| 2009 | A train travelling through heavy rain in Hua Hin in southern Thailand, is derailed, killing serval people and injuring dozens |
| 1998 | House Judiciary Committee recommends a full impeachment inquiry |
| 1997 | 35th Tennis Fed Cup: France beats Netherlands in Den Bosch Netherlands (4-1) |
| 1997 | Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA CoreStates Betsy King Classic |
| 1997 | Davis Love III wins golf's Buick challenge, shooting a 267 |
| 1997 | STS-86 (Atlantis 20) lands |
| 1997 | Vantage Senior Golf Championship |
| 1996 | Caroline Pierce wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
| 1996 | Cleveland Indians strike out 23 Baltimore Orioles in 12 inn playoff game |
| 1996 | New York Yankee Bernie Williams switch hits home runs in a post season game |
| 1995 | "Company" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 68 performances |
| 1994 | 28th Country Music Association Award |
| 1994 | 52 members of Zonnetempel, murdered |
| 1993 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1993 | Last honor guard at Lenin's mausoleum |
| 1993 | Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Veritatis splendor |
| 1992 | 1st overturn of a George Bush veto (cable bill) |
| 1992 | El Al cargo jet crashes into apartment complex in Amsterdam (250 die) |
| 1992 | New York senator Alphonse D'Mato fillerbusters for 15 hours 20 minutes |
| 1992 | U.S. Air goes on strike |
| 1991 | Actor Ted Shackelford (Knots Landing) weds Annett Wolf |
| 1991 | Military transport plane crashes at Djakarta, 133 dies |
| 1991 | New Jersey Devils begin their 10th Anniversary with a 7-2 win over the Blues |
| 1991 | U.S.S.R. reduces nuclear weapons arsenal |
| 1991 | Carlos Huerta's NCAA record streak of successful points after a touchdown ends at 157 |
| 1991 | Fresno State ties NCAA record with 49 points in a quarter, as they route New Mexico 94-17 |
| 1990 | Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos) |
| 1988 | Brazil adopts its Constitution |
| 1988 | Chilean population agrees at referendum against Pinochet regime |
| 1988 | Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism |
| 1986 | London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms |
| 1985 | Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game |
| 1984 | 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched |
| 1983 | Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1982 | 1st New Jersey Devils game, tie the Pitts Penguins 3-3 at the Meadowlands |
| 1982 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1982 | Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia |
| 1982 | Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico |
| 1981 | Dutch guilder/Deutsche mark revalued up 5.5% |
| 1981 | Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American |
| 1980 | Formal opening of meditation hall of Zenshin Temple in Riverdale Bronx |
| 1980 | Kathy Whitworth/Donna Caponi Young win Portland Ping Team Golf Champ |
| 1980 | Yankees set AL attendance mark at 2,627,417 |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature |
| 1978 | Sweden's Falldin government falls |
| 1977 | "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 43 performances |
| 1976 | Seattle and Toronto picks 30 unprotected players on other AL rosters Ruppert Jones (Seattle) and Bob Bailor (Toronto) are picked 1st |
| 1975 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1970 | John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane |
| 1970 | PBS becomes a network |
| 1970 | Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross |
| 1969 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
| 1969 | Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC |
| 1969 | Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal |
| 1968 | Battles between Catholic demonstrators and police in Londonderry |
| 1968 | KPLM (now KESQ) TV channel 42 in Palm Springs, California (ABC) begins |
| 1965 | Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups |
| 1965 | Dick McInnes stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite |
| 1964 | KIXE TV channel 9 in Redding, California (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | San Francisco Fire Department Museum is dedicated |
| 1963 | 17th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-3 at Toronto |
| 1963 | Hyde St. Pier re-opens as State Historical Park |
| 1963 | Little Richard joins Everly Brothers Tour |
| 1962 | Beatles release their 1st record "Love Me Do" |
| 1961 | China and Nepal sign treaty |
| 1960 | British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament |
| 1960 | Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die) |
| 1960 | KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | KRTV TV channel 3 in Great Falls, Montana (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1957 | 11th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3 at Montreal |
| 1957 | 12th Ryder Cup: Britain - Ireland, 7 - 4 at Lindrick GC, England |
| 1957 | Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years |
| 1956 | Yogi Berra becomes 4th Yank to hit a World Series grand slam |
| 1954 | Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern U.S. |
| 1953 | Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of U.S. |
