| 2005 | Mohamed ElBaradei received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the IAEA |
| 2001 | U.S. launches strikes against the Taleban in Afghanistan, in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US. |
| 1995 | Boston's Fleet Center opens, New York Islanders and Boston Bruins tie at 4-4 |
| 1995 | Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees |
| 1994 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1994 | Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan |
| 1994 | Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government |
| 1994 | Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57) |
| 1993 | "Les Miserables," opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines |
| 1993 | "She Loves Me" opens at Atkinson Theater New York City for 294 performances |
| 1993 | Massive Moslem demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed |
| 1993 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison |
| 1992 | Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2) |
| 1991 | Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics |
| 1991 | Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal and Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in New York thoroughbred racing history |
| 1991 | Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her |
| 1990 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic |
| 1990 | Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens |
| 1989 | Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander |
| 1989 | Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games) |
| 1988 | Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as New York Yankee manager |
| 1988 | Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox |
| 1988 | Latvian flag raised in Riga for 1st time since annexation by U.S.S.R. |
| 1988 | Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time |
| 1988 | Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson |
| 1988 | WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 and WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (New York City radio) |
| 1986 | 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" begins publishing |
| 1985 | 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB |
| 1985 | KHQ-AM in Spokane Washington's final transmission |
| 1985 | Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters |
| 1985 | PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro |
| 1984 | Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, San Diego Padres win pennant |
| 1984 | Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader |
| 1982 | "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 5000+ performances |
| 1982 | Olof Palme forms Swedish government |
| 1981 | Hosni Mubarak became acting-president of Egypt |
| 1981 | In 1st Eastern Division championship Yankees beat Brewers 5-3 |
| 1980 | Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns |
| 1979 | "1940's Radio Hour" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 105 performances |
| 1979 | "Eubie!" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 439 performances |
| 1979 | Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns |
| 1979 | Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1978 | Los Angeles Dodgers win the pennant |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1977 | Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis |
| 1977 | U.S.S.R. adopts constitution |
| 1975 | Players' Association, files a suit on behalf of Dodgers Andy Messersmith |
| 1975 | U.S. decides John Lennon won't be deported due to U.K. pot conviction |
| 1974 | East Germany amends constitution |
| 1973 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
| 1972 | 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2 |
| 1971 | T McNally's "Where has Tommy Flowers gone?," premieres in New York City |
| 1969 | WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system |
| 1967 | Beatles turn down $1 million New York concert offer by Sid Berstein |
| 1967 | Rolf Hochhuths "Soldaten," premieres in West Berlin |
| 1965 | 50 mph gust carries 165 lb Robert Mitera's tee shot 447 |
| 1965 | Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups |
| 1965 | Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one |
| 1964 | New York Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 and 29th in 61 World Series |
| 1963 | Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary |
| 1963 | Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190 |
| 1963 | John F. Kennedy signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty |
| 1962 | 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | "Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 607 performances |
| 1961 | 15th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago |
| 1960 | "Route 66" premieres |
| 1960 | 2nd John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon debate |
| 1959 | "Happy Town" opens at 84th St. Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1959 | Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of U.S.S.R.'s Luna 3 |
| 1958 | Potter Stewart appointed to U.S. Supreme Court |
| 1958 | U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury |
| 1957 | "American Bandstand" premieres |
| 1957 | KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational |
| 1956 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open |
| 1955 | Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched |
| 1954 | Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt |
| 1954 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem |
| 1953 | Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply |
| 1952 | New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series |
| 1952 | 1st "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host) |
| 1952 | Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins |
| 1951 | David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government |
| 1950 | New York Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series |
| 1950 | U.S. forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel |
| 1950 | Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head |
| 1950 | Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game, 5-2 |
| 1950 | William H. Jackson, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 1950 | Yankees win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies |
| 1949 | German Dem Rep formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day) |
| 1949 | Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier of East Germany |
| 1949 | Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president of East Germany |
| 1947 | Larry MacPhail resigns as Yankees General Manager after final game of World Series |
| 1946 | Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet, premieres |
| 1945 | Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes |
| 1944 | Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen |
| 1944 | Field Marshal Rommel gets order to return to Berlin |
| 1944 | Riots in Amersfoort/Utrecht/Strugle |
| 1944 | Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums |
| 1944 | Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp |
| 1943 | Weill/Perelman/Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus," premieres in New York City |
| 1942 | 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad |
| 1942 | Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Netherlands) |
| 1942 | Maxwell Andersons "Eve of St. Mark," premieres in New York City |
| 1942 | U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations |
| 1942 | Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ |
| 1941 | German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R. |
| 1940 | Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series |
| 1938 | Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J |
| 1937 | Johan Wagenaar's "Feestmars" premieres in Amsterdam |
| 1936 | 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel |
| 1935 | Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series |
| 1933 | New York Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series |
| 1931 | 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, New York |
| 1929 | Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address U.S. Congress |
| 1928 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0) |
| 1928 | Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia |
| 1927 | Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game |
| 1926 | Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage |
| 1926 | Italian Great Fascist Council forms |
| 1924 | 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees at Marble Bar, Australia begins |
| 1924 | Greek government of Dikalekopoulis, forms |
| 1923 | Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138 |
| 1922 | 1st radio link, WNJ (Newark) and WGY (Senectady) link for World Series |
| 1922 | Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain |
| 1922 | Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria |
| 1919 | 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport and KLM) |
| 1919 | Fritz Kreisler and F Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms," premieres in New York City |
| 1919 | KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline) |
| 1916 | 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech and Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee |
| 1913 | Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line |
| 1908 | Crete revolts against Turkey and aligns with Greece |
| 1908 | Serbia and Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact |
| 1907 | France's Henry Farman flies 30m in a double decker plane |
| 1904 | New York Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12) |
| 1900 | The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event |
| 1886 | Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba |
| 1882 | 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0 |
| 1879 | Germany and Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant |
| 1871 | 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters |
| 1870 | Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon |
| 1868 | Cornell University (Ithaca New York) opens |
| 1864 | Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor Brazil-CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett |
| 1856 | Cyrus Chambers, Jr. patents folding machine that folds book and newspapers |
| 1840 | Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands |
| 1826 | Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in U.S.) begins operations |
| 1816 | 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans |
| 1806 | Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood |
| 1780 | British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC |
| 1777 | Americans beat Brits in 2nd Battle of Saratoga and Battle of Bemis Hts |
| 1765 | Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York |
| 1763 | George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement |
| 1737 | 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India) |
| 1714 | People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar, Netherlands |
| 1702 | English/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond |
| 1690 | English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade |
| 1637 | Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda |
| 1571 | Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain and Italy) destroys Turkish fleet |
| 1542 | Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast |
| 1520 | 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain |
| 1506 | Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna |
| 1492 | Columbus misses Florida when he changed course |
| 336 | St. Mark ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
