| 2012 | Seven new saints are canonized by Pope Benedict XVI, including Anna Schaffer, Kateri Tekakwitha, Marianne Cope and Pedro Calungsod |
| 2012 | Former U.S. Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern dies at age 90 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota |
| 2011 | South Australia swears in their new Premier, Jay Weatherill after officially electing him as the leader of the Australian Labor Party |
| 2011 | Japan's government announces they require a $157 billion additional budged to cover costs for recovering from the tsunami and earthquake in March 2011 |
| 2010 | The European Parliament awards Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought |
| 2010 | Union of Myanmar changes its name to Republic of the Union of Myanmar, and changes the design of the national flag |
| 1998 | World Series, New York Yankees beat San Diego Padres 4 games to 0 |
| 1997 | Elton John's tribute to Princess Diana breaks world record, 318 million distributed |
| 1997 | Cleveland Marquis Grissom hit in his 15th straight World Series game (streak ends at 15, he is 2nd to Hank Baur with 17) |
| 1995 | Addison Vance, 18, of Hickory NC, crowned 7th Ms Venus Swimwear |
| 1995 | Mario Tremblay, selected 22nd NHL coach of Montreal Canadians |
| 1994 | Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die |
| 1994 | North Korea signs pact to end their nuclear projects |
| 1993 | "Twilight of the Golds" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 29 performances |
| 1993 | Gary Kasparov defeats Nigel Short for chess championship |
| 1993 | Military coup by Burundi President Ndadaye/525,000 Hutu's flee |
| 1992 | Madonna's book "Sex" goes on sale |
| 1991 | 24 die in a fire in Oakland, California |
| 1991 | Former California Governor Jerry Brown announces run for presidency |
| 1991 | U.S. hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut |
| 1990 | Esther Canseco calls Oakland A's manager Tony La Russa a "punk" for not starting husband Jose in the World Series |
| 1989 | "Dangerous Games" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1989 | Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in San Francisco earthquake |
| 1989 | Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game |
| 1989 | 1st black owners (Betram Lee and Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m |
| 1988 | Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid |
| 1988 | Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges |
| 1987 | 7th Belgium government of Martens forms |
| 1987 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M. Solow |
| 1987 | Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination |
| 1986 | 1st-class cricket debut of Andy Flower, ZCU Presidents XI vs. Young WI |
| 1986 | Hugh Whitemore's "Breaking the Code," premieres in London |
| 1986 | IBM re-forms in South Africa |
| 1986 | Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US |
| 1986 | U.S. writer Edward A. Tracy kidnap in Beirut |
| 1985 | Qasim Omar (206) and Javed Miandad (203*) make 397 stand vs. SL |
| 1984 | Cleveland Browns' Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal |
| 1984 | Niki Lauda becomes 3rd time motor racing world champ |
| 1984 | Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05 |
| 1983 | Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops |
| 1980 | "Banjo Dancing" opens at Century Theater New York City for 38 performances |
| 1980 | 1st (& only) time Phillies win World Series (in 98 years) |
| 1980 | Phillies win their 1st World Championship in their 98-year history |
| 1979 | 10th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:42 |
| 1979 | 9th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:33 |
| 1979 | Greta Weitz wins woman participation in New York City marathon (02:27:33) |
| 1979 | Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns |
| 1979 | Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions |
| 1977 | U.S. recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa |
| 1976 | American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 1976 | Cincinnati Reds sweep New York Yankees, in 73rd World Series |
| 1976 | New York Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed |
| 1976 | New York Yankee Thurman Munson ties World Series mark of 6 straight singles |
| 1976 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow |
| 1975 | "Treemonisha" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 64 performances |
| 1975 | Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll |
| 1975 | Elton John given a star in Hollywood |
| 1975 | Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives |
| 1975 | Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning home run beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS |
| 1975 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1975 | Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit planet Venus launched |
| 1974 | 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps |
| 1974 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cubic Corp Golf Classic |
| 1973 | A's manager Dick Williams quits after A's beat Mets in World Series |
| 1973 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Waco Tribune Herald Ladies Golf Classic |
| 1972 | "Dude" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| 1972 | "Man of La Mancha" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 140 performances |
| 1972 | "Pacific Paradise" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1971 | "To Live Another Summer" opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 173 performances |
| 1971 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1971 | William H Rehnquist and Lewis F Powell nominated to U.S. Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black and John Harlan |
| 1970 | 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea |
| 1970 | Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways |
| 1970 | Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh |
| 1969 | Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day) |
| 1969 | Leonard Gersh' "Butterflies are Free," premieres in New York City |
| 1969 | Willy Burns elected chancellor of West Germany |
| 1969 | Major General Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali |
