| 1997 | Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million |
| 1997 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1997 | Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 home runs in 2 consec yrs |
| 1995 | 115th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 46 75) |
| 1995 | 35th Walker Cup: Britain - Ireland beats U.S., 14 - 10 |
| 1995 | 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser and Candice Bergen wins |
| 1995 | Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
| 1995 | Browns and Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleveland for only time, Browns 22-6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles |
| 1994 | 108th U.S. Womens Tennis: Aranxta S Vicario beats Steffi Graf (16 76 64) |
| 1994 | Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke |
| 1993 | 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo planes produced |
| 1993 | Actress Loretta Young, 80, weds costume designer Jean Louis, 85 |
| 1993 | Israel and PLO sign joint recognition statements |
| 1992 | Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball |
| 1992 | Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents |
| 1991 | Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination |
| 1991 | Yolanda Gail Devers runs U.S. female record 100m hurdles (12.48 seconds) |
| 1990 | 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win U.S. Open |
| 1990 | 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different |
| 1990 | Ellis Island reopens as a museum |
| 1990 | George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki |
| 1990 | Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas, Nevada |
| 1990 | Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq |
| 1990 | Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning |
| 1990 | 1st time in New York Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0 |
| 1989 | 109th U.S. Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (76 16 63 76) |
| 1989 | 5 days after hitting a home run for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners, |
| 1989 | Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record |
| 1989 | East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary and Czechoslovakia) |
| 1989 | Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
| 1989 | Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown |
| 1988 | Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas and Yucatan |
| 1988 | 102nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (63 36 61) |
| 1988 | Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989 |
| 1986 | Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel |
| 1984 | Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla |
| 1983 | 97th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (61 63) |
| 1983 | Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1982 | Decca releases Beatle audition "Complete Silver Beatles" album |
| 1981 | "Guernica" of Pablo Picasso returns to Spain |
| 1980 | Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18 |
| 1980 | Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick |
| 1979 | 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed |
| 1978 | "Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 243 performances |
| 1978 | 98th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 62 62) |
| 1978 | Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yards and 30") |
| 1978 | Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win U.S. Open on 3 different surfaces |
| 1978 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| 1978 | 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yankees beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yankees out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9 |
| 1977 | 91st U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull (76 62) |
| 1977 | Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits |
| 1977 | Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5) |
| 1977 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 1977 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1977 | Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978 |
| 1976 | 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard |
| 1976 | 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, New York |
| 1974 | Lou Brock ties (104) and then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark |
| 1974 | New York Dolls disband |
| 1974 | Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau |
| 1974 | Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hours |
| 1973 | Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton |
| 1973 | New York Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St. Louis |
| 1972 | 20th Olympic games close at Munich, West Germany |
| 1972 | 92nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe |
| 1972 | Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship |
| 1972 | Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8) |
| 1972 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 1972 | U.S. Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to U.S.S.R. (disputed) |
| 1972 | WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1971 | KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | New York Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time |
| 1969 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado |
| 1967 | 81st U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones (119 64) |
| 1967 | 87th U.S. Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (64 64 86) |
| 1967 | Chicago White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Detroit Tigers, 6-0 |
| 1967 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic |
| 1967 | Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British and not Spanish |
| 1967 | Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win |
| 1967 | KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks |
| 1966 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1966 | Neal Diamond's 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry) |
| 1965 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1965 | Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards |
| 1965 | WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms |
| 1964 | Rod Steward records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" |
| 1963 | 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama |
| 1963 | Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0 |
| 1963 | Stan Musial hits a home run in his 1st at bat as a grandfather |
| 1962 | 82nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64) |
| 1962 | KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign) |
| 1962 | WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | 75th U.S. Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones (63 64) |
| 1961 | 81st U.S. Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Rodney G Laver (75 63 62) |
| 1961 | Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit home run # 400 |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2) |
| 1960 | New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' home run over right field roof in Detroit |
| 1958 | WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | "Mask and Gown" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 39 performances |
| 1956 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| 1956 | Louisville Kentucky public schools integrates |
| 1956 | WSYE (now WETM) TV chan 18 in Elmira-Corning, New York (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1955 | "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV |
| 1954 | 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria |
| 1954 | WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls |
| 1953 | Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner" |
| 1952 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open |
| 1951 | British begins economic boycott of Iran |
| 1950 | Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 home run in a game at Griffith Stadium |
| 1949 | "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" closes at Broadway New York City after 76 performances |
| 1948 | Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life |
| 1948 | Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England |
| 1945 | KLS-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA) |
| 1945 | Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis |
| 1944 | Lieutenant-general Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far" |
| 1943 | British 8th army occupies Tarente |
| 1943 | German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City |
| 1943 | Italian fleet anchors at Malta |
| 1943 | Lieutenant-general Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London |
| 1942 | British troops lands on Madagascar |
| 1942 | RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf |
| 1939 | Canada declares war on Germany |
| 1939 | In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany |
| 1937 | 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0) |
| 1937 | Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0 |
| 1933 | 53rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J H Crawford (63 11-13 46 60 61) |
| 1932 | 52nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (64 64 64) |
| 1932 | Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit home run of the season |
| 1932 | Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in New York City |
| 1931 | Lord Cecil of British Government says War was never so improbable |
| 1930 | Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia |
| 1927 | 22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2) |
| 1926 | Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn |
| 1926 | Germany joins League of Nations |
| 1924 | Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out |
| 1924 | Leopold and Loeb found guilty of murder |
| 1923 | Irish Free state joins League of Nations |
| 1922 | Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig consecutive home runs |
| 1919 | Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0 |
| 1919 | New York City welcomes home General John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers |
| 1919 | Treaty of St. Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany |
| 1918 | Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers |
| 1913 | 1st U.S. paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opens |
| 1913 | Cleveland Call and Post forms |
| 1913 | George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia |
| 1913 | Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway |
| 1910 | Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber |
| 1905 | Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes |
| 1902 | Utrecht soccer team UVV forms |
| 1900 | 20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record) |
| 1899 | 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska |
| 1898 | Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda |
| 1897 | Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20 |
| 1884 | Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention |
| 1882 | 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) |
| 1880 | Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo |
| 1872 | Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam |
| 1870 | Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms |
| 1869 | Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan |
| 1863 | George Bizets opera "Les Pacheurs de Perles," premieres in Paris |
| 1861 | Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia |
| 1861 | Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities |
| 1858 | John Holden hits 1st recorded home run (Brooklyn vs New York) |
| 1849 | 1st performance by U.S. actor Edwin Booth (Richard III) |
| 1847 | 1st theater opens in Hawaii |
| 1846 | Elias Howe patents sewing machine |
| 1846 | Japan invents the rickshaw |
| 1845 | King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange |
| 1838 | Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres in Paris |
| 1823 | Simon Bolivar named president of Peru |
| 1813 | Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie |
| 1798 | British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St. George |
| 1785 | Prussia signs trade agreement with US |
| 1776 | George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers |
| 1608 | John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va |
| 1547 | Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots |
| 1547 | English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5 |
| 1510 | Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal |
| 1349 | Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death |
| 918 | Arnulf I the Old becomes landsheer of Flanders |
| 422 | St. Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
