| 2012 | Israel launches four airstrikes in response to multiple rockets being fired across the border. The airstrikes kill two Salafist jihadist militants and wound one other in the northern Gaza strip |
| 2012 | The U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavor inches through the streets of Los Angeles on a trolley, making its way to a museum |
| 2011 | Over 88 containers from the MV Rena, New Zealand's stranded cargo ship, fall into the Bay of Plenty |
| 2011 | In Punakha, Bhutan, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck marries Jetsun Pema, a 21 year old college student |
| 2010 | The Australian dollar reaches the highest level in 27 years against the U.S. dollar |
| 2010 | In China, 23 elder members of the Communist Party of China call for ending the country's restrictions on free speech |
| 2006 | Ban Ki-moon is elected to be U.N. Secretary-General |
| 1997 | Andy Green's Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH |
| 1996 | "Big," closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 193 performances |
| 1996 | Annika Sorenstam wins Betsy King LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1996 | New York Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374 |
| 1996 | Yankees (3) and Orioles (3) combine to tie play off record of 6 home runs |
| 1995 | Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1994 | Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland vs. Tasmania) |
| 1994 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe |
| 1993 | Greek government of Papandreou forms |
| 1993 | Mighty Ducks win their 1st NHL game |
| 1993 | Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis and Michael Smith |
| 1993 | Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse and Joseph Taylor |
| 1993 | Phillies beat Atlanta in NLCS |
| 1991 | Actress Katey Segal suffers a miscarriage |
| 1991 | Blue Jay Cito Gaston is 1st manager ejected in a playoff game |
| 1991 | Minnesota Twins win AL pennant beating Toronto in 5 games |
| 1990 | 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 years held in St. Basil's Cathedral |
| 1990 | Target Center in Minneapolis opens |
| 1989 | Bob Quinn resigns as New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager and replaced by Harding Peterson |
| 1989 | Dow Jones down 190.58 points |
| 1988 | Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest |
| 1988 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz |
| 1988 | Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages |
| 1988 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1987 | 1st military use of trained dolphins by the U.S. Navy |
| 1987 | Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1987 | West Indies score 4-360 in 50 overs in Cricket World Cup vs. Sri Lanka |
| 1986 | 20th Country Music Association Award: |
| 1986 | 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's) |
| 1986 | IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992 |
| 1985 | "Sunday in the Park with George" closes at Booth New York City after 604 performances |
| 1985 | Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election |
| 1985 | During NLCS, Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadium's automated tarpaulin |
| 1984 | Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders |
| 1984 | John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million |
| 1984 | STS-41-G mission; lands at Kennedy Space Center |
| 1982 | IOC restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe |
| 1982 | New Jersey Devils 1st short handed goal-Don Lever |
| 1981 | Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt |
| 1980 | 14th Country Music Association Award |
| 1980 | Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, New York |
| 1978 | James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu |
| 1978 | President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio |
| 1978 | Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties |
| 1978 | Tiros N, U.S.'s 1st 3rd generation weather satellite, is launched |
| 1978 | Graig Nettles at 3rd makes many spectactular plays in WS game 3 as Guidry beats Dodgers, after trailing 2 games to 0 Yankees win next 4 |
| 1975 | 9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins |
| 1975 | Rock vocal Neil Young undergoes throat surgery |
| 1973 | Jordan enters Yom Kippur war |
| 1973 | Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Emily in for Carol" |
| 1972 | "Hurry, Harry" closes at Ritz Theater New York City after 2 performances |
| 1972 | Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die |
| 1972 | Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series |
| 1972 | Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue) |
| 1971 | 1st World Series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3) |
| 1971 | WTZH TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (CBS) suspends broadcasting |
| 1970 | Angela Davis arrested in New York City |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| 1969 | 1st time 7 people in space |
| 1969 | Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins |
| 1969 | Soyuz 8 is launched |
