| 1997 | "Side Show," opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 91 performances |
| 1995 | Allan Donald takes 8-71 as South Africa defeat Zimbabwe |
| 1995 | Brian Lara scores 169 in Sharjah ODI versus Sri Lanka |
| 1995 | Million Man March held in Washington D.C. (over 800,000 black men attend) |
| 1995 | ODI in Sharjah WI 7-333 in 50 overs beat Sri Lanka 329 all out |
| 1994 | Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), suffers a stroke |
| 1993 | General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president |
| 1993 | IRA bomb attack on fish and chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed |
| 1992 | 1,700th David Letterman Show |
| 1992 | 1964 "Gilligan's Island" TV pilot 1st shown on TV (TBS) |
| 1991 | George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 and himself and wounds 20 in Texas |
| 1991 | U.S. Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case |
| 1991 | Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league's anti-drug agreement |
| 1990 | "Stand Up Tragedy" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 13 performances |
| 1990 | Reds Eric Davis is 22nd player to homer in his 1st World Series at bat |
| 1990 | Reds beat A's 7-0, ending Oakland's 10-game post-season winning streak |
| 1990 | U.S. forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf |
| 1989 | Bikenibau Paeniu installed as premier of Tuvalu |
| 1989 | Jan Syse becomes premier of Norway |
| 1988 | Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff and World Series |
| 1987 | 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England |
| 1987 | 338,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record) |
| 1987 | Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35) |
| 1987 | Jessica McClure rescued 58 hours after falling 22' into a well shaft |
| 1987 | Mike Tyson TKOs Tyrell Biggs in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1986 | "Raggedy Ann" opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1986 | Armand Hammer returns to U.S. with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb |
| 1986 | Marie Osmond marries Brian Blosil |
| 1986 | U.S. government closes down due to budget problems |
| 1986 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1985 | Challenger vehicle moves to launch pad for STS-61A mission |
| 1985 | Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip |
| 1985 | Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals win their league championships |
| 1985 | Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle |
| 1984 | Baboon heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl |
| 1984 | Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1983 | "Zorba" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 362 performances |
| 1983 | 25th Ryder Cup: U.S., 14 -13 at PGA National Golf Club Florida |
| 1983 | Baltimore Orioles beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 3 in 80th World Series |
| 1982 | Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins |
| 1982 | Mount Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return |
| 1982 | Shultz warns U.S. will withdraw from United Nations if they vote to exclude Israel |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1981 | 2nd Dutch government of Van Agt resigns |
| 1981 | Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy," premieres in New York City |
| 1980 | "Brigadoon" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 133 performances |
| 1980 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1978 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon |
| 1978 | Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II |
| 1978 | Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs. Pakistan at Faisalabad |
| 1976 | Soyuz 23 returns to Earth |
| 1976 | Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 minutes 54 seconds |
| 1974 | A's Ken Holtzman, who hasn't batted all season, belts 3rd inning home run in Game 4 and gets the win, 5-2 |
| 1973 | Israeli tanks under General Sharon move through Suez Canal |
| 1973 | Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize |
| 1973 | Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta |
| 1973 | Monks Heng Yo and Heng Ju, start 1000 mile San Francisco to Seattle pilgrimage |
| 1972 | "Pacific Paradise" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1972 | Creedence Clearwater Revival breaks up |
| 1971 | Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in San Francisco |
| 1970 | Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| 1969 | 100-1 shot New York Mets beat Orioles 5-3 and win 66th World Series in 5 |
| 1969 | Soyuz 6 returns to Earth |
| 1969 | Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a home run in World Series |
| 1968 | China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji |
| 1968 | Czechoslovakia and Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces |
| 1968 | During Olympics Tommie Smith and John Carlos give black power salute |
| 1968 | Milwaukee Bucks play their 1st game losing 89-84 to Chicago Bulls |
| 1968 | Jim Dorey sets Toronto Maple Leaf penalty records (48 minutes on 9 penalties in a game and 44 minutes on 7 penalties in a period) |
| 1967 | WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | WGNO TV channel 26 in New Orleans, Louisiana (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | Joean Baez and 123 other ani-draft protestors arrested in Oakland |
| 1965 | "Drat! - The Cat!" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| 1965 | Singer Leslie Uggams marries Grahame Pratt in New York City |
| 1964 | Brezhnev and Kosygin replace Khrushchev as head of Russia |
| 1964 | China becomes world's 5th nuclear power |
| 1964 | Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election |
| 1964 | Indians' directors vote to keep franchise in Cleveland, rejecting bids by Seattle, Oakland and Dallas |
| 1963 | 2 secret U.S. military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral |
| 1963 | New York newspaper "Mirror" last edition |
