| 2000 | World Series, New York Yankees beat the New York Mets 4 games to 1 |
| 1997 | Bill Glasson wins Las Vegas Golf Invitational |
| 1997 | Nichirei LPGA International |
| 1997 | Raley's Gold Rush Senior Golf Classic |
| 1997 | World Series: Florida Marlins beat Cleveland Indians, 4 games to 3 |
| 1996 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Lit de Justice, Storm Song, Jewel Princess, Da Hass, Boston Harbor, Pilsudski, Alphabet Soup at Woodbine |
| 1994 | Jordan and Israel sign peace accord |
| 1993 | NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte |
| 1993 | New Jersey Devils lose 2-0 to Montreal, after winning 1st 7 games of 1993 |
| 1988 | Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service |
| 1988 | U.S. - Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK |
| 1987 | Dow Jones down 156.83 points |
| 1987 | Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads |
| 1986 | "Into the Light" closes at Neil Simon Theater New York City after 6 performances |
| 1985 | On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the World Series |
| 1984 | "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days |
| 1983 | Hugh Williams' "Pack of Lies," premieres in London |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1982 | Steve Carlton became 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards |
| 1982 | U.S. budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982 |
| 1981 | Los Angeles Dodgers beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 2 in 78th World Series |
| 1980 | 10th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:25:41.3 |
| 1980 | 11th New York City Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:41 |
| 1980 | St. Louis Cardinals sack Baltimore Colt quarterbacks an NFL record tying 12 times |
| 1978 | Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1977 | 5th and final test of space shuttle Enterprise |
| 1977 | Dr. Clifford R Wharton, Jr. named chancellor of State University of NY |
| 1977 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1976 | Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa |
| 1976 | Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic |
| 1975 | Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit U.S. |
| 1975 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1975 | Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball |
| 1975 | Mary Bea Porter wins LPGA Golf Inns of America |
| 1974 | Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA's Cavaliers and MISL's Crunch |
| 1973 | Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army |
| 1973 | President Nixon released 1st White House tapes on Watergate scandal |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1973 | Wings release "Helen Wheels" |
| 1972 | Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin |
| 1972 | Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam |
| 1970 | "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers |
| 1970 | Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam |
| 1969 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
| 1969 | WHMA (now WJSU) TV channel 40 in Anniston, AL (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1968 | 1st European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy |
| 1968 | KMIR TV channel 36 in Palm Springs, California (NBC) begins broadcastng |
| 1968 | Soyuz 3 launched |
| 1967 | Edward Brooke, born in Washington, D.C, Senator-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, first African American to be elected to the Senate |
| 1967 | Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne |
| 1966 | 1st Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2 |
| 1966 | U.S. aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die |
| 1965 | Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace |
| 1965 | Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang |
| 1964 | Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
| 1963 | U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Fallon Nevada |
| 1962 | Beatles tape "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why" |
| 1962 | John F. Kennedy warns Russia U.S. will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba |
| 1962 | Nikita Khrushchev sends note to John F. Kennedy offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if U.S. closed its bases in Turkey offer is rejected |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| 1961 | 1st Saturn launch vehicle made a flight test |
| 1960 | AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins and announces franchises in LA and Washington D.C. for 1961 |
| 1958 | PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip - New York to Paris |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov |
| 1957 | Vatican Radio begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved |
| 1956 | Vietnam promulgates its constitution |
| 1955 | 1st edition of "Village Voice" (New York City) published |
| 1955 | British troops occupy Saudi-Arabic oil field at Boeraimi |
| 1955 | Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president |
| 1954 | Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine |
| 1954 | Walt Disney's 1st television program, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC |
| 1953 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia |
| 1952 | Pakistan's 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts vs. India |
| 1951 | Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m and 15 miles |
| 1951 | Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden |
| 1951 | Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister |
| 1950 | 630 Dutch volunteers depart (on)to Korea |
| 1950 | Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president |
| 1950 | Mother Teresa found her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India |
| 1950 | South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary |
| 1949 | President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents |
| 1947 | Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir accedes to India |
| 1942 | 2nd day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal |
| 1942 | 4th day in battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough |
| 1942 | Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes |
| 1941 | 2nd meeting partisans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia |
| 1941 | U.S. savings bonds go on sale |
| 1939 | Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service |
| 1938 | Du Pont named its new synthetic fiber "nylon" |
| 1934 | While Washington player-mgr Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson owner Clark Griffith's niece and adopted daughter, he is sold to Red Sox |
| 1933 | French government of Serraut forms |
| 1931 | Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra," premieres in New York City |
| 1930 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "Zolotoy Vyek," premieres in Leningrad |
| 1926 | Arthur Goodrich's "Caponsacchi," premieres in New York City |
| 1926 | Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 "Belga") |
| 1923 | Dutch 2nd Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote) |
| 1923 | Govt-Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns |
| 1922 | Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists and Benito Mussolini |
| 1921 | Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia |
| 1919 | B. C. Hilliams musical "Buddies," premieres in New York City |
| 1919 | Elgars "Cello concerto op 85" premieres in Queen's Hall London |
| 1919 | President Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden |
| 1918 | Soldier revolt at Harskamp Veluwe |
| 1917 | Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military |
| 1916 | Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control) |
| 1913 | Huerta elected president of Mexico |
| 1912 | Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup) |
| 1912 | Woolwich Tunnel under Thames opens |
| 1911 | Philadelphia A's beat New York Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series |
| 1905 | 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| 1905 | Union of Sweden and Norway ends |
| 1903 | Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay |
| 1901 | 1st use of "getaway car" occurs after holding up a shop in Paris |
| 1900 | After 4 years of work, 1st section of New York subway opens |
| 1896 | Abyssinia and Italy sign peace treaty |
| 1894 | German emperor Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg |
| 1887 | Detroit (NL) beats St. Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in World Series |
| 1886 | Modest Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain," premieres in Russia |
| 1881 | Gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona |
| 1869 | 1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, New York) |
| 1864 | Union troops ambush and kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond MI |
| 1863 | Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game |
| 1863 | Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva |
| 1863 | Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer |
| 1861 | Pony Express ends |
| 1858 | Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine |
| 1830 | Belgian rebels occupy Antwerp |
| 1825 | Erie Canal between Hudson River and Lake Erie opened |
| 1822 | King Willem I obligates inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language |
| 1810 | U.S. annexes western Florida |
| 1795 | Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and U.S. is signed, establishing southern boundary of U.S. and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi |
| 1787 | "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution |
| 1774 | 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia |
| 1774 | Minute Men organized in colonies |
| 1749 | Georgia Colony reverses itself and rules slavery is legal |
| 1682 | William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York |
| 1674 | Prince Willem III occupies Grave |
| 1667 | Aru Palakka's occupies Makassar (Goa) |
| 1662 | Charles II of England sold Dunkirk to France |
| 1534 | Charles V names Joris of Egmont, bishop of Utrecht |
| 1529 | Thomas More appointed English Lord Chancellor |
| 1524 | Spanish troops give Milan to France |
| 1492 | Columbus' fleet anchors on Ragged Island Range, Bahamas |
| 1492 | Lead pencils 1st used |
| 1407 | Mobs attack Jewish community of Cracow |
| 1387 | Amsterdam buccaneer Herman of Kuinre sign peace |
| 1366 | Comet 55P/1366 U1 (Tempel-Tuttle) approaches 0.0229 AUs of Earth |