| 1968 | Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated |
| 1967 | CBS radio cancels "House Party" |
| 1966 | 173 U.S. airplanes bomb North-Vietnam |
| 1966 | Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 1964 | At Plesman airport, Curaeao, 125.5 mm rainfalls (record) |
| 1964 | Voskhod 1 crew returns |
| 1963 | "Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium |
| 1963 | 15th Ryder Cup: U.S. beats 23-9 at East Lake CC Ga |
| 1963 | 9th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright |
| 1962 | "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen |
| 1960 | 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood and Kennedy in NY |
| 1960 | Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba |
| 1960 | Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off home run beats New York Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series |
| 1957 | German Dem Rep recalls East Mark and issues new currency |
| 1956 | WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins |
| 1955 | 1st edition of L'express publishes in Paris |
| 1954 | RP Smith/M Shulman's "Tender Trap," premieres in New York City |
| 1953 | Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno |
| 1949 | "Touch and Go" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 176 performances |
| 1947 | "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" premieres |
| 1947 | 1st NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 4-3 at Toronto |
| 1944 | Riga Latvia freed |
| 1944 | U.S. 1st army begins battle of Aachen |
| 1943 | Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany |
| 1937 | A recorded trace of snow in Central Park New York City |
| 1936 | Explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of Cleveland Stadium |
| 1933 | JDJ Boularan's "Tovarich," premieres in Paris |
| 1933 | Soccer team STEVO forms in Geesteren |
| 1931 | Musical "Everybody's Welcome" with T/J Dorsey premieres in New York City |
| 1931 | Noel Cowards "Cavalcade," premieres in London |
| 1930 | New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP'ers in uniform |
| 1924 | Wahhabietes under Ibn Saudi take Mecca |
| 1923 | Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital |
| 1921 | New York Giants beat New York Yankees, 5 games to 3 in 18th World Series |
| 1920 | World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50,000+ Clevelanders |
| 1919 | Race riot at Elaine Arkansas |
| 1917 | Soviet accept establishment of Petrograd Military |
| 1915 | Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series |
| 1914 | Belgian regime forms at St. Adresse at Le Havre |
| 1914 | Boston Braves sweep Philadelphia A's, 1st sweep in World Series history |
| 1914 | Garrett Morgan invents and patents gas mask |
| 1914 | Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa |
| 1913 | Explosion and fire in Universal Coal Mine, South Wales |
| 1903 | Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland," premieres in New York City |
| 1902 | Arna W. Bontemps noted poet and librarian of Fisk University |
| 1899 | 7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal |
| 1893 | Vigilant (U.S.) beats Valkyrie II (England) in 9th America's Cup |
| 1884 | Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude |
| 1881 | Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations |
| 1870 | Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert |
| 1864 | Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia (337 casualties) |
| 1864 | Battle of Dalton, Georgia - surrendered |
| 1864 | Battle of Harpers Ferry, WV (Mosby's Raid) |
| 1864 | Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Blountsville, Tennessee (50 casualties) |
| 1862 | Bismarck's "Blood and Iron" speech |
| 1860 | 1st aerial photo taken in U.S. (from a balloon), Boston |
| 1845 | Texas ratifies a state constitution |
| 1843 | B'nai B'rith founded (NY) |
| 1812 | Battle of Queenstown Heights, British beats U.S. attempt to invade Canada |
| 1792 | 1st Old Farmer's Almanac is published |
| 1792 | Washington lays cornerstone of Executive Mansion (White House) |
| 1775 | Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet |
| 1760 | Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin |
| 1724 | Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier's letters |
| 1716 | Hungarian Emperor Karel VI's troops occupy Temesvar |
| 1710 | English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia) |
| 1702 | Dutch/English troops occupy Luik |
| 1660 | Denmark king Frederik III makes coup |
| 1659 | General-major John Lambert drives out English Rump-govt |
| 1652 | Prince of Conde flees Paris |
| 1629 | Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies |
| 1534 | Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III |
| 1501 | Maximilian of Austria and Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente |
| 1492 | English Admiral Poynings fleet occupies Lock |
| 1483 | Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible |
| 1307 | French king Philip IV convicts templars because of heresy |
| 1213 | Battle at Steppes-Bishop Pierrepont and Louis II beat Henry I of Brabant |
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