| 2004 | WNBA Championships, Seattle Storm beat Connecticut Sun 2 games to 1 |
| 2002 | Nearly 200 tourists murdered by Islamist terrorist bombs in Bali |
| 2000 | USS Cole bombed in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors |
| 1997 | David Duval wins Michelob Championship at Kingsmill Golf Club |
| 1997 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA Samsung World Championship |
| 1997 | Transamerica Senior Golf |
| 1995 | "Patti LuPone on Broadway" opens at Walter Kerr New York City for 46 performances |
| 1994 | Contact with Venus orbitter Magellan broken |
| 1994 | Iranian Fokker's F28 explode between Isfahan and Teheran: 66 killed |
| 1993 | "Mixed Emotions" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| 1992 | 5.8 earthquake at Cairo (at least 510 die) |
| 1992 | Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave search for occupied planets |
| 1992 | Brett "Hitman" Hart beats Ric Flair for WWF Heavyweight title |
| 1992 | Expo '92 closes in Seville Spain |
| 1992 | Howard Stern radio show premieres in Albany, New York on WQBK 103.5 and 103.9 FM |
| 1992 | Microwave Observing Project begins (seeking alien life) |
| 1992 | Washington Redskin Art Monk sets NFL record with 820th reception |
| 1991 | Mike Lerch of Princeton ties NCAA record with 370 receiving yards |
| 1991 | Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN |
| 1991 | Steven Spielberg weds Kate Capshaw |
| 1991 | Wrestler Rip Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush |
| 1991 | Doug Flutie of BC Lions sets CFL passing record of 582 yards despite losing to Edmonton 45-38 in overtime |
| 1990 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1989 | Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Vikings for 12 players |
| 1989 | Musical "Buddy" with Paul Hipp premieres in London |
| 1988 | George Bush and Michael Dukakis meet in 2nd debate |
| 1988 | Israel and China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations |
| 1987 | 21st Country Music Association Award: Hank William, Jr. wins |
| 1987 | George Harrison releases "Got My Mind Set On You" |
| 1987 | Minnesota Twins beat Detroit Tigers for AL pennant |
| 1987 | Oscar Arias (Costa Rican president) wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1986 | California Angels within 1 pitch of pennant victory lose to Red Sox |
| 1985 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-61A mission |
| 1985 | International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize |
| 1985 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1984 | IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die |
| 1982 | 38.6 cm (15.2") of rainfall, Angoon Alaska (state record) |
| 1982 | Milwaukee Brewer Paul Molitor getrs world sereis record 5 hits |
| 1981 | "Marlowe" opens at Rialto Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| 1981 | 15th Country Music Association Award: |
| 1980 | "Your Arm's Too Short to Box" closes at Ambassador New York City after 149 performances |
| 1980 | 7 stabbed at Blood, Sweat and Tears concert in LA |
| 1980 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
| 1979 | Pressure in nucleus of tropical cyclone at Guam hits record 870 hpa |
| 1978 | Representatives of Israel and Egypt open talks in Washington |
| 1978 | Sid Vicious charged in murder of girlfriend Nancyh Spungen |
| 1977 | "Throwaway Game" Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers |
| 1977 | 4th test of space shuttle Enterprise |
| 1977 | Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded, smashed into cop van |
| 1976 | 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach and land test (ALT) flight |
| 1976 | Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party |
| 1975 | Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries |
| 1975 | Jacqueline Hansen runs women's world record marathon (2:38:19) |
| 1975 | NASA launches space vehicle S-195 |
| 1974 | 1st time Washington Caps are shutout as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota |
| 1973 | Israeli counter offensive in southern Syria |
| 1973 | Juan Peron elected president of Argentina |
| 1973 | Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as Vice President |
| 1972 | "Hurry, Harry" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 2 performances |
| 1972 | 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk |
| 1972 | Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot |
| 1972 | Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole |
| 1971 | "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 711 performances |
| 1970 | Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East |
| 1969 | 1st time 5 people in space |
| 1969 | KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California changes call letters to KAPN |
| 1969 | KHOF (now KAGL) TV ch 30 in San Bernardino/Glenda, California (IND) begins |
| 1969 | Soyuz 7 is launched |
| 1969 | Yoko Ono suffers another miscarriage |
| 1968 | "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Barrymore New York City after 17 performances |
| 1968 | 19th Olympic games open at Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1968 | Equatorial Guinea (Spanish Guinea) declares independence from Spain |
| 1968 | Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is 1st woman to light Olympic flame |
| 1967 | St. Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 64th World Series as Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 World Series |
| 1966 | Jimi Henrix Experience fors with Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell |
| 1964 | 1st time 3 people in space |
| 1964 | KCSM TV channel 60 in San Mateo-SF, California (PBS) begins |
| 1964 | Launch of Voskhod 1, 1st 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov) |
| 1964 | Voskhod 1 launched: 1st flight with 3 cosmonauts |
| 1964 | WSBK TV channel 38 in Boston, MA (IND/ABC/CBS/NBC) begin |
| 1964 | WUCM TV channel 19 in University Center, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1963 | "Student Gypsy" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| 1963 | Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel |
| 1963 | At 4 AM, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1962 | US/U.S.S.R. sign joint space effort in telecommunications and meteorology |
| 1961 | "Let It Ride" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 68 performances |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon's 3rd presidential debate |
| 1960 | Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at United Nations General Assembly |