| 1953 | 50th World Series sees New York Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as New York Billy Martin's 12 hits set record; Yankees win record 5th consec WS |
| 1952 | 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow |
| 1952 | 6th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 1-1 at Detroit |
| 1950 | "Pardon Our French" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 100 performances |
| 1949 | WBNS TV channel 10 in Columbus, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1949 | WOR (now WWOR) TV channel 9 in NY-Secaucus, New York (IND) begins |
| 1947 | 1st Presidential address televised from White House-HS Truman |
| 1947 | Al Gionfriddo makes a great catch off Joe Dimaggio in World Series |
| 1946 | "Yours Is My Heart" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 36 performances |
| 1945 | "Meet the Press" premieres on radio |
| 1945 | Indonesian army forms |
| 1945 | Queen Wilhelmina visits Rotterdam |
| 1944 | Harold Arlen/ET Harburgs musical premieres in New York City |
| 1944 | Kerkrade (Netherlands) liberated |
| 1943 | U.S. air raid on Wake |
| 1942 | 5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred |
| 1942 | St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series |
| 1941 | Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out, instead Yankees score 4 and win 7-4 |
| 1937 | Minister Romme says unemployment is 25% "quarter of Romme" |
| 1931 | 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Washington (Herndon and Pangborn) |
| 1931 | Paul Green's "House of Connelly," premieres in New York City |
| 1930 | British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die |
| 1925 | WSM-AM in Nashville, Tennessee begins radio transmissions |
| 1924 | 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in New York City Daily News |
| 1923 | Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star |
| 1922 | Yankees and Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie World Series game |
| 1921 | 1st World Series radio broadcast, Yankees beat Giants 3-0 |
| 1921 | Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect |
| 1919 | Norwegian population agrees to prohibition |
| 1916 | Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured |
| 1912 | Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game |
| 1912 | Red Sox defeat A's 3-0 for then AL record 105th win |
| 1912 | Yankees win final game at Hilltop stadium |
| 1911 | Italian troops occupy Tripoli |
| 1910 | Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic |
| 1908 | Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar |
| 1908 | White Sox Ed Walsh tops Detroit 6-1 for his 40th victory |
| 1907 | Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8) |
| 1907 | Philadelphia A's Rube Vickers no-hits Washington Senators, 4-0 in 5 inning game |
| 1906 | Henry Mathewson (New York Giants, Christy's brother) walks 14 men |
| 1905 | Orville/Wilbur Wright's "Flyer III" flight 38.5 km in 38.3" |
| 1900 | 6th U.S. Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 313 at Chicago Golf Club Illinois |
| 1900 | Harry Vardon wins U.S. Open golf tournament |
| 1897 | Solomon Andrees baloon/polar expedition reaches White Island |
| 1896 | William Gillette's "Secret Service," premieres in New York City |
| 1892 | Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup |
| 1877 | Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perce War |
| 1875 | Palace Hotel on Market Street, San Francisco opens |
| 1867 | Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska |
| 1864 | Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South |
| 1864 | Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die) |
| 1863 | Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides |
| 1862 | Battle of Big Hatchie River, MS |
| 1862 | Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas |
| 1833 | Charles Darwin moves with Parana to Santa Fe Bajada Argentina |
| 1830 | King Willem I mobilizes Dutch army |
| 1823 | Weber visits Beethoven |
| 1813 | Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British |
| 1796 | Spain declares war on England |
| 1777 | Washington begins assault on Germantown, Penn |
| 1762 | Opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" is produced (Vienna) |
| 1750 | Carlo Goldoni's "Il teatro comica," premieres in Venice |
| 1693 | Haarlem people's revolution due to food shortages |
| 1632 | Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Groningen |
| 1582 | Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries |
| 1572 | Spanish army under Alva's son Don Frederik plunders Mechelen |
| 1568 | Conference of York begins: trial against Mary Stuart |
| 1568 | Willem of Oranges army occupies Brabant |
| 1511 | Eedgenootschap signs anti-French Saint League |
| 1511 | Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Aragon/Venice/Swiss |
| 1465 | French King Louis XI signs peace with Charles the Stout |
| 1450 | Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX |
| 1430 | Duke Philip the Good of Bourgondy visits Brussels |
| 1349 | Paris' theologist Jean de Fayt warns for flagellanten at Avignon |
| 869 | 4th Council of Constantinople (8th ecumenical council) opens |
| 610 | Heraclius' fleet takes Constantinople |
