| 2008 | Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States |
| 2008 | Joe Biden is elected the 47th Vice President of the United States |
| 2001 | World Series, Arizona Diamondbacks beat New York Yankees 4 games to 3 |
| 1995 | "Indiscretions" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater New York City after 221 performances |
| 1995 | 1st-class Cricket debut of Paul Adams, W Province vs. N Transvaal |
| 1995 | Key Arena opens, Seattle Supersonics beat Los Angeles Lakers 103-89 |
| 1994 | Soyuz TM-20 lands in Kazahkstan |
| 1994 | United Center in Chicago opens - Bulls beat Charlotte Hornets, 89-83 |
| 1993 | "Timon of Athens" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 37 performances |
| 1993 | Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror false report his diet |
| 1993 | Nia Peeples files for divorce from Howard Hewett |
| 1992 | New York Giants announce they will quit WNEW Radio after 32 years for WOR |
| 1992 | New York Jets announce they are moving from WABC to WFAN radio |
| 1991 | Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain |
| 1990 | "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" opens at Shubert New York City for 225 performances |
| 1990 | 20th New York City Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil in 2:30:45 |
| 1990 | 21st New York City Marathon won by Douglas Wakiihuri in 2:12:39 |
| 1990 | Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mazda Japan 133 Golf Classic |
| 1990 | Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war" |
| 1990 | Secretary of State James Baker visits U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia |
| 1989 | Orlando Magic's 1st NBA game, loses to Nets, 111-106 |
| 1989 | Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon |
| 1989 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence |
| 1988 | 1st NBA game at Charlotte Coliseum - Hornets lose to Cavs, 133-93 |
| 1987 | Benito Santiago, Padres catcher, wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1987 | Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel |
| 1987 | NBA announces 4 new franchises; Charlotte and Miami for 1988 and Minneapolis and Orlando for 1989 |
| 1984 | Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| 1984 | Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63% |
| 1983 | Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed |
| 1983 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime victory beating Vancouver 5-4 |
| 1982 | Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch premier |
| 1981 | Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart," premieres in New York City |
| 1981 | Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 seconds remaining |
| 1981 | Dr. George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley |
| 1980 | Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) |
| 1980 | Libyan invasion in Chad |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan (R) defeats President Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide |
| 1980 | Sadaharu Oh, 40, pro baseball's all-time home run run king with 868, retires |
| 1980 | Steve Carlton wins 3rd NL Cy Young Awards |
| 1979 | 500 Iranian "students" seize U.S. embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days) |
| 1978 | Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U |
| 1978 | Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | 3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, and Darrell Evans, available |
| 1977 | U.N. Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa |
| 1976 | 1st mass-market free-agent reentry draft, Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Gullett, Tenace, Fingers, Baylor, Grich and McCovey, available |
| 1975 | Orioles Jim Palmer wins his 2nd Cy Young Award |
| 1973 | 1000s commemorates former premier Georgios Papandreou |
| 1973 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic |
| 1973 | M. Medoff's "When you Comin' Back, Red Ryder?," premieres in New York City |
| 1973 | New Orleans Saints 1st shutout victory, 13-0 vs Buffalo Bills |
| 1972 | Bangladesh adopts constitution |
| 1972 | Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders |
| 1970 | Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee |
| 1968 | Battles between Jordan army and Al Fatah-arm forces |
| 1968 | WRDU (now WPTF) TV chan 28 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1968 | WTOG TV channel 44 in St. Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1966 | Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113 |
| 1965 | Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah |
| 1963 | John Lennon utters his infamous "Rattle your jewelry" line |
| 1962 | Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| 1961 | Karamanlis becomes premier of Greece |
| 1960 | "Misfits" premieres, final movie for Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe |
| 1959 | Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins 2nd consecutive NL MVP |
| 1958 | Angelo G. Roncalli crowned as pope John XXIII |
| 1958 | Belgian government of Eyskens, resigns |
| 1958 | Democrats win U.S. congressional election |
| 1957 | 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched |
| 1956 | 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest |
| 1956 | Israel captures Straits of Tiran and reach Suez Canal Egypt |
| 1956 | U.S.S.R. sends tanks into Hungary and threatens to bomb Budapest |
| 1954 | "Fanny" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 888 performances |
| 1954 | Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City |
| 1953 | Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Philadelphia A's |
