| 2012 | The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is attacked by terrorists; U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed as well as three others; the Cairo embassy was also attacked |
| 2012 | The U.S. commemorates the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and for the first time no special security alert is issued on the anniversary of the attacks |
| 2011 | Memorial ceremonies are held worldwide to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks |
| 2011 | Serena Williams is defeated in Women's Singles at the 2011 U.S. Open by Samantha Stosur of Australia |
| 2010 | Pastor Terry Jones announces that the Dove Outreach Center will not burn the Koran, 'not now, not ever' |
| 2010 | The Medal of Honor is awarded for the first time since the Vietnam War; U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta received the medal for his actions during the War in Afghanistan |
| 2009 | Inmates at Iraq's notoriuous Abu Grraib prison start a fire and clash with guards during two days of unrest |
| 2001 | 19 Islamist terrorists hijack four commercial jets, killing nearly 3,000 in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania |
| 1995 | Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423 |
| 1995 | Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day" |
| 1995 | Soyuz TM-22, lands |
| 1994 | 114th U.S. Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Michael Stich (61 76 75) |
| 1994 | 46th Emmy Awards: Fraiser, Picket Fences and Kelsey Grammer wins |
| 1994 | Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle |
| 1994 | Missie McGeorge wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
| 1993 | 107th U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (63 63) |
| 1993 | Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies world record (3:50.46) |
| 1992 | Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die and 8,000 injured |
| 1991 | "La Toya: Growing Up in The Jackson Family" goes on sale |
| 1991 | 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston |
| 1991 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1991 | New York Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium |
| 1991 | Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers and Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0 |
| 1989 | Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud |
| 1989 | KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO |
| 1988 | 1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy |
| 1988 | 108th U.S. Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) |
| 1988 | Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
| 1988 | Sports Aid - jogging to feed the world |
| 1988 | 108th U.S. Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4 hours 55 minutes - longest men's final in U.S. Open history |
| 1987 | 4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins |
| 1987 | Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die |
| 1986 | President Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres |
| 1986 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1986 | Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded |
| 1985 | Flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner |
| 1985 | International Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km |
| 1985 | Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs vs. India |
| 1985 | Pete Rose of Cincinnati Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record |
| 1983 | 103rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 67 75 60) |
| 1983 | Fashion designer Donna Karen marries Stephan Weiss |
| 1983 | Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards |
| 1983 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1982 | 96th U.S. Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats Hana Mandlikova (63 61) |
| 1982 | Debbie Maffett (Calif), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983 |
| 1982 | Chris Evert wins her 6th and final U.S. Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY |
| 1981 | 2nd government of Agt forms |
| 1980 | Chile adopts its constitution |
| 1980 | Ron LeFlore (91st) and Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record |
| 1977 | 29th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Carroll O'Conner and Bea Arthur |
| 1977 | 97th U.S. Mens Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy Connors (26 63 75 60) |
| 1977 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| 1976 | Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977 |
| 1976 | Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless) |
| 1976 | 90th U.S. Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight U.S. Open Final (Evert wins) |
| 1974 | Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan and John Milner come to bat 12 times each |
| 1973 | Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup |
| 1972 | BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont |
| 1971 | "2 by 2" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 343 performances |
| 1971 | Egypt adopts its constitution |
| 1971 | Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972 |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1967 | Carol Burnett Show premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1967 | A's drop grievance filed with National Labor Relations against C Finley |
| 1967 | Beatles' Magical Mystery Bus driven around England |
| 1967 | French president De Gaulle visits Poland |
| 1967 | Indian/Chinese border fights |
| 1967 | U.S. Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material |
| 1967 | WSRE TV channel 23 in Pensacola, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | WUNE TV channel 17 in Linville, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | WUNF TV channel 33 in Asheville, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | WUNG TV channel 58 in Concord, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | 80th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Esther Bueno-Fraiser beats N Richey (63 61) |
| 1966 | 86th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64) |
| 1966 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1966 | Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a home run on his 1st at bat |
| 1966 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pacific Ladies' Golf Classic |
| 1966 | Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show |
| 1965 | Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks |
| 1965 | Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets |
| 1964 | George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company |
| 1964 | Gillette's 20 year contract with MSG and ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleveland Auditorium |
| 1962 | Beatles cut "Love Me Do" and "PS I Love You" with Andy White on drums |
| 1962 | Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles |
| 1962 | KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, California (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | Bob Dylan's 1st New York performance |
| 1960 | 17th Olympic games close in Rome, Italy |
| 1960 | 74th U.S. Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64) |
| 1960 | 80th U.S. Mens Tennis: Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97) |
| 1959 | "Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements |
