| 1997 | NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league |
| 1996 | Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever |
| 1995 | Atlanta Braves beat Cleveland Indians in 6 games in World Series |
| 1995 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song |
| 1994 | Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time |
| 1993 | Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years |
| 1993 | Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns |
| 1992 | Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world! |
| 1989 | Oakland A's sweep San Francisco Giants in earthquake/BART series |
| 1988 | Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister |
| 1988 | Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University Washington library |
| 1986 | KOB-AM in Albuquerque New Mexico changes call letters to KKOB |
| 1986 | KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM's final transmission |
| 1985 | Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka vs. Pakistan |
| 1984 | 14th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30 |
| 1984 | 15th New York City Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53 |
| 1984 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament |
| 1982 | NASA launches RCA-E |
| 1982 | Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections |
| 1981 | Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia |
| 1981 | New York Yankee George Frazier loses 3 World Series games |
| 1979 | Dick Howser (best Yank manager win-lost percentage .636) replaces Billy Martin |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20) |
| 1976 | Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (New York Yankees) |
| 1976 | Train collision at Goes, Netherlands, 7 die |
| 1975 | Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games |
| 1975 | Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo |
| 1974 | 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian and Westfall |
| 1974 | Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon) |
| 1974 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1973 | Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record) |
| 1973 | Sharon Miller wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
| 1972 | "Mother Earth" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| 1971 | England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit |
| 1971 | John and Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in New York City |
| 1970 | NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99 |
| 1970 | US/U.S.S.R. sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts |
| 1966 | Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour |
| 1965 | 630 foot high Gateway Arch completed in St. Louis |
| 1965 | Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion |
| 1962 | Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis |
| 1962 | New York Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Washington Redskins (49-34) |
| 1962 | Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | "Fiorello!" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 796 performances |
| 1961 | Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for New York Mets |
| 1959 | Buffalo Bills enter AFL |
| 1959 | Jean Genet's "Les Nigres," premieres in Paris |
| 1958 | Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII |
| 1958 | Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322) |
| 1957 | WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus |
| 1955 | Egypt and Saudi-Arabia sign defense treaty |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature |
| 1954 | Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Philadelphia syndicate |
| 1954 | N Richard Nash' "Rainmaker," premieres in New York City |
| 1954 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway |
| 1953 | Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record) |
| 1953 | Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees |
| 1952 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Women's Texas Golf Open |
| 1951 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1949 | Eugenie Anderson is 1st woman U.S. ambassador |
| 1949 | Georges Bidault elected president of France |
| 1948 | Flag of Israel is adopted |
| 1946 | German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.S.R. |
| 1944 | Russia and Bulgaria sign weapon pact |
| 1943 | U-220 sinks |
| 1942 | 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery |
| 1942 | Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan) |
| 1940 | Greece successfully resists Italy's attack |
| 1940 | Meeting between Hitler and Mussolini in Florence |
| 1939 | Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia |
| 1939 | Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland |
| 1938 | Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona) |
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary |
| 1935 | Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in New York City |
| 1934 | Brooklyn and Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game |
| 1929 | Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64 |
| 1928 | Bradman scores 131 NSW vs. Queensland, 212 minutes, 14 fours |
| 1928 | Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia |
| 1927 | Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia |
| 1927 | KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Netherlands-Indies after 1st regular flight |
| 1924 | French-Russian trade agreement signed |
| 1924 | White Sox beat New York Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend |
| 1922 | 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game |
| 1922 | Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government |
| 1921 | Amsterdam's Tuschinski movie theater opens |
| 1919 | Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto |
| 1918 | Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up |
| 1915 | Richard Strauss' Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin |
| 1914 | German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea |
| 1914 | Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates |
| 1911 | Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game |
| 1906 | Belgian-British "Union Minstry of Haut-Katanga" begins |
| 1904 | St. Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints |
| 1900 | After over 5 months 2nd Olympic games in Paris France, close |
| 1894 | German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg |
| 1893 | Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of "Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique" |
| 1891 | Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300 |
| 1890 | Last NL-AA World Series game Brooklyn ties Louisville 3 games and 1 tie |
| 1886 | Statue of Liberty dedicated by President Grover Cleveland |
| 1882 | Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association |
| 1867 | Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US |
| 1864 | Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends after 1554 casualties |
| 1864 | Battle of Wauhatchie, TN |
| 1863 | Battle at Wauhatchie Georgia: 865 killed or injured |
| 1858 | Macy's Department store opens in New York City |
| 1846 | Pioneers suffer blizzard in Sierra Nevada; 42 die |
| 1793 | Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin |
| 1790 | New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000 |
| 1776 | Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ |
| 1746 | Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die |
| 1740 | Ivan VI becomes czar of Russia |
| 1646 | 1st Protestant church assembly for indians (Massachusetts) |
| 1636 | Harvard University (Cambridge Mass) founded |
| 1628 | Hugenot bulwark La Rochelle surrenders to Cardinal Richelieu |
| 1612 | Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I |
| 1610 | Thomas West baron De La Mar appointed as 1st Governor of Virginia colony |
| 1595 | Battle at Giurgevo: Zsigmond Bathory of Transylvania beats Turks |
| 1574 | Prince Willem van Orange installs university |
| 1467 | Battle at Brustem: Charles the Stoute beats the Luikenaars |
| 1422 | Charles V's son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France |
| 1061 | Emperor disposes of bishop Cadalus and Pope Honorius II |
| 969 | Byzantines troops occupy Antioch Syria |
| 312 | Emperor Constantine the Great beats rivaal Maxentius |
| 306 | Mark Aurelius Valerius Maxentius proclaimed emperor of Rome |
