| 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 | 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony |
| 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 |
