| 1997 | Lions' Barry Sanders becomes NFL's 2nd all-time rusher |
| 1994 | 82nd CFL Grey Cup: British Columbia Lions defeat Baltimore Stallions, 26-23 |
| 1994 | Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed |
| 1994 | Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay |
| 1993 | Boon completes his 18th Test Cricket century (106 vs. New Zealand, Hobart) |
| 1993 | India defeat West Indies in Bengal Jubilee Cricket Final, Kumble 6-12 |
| 1993 | Lisa Hanna, 18, of Jamaica, crowned 43rd Miss World |
| 1992 | Howard Stern Interview premieres on E! Network |
| 1992 | Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire |
| 1991 | "Peter Pan" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| 1991 | Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba) |
| 1991 | Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ |
| 1990 | Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher |
| 1989 | Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107 |
| 1989 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1989 | George Harrison releases "Cheer Down" and "Poor Little Girl" |
| 1989 | Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay |
| 1989 | U.S. 63rd manned space mission STS-33 (Discovery 9) returns from space |
| 1988 | 76th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats BC Lions, 22-21 |
| 1987 | "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney |
| 1987 | Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England |
| 1985 | Cards Vince Coleman wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1985 | Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland |
| 1983 | 71st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats BC Lions, 18-17 |
| 1983 | Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 185 |
| 1983 | Desmond Haynes out handled the ball vs. India |
| 1982 | 5th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 3-0 |
| 1982 | Kepler Wessels scores century in 1st Test Cricket (162 vs. England) |
| 1980 | Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched |
| 1979 | 1st day-night one-day cricket international, Australia vs. WI at SCG |
| 1978 | Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 183 |
| 1977 | "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Imperial New York after 66 perf |
| 1977 | 65th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 41-6 |
| 1976 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Colgate-Far East Golf Championship |
| 1976 | Miss Teenage America Pageant |
| 1975 | Red Sox's Fred Lynn is 1st rookie to win MVP (AL) |
| 1974 | Cardinals outfielder Bake McBride wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1973 | Gary Matthews wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1973 | Neil Simon's "Good Doctor," premieres in New York City |
| 1973 | Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as Vice President |
| 1972 | Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government |
| 1972 | Yankees trade Ellis, Torres and Spikes to Indians for Nettles and Moses |
| 1971 | Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars |
| 1970 | Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year |
| 1970 | George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass" |
| 1970 | Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest |
| 1970 | Test Cricket debut of Rodney "Iron Gloves" Marsh vs. England, Brisbane |
| 1967 | Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour" |
| 1967 | Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price |
| 1966 | In highest-scoring NFL game, Washington Redskins defeat New York Giants 72-41 |
| 1966 | Uruguay adopts constitution |
| 1965 | 15,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington D.C. |
| 1965 | 1st French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space |
| 1965 | 53rd CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winn Blue Bombers, 22-16 |
| 1962 | 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place |
| 1962 | Sumner Arthur Long's "Never Too Late," premieres in New York City |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games |
| 1961 | KHAW TV channel 11 in Hilo, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel" |
| 1960 | Dr. Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast |
| 1960 | Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points |
| 1960 | Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo |
| 1960 | Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38 |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany |
| 1957 | Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration |
| 1956 | F Goodrich and A Hackett's "Diary of Anne Frank," premieres in Netherlands |
| 1954 | "By the Beautiful Sea" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 270 performances |
| 1954 | 42nd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 26-25 |
| 1953 | Indians 3rd baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named AL's MVP |
| 1952 | KTBC TV channel 7 in Austin, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | 1st missle to intercept an airplane, White Sands, New Mexico |
| 1951 | Cease-fire and demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon Korea |
| 1950 | Red Sox sign shortstop Lou Boudreau as a player to 2-year contract |
| 1950 | Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague |
| 1948 | 36th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 12-7 |
| 1948 | Honda 1st opens in America |
| 1947 | Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote |
| 1946 | English soccer team beats Netherlands, 8-2 |
| 1945 | General George C. Marshall named special U.S. envoy to China |
| 1945 | Hannie Buy buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina |
| 1945 | Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins |
| 1945 | Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina |
| 1944 | 3,500-40,00 ton explosive, explodes in Staffordshire, 68 killed |
| 1944 | U.S. 121st Infantry regiment opens assault on Hurtgen |
| 1943 | 31st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Flying Wildcats defeat Winn Bombers, 23-14 |
| 1943 | Conference of Teheran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin) |
| 1942 | Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ |
| 1942 | French Navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them |
| 1942 | Tito appoints Anti fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia |
| 1941 | British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk |
| 1941 | Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP |
| 1941 | U.S.S.R. begins a counter offensive causes Germany to retreat |
| 1940 | 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan (HB) |
| 1940 | Nazis signs Technical Hague court Delft |
| 1939 | Maxwell Anderson's "Key Largo," premieres in New York City |
| 1937 | Pro-labor musical revue "Pins and Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU |
| 1932 | Poland and U.S.S.R. signs non-attack treaty |
| 1931 | 1st Test Cricket match at the Gabba Bradman scores 200 on 1st day |
| 1926 | 110,000 watch Army and Navy play a 21-all tie |
| 1926 | Bela Bartoks ballet "Miraculous Mandarin," premieres in Keulen |
| 1926 | Italian and Albania sign peace treaty |
| 1926 | KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions |
| 1926 | Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins |
| 1925 | German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno |
| 1924 | 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA and Polytechnic tie 7-7) |
| 1919 | Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies and Bulgaria |
| 1914 | 1st women elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire UK) |
| 1912 | Albanian National Flag adopted |
| 1912 | Spanish protectorate in Morocco forms |
| 1911 | Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US |
| 1910 | New Yorks's Penn Station opens as world's largest train station |
| 1903 | Opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich) |
| 1901 | Army War College forms in Washington D.C. |
| 1901 | Gerhart Hauptmanns "Der rote Hahn," premieres in Berlin |
| 1898 | Side-wheeler "Portland" sinks off Cape Cod, 190 die |
| 1896 | "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) debuts in Frankfurt |
| 1895 | Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize |
| 1890 | 1st signal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation |
| 1889 | 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady) |
| 1889 | Hermann Sudermann's "Ehre," premieres in Berlin |
| 1877 | Burkina adopts its constitution |
| 1870 | New York Times dubs baseball "The National Game" |
| 1868 | Battle at Washita, General Custer defeats Cheyennes |
| 1864 | 2nd day of Battles at Waynesboro, Georgia |
| 1863 | Battle at Fort Esperanza Texas |
| 1863 | Battle of Payne's Farm, VA |
| 1843 | Opera "Bohemian Girl" is produced (London) |
| 1839 | American Statistical Association organizes in Boston |
| 1826 | John Walker invents friction match in England |
| 1817 | U.S. soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War |
| 1815 | Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic |
| 1798 | Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St. Peterburg jail |
| 1587 | Dutch County Groningen flood by dike break |
| 1582 | William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway |
| 1495 | Scottish king James IV receives bedrieger Perkin Warbeck |
| 1382 | Battle of Westrozebeke (French army beats Flemings-1,000s die) |
| 1237 | Battle of Cortenuova: Emperor Frederik II vs Lombardische steden |
| 1095 | Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade |
| 399 | St. Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