| 1953 | New balk rule gives the batter option; of accepting the outcome of the pitch or the balk |
| 1952 | Earthquake and flood strike Kamshatka-South America |
| 1952 | Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D) |
| 1951 | 9th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 9 -2 at Pinehurst CC NC |
| 1951 | New York Giants and New York Yankees score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns |
| 1951 | Vijay Merchant scores 154 vs. England in his last Test Cricket innings |
| 1950 | "Barrier" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1950 | "Consul" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 269 performances |
| 1950 | Indonesian troops reconquer Ambonese capital Ambon |
| 1950 | U.S. troops vacate Pyongyang North Korea |
| 1949 | "One Man's Family" premieres on TV |
| 1948 | T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature |
| 1946 | "Park Avenue" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 72 performances |
| 1946 | U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization formed |
| 1944 | German troops reconquer Schmidt Hurtgenwald |
| 1944 | RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed |
| 1943 | France arrests government of Lebanon |
| 1942 | 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afr corps draws back out Fuka-posing |
| 1940 | Eggs and cake rationed in Netherlands |
| 1939 | 1940 Olympics awarded to Helsinki, Finland |
| 1939 | 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill |
| 1939 | U.S. allows "cash and carry" arms sales during WW II |
| 1934 | Pitts ends Detroit Lions' shutout streak at 7 games but loses 40-7 |
| 1933 | Bradman scores 200 NSW vs. Queensland, 184 minutes, 26 fours |
| 1933 | Hermann Goering and Georgi Dimitrov duel |
| 1933 | Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young |
| 1931 | Jean Genet's "Judith," premieres in Paris |
| 1929 | John Baldridge' "Berkeley Square," premieres in New York City |
| 1928 | Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua |
| 1924 | British Labour government of MacDonald, resigns |
| 1924 | California legalizes pro boxing (illegal since 1914) |
| 1924 | Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st U.S. female Governor (Wyoming) |
| 1924 | U.S. president Calvin Coolidge re-elected |
| 1922 | Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt |
| 1918 | Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors |
| 1914 | Russia declares Turkey the war |
| 1914 | Vogue holds 1st model show ("Fashion Fete," New York City) |
| 1911 | Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma |
| 1911 | France and Germany signs treaty about Morocco and Congo |
| 1910 | Start of South Africa's 1st F-C game in Australia (vs. South Australia) It rained |
| 1909 | Opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" is produced (Munich) |
| 1908 | Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens in New York City |
| 1905 | Harbor strike against importing grain elevators in Rotterdam |
| 1904 | 1st stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium) |
| 1901 | Clyde Fitch' "Way of the World," premieres in New York City |
| 1893 | Dr. Jamesons Legertje occupies Bulawayo Matabeleland |
| 1890 | Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate |
| 1890 | Prince of Wales opens 1st underground (Station Stockwell, London) |
| 1890 | St. Aleksandr Borodons opera "Prins Igor," premieres in Petersburg |
| 1889 | Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's NL |
| 1886 | Edward MacDowell's "Ophelia," premieres |
| 1884 | Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for 1st President term |
| 1880 | 1st cash register patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton Ohio |
| 1879 | Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus |
| 1879 | James Ritty patents 1st cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon |
| 1876 | John Brahms' 1st Symphony in C, premieres |
| 1875 | "Pacific" collides with "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 dies |
| 1875 | Tonga adopts constitution |
| 1874 | Samuel J. Tilden elected governor of New York |
| 1873 | Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents gold crown |
| 1867 | 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall |
| 1866 | Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia |
| 1864 | Confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee |
| 1864 | Naval Engagement at Reynoldsburg Island |
| 1862 | Richard Gatling patents Gatling gun |
| 1861 | University of Washington founded in Seattle |
| 1856 | James Buchanan elected U.S. president |
| 1854 | Lighthouse forms on Alcatraz Island |
| 1846 | Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg |
| 1845 | 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US |
| 1842 | Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois |
| 1841 | 1st wagon train arrives in California |
| 1771 | Carlo Goldoni's "Le Bourru Bienfaisant," premieres in Paris |
| 1675 | Storm hits about West-Europe: flood in Amsterdam |
| 1646 | Mass uses death penalty for denying that Saint Copybook is God's word |
| 1645 | Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Holly |
| 1631 | Ferdinand of Austria installed as land guardian of S Netherlands |
| 1619 | Frederik V crowned king of Bohemia |
| 1576 | Spanish defeat Walloons and take Antwerp Belgium |
| 1529 | English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested |
| 1520 | Danish/Norwegian king Christian II crowned king of Sweden |
| 1519 | Flood ravages Dutch/Friese coast |
| 1501 | Philip de Blank and Juana "la Loca" depart to Spain |
| 922 | Richarius becomes bishop of Luik |