| 1962 | Byron R. White becomes a Supreme Court Justice |
| 1962 | Cuban missile crisis began as John F. Kennedy becomes aware of missiles in Cuba |
| 1962 | KTXT TV channel 5 in Lubbock, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | Yankees (20th championship) beat San Francisco Giants 4 games to 3 in World Series |
| 1962 | New York Yankees appear in 12 and win 9 of last 14 World Series |
| 1960 | NL votes to admit Houston and New York to league |
| 1958 | Benjamin Britten's "Nocturne," premieres |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1957 | Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia |
| 1957 | USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space |
| 1956 | "Love Me Tender" with Elvis Presley premieres |
| 1956 | William J. Brennan, Jr. becomes a Supreme Court Justice |
| 1952 | Pakistan's 1st Test starts, vs. India at Delhi |
| 1952 | Woolworth's at Powell and Market (SF) opens |
| 1949 | WDAF TV channel 4 in Kansas City, Missouri (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | "Red Mill" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 831 performances |
| 1948 | Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir |
| 1946 | 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials |
| 1945 | UN's Food and Agriculture Organization comes into existence |
| 1944 | Hungary: Horthy government falls/nazi count Szalasi becomes premier |
| 1943 | Anti Jewish riot in Rome |
| 1943 | Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system |
| 1943 | Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz |
| 1943 | U.S. 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol |
| 1942 | Aaron Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in New York City |
| 1942 | Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India |
| 1942 | National Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services |
| 1941 | "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers |
| 1941 | Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow |
| 1941 | Romanian Legionnaires enter Odessa Russia |
| 1940 | Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army |
| 1940 | Lottery for 1st U.S. WW II draftees held; #158 drawn 1st |
| 1940 | Warsaw Ghetto forms |
| 1939 | Sugar rationing begins in Netherlands |
| 1936 | Lou Gehrig, is voted AL MVP by BBWAA |
| 1934 | Mao Tse-tung and 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March |
| 1931 | Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops 1st |
| 1928 | Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points |
| 1926 | Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed |
| 1926 | Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200 |
| 1925 | Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact) |
| 1925 | Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution |
| 1923 | Disney company founded |
| 1923 | John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland) |
| 1921 | Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, and Bill Piercy defy Landis ban on World Series |
| 1921 | Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin-only mid-game coaching change in NFL history |
| 1916 | Dodger manager Wilbert Robinson given $5,000 bonus |
| 1916 | Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Bkln) |
| 1916 | T. E. Lawrence meets with Fasal Hoessein |
| 1915 | Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria |
| 1913 | Booth Theater opens at 222 W 44th St. New York City |
| 1912 | Arnold Schonberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," premieres |
| 1912 | Boston beats New York Giants, 4 games to 3 with a tie in 9th World Series |
| 1909 | Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1909 | Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series |
| 1908 | Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as Esquimoux |
| 1907 | Belasco Theater opens at 111 W 44th St. New York City |
| 1907 | David Belasco's "Grand Army Man," premieres in New York City |
| 1904 | Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur |
| 1903 | Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia |
| 1900 | Queen Wilhelmina leaves duke Heinrich "Henry" von Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
| 1876 | Race riot at Cainhoy South Carolina (5 whites and 1 black killed) |
| 1875 | 1st Quebec vs Ontario football game, Ontario wins |
| 1869 | Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing |
| 1867 | Alaska adopts Gregorian calendar, crosses International date line |
| 1863 | Grant is given command of Union forces in West |
| 1861 | Confederacy starts selling postage stamps |
| 1859 | John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va |
| 1852 | Dutch Government recognize Catholics right to organize |
| 1849 | Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania |
| 1849 | British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras |
| 1848 | 1st U.S. homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania |
| 1847 | Charlotte Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published |
| 1846 | Dentist William T Morton demonstrates effectiveness of ether |
| 1841 | Queens University in Kingston is chartered |
| 1834 | London parliament catches fire; historic documents burn |
| 1829 | Tremont Hotel, 1st U.S. modern hotel opens (Boston) |
| 1813 | Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs Prussia, Austria and Russia) |
| 1795 | M von Bohms "Oorlogscantate" premieres |
| 1781 | Washington takes Yorktown |
| 1775 | Portland, Maine burned by British |
| 1757 | Austrian troops occupy Berlin |
| 1710 | British troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia |
| 1674 | Emperor Leopold I fires chancellor Furst Wenzel Lobkowitz |
| 1600 | Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines |
| 1551 | English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset re-arrested |
| 1502 | Storm ravages Friese coast |
| 1492 | Columbus' fleet anchors at "Fernandina" (Long Island, Bahamas) |
| 1311 | Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens |
