| 2012 | In the U.S., President Obama nominates John R. Allen as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), with General Joseph Dunford positioned to succeed Allen in his previous post of commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan |
| 2012 | Pope Benedict XVI adds Arabic to the number of languages broadcasting the weekly Vatican address |
| 2011 | For appearing in a film critical of the Iran's harsh policies on the arts, actress Marzieh Vafamehr is sentenced to 90 lashes of the cane and a year in jail |
| 2011 | Two South African farm workers begin trial for murdering white supremacist Eugene Terre'Blanche |
| 2010 | Hanoi, Vietnam's capital, celebrates its 1,000-year birthday |
| 2010 | The works of thirty celebrated Iranian artists go on sale at Bonhams auction house in Dubai |
| 2006 | Google buys YouTube.com for $1.6 billion |
| 1996 | Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in New York City |
| 1995 | "Garden District" opens at Circle in the Sq Theater New York City |
| 1995 | Israel begins W Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners |
| 1995 | Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits |
| 1995 | Robert E. Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics |
| 1994 | Lieutenant-General Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti |
| 1994 | MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings |
| 1994 | New York Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56 |
| 1994 | Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell |
| 1994 | Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar |
| 1993 | Browns Najee Mustafaa sets club rec for longest interception (97 yards) |
| 1993 | Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed |
| 1993 | Ted Kennedy, Jr. (32) weds psychiatrist Katherine Gershman (34) |
| 1992 | Actress Ally Sheedy weds actor David Lansbury |
| 1992 | Actress Heather Thomas weds entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham |
| 1992 | Floriade (Flower Show) closes at Hague, Netherlands |
| 1991 | Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers |
| 1991 | Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy |
| 1991 | U.S. cuts all foreign aid to Haiti |
| 1990 | Oakland A's sweep Red Sox in 4 games to win ALCS |
| 1990 | U.S. 67th manned space mission STS-41 (Discovery 11) returns from space |
| 1988 | 22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win |
| 1988 | Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club in 1989 |
| 1987 | Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love" |
| 1987 | Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks |
| 1987 | Giant's Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record home run in his 4th cons game |
| 1986 | 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador |
| 1986 | Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns |
| 1985 | Sudan adopts interim constitution |
| 1985 | U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody |
| 1983 | 17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins |
| 1983 | Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM |
| 1983 | Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers |
| 1982 | Brewers beat Angels in ALCS |
| 1982 | Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia |
| 1982 | Pope John Paul II canonizes Reverend M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint |
| 1982 | U.S. imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union |
| 1981 | Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo |
| 1980 | 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria |
| 1980 | Very Large Array radio telescope network dedicated |
| 1980 | Yankees lose 4-2 and are swept by Royals in AL Championship series |
| 1979 | Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood |
| 1979 | Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game |
| 1979 | Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone) |
| 1979 | Recorded trace of snow in Central Park New York City |
| 1978 | Aerosmith's Steve Tyler and Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb |
| 1978 | British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published |
| 1978 | Congress approves Susan B. Anthony Dollar |
| 1978 | Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya |
| 1978 | Steve Perry joins Journey |
| 1978 | Yankees and Dodgers play in World Series # 75 |
| 1977 | 11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins |
| 1976 | Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung's widow |
| 1976 | New Jersey Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens |
| 1976 | Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33 |
| 1975 | Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt |
| 1975 | Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton) |
| 1974 | A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley |
| 1974 | Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles |
| 1974 | Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
| 1974 | U.S. General George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series |
| 1973 | New York Mets beat Cincinnati Reds in Game 5 of the NLCS |
| 1973 | Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns |
| 1972 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open |
| 1971 | 1st game played at Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1 |
| 1971 | 5th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Pride wins |
| 1971 | Fenholt and Webber's musical "Jesus Christ Superstar," premieres in New York City |
| 1971 | Rain washes out Game 2, 1st World Series postponement since 1962 |
| 1970 | Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1968 | Detroit Tigers beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series |
| 1968 | George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd. |
| 1968 | Lee Evans of U.S. sets 400 meter record at 43.86 |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 | Brendan Behans "Norstal Boy," premieres in Dublin |
| 1965 | "Drat! - The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1965 | Supreme appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
| 1965 | "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn between 1423 and 1445 |
| 1964 | 18th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-2 at Toronto |
| 1964 | 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo |
| 1963 | Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die |
| 1963 | Netherland population hits 12,000,000 |
| 1963 | Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by U.S., UK, U.S.S.R. |
| 1962 | Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack |
| 1961 | "Milk and Honey" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 543 performances |
| 1961 | Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros and New York Mets |
| 1961 | Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court |
| 1961 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1960 | "Laughs and Other Events" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1960 | 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo |
| 1960 | Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die |
| 1960 | Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards |
| 1960 | WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1959 | "Happy Town" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1959 | Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki |
| 1959 | Pan Am begins regular flights around World |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1957 | Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale |
| 1957 | Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series |
| 1957 | Milwaukee Braves beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series |
| 1957 | President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1956 | Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match vs. Aus, Karachi |
| 1956 | On Skowron's grand slammer New York Yankees beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7 |
| 1954 | Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pulled out |
| 1951 | Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio's final game |
| 1949 | 3rd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Toronto |
| 1948 | Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland |
| 1947 | "Allegro" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 318 performances |
| 1947 | Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "Allegro," premieres in New York City |
| 1946 | Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer," premieres in Zurich |
| 1945 | Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series |
| 1944 | Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die |
| 1944 | U.S. takes Okinawa |
| 1943 | Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China |
| 1943 | U.S. bombers accidentally strike Enschede, Netherlands, causing 151 deaths |
| 1942 | 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt |
| 1941 | German U-boat torpedoes U.S. destroyer Kearney |
| 1938 | Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland |
| 1938 | Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st String Quartet |
| 1937 | New York Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series |
| 1936 | Bradman scores 212 in 202 minutes in a cricket testimonial game |
| 1935 | "Porgy and Bess," by George Gershwin, New York premiere |
| 1935 | Coup under General Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy |
| 1935 | George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway |
| 1935 | League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia |
| 1933 | 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter and Gamble, goes on sale |
| 1932 | "Betty and Bob" premieres on radio |
| 1932 | Dnjepr Dam in U.S.S.R. put into operation (world's biggest) |
| 1931 | A J Bennett hits H Garbarino for 1st scoring pass in Canada's Big 4 |
| 1931 | St. Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series |
| 1931 | William Waltons "Belshazzar's Feast," premieres in Leeds |
| 1930 | AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP and BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP |
| 1930 | Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years |
| 1926 | St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series |
| 1924 | Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca |
| 1924 | Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7 |
| 1923 | Saxony gets Social Democratic and Communist coalition government |
| 1923 | New York Giants and New York Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium |
| 1921 | NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10 |
| 1920 | 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) and 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss) |
| 1920 | Indians' Elmer Smith hits baseball's 1st post-season grand slam |
| 1920 | Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige) |
| 1920 | Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie |
| 1920 | Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play |
| 1920 | Indian's Elmer Smith hits 1st World Series grand slam |
| 1919 | Richard Strauss and Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna |
| 1918 | Baden's Geisz forms government |
| 1917 | Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter |
| 1917 | Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St. New York City |
| 1916 | In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3 |
| 1914 | German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I) |
| 1913 | British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill) |
| 1913 | Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic and Pacific waters mix |
| 1913 | Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China |
| 1911 | Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day) |
| 1908 | Baseball Writers Association, formed |
| 1904 | Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St. New York City |
| 1904 | Yankees 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader 41 game winner Chesbro loses 1st game and chance at pennant |
| 1904 | Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete games AL 1,098, NL 1,089 |
| 1902 | S Afr's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht |
| 1899 | IR Johnson patents bicycle frame |
| 1892 | Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan |
| 1888 | Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa) |
| 1886 | 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, New York (tuxedo) |
| 1874 | Fiji becomes a British possession |
| 1868 | 1st written account of a Canadian football game |
| 1868 | Cuba revolts for independence against Spain |
| 1865 | John Hyatts patents billard ball |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties) |
| 1857 | American Chess Association formed (New York City) |
| 1854 | U.S. Assay Office in New York City, New York opens |
| 1846 | Alexis the Tocqueville writes about "Algerian problem" |
| 1846 | Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell |
| 1845 | Naval School (now called U.S. Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis |
| 1839 | British troops under General Charles Napier occupy Beirut |
| 1802 | 1st non indian settlement in Oklahoma |
| 1799 | Convention of Alkmaar: English/Russian invasion army departs |
| 1787 | Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army |
| 1780 | Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean |
| 1760 | Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves) |
| 1733 | France declares war on emperor Charles VI |
| 1720 | French government proclaims strike on banknotes |
| 1695 | King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England |
| 1631 | Saxon army occupies Prague |
| 1578 | Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen |
| 1549 | Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector and imprisoned |
| 1471 | Battle of Brunkeberg Stockholm (Sten Sture beats Christian I) |
| 1375 | Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands |
| 680 | Battle at Kerbela: Kalief Yazid beats pretender al-Hussein |
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