| 1959 | Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans |
| 1959 | Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4 |
| 1959 | Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0 |
| 1958 | Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 1956 | Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th home run |
| 1956 | Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8) |
| 1956 | Yankees Yogi Berra ties career record for home runs (236) by a catcher |
| 1955 | 69th U.S. Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward (64 62) |
| 1955 | 75th U.S. Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Ken Rosewall beats (97 63 63) |
| 1955 | KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | 1st Miss America TV broadcast |
| 1954 | 20.4 cm rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record) |
| 1954 | KXJB TV channel 4 in Valley City (Fargo) (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Lee Meriwether (Calif), 19, crowned 27th Miss America 1955 (1st on TV) |
| 1953 | KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, California (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews |
| 1951 | Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice |
| 1951 | Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes |
| 1950 | "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts |
| 1950 | 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited |
| 1950 | 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton, Ohio |
| 1950 | Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence |
| 1946 | 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation |
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference |
| 1944 | U.S. 5th pantzer division is 1st to enter nazi-Germany |
| 1943 | Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno |
| 1943 | Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia liquidated |
| 1943 | Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island |
| 1943 | U.S. and Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea |
| 1942 | Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1941 | Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels |
| 1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight |
| 1941 | Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get U.S. into WW II |
| 1940 | 54th Postmaster General: Frank C. Walker of Pennsylvania takes office |
| 1940 | Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS |
| 1940 | Hitler begins operation-Seelowe (invasion England) |
| 1939 | Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw |
| 1939 | British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley |
| 1939 | Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany |
| 1937 | 51st U.S. Womens Tennis: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (64 62) |
| 1937 | 57th U.S. Mens Tennis: J D Budge beats G vs. Cramm (61 79 61 36 61) |
| 1936 | A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game |
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam |
| 1935 | 49th U.S. Womens Tennis: H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (62 64) |
| 1935 | U.S. captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year |
| 1933 | Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at U.S. Tennis championship |
| 1930 | Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles |
| 1929 | SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system |
| 1928 | 1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger |
| 1928 | Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees |
| 1927 | After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2 |
| 1927 | Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers |
| 1926 | 21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1) |
| 1926 | Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu |
| 1926 | Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining |
| 1926 | U.S. defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship |
| 1926 | Yankees' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies |
| 1923 | After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yankees |
| 1923 | Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run |
| 1923 | ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over New York's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower |
| 1922 | British mandate of Palestine begins |
| 1922 | Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader |
| 1919 | U.S. Marines invade Honduras |
| 1918 | Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series |
| 1916 | German troops conquer Kavalla Greece |
| 1914 | T Handy publishes "St. Louis Blues" |
| 1912 | Netherland Olympic Committee forms |
| 1912 | Philadelphia A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game |
| 1910 | 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood) |
| 1909 | Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet |
| 1900 | President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique |
| 1895 | FA Cup stolen in Birmingham |
| 1893 | Bronx Gas and Electric Company opens on Frisby and Tremont Ave |
| 1893 | Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago) |
| 1889 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" |
| 1886 | Mayflower (U.S.) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup |
| 1885 | Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia |
| 1883 | James Cutler patents postal mail chute |
| 1881 | Triple landslides bury Elm, Switzerland |
| 1877 | Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen |
| 1875 | 1st newspaper cartoon strip |
| 1853 | 1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos) |
| 1852 | Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R |
| 1850 | "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st U.S. concert |
| 1847 | 1st singing of Stephen Fosters "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh) |
| 1839 | 1st Canadian track and field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds) |
| 1831 | Charles Darwin meets with Captain Fitzroy at Plymouth |
| 1814 | Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh |
| 1814 | Battle of Lake Champlain, New York; American Navy defeats British |
| 1789 | Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury |
| 1786 | Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce |
| 1777 | Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British |
| 1773 | Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace" |
| 1741 | Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament |
| 1714 | French and Spanish troops under duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona |
| 1709 | Battle at Malplaquet: England/Austria/Dutch Great Alliance beat France |
| 1697 | Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power |
| 1649 | Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists |
| 1649 | Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda Ireland, most inhabitants massacred |
| 1648 | Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir |
| 1645 | Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol |
| 1557 | Catholic and Lutheran theology debated in Worm |
| 1304 | Willem III becomes earl of Holland |
| 1297 | Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English |
| 813 | Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor |
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