Battle of Ft. McRee, FL |
| 1851 | Opera "La Perle Du Bresil" is produced (Paris) |
| 1842 | Mount St. Helens in Washington, erupts |
| 1831 | Opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris) |
| 1809 | Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen |
| 1794 | Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision and wearing of beards |
| 1714 | King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden |
| 1707 | Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Friesland |
| 1699 | Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden |
| 1683 | Purcells "Welcome to All the Pleasures," premieres in London |
| 1675 | English king Charles II adjourns parliament |
| 1542 | Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America |
| 1497 | Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope |
| 1346 | Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements |
| 1221 | Frederik II Hohenstaufen crowned Roman-German Emperor |
| 498 | St. Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing Anastasius II |
| 365 | [Felix II] ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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