| 2012 | The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Chinese author Mo Yan, famous for the hallucinatory realism writing style |
| 2012 | The U.S. court ruling banning the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus is overturned, winning a round for Google's Android against Apple |
| 2011 | The oil spill from MV Rena, the ship stranded off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand, becomes the country's worst environmental disaster |
| 2011 | Further sanctions are imposed on Belarus, Iran and Syria by the EU, who reiterates the call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down |
| 2010 | The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to economists Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides |
| 1998 | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail LPGA Tournament |
| 1997 | Dennis Rodman returns from 2nd longest NBA suspension (11 games) |
| 1996 | Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million |
| 1995 | John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches |
| 1995 | O. J. Simpson cancels a TV appearance on Dateline |
| 1994 | Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar |
| 1994 | Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), lands |
| 1993 | Norwegian Rushdie publisher William Nygaard injured in attack |
| 1993 | U.S. warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti |
| 1992 | 1st 3-way presidential debate (Bush-Clinton-Perot) |
| 1992 | Deion Sanders, plays for Atlanta Falcons (NFL) and Braves (Baseball) |
| 1992 | Toronto down 6-1 in 7th beats A's 7-6 in 11th in AL playoff |
| 1991 | Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrased her |
| 1991 | Chip Beck ties PGA lowest 18 hole score of 59 |
| 1991 | Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen soliciting a prostitute |
| 1990 | "Miser" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 93 performances |
| 1990 | Center for Urban archaeology opens in New York City South Street Seaport Museum |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature |
| 1990 | Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel |
| 1987 | 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington |
| 1986 | Reagan and Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Iceland |
| 1985 | Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
| 1985 | President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands |
| 1985 | U.S. intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists |
| 1984 | 1st space walk by U.S. woman, Kathryn D. Sullivan |
| 1984 | August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," premieres in New York City |
| 1984 | NASA launches space vehicle S-208 |
| 1984 | Vice President candidate debate-Graldine Ferraro (D) and George Bush (R) |
| 1983 | Last hand-cranked telephones U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial |
| 1982 | 16th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson and Ricky Skagg |
| 1982 | English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England |
| 1982 | Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire |
| 1981 | Expos beat Phillies, 3 games to 2, in NLCS |
| 1981 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
| 1981 | LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yards) |
| 1981 | Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum |
| 1981 | Yankees beat Brewers 7-3 and win only Eastern Championship Series |
| 1980 | Cosmonauts Popov and Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days |
| 1980 | Dallas Mavericks 1st game at Reunion Arena beat San Antonio 103-92 |
| 1980 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1979 | "Most Happy Fella" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 53 performances |
| 1979 | East Germany frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro and Nico Hubner |
| 1979 | Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan |
| 1978 | Aristides Royo elected president of Panama |
| 1978 | Belgium government of Tindemans resigns |
| 1978 | Dodgers Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in 9th |
| 1977 | Soyuz 25 returns to Earth |
| 1976 | 10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins |
| 1976 | Mao Tse-Tung's widow Jiang Qing and "Gang of Four," arrested and charged with plotting a coup |
| 1975 | "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin |
| 1975 | Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham |
| 1975 | Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host |
| 1974 | A's Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract |
| 1973 | Oakland beats Baltimore 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant |
| 1972 | Panama adopts constitution |
| 1972 | Prison uprising at Washington D.C. jail |
| 1972 | Reads beat Pirates in NLCS |
| 1971 | 60th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2) |
| 1971 | Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times |
| 1971 | Frank McGee becomes news anchor of Today Show |
| 1971 | Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam |
| 1969 | Rome: 2nd bishop synod |
| 1969 | Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3 |
| 1969 | Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 and 8 follow in next 2 days |
| 1968 | Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours |
| 1968 | Billy Martin named manager of Twins |
| 1968 | Panama revolts |
| 1967 | World Series record 3 consecutive home runs (Carl Yastremski, Reggie Smith, and Rico Petrocelli) by Red Sox |
| 1967 | Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon) |
