| 2012 | As German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Greece, an estimated 25,000 protest in Athens |
| 2012 | The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Serge Haroche and David Wineland for their work on quantum optics |
| 2011 | In Poland, the Polish People's Party coalition becomes the first government to be reelected since Poland transitioned to democracy in 1989 |
| 2011 | Germany's Sebastian Vettel becomes the youngest driver to win the Formula One World Championship twice |
| 2010 | Wild celebrations occur as a drill reaches an underground chamber with 33-trapped Chilean miners inside |
| 2010 | The New York Yankees beat the Minnesota Twins, progressing to Major League Baseball's 2010 American League Championship Series |
| 2008 | Iceland takes control of 3 banks due to the global financial crisis |
| 2006 | North Korea conducts first atomic weapons test |
| 1997 | ABL players allowed to own stock in the league |
| 1997 | Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico |
| 1997 | NC's Dean Smith winningest college basetball coach retires |
| 1997 | New York Rangers are 1st NHL team to open with 4 straight ties |
| 1997 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo |
| 1996 | Howard Stern's book "Miss America" released in paperback |
| 1994 | Darmstadt creates element 110 |
| 1992 | Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to New York |
| 1991 | "On Borrowed Time" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 99 performances |
| 1991 | Bush declares "total confidence" in nominee Clarence Thomas |
| 1991 | San Jose Sharks beat Calgary for their 1st NHL win, 4-3 |
| 1990 | David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
| 1990 | Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon |
| 1990 | Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile |
| 1989 | 23rd Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Kathy Mattea wins |
| 1989 | 27th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Tokyo Japan (3-0) |
| 1989 | 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his Los Angeles Raiders beat New York Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football |
| 1988 | 17% vote extremely-right Flemish Block in Belgium |
| 1988 | Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series |
| 1987 | Japanese bank buys "Lady McGill" stamp for $1,100,000 |
| 1986 | "Phantom of the Opera" premeires in London |
| 1986 | Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| 1986 | Senate convicted U.S. District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment |
| 1985 | "Tango Argentino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 198 performances |
| 1985 | Central Park's Strawberry Fields, dedicated |
| 1985 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1984 | Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st U.S. woman to walk in space |
| 1983 | 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma |
| 1982 | Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead |
| 1980 | 1st consumer use of home banking by computer |
| 1980 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz |
| 1980 | Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot |
| 1979 | Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1978 | 12th Country Music Association Award |
| 1978 | John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical "Ballroom," premieres in New York City |
| 1977 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Clubs Golf Classic |
| 1977 | Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock |
| 1977 | Yankees rally for 3 in 9th and beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31 |
| 1976 | "Robber Bridegroom" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 145 performances |
| 1976 | Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on debut New Zealand vs. Pak Javed 1st wkt |
| 1976 | TCricket est debut of Javed Miandad, scores 163 on 1st day |
| 1976 | Yankees 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1 |
| 1975 | Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco |
| 1975 | Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1974 | Race riot in Boston due to "busing" |
| 1974 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to New York Rangers at MSG Washington Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak |
| 1973 | 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942 |
| 1973 | Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years |
| 1973 | Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal |
| 1973 | Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors |
| 1972 | "Dude" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| 1971 | Japans emperor Hirohito visits Netherlands |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1970 | Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence |
| 1969 | Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together" |
| 1968 | Government seizes oil fields in Peru |
| 1968 | WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | Baltimore Orioles sweep Los Angeles Dodgers, in 63rd World Series |
| 1966 | Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded "Got Live if you Want It" |
| 1965 | 16th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 19 -12 at Royal Birkdale, England |
| 1965 | Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks |
| 1963 | British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns |
| 1963 | Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die |
| 1963 | French air force gets 1st nuclear weapons |
| 1963 | Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba and Haiti, kills 6,000 |
| 1963 | Uganda becomes a republic within British Commonwealth |
| 1962 | Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130 |
| 1962 | NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m |
| 1962 | Uganda declares independence from Great Britain |
| 1961 | New York Yankees beat Cincinnati Reds, 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series |
| 1961 | Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth |
| 1961 | U.S. members of Communist Party obliged to report themselves to Police |
| 1961 | Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic) |
| 1961 | Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning |
| 1961 | World Series scoreless pitching streak Yankees beat Reds 4 games to 1 |
| 1960 | Cowboy quarterback Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2") |
| 1959 | 1st phone call between auto and plane |
| 1959 | Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton |
| 1958 | Israeli Navy inaugrates it's 1st submarine |
