| 2012 | U.S. Presidential candiate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's reaction to the attacks on U.S. missions in Benghazi, Cairo and other U.S. embassy's was to 'sympathize' with the assailants; the President claimed the attacks were the result of protests to a movie released on YouTube months before that mocked Mohammed |
| 2012 | The 'Lamb of God', the first panels of the Ghent Altarpiece are secretly moved from Saint Bavo Cathedral for a five-year restoration at the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts; the panels are likely the most frequently stolen artwork in history |
| 2011 | The EU Council votes; the copyright on sound recordings is extended from 50 to 70 years |
| 2011 | Renewed concerns over the Eurozone debt crisis cause Asian markets to fall |
| 2010 | After a series of delays, Iran agrees to release U.S. hiker Sarah Shourd, arrested in 2009; she is released on bail and permitted to leave the country |
| 2010 | Rival political parties clash in Guinea ahead of a presidential run-off election; at least 24 people are injured |
| 2006 | Pope Benedict XVI quotes a criticism of the Islamic faith leading to mass protests |
| 2005 | Hong Kong Disneyland opens |
| 1997 | New York Met John Olerud hits for the cycle |
| 1995 | INXS' Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer |
| 1994 | Cessna crashes in White House front yard |
| 1994 | Country singer George Jones undergoes triple bypass surgery |
| 1994 | Parti Quebecois wins parliamentary election |
| 1993 | 113rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Cedric Pioline (64 64 63) |
| 1993 | Donna Andrews wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
| 1993 | Junxia Cheek runs 3000 m ladies world record (8:12.29) |
| 1993 | Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career |
| 1993 | STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit |
| 1992 | 106th U.S. Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A Sanchez Vicario (63 63) |
| 1992 | Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii |
| 1992 | STS-47 (Endeavour 2) launches |
| 1992 | Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in U.S. Open history (5hr 26min) |
| 1991 | Nolan Ryan's 4-3 victory over Twins is his 312th career win |
| 1991 | Space shuttle STS-48 (Discovery 14) launched |
| 1990 | "Les Miserables," opens at Cirkus Theater, Stockholm |
| 1990 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1990 | US, England, France, U.S.S.R., East and West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge |
| 1989 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1988 | 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card |
| 1988 | Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica |
| 1987 | 101st U.S. Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (76 61) |
| 1987 | Ethiopia adopts constitution |
| 1987 | Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year |
| 1986 | 240.49 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 1986 | Twins fire manager Ray Miller and replace him with coach Tom Kelly |
| 1986 | U.S. professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut |
| 1985 | Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds |
| 1984 | Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident |
| 1984 | Cyndi Lauper sings "She-Bop" on Tonight Show |
| 1984 | Ethiopia forms socialist republic |
| 1984 | New York Met Dwight Goodin sets rookie strike out record at 251 |
| 1983 | Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes |
| 1983 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 1983 | Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. vetoes United Nations resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane |
| 1982 | 102nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 62 46 64) |
| 1982 | Gerard Nijboer (2:15:16) and Rosa Mota (2:36:04) win marathon |
| 1982 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic |
| 1981 | 95th U.S. Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats M Navratilova (16 76 76) |
| 1981 | Elizabeth Ward (Arkansas), 20, crowned 54th Miss America 1982 |
| 1981 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 1981 | Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits Yankees for 8 innings before Rick Cerone and Dave Winfield lead off 9th with back-to-back doubles |
| 1980 | Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey |
| 1979 | Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits |
| 1979 | Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die and $23 million damage |
| 1979 | Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club |
| 1978 | Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba |
| 1978 | Situation comedy "Taxi" premieres on ABC television |
| 1976 | 96th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 36 76 64) |
| 1976 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 1976 | Seattle Seahawks play 1st regular-season game (St. L 30, Sea 24) |
| 1976 | White Sox Minnie Minoso, 53, is oldest to get a hit in majors |
| 1974 | Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day) |
| 1974 | Jeff "Skunk" Baxter joins Doobie Brothers |
| 1973 | 2 bettors win largest U.S. Daily Double ($19,909.60 in Detroit) |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1972 | Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics |
| 1971 | 85th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Rosemary Casals (64 76) |
| 1971 | 91st U.S. Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Jan Kodes (36 63 62 76) |
| 1970 | 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport |
| 1970 | Luna 16 Launch (Moon Sample Return) |
| 1970 | Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971 |
| 1970 | Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport |
| 1970 | U.S. LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility |
| 1968 | Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact |
| 1966 | "Monkees" premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1966 | Gemini XI (Charles Conrad and R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight |
| 1966 | KPNE TV channel 9 in North Platte, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | WCES TV channel 20 in Wrens, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | WUSF TV channel 16 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1966 | Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan begins teaching |
| 1965 | 79th U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean King (86 75) |
| 1965 | 85th U.S. Mens Tennis: Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale (62 79 75 61) |
| 1965 | Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida and Louisiana kills 75 |
