| 2012 | The Dutch non-profit organization's Women on Waves abortion rights activist ship, which provides abortions and related medical services to women from countries with restrictive abortion laws, was blocked from entering Morocco's port of Smir |
| 2012 | The FBI claim to have completed it's investigation into the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya in one day |
| 2011 | In Cupertino, California, Apple Inc. announces the release of it much-anticipated iPhone 4S |
| 2011 | The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess, for their work on the accelerating expansion of the universe |
| 2010 | Scientists working near Kokoda, Papua New Guinea uncover world's oldest known high altitude human settlement, estimated to be 49,000 years old |
| 2010 | The 2011 draft budget for Greece increases its austerity measures |
| 2006 | Dow closes above 11,800 for the first time |
| 1997 | Farm Aid 10 concert cancelled due to weak ticket sales |
| 1996 | BPAA U.S. Bowling Open by Dave Husted |
| 1996 | BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Liz Johnson |
| 1996 | Shahid Afridi scores century in 37 balls for Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka |
| 1995 | 29th Country Music Association Award: Krauss Jackson win |
| 1995 | Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners |
| 1994 | 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+ |
| 1994 | Keith Moore is charged with stealing $5,000,000 from Sting |
| 1994 | Soyuz TM-20 launches |
| 1993 | Troops of President Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament) |
| 1992 | "Anna Karenina" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 46 performances |
| 1992 | "Real Inspector Hound" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 61 performances |
| 1992 | 1st time AL East and West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor and Oak |
| 1992 | 2nd Solheim Cup: Europe beats U.S., 11 -6 at Dalmahoy CC Scotland |
| 1992 | El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die |
| 1992 | Miami Dolphen Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards |
| 1991 | NHL New York Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier |
| 1991 | San Jose Sharks lose 4-3 to Vancouver Canucks in their 1st NHL game |
| 1991 | Whiteland Janice, driven by Mike Lachance, wins Kentucky Futurity |
| 1990 | "Stand Up Tragedy" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 13 performances |
| 1989 | Giants Will Clark hits 1st NLCS grand slam since 1977 |
| 1989 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1988 | Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid |
| 1987 | 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players |
| 1987 | Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win AL pennant |
| 1987 | James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals) |
| 1986 | New York Yankee Dave Righetti saves doubleheader for then record 46 saves |
| 1986 | Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde |
| 1986 | Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America |
| 1985 | Henry G. Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia |
| 1985 | Shite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley - CIA station chief in Beirut |
| 1984 | U.S. government closes down due to budget problems |
| 1984 | Yankees clinch AL East |
| 1983 | Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car |
| 1982 | Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of West Germany |
| 1981 | Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins Portland Ping Team Golf Champ |
| 1981 | Meadowlands Arena opens in New Jersey |
| 1981 | Pasakevi Kouna of Greece (9) is youngest International gymnastics participant |
| 1980 | Mike Schmidt's 2-run home run clinches NL East title for Phillies |
| 1979 | Hugh Leonards "Life," premieres in Dublin |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1978 | Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I |
| 1977 | Pier 39 opens in San Francisco |
| 1976 | Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke |
| 1976 | Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers |
| 1974 | John Lennon releases "Walls and Bridges" album |
| 1973 | Hans of Manens ballet "Adagio Hammerklavier" premieres in Amsterdam |
| 1972 | Ted Williams manages his final game as Rangers lose to Royals, 4-0 |
| 1971 | Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World |
| 1971 | KMPH TV channel 26 in Visalia-Fresno, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1970 | Kansas City Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal |
| 1970 | Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages |
| 1970 | WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma |
| 1969 | Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Brooklyn Myrtle Beach el |
| 1969 | U.N. starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters |
| 1969 | Baseball's 1st divisional playoff games, Mets beat Braves 9-5 and Orioles beat Twins 4-3 in 12 innings |
| 1967 | 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature Yankees, Giants or Dodgers |
| 1966 | Dutch Cardinal Alfrink presents New Catechism |
| 1966 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1966 | Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1965 | "Pickwick" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 56 performances |
| 1965 | Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN) |
| 1965 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon |
| 1964 | Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss and Ga |
| 1964 | 10th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills |
| 1964 | 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81 |
| 1964 | Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples |
| 1964 | Patriots' Gino Cappelletti kicks 6-of-6 field goals against Broncos |
| 1964 | Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St. Louis |
| 1963 | Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti |
| 1963 | Gambia achieves full internal self-government |
| 1962 | USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m |
| 1962 | Whitey Ford's World Series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | Whitey Ford's 3rd straight World Series shutout |