| 1964 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Hillside House Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1962 | 1st appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show |
| 1962 | 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII |
| 1961 | USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1960 | Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die) |
| 1960 | Radio - TV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers |
| 1959 | KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | "Goldilocks" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 161 performances |
| 1958 | 2nd U.S. Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back |
| 1956 | 1st Pakistan vs. Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day |
| 1956 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| 1956 | AL President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners |
| 1955 | All Peron feast days disposed of in Argentina |
| 1955 | Persia signs Pact of Baghdad |
| 1954 | "On Your Toes" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 64 performances |
| 1954 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad caeli Reginam |
| 1948 | "Love Life" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 252 performances |
| 1948 | "Where's Chartev?" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 792 performances |
| 1948 | Cleveland Indians beat Boston Braves, 4 games to 2 in 45th World Series |
| 1947 | Brazil and Chile break diplomatic relations with U.S.S.R. |
| 1945 | Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung |
| 1945 | JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere) |
| 1944 | Allies bomb sea wall at Veere |
| 1943 | New York Yankees beat Cards 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, to become 1st team to win 10 World Series |
| 1941 | 1st NSB-battalion departures to Eastern front |
| 1939 | Albert Einstein informs Franklin D. Roosevelt of possibilities of atomic bomb |
| 1939 | Bucky Harris signs to manage Washington again |
| 1939 | Gertrude Lawrence's "Skylark," premieres in New York City |
| 1939 | NAACP organized Legal Defense and Education Fund |
| 1936 | "Professor Quiz," 1st radio quiz show premieres |
| 1932 | 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, New York City |
| 1932 | Stalin forces Zinoviev and Kamenev out of Communist Party |
| 1931 | 100,000 extreme-right Germans form "Harzburger Front" |
| 1929 | Sean O'Casey's "Silver Tassle," premieres in London |
| 1927 | Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible) |
| 1925 | Belgian episcopelian sspeaks against Flemish activism |
| 1925 | New York Giants play 1st NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0 |
| 1923 | Babe Ruth hits 2 home runs in a World Series game |
| 1922 | 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson) |
| 1922 | Turkey and Greece sign cease fire |
| 1919 | 1st transcontinental air race ends |
| 1915 | Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins |
| 1914 | German troops occupy Gent |
| 1913 | Philadelphia A's beat New York Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series |
| 1911 | Ty Cobb (AL) and Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto |
| 1906 | San Francisco begins school for "Asians" |
| 1906 | White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game |
| 1902 | 8th U.S. Golf Open: Laurie Auchterlonie shoots a 307 at Garden City NY |
| 1902 | Commencement of 1st Test Cricket between South Africa and Australia |
| 1902 | Lawrence Auchterlonie wins U.S. Open golf tournament |
| 1899 | South African Boers declare war on Great Britain |
| 1895 | Emperor Menelik II of Addis Ababa draws against Italians |
| 1890 | 1st 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 seconds, Washington D.C.) |
| 1890 | Daughters of American Revolution forms |
| 1887 | A Miles patents elevator |
| 1881 | David Houston patents roll film for cameras |
| 1873 | Toronto Argonaut Football Club 1st game losing to University of Toronto |
| 1871 | Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed |
| 1868 | Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine |
| 1865 | President Johnson paroles CSA Vice President Alexander Stephens |
| 1864 | Slavery abolished in Maryland |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee |
| 1861 | Battle of Dumfries, Virginia (Quantico Creek) |
| 1811 | The Juliana, 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation |
| 1797 | Battle at Kamperduin: English fleet destroys Bataafse |
| 1797 | British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, Netherlands |
| 1776 | Brigadier General Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British |
| 1746 | Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Netherlands armies |
| 1737 | Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys of Calcutta India |
| 1726 | Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England |
| 1698 | France, England and Netherlands signs 1st Extermination treaty |
| 1689 | Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia |
| 1687 | Hungary accepts Habsburgse sovereignty |
| 1674 | Pierre Corneille's "Surena," premieres in Paris |
| 1643 | Battle at Wincebt: English New Model-army beats royalists |
| 1573 | Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy |
| 1540 | Emperor Karel names his son Philip, duke of Milan |
| 1531 | Battle at Kappel: Swiss RC kantons beat protestant |
| 1521 | Pope Leo X titles King Henry VIII of England "Defender of the Faith" |
| 1492 | Columbus' ships sites land on the horizon (Bahamas) |
| 732 | Battle at Tours: France under Karel Martel beat Moors |
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