| 2012 | The British government grants Wales limited powers to borrow money for financing major projects |
| 2012 | The Republic of Ireland switches off its analog television service at 10:00am |
| 2011 | The Northern Lights become visible over much of North America due to a coronal mass ejection |
| 2011 | A vaccination program immunizing over 170 million children every year has resulted in the near eradication of polio in India |
| 2010 | The first black mayor of a town in the former Eastern Bloc of Europe, Peter Bossman, becomes Mayor of Piran, Slovenia |
| 2010 | Over 250 people die as a result of the cholera outbreak in the 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak; cholera is detected for the first time in Port-au-Prince |
| 2009 | A magnitude 7.0 quake strikes off the coast of Indonesia, setting off a tsunami alert which is then withdrawn |
| 2003 | The Concorde made its last commercial flight, landing at Heathrow Airport, London |
| 2001 | Eleven die after two trucks collide, head on, in a mountain tunnel in Switzerland |
| 1996 | Hasan Raza makes Test Cricket debut for Pakistan age 14 years 238 days |
| 1996 | Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yankees win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses) |
| 1995 | Total solar eclipse in SW/S Asia (2m09s) |
| 1994 | Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed |
| 1993 | "Wonderful Tennessee" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| 1992 | Toronto Blue Jays beat Atl Braves, 4 games to 2, in 88th World Series |
| 1991 | "Dancing at Lughnasa" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 421 performances |
| 1991 | Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders |
| 1990 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1989 | After a weeks delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played |
| 1989 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1989 | Reverend Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud |
| 1988 | New York Islander's and NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires |
| 1988 | Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released |
| 1988 | Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown |
| 1987 | NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike |
| 1986 | Dodgers' Bill Russell, 38, announces his retirement |
| 1986 | Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria |
| 1984 | 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested |
| 1984 | Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed |
| 1984 | Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match |
| 1982 | "Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." opens at St. James Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| 1982 | 12th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14 |
| 1982 | 13th New York City Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29 |
| 1980 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1980 | Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar |
| 1980 | John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in the United Kingdom |
| 1980 | Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity |
| 1979 | Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy |
| 1979 | Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc |
| 1978 | Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto |
| 1978 | NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs New York Islanders |
| 1976 | 1st Jewish film and TV festival |
| 1976 | 6th New York City Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:39:11 |
| 1976 | 7th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10 |
| 1976 | Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader |
| 1976 | Sadiq and Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings vs. New Zealand |
| 1975 | Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris |
| 1974 | Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Texas Rangers) |
| 1973 | Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on New Jersey Turnpike |
| 1973 | John Lennon sues U.S. government to admit FBI is tapping his phone |
| 1973 | Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus |
| 1971 | Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yards) |
| 1971 | Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21 |
| 1970 | Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| 1970 | Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile |
| 1969 | Hanif, Mushtaq and Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together |
| 1965 | Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today," premieres |
| 1965 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament |
| 1964 | "Cambridge Circus" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 23 performances |
| 1964 | 18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan |
| 1964 | Belgian para's liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville |
| 1964 | Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda becomes president of Zaire |
| 1964 | Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1964 | Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla scores 166 on Cricket debut vs. Australia |
| 1964 | Test Cricket debut of Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan and Khalid Ibadulla vs. Australia |
| 1963 | "110 in the Shade" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 330 performances |
| 1963 | KRO shows 1st Bonanza |
| 1963 | Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award |
| 1961 | "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden New York City for 55 performances |
| 1960 | Disaster on U.S.S.R. (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin and team (165 die-unconfirmed); U.S.S.R. claims killed in plane crash |
| 1959 | U.S. premier of D Sjostakovitch's 1st Cello concert |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam |
| 1956 | AP names Cincinnati manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year |
| 1956 | Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes Prime Minister of Hungary |
| 1953 | KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, Arizona (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Arab Liberation Movement becomes only party of Syria |
| 1951 | Jan de Hartog's "4 Poster," premieres in New York City |
| 1951 | United Nation publishes its 1st postage stamps |
| 1948 | Bernard M. Baruch introduces term "Cold War" |
| 1948 | Francis Poulenc's "Sinfonietta," premieres |
| 1948 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical In Multiplicibus Curis |
| 1948 | WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States) |
| 1946 | Netherlands and Indonesia sign cease fire |
| 1945 | France (PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%) |
| 1945 | U.N. charter comes into effect |
| 1944 | Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners |
| 1944 | U.S. air raid on Japanese battleships/cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks |
| 1944 | U.S. aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines |
| 1944 | U.S. Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte |
| 1943 | Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting |
| 1942 | 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry |
| 1940 | 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938) |
| 1940 | Hitler meets Marshal Petain |
| 1940 | Japan eliminates U.S. terms (strike, play ball) from baseball |
| 1940 | Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants |
| 1939 | Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance" |
| 1939 | Joe DiMaggio wins AL MVP, Jimmie Foxx is runner-up |
| 1939 | Nazi require wearing of star of David |
| 1939 | Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware) |
| 1938 | U.S. forbids child labor in factories |
| 1935 | Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs manager Charlie Grimm and Chicago players W English, B Jurges and B Herman for actions in World Series |
| 1933 | Langston Hughes' "Mulatto," premieres in New York City |
| 1932 | British government signs trade treaty with U.S.S.R. |
| 1931 | Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion |
| 1931 | George Washington Bridge connecting New York to New Jersey opens |
| 1929 | "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8% |
| 1929 | Rudy Vallee's Fleishmann Hour begins broadcasting on NBC radio |
| 1929 | Belgium princess Marie-Jose and Italian crown prince Umberto gets engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails |
| 1924 | Christian General Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing |
| 1924 | Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven |
| 1923 | General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship |
| 1922 | German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925 |
| 1922 | Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State |
| 1917 | Battle at Caporetto: German and Austria smash Italian army |
| 1916 | Moroccan troops capture Ft. Douaumont |
| 1913 | Joe Tinker fired as Cincinnati Reds manager |
| 1911 | Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole |
| 1908 | Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Outto the Ball Game" |
| 1904 | 1st New York subway opens |
| 1903 | 1st trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1:58.1) |
| 1903 | George Sutton becomes billard champ |
| 1901 | 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor) |
| 1900 | General Redvers Buller returns to England |
| 1899 | Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army |
| 1889 | Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League |
| 1885 | Johann Strauss' opera "Zigeunerbaron," premieres in Vienna |
| 1881 | Levi P. Morton, U.S. ambas to France drives 1st rivet in Stat of Liberty |
| 1871 | Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese |
| 1861 | 1st transcontinental telegram sent ending Pony Express |
| 1861 | West Virginia seceded from Virginia |
| 1857 | World's 1st soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in England |
| 1856 | Constitution of South Australia adopted |
| 1851 | William Lassell discovers Ariel and Umbriel, satellites of Uranus |
| 1836 | A. Phillips patents match |
| 1818 | Felix Mendelssohn, 9, performs his 1st public concert (Berlin) |
| 1795 | 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia |
| 1681 | Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London |
| 1656 | Treaty of Vilnius: Russia and Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant |
| 1648 | Treaty of Westphalia ends 30 year war and Holy Roman Empire |
| 1648 | Switzerland's independence recognized |
| 1596 | Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary and Germany |
| 1531 | Bavaria joins Schmalkaldische Union |
| 1492 | 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany |
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