| 1958 | New York Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series |
| 1958 | New York Yankees appear in 9 and win 7 of last 10 World Series |
| 1957 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| 1956 | 10th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 1-1 at Montreal |
| 1955 | Betty Jameson wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open |
| 1954 | KTIV TV channel 4 in Sioux City, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | British premier Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution |
| 1953 | Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor |
| 1951 | 5th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 2-2 at Toronto |
| 1951 | Gil McDougald's World Series grand slam helps Yankees beat Giants 13-1 |
| 1949 | New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 46th World Series |
| 1948 | WXYZ TV channel 7 in Detroit, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | "High Button Shoes" opens at Century Theater New York City for 727 performances |
| 1947 | 1st telephone conversation between a moving car and a plane |
| 1947 | Julie Styne and Sam Cohn's musical "High Button Shoes," premieres in New York City |
| 1946 | 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50 |
| 1946 | Eugene O'Neill's "Iceman Cometh," premieres in New York City |
| 1945 | British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal |
| 1944 | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin |
| 1944 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow |
| 1944 | Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders |
| 1944 | German occupier turn off electricity in Amsterdam |
| 1944 | St. Louis Cardinals beat St. Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series |
| 1938 | A Copland and E Lorings ballet "Billy the Kid," premieres in Chicago |
| 1938 | Cleveland Browns and Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game |
| 1938 | New York Yankees sweep Cubs in 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win |
| 1936 | Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles |
| 1934 | St. Louis Cardinals beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series |
| 1930 | 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls |
| 1929 | G Kaufman and R Lardner's musical "June Moon," premieres in New York City |
| 1928 | Marcel Pagnol's "Topaz," premieres in Paris |
| 1928 | New York Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 home run in game |
| 1928 | New York Yankees become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series |
| 1926 | Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution |
| 1926 | NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms |
| 1921 | Babe Ruth's 1st World Series homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays |
| 1920 | 1st World Series game in Cleveland, Indians win 2-1 |
| 1916 | Babe Ruth begins 29 2/3 scoreless World Series innings |
| 1916 | Babe Ruth pitches and wins longest WS game (14 innings) 2-1 |
| 1915 | Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders |
| 1915 | Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York |
| 1915 | Louis Kaufmans "Unchastened Woman," premieres in New York City |
| 1915 | Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st President to attend a World Series game |
| 1914 | German troops take Antwerp in World War I |
| 1910 | Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won |
| 1909 | Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game |
| 1905 | Philadelphia A's meet Giants in World Series, Giants win 3-0 |
| 1903 | 11" (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hours (New York City) |
| 1900 | 8.3 earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska |
| 1899 | 1st British troops reaches Durban South Africa |
| 1899 | South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum |
| 1890 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Red-Headed League" |
| 1888 | Washington Monument opens for public admittance |
| 1877 | American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland) |
| 1876 | 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires |
| 1874 | World Postal Union forms in Bern, Switzerland |
| 1872 | Aaron Montgomery started his mail-order business |
| 1870 | Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree |
| 1865 | 1st U.S. underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania |
| 1864 | Battle of Tom's Brook-Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is wipped by Custer and Merrit's cavalry divisions |
| 1863 | Battle of Brady Station, Virginia (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station) |
| 1855 | Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor |
| 1855 | Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope |
| 1837 | Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke North Carolina killing 100 |
| 1820 | Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador |
| 1818 | Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya |
| 1817 | University of Gent officially opens |
| 1804 | Hobart Tasmania founded |
| 1799 | British frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast |
| 1794 | French troops occupy Hertogenbosch |
| 1776 | Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay |
| 1760 | Russian/Austrian army occupies Berlin |
| 1740 | Netherlands Governor-General Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia |
| 1716 | England and France sign treaty |
| 1708 | Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy |
| 1701 | Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven |
| 1668 | Mass society storms palace of "heretics" Spanish Governor Jose de Paternina |
| 1655 | Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow |
| 1651 | English parliament proclaims Navigation Act off |
| 1635 | Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony |
| 1621 | Turkey and Poland signs Peace of Chotin |
| 1617 | Peace of Pavia (Spain and Savoye) |
| 1597 | Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort |
| 1573 | Don Frederik disbands siege of Alkmaar |
| 1514 | King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII |
| 1446 | Korean Hangual alphabet devised |
| 1290 | Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves |
| 1192 | Richard Coeur de Leeuw leaves Jerusalem in disguise |
| 1000 | Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England) |
| 869 | Charles the Bare crowned king of Lotharingen |
| 768 | Charles the Great and Charlamane II divide French republic |
| 680 | Husain ibn 'Ali, Shi'i religious leader, enters martyrdom |
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