| 1967 | Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat |
| 1967 | Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon |
| 1966 | 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan S Wales |
| 1965 | KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward |
| 1965 | Robert B. Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry |
| 1965 | Vivian Beaumont Theater (New York City) opens |
| 1964 | Abebe Bikila runs world/olympic record marathon (2:12:11.2) |
| 1964 | Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta |
| 1962 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open |
| 1961 | Barbra Striesand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones" |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy and Nixon clashed in 4th and final presidential debate (New York City) |
| 1959 | Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana |
| 1959 | Guggenheim Museum, by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in N.Y.C. |
| 1959 | Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in Kansas City and NY |
| 1958 | 1st women in English House of Lords |
| 1957 | Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team |
| 1957 | Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens |
| 1957 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open |
| 1956 | Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open |
| 1954 | Dorothy Parker/Arnaud d'Usseau's "Ladies of the Corridor," premieres |
| 1954 | Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea |
| 1952 | Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian) |
| 1950 | Chinese forces occupy Tibet |
| 1950 | Death penality abolished in Belgium |
| 1950 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Hardscrabble Women's Golf Invitation |
| 1950 | Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns |
| 1948 | Beersheba liberated by Israeli army |
| 1948 | Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder) |
| 1948 | Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington D.C.) |
| 1948 | U.N. reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons |
| 1947 | Dutch Dakota explodes near Coopenhagen, 16 die |
| 1945 | Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time |
| 1944 | Canadian troops occupy Breskens |
| 1944 | During WW II, U.S. troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall |
| 1944 | Walter Piston's "Fugue for a Victory Tune," premieres in New York City |
| 1940 | RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands |
| 1938 | Japanese troops occupies Canton |
| 1937 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 5th Symphony premieres |
| 1937 | Franco-troops occupies Gijon |
| 1935 | Hank Greenberg selected AL MVP unanimously |
| 1925 | Sidney Howards "Lucky Sam McGarver," premieres in New York City |
| 1924 | KLM Fokker's F7 H-NACC departs to Dutch East Indies |
| 1923 | 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich |
| 1921 | Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam |
| 1918 | Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min |
| 1917 | 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WW I |
| 1917 | Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee |
| 1916 | U.S. Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps |
| 1915 | 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Virginia to Paris |
| 1914 | Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat |
| 1911 | RS Hichens and M Hudsons "Garden of Allah," premieres in New York City |
| 1911 | Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union |
| 1905 | England Pilgrim Association beats All New York 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds |
| 1899 | Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army) |
| 1897 | Yerkes Observatory of University of Chicago is dedicated |
| 1887 | Detroit clinches best-of-15 touring World Championship with its 8th victory in Game 11 this afternoon in Baltimore, 13-3 |
| 1879 | Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb |
| 1878 | German republic chancellor Bismarck delegates end of "Socialism" |
| 1871 | 1st U.S. amateur outdoor athletic games (NY) |
| 1869 | 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore |
| 1868 | Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, California |
| 1864 | Battle of Westport, MO (Kansas City) |
| 1861 | Battle of Balls Bluff, Virginia (Leesburg, Harrison's Island) |
| 1858 | In Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed |
| 1858 | Jacques Offenbach's opera "Orphee aux Enfers," premieres in Paris |
| 1824 | Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England) |
| 1805 | Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson defeats French and Spanish fleet and dies |
| 1797 | U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston |
| 1727 | Russian and Chinese accord to correct boundaries |
| 1708 | Dutch and English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel) |
| 1652 | King Louis XIV returns to Paris |
| 1641 | Catholic uprising in Ulster: 1000s English and Scots killed |
| 1639 | Dunes (Marten Tromp defeats Spanish armada under De Oquendo) |
| 1639 | Sea battle at Dunes: Lieutenant Admiral Maarten Tromp beats Spanish Armada |
| 1601 | Memorial service for Daitokuji's Shinju held for Ikkyu Sojun in Kyoto |
| 1591 | Nijmegen surrenders to Earl Mauritius van Nassau |
| 1568 | 2nd Altenburger sermon: Philippisten/Gnesiolutheranen |
| 1555 | Emperor Charles V makes Erard of Pallandt earl of Culemborg |
| 1555 | English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king |
| 1553 | Volumes of Talmud are burned |
| 1520 | Ferdinand Magellen arrives at Tierra Del Fuego (Pacific Ocean) |
| 1496 | Emperor Maximiliaans daughter marries Spanish crown prince Johan of Aragon/Philip de Blank marries Johanna "the Waanzinnige" of Aragon |
| 1492 | Columbus lands on San Salvador Island |
| 1492 | Columbus' discovers America (Oct 12, 1492 Julian calender) |
| 1096 | Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats 1st Crusaders |
| 686 | Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 335 | Constantinople emperor Constantine the Great rules laws against Jews |
| 310 | St. Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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