| 2009 | President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, urges his armed forces to prepare for a possible war with Columbia |
| 1997 | "Cherry Orchard," closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City |
| 1997 | "Scarlet Pimpernel," opens at Minskoff Theater New York City |
| 1997 | Energizer Senior Golf Tour Championship |
| 1997 | Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup |
| 1997 | Toray Japan Queens Cup |
| 1995 | "Danny Gans on Broadway" opens at Neil Simon Theater New York City |
| 1994 | Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka |
| 1993 | "Cinderella" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 14 performances |
| 1993 | Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died |
| 1992 | Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcast in Las Vegas Nevada on KFBI |
| 1992 | Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for "Texaco" |
| 1991 | Houston's Roman Anderson is 1st NCAA to kick 400 pts |
| 1990 | Tanzania government of Malecela forms |
| 1989 | East Berlin opens its borders |
| 1988 | "Prince of Central Park" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| 1988 | MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7) |
| 1986 | Ai-Yu Tu wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| 1986 | Pakistan all out for 77 vs. West Indies at Lahore |
| 1985 | "News" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1985 | Gary Kasparov becomes world chess champion |
| 1985 | Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 vs. Australia at the Gabba |
| 1985 | Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed |
| 1984 | 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B vs. N Tvl B |
| 1984 | Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1984 | Most shots in an Islander game-88-Isles 45, Rangers 43 |
| 1984 | Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed |
| 1983 | Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped |
| 1983 | Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center |
| 1982 | Brewers' Robin Yount wins AL MVP, unanimously |
| 1982 | Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time |
| 1980 | Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran |
| 1980 | Tatsuko Ohsako wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| 1978 | NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions |
| 1977 | Reds' George Foster wins NL MVP |
| 1976 | Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career |
| 1976 | U.N. General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa |
| 1973 | Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 and injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan) |
| 1973 | Government De Uyl decides Palestijnse fugitives to support |
| 1973 | Ringo releases "Ringo" album |
| 1972 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1971 | David Storey's "Changing Room," premieres in London |
| 1971 | John List kills family and moves to Colorado |
| 1970 | Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins |
| 1968 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1967 | 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module |
| 1967 | Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon |
| 1966 | "Let's Sing Yiddish" opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 107 performances |
| 1966 | Oakland Coliseum Arena opens |
| 1966 | John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at a London art gallery |
| 1965 | 1st New York Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St. Louis |
| 1965 | 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, and Ontario (New York blackout) |
| 1965 | Hurricane hits north east US/Canada |
| 1965 | Willie Mays named NL MVP |
| 1964 | "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" opens at John Golden New York City for 192 performances |
| 1964 | Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan |
| 1963 | "Tovarich" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 264 performances |
| 1963 | 2 high-speed commuter trains collided with a derailed freight train |
| 1963 | 450 die in a coal-dust explosion and 160 die in train crash (Japan) |
| 1962 | Dutch Catharina Lodders elected Miss World |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | PGA eliminates caucasians only rule |
| 1961 | Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon," premieres in New York City |
| 1961 | USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m |
| 1956 | Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St. Louis, to become NWA champ |
| 1955 | Michael Gazzo's "Hatful of Rain," premieres in New York City |
| 1955 | New Zealand all out for 70 vs. Pakistan at Dacca |
| 1955 | U.N. disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics |
| 1953 | Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union |
| 1953 | KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, Montana (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws |
| 1950 | Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1950 | Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year |
| 1950 | White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930 |
| 1949 | Costa Rica adopts Constitution |
| 1946 | President Truman ends wage/price freeze |
| 1944 | Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize |
| 1944 | Walcheren of nazi troops purged |
| 1942 | German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier |
| 1942 | Transport nr 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1941 | Hitler threatens bishop Clemens earl von Galen of Munster |
| 1940 | Germany invades Norway and Denmark in WW II |
| 1939 | "Ninotchka," with Greta Garbo premieres |
| 1939 | Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest Lawrence for the cyclotron |
| 1939 | Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents |
| 1938 | Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day |
| 1938 | Crystal Night - Germans break windows owned by Jews |
| 1937 | Japans army conquers Shanghai |
| 1937 | St. Louis Cardinals Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP |
| 1936 | Albanian government of Frasheri falls |
| 1935 | Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms |
| 1935 | Japan invades Shanghai China |
| 1932 | Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500 |
| 1930 | 1st nonstop airplane flight from New York to Panama |
| 1927 | Giant Panda discovered, China |
| 1927 | Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars/motors |
| 1925 | German NSDAP form SS |
| 1924 | Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas) |
| 1923 | Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees |
| 1921 | Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini |
| 1918 | Bavaria proclaims itself a republic |
| 1918 | Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I |
| 1918 | Republic Germany proclaimed |
| 1915 | Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272 |
| 1913 | Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes |
| 1912 | Ferenc Moln rs "Farkas," premieres in Budapest |
| 1907 | Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Edmonton Exhibition Grounds |
| 1906 | T. Roosevelt is 1st President to visit other countries (P Rico and Panama) |
| 1905 | Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages |
| 1904 | 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes |
| 1899 | Boerenaanval up Ladysmith, Natal, attack |
| 1885 | Opera "Ermine," premieres in London |
| 1877 | American Chemical Society chartered in New York |
| 1872 | Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston |
| 1864 | 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country |
| 1864 | Sherman issues preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea" |
| 1862 | U.S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him |
| 1861 | 1st documented Canadian football game (at University of Toronto) |
| 1858 | 1st performance of New York Symphony Orchestra |
| 1857 | Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published |
| 1854 | Franz Liszt's "Fest-Long," premieres |
| 1853 | Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun |
| 1848 | Post office at Clay and Pike opens |
| 1821 | 1st U.S. pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia |
| 1799 | Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France |
| 1794 | Russian troops occupy Warsaw |
| 1729 | Spain, France and England signs Treaty of Seville |
| 1720 | Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire |
| 1681 | Hungarian parliament promises protestants freedom of religion |
| 1673 | British king Charles II fires earl of Shaftesbury |
| 1580 | Spanish troops lands in Ireland |
| 1569 | Catholic uprising under Northumberland and Westmoreland |
| 1541 | Queen Catharine Howard confined in London Tower |
| 1526 | Jews are expelled from Pressburg Hungary by Maria of Hapsburg |
| 1520 | Swedish King Christian II executes 600 nobles |
| 1494 | Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence |
| 1492 | Peace of Etaples (Henry VII and Charles VIII) |
| 1282 | Pope Martinus IV excommunicates king Pedro III of Aragonorth |
| 694 | Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems/sentenced to slavery |
