| 1998 | Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf |
| 1995 | NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix |
| 1993 | STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit |
| 1992 | "Oba Oba '93" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 22 performances |
| 1992 | 1st non-U.S. team to win a World Series Game; Toronto 5, Atlanta 4 |
| 1992 | 6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities |
| 1992 | Philadelphia Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL quarterback scramble record of 3,683 |
| 1992 | Start of Zimbabwe's 1st Test match, vs. India at Harare |
| 1991 | "Most Happy Fella" closes at New York State Theater New York City |
| 1991 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1990 | "Once on this Island" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 469 performances |
| 1989 | East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns |
| 1989 | Hungary revises constitution |
| 1989 | U.S. 62nd manned space mission STS-34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit |
| 1988 | Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane's Kach Party as racist |
| 1988 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1984 | Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-51A mission |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1981 | Andreas Papandreous' PASOK wins Greek elections |
| 1981 | New York Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game |
| 1981 | Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader |
| 1980 | Brooke Alexander, 18, of Hawaii, crowned Miss World USA |
| 1980 | Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots setting NBA record (double OT) |
| 1979 | "Beatlemania" opens in London |
| 1979 | Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F. Vance |
| 1978 | New York Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs Los Angeles Kings |
| 1977 | 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th |
| 1977 | New York Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games |
| 1977 | W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu |
| 1977 | Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record |
| 1977 | Yankees beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years |
| 1976 | Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr |
| 1975 | Simon and Garfunkel reunite on SNL, sing "My Little Town" |
| 1975 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1974 | 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121 |
| 1974 | Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam |
| 1974 | Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise" |
| 1974 | Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists and 12 blocks |
| 1973 | "Raisin" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 847 performances |
| 1973 | Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar and dollar coin |
| 1973 | Judd Woldon and Robert Brittens musical "Raisin," premieres in New York City |
| 1973 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief |
| 1970 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
| 1970 | Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp |
| 1969 | Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners |
| 1969 | Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kanter, arrested for marijuana possession |
| 1969 | Rod Stewart joins Small Faces |
| 1969 | Soyuz 8 returns to Earth |
| 1968 | Bob Beamon of USA sets long jump record (29'2 ") in Mexico City |
| 1968 | Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas |
| 1968 | Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash |
| 1968 | U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony |
| 1967 | Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A. Bethe |
| 1967 | Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus |
| 1967 | Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released |
| 1967 | AL votes to allow Athletics to move from Kansas City to Oakland and expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with Kansas City and Seattle teams |
| 1966 | "Apple Tree" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 463 performances |
| 1964 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
| 1963 | IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics |
| 1962 | John F. Kennedy meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko |
| 1962 | Tony Sheridan and Beat Brothers record "Let's Dance" |
| 1962 | U.S. launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| 1962 | Dr. Watson (U.S.), Dr. Crick, and Dr. Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA |
| 1961 | Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to commun attack |
| 1960 | Casey Stengel retired by New York Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years) |
| 1960 | In Britain, News Chronicle and Daily Mail merge, and London Evening Star merges with Evening News |
| 1955 | Track and Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete |
| 1955 | University of California discovers anti-proton |
| 1954 | Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US |
| 1954 | WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence, South Carolina (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (New York City) |
| 1953 | WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times |
| 1952 | "Buttrio Square" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| 1952 | Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash |
| 1951 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1950 | Connie Mack retires as manager of A's after 50 years |
| 1948 | Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army |
| 1946 | Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony, premieres |
| 1945 | Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg |
| 1945 | Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing and acting achievements |
| 1944 | Eisenhower, Bradley and Montgomery confer in Brussel |
| 1944 | Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II |
| 1943 | U.S. bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island |
| 1942 | Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed |
| 1941 | Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo |
| 1940 | Kaufman and Harts "George Washington Slept Here," premieres in New York City |
| 1939 | R Rodgers and Lorenz Harts "Too Many Girls," premieres in New York City |
| 1934 | Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March |
| 1932 | Belgium government of Renkin falls |
| 1930 | Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day |
| 1926 | Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenins political testament |
| 1925 | French General Sarrail bombs Damascus |
| 1925 | Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th home run of the season |
| 1924 | Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs) |
| 1924 | Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, New York Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen) |
| 1922 | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms |
| 1918 | Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| 1918 | NHL's Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P J Quinn |
| 1918 | Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) |
| 1915 | 3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo |
| 1913 | Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia and Albania leave |
| 1912 | Beginning of 1st Balkan War |
| 1912 | Italo-Turkish war ends |
| 1910 | Edward Forster publishes "Howards End" |
| 1909 | Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m |
| 1908 | Belgium annexes Congo Free State |
| 1904 | Mahlers 5th symphony premieres in Cologne |
| 1901 | Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights |
| 1898 | American flag raised in Puerto Rico |
| 1892 | 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY) |
| 1891 | 1st international 6-day bicycle race in U.S. (MSG, New York City) begins |
| 1890 | John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds |
| 1889 | 1st all New York City World Series New York Giants (NL) play Brooklyn (AA) |
| 1887 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity" |
| 1878 | Edison makes electricity available for household usage |
| 1873 | 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tigers |
| 1873 | Columbia Princeton Rutgers and Yale set rules for collegiate football |
| 1869 | Henrik Ibsen's "De Unges Forbund," premieres in Christiania (Oslo) |
| 1867 | U.S. takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia |
| 1863 | Battle of Charlestown, West Virginia |
| 1862 | Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, Kentucky |
| 1855 | Franz Liszt's "Prometheus," premieres |
| 1776 | In a New York bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail" |
| 1776 | Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover and Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx |
| 1767 | Boundary between MD and PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon |
| 1752 | Premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village" |
| 1748 | Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession |
| 1685 | French king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes |
| 1685 | Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism |
| 1672 | Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz |
| 1667 | English fleet plunders Suriname plantations |
| 1648 | 1st U.S. labor organization forms, Boston Shoemakers |
| 1622 | French King Louis XIII and Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier |
| 1572 | Spanish troops attack Maastricht |
| 1564 | John Hawkins begins 2nd trip to America |
| 1534 | New pursuit of French protestants |
| 1267 | Battle at Marienholz: Henry III, Otto II van Gelre beat Keuls archbishop Engelbert III |
| 1210 | Pope Innocent III excommunicates German emperor Otto IV |
| 1081 | Battle at Durazzo/Durres: Normans under Robert Guiscard beat Byzantine |
| 1016 | Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon) |
| 707 | John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