| 1958 | CVP wins municipal elections in Belgium |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1958 | WJRT TV channel 12 in Flint, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | "Mask and Gown" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 39 performances |
| 1957 | "Simply Heavenly" closes at Playhouse Theater New York City after 62 performances |
| 1957 | 1st coml flight between California and Antartica |
| 1957 | Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1956 | Marga Klompe becomes 1st Dutch women elected minister |
| 1955 | Hurricane Connie, kills 43 in NC, SC, Virginia and Maryland |
| 1955 | Hurricane Hazel, kills 68 in Haiti |
| 1953 | U.S. and Greece signs peace treaty (U.S. bases) |
| 1952 | Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s vs. N Zone (Ind) his 1st fc cricket tons |
| 1952 | KBTV (now KUSA) TV channel 9 in Denver, CO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1950 | "Call Me Madam" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 644 performances |
| 1949 | Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US |
| 1948 | Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager |
| 1944 | German army retreats from Athens |
| 1943 | U.S. bombs Rabaul, New Britain |
| 1942 | Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division |
| 1942 | U.S. Navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance |
| 1941 | Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow |
| 1940 | Hitler begins operation-Seelowe (invasion of England) |
| 1935 | Cole Porters musical "Jubilee," premieres in New York City |
| 1933 | Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially) |
| 1933 | John Dillinger escapes from Allen County, OH, jail |
| 1931 | 1st International Conference on Calendar Reform |
| 1929 | Cubs blow 8-0 World Series lead, A's score 10 in 1 inning |
| 1927 | Hermann Gorner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet |
| 1925 | Albert Michelsen runs world record marathon (2:19:01.8) |
| 1925 | German-Russian trade agreement signed |
| 1924 | Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow |
| 1923 | New York Giant's Casey Stengel home run beats Yankees 1-0 in World Series |
| 1920 | Cleveland Indians beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 5 games to 2 in 17th World Series |
| 1920 | Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City |
| 1920 | Man O'War's last race and win |
| 1920 | Soccer team Quick '20 forms |
| 1918 | 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital) |
| 1918 | Cloquet Minnesota and 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die |
| 1918 | Forest fire in Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin kills about 800 |
| 1916 | Boston Red Sox beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 13th World Series |
| 1915 | Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile |
| 1915 | Theodore Roosevelt criticizes U.S. citzens who identify themselves, with dual nationalities |
| 1914 | 1st battle at Ypres, begins |
| 1913 | John McGraw, after drinking, blames Wilbert Robinson's coaching mistakes for World Series lose, Robertson blames McGraw and is fired |
| 1907 | Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 0 with 1 tie in 4th World Series |
| 1903 | Lyric Theater opens at 213 W 42nd St. New York City |
| 1901 | Theodore Roosevelt renames "Executive Mansion," "The White House" |
| 1899 | South Africa Boer Republic declares war on England |
| 1892 | Pledge of Allegiance 1st recited in public schools |
| 1891 | Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated |
| 1886 | Hurricane and sea surge kills 250 at Indianola, Texas |
| 1886 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 2nd Stain" |
| 1881 | Henry M. Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch |
| 1879 | British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan |
| 1872 | Montreal Foot Ball Club 1st game playing Quebec City to 0-0 tie |
| 1871 | President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan |
| 1862 | JEB Stuart completes his "2nd ride around McClellan" |
| 1862 | Major General Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Confederate troops in Missisippi |
| 1862 | Skirmish at Monocacy, Maryland |
| 1861 | Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi |
| 1860 | British and French troops capture Beijing |
| 1854 | Lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute |
| 1853 | John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrissey's fans |
| 1850 | 1st women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens |
| 1836 | 18" of snow falls in Bridgewater, New York |
| 1833 | Charles Darwin begins return trip to Buenos Aires |
| 1823 | Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs) |
| 1822 | 2nd eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain |
| 1815 | Ex-king Joachim Murat van Naples sentenced to death |
| 1798 | Flemish uprising against French occupied Boerenkrijg |
| 1798 | Friedrich von Schillers "Wallensteins Lager," premieres in Weimar |
| 1792 | Columbus Day is 1st celebrated |
| 1776 | British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in Bronx |
| 1775 | U.S. Navy forms |
| 1730 | Christian VI succeeds Frederik IV as king of Denmark |
| 1729 | Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Gelderland |
| 1711 | Karel VI Habsburg crowned Roman Catholic emperor |
| 1702 | Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch and English fleet destroy and occupy Spanish silver fleet and French squadron |
| 1692 | Massachusetts Bay discontinues witch trials |
| 1659 | English Rump-government fires John Lambert and other generals |
| 1654 | Kruittoren van Delft, explodes, 50-100 killed |
| 1609 | Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice," published in London |
| 1576 | Rudolf II succeeds Maximilian II as arch duke of Austria |
| 1549 | John Dudley earl of Warwick becomes English premier |
| 1518 | Pontifical ambassador interrogates Martin Luther |
| 1509 | Emperor Maximilian leaves Italy |
| 1504 | Queen Isabella I of Spain signs her testament |
| 1492 | Columbus arrives in Bahamas |
| 1492 | Flemish rebel leader Philip van Kleef surrenders |
| 1459 | Battle at Ludfor: Richard of York defeated |
| 1366 | King Frederick III of Siciliy forbids decorations on synagogues |
| 1285 | 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire |
| 1165 | Rambam reaches Jerusalem |
| 642 | John IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 638 | Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope; Pope Severinus elected |