| 1960 | Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit |
| 1959 | 1st World Series game played west of St. Louis (in LA) |
| 1959 | Cleveland Browns' Jim Brown makes club record 37 rushing attempts |
| 1959 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad |
| 1959 | Los Angeles Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394 |
| 1959 | Netherlands beats Belgium 9-1 |
| 1959 | U.S.S.R. Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side |
| 1958 | 12th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-3 at Montreal |
| 1958 | 5th French republic forms |
| 1957 | "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite |
| 1956 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| 1955 | Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7 |
| 1955 | Reverend Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul |
| 1953 | Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:17:39.4) |
| 1953 | Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam in World Series |
| 1952 | "Top Banana" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 356 performances |
| 1951 | In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn |
| 1950 | French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam |
| 1949 | American Contract Bridge League votes 58 % to keep blacks out |
| 1949 | United Nations' permanent New York City headquarters is dedicated |
| 1948 | Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game |
| 1948 | World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft |
| 1944 | British troops land on Greek continent |
| 1944 | 1st All St. Louis World Series, all games played at Sportsman's Park |
| 1944 | St. Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance |
| 1943 | Corsica freed by Free French |
| 1943 | German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence) |
| 1942 | German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad |
| 1940 | 12 German aircraft shot down above England |
| 1940 | Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in Alps |
| 1940 | French Vichy-regime proclaims end of "Statut of the Juifs" |
| 1940 | Wrestling returns to Madison Square Garden after 12 year lay off |
| 1939 | Last Polish troops surrender |
| 1936 | Italian lire devalued |
| 1936 | Record 66,669 at Yankee Stadium for 4th game of World Series |
| 1933 | Esquire magazine is 1st published |
| 1932 | Anti-semite Julius Gombos forms new government in Hungary |
| 1932 | Clark Griffith announces Walter Johnson will be manager of Senators |
| 1932 | Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov marries Yelena Sergeyevna |
| 1931 | Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts |
| 1931 | Juan Esteban Montero becomes president of Chile |
| 1930 | A's Jack Quinn, 46, pitches 2 inn, is oldest to play in World Series |
| 1928 | 25th World Series begins, New York Yankees vs St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1928 | KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet |
| 1926 | Dahlia is officially designated as San Francisco city flower |
| 1925 | Harry Heilmann's 6 hits edges Ty Cobb .393 to .389 as batting champ |
| 1924 | New York Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series |
| 1923 | Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for shortest amount of time (3 hours). Referee overturns decision |
| 1922 | For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ and WGY) |
| 1922 | Protocol of Genevia signed: Austria gains independence |
| 1921 | League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians |
| 1918 | Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in New York City |
| 1917 | British assault on Broodseinde, France |
| 1916 | Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time |
| 1915 | Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah is established |
| 1914 | Dardanellen (French and English) fleet bombs Turkish forts |
| 1913 | Bkln Dodger Jake Daubert earns a new Chalmers auto as NL MVP |
| 1913 | Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in a game |
| 1911 | 1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station) |
| 1910 | Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England |
| 1906 | Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36 .763) of year |
| 1904 | 1st day of New York City subway, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks |
| 1900 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Problem of Thor Bridge" |
| 1897 | George Bernard Shaw's "Devil's Disciple," premieres in New York City |
| 1895 | 1st U.S. Golf Open: Horace Rawlins shoots a 173 at Newport Golf Club Rhode Island |
| 1895 | Horace Rawlins wins 1st U.S. Open golf tournament (Newport RI) |
| 1883 | Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail |
| 1881 | Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano |
| 1880 | University of California founded in Los Angeles |
| 1873 | Toronto Argonaut Football Club forms |
| 1864 | National black convention meets (Syracuse New York) |
| 1864 | New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms |
| 1862 | Battle of Corinth ends |
| 1854 | Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair |
| 1834 | Franz Grillparzer's "Der Traum ein Leben," premieres in Vienna |
| 1830 | Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands |
| 1824 | Mexico becomes a republic |
| 1777 | Battle of Germantown |
| 1777 | General George Washington's troops attacked British at Germantown, Pennsylvania |
| 1767 | Prince Willem V marries Prussian princess Wilhelmina |
| 1712 | Utrecht banishes poor Jews |
| 1675 | Christian Huygens patents pocket watch |
| 1648 | Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen |
| 1636 | Battle at Wittstock, Brandenburg: Sweden beat Ferdinand III |
| 1636 | In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's 1st law drafted |
| 1582 | Last Julian calender day in Spain/Portugal/pontifical states |
| 1571 | Synod of Emden |
| 1539 | King Henry VIII and Anna of Kleef marry |
| 1535 | 1st full English translation of the Bible printed in Switzerland |
| 1518 | Henry VIII's daughter Mary marries French crown prince |
| 1209 | Pope Innocent II crowns German king Otto of Wittelsbach |
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