| 1965 | Manuel Santana wins U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1965 | Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open |
| 1965 | WCEE TV channel 23 in Rockford, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | 1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6 |
| 1964 | Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 27' 4 " |
| 1964 | Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage |
| 1963 | WHYY TV channel 12 in Wilmington, DE (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | Washington Senator Tom Cheney strikes out record 21 Orioles in 16 inn game |
| 1961 | NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | "Vintage '60" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1959 | "Bonanza" premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1959 | Janos Kadar becomes premier of Hungary |
| 1959 | Luna 2 launched by U.S.S.R.; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon |
| 1958 | U.S. Supreme Court orders Little Rock Arkansas high school to integrate |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1957 | Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits U.S. |
| 1956 | Black students enter and are barred from Clay Kentucky elementary school |
| 1955 | KNTV TV channel 11 in San Jose, California (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open |
| 1954 | Indians sweep Yankees at Municipal Stadium; largest AL crowd (86,563) |
| 1954 | WLBZ TV channel 2 in Bangor, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | White Sox win 90th game, 1st time they win this many since 1920 |
| 1953 | "Carnival in Flanders" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 6 performances |
| 1953 | Brooklyn Dodgers, clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team |
| 1953 | Senator John F. Kennedy, 36, marries Jacqueline Bouvier, 24 |
| 1952 | Noel Coward's "Quadrille," premieres in London |
| 1950 | Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants |
| 1949 | Theodor Heuss elected 1st president, Conrad Adenauer 1st Prime Minister of West Germany |
| 1947 | Pirate Ralph Kiner hits his record 8th home run in 4 games |
| 1946 | Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels |
| 1944 | Hurricane, kills 389 in NC |
| 1944 | Noorbeek and Mheer freed |
| 1944 | U.S. Army troops entered Germany for 1st time |
| 1943 | Free French lands on Corsica |
| 1943 | Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Mussolini at Gran Sasso |
| 1943 | German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government |
| 1942 | Battle of Edson's Ridge begins at Guadalcanal |
| 1942 | Free-Poland and Belgium asks pope to condemn nazi-war crimes |
| 1941 | 1st German ship in WW II captured by U.S. ship (Busko) |
| 1940 | 49 die and 200 injured when Hercules Powder Company plant explodes, New Jersey |
| 1940 | Italian troops enter Egypt |
| 1940 | 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings |
| 1938 | Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia |
| 1936 | 50th U.S. Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (46 63 62) |
| 1936 | 56th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Donald Budge (26 62 86 16 108) |
| 1935 | 55th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wilmer L Allison beats Sidney B Wood (62 62 63) |
| 1935 | Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph |
| 1934 | Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against U.S.S.R. |
| 1933 | Alejandro Lerroux forms new Spanish government |
| 1933 | Dutch parliament accepts ban on uniforms |
| 1932 | Bkln Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit home run |
| 1932 | German government of Papen falls/Reichstag dissolved |
| 1931 | 51st U.S. Mens Tennis: H E Vines beats George M Lott, Jr. (79 63 97 75) |
| 1930 | Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce home run |
| 1928 | Hurricane in Florida, kills 6,000 |
| 1928 | Katharine Hepburn's New York stage debut in "Night Hostess" |
| 1927 | Sigmund Romberg's musical "My Maryland," premieres in New York City |
| 1925 | 20th Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (5-0) |
| 1923 | Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co |
| 1922 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4) |
| 1920 | 7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium |
| 1918 | During WW I, U.S. forces launch an attack on German-occupied St. Mihiel |
| 1914 | Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager |
| 1912 | Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC) |
| 1911 | Boston's Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson of Giants, Giants win 9-0 |
| 1910 | Gustav Mahlers 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians |
| 1910 | World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD) |
| 1908 | Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier |
| 1907 | Lusitania arrives in New York City after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record) |
| 1901 | Arabs attack Gedara, Palestine |
| 1895 | Defender (U.S.) beats Valkyrie III (England) in 10th America's Cup |
| 1890 | Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Ft. Salisbury) |
| 1888 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Greek Interpreter" |
| 1885 | Highest score (35) recorded in any 1st-class soccer match is set |
| 1882 | Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza |
| 1878 | Cleopatra Needle installed in London |
| 1876 | King Leopold II opens Congo-conference |
| 1867 | 2nd synagogue in Curacao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated |
| 1862 | Battle of Harpers Ferry VA |
| 1857 | 423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC |
| 1840 | Composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck |
| 1814 | Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812 |
| 1787 | Black Masons form 1st lodge |
| 1776 | Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission |
| 1758 | Charles Messier observes Crab Nebula and begins catalog |
| 1751 | Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto |
| 1745 | Duke of Toscane chosen German emperor Frans I Stefanus |
| 1733 | Polish Landowners select Stanislaw Lesczynski king |
| 1722 | Russian troops occupy Baku and Derbent on Persia |
| 1720 | Isaak of Hoornbeek elected Dutch pension advisor |
| 1703 | Emperor Leopold I ends contacts on Spanish heritage |
| 1703 | English army under arch duke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal |
| 1695 | New York Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties |
| 1683 | Turkish troops attacks Vienna overthrows by Polish king Sobieski |
| 1673 | Prince Willem III occupies Naarden |
| 1666 | Great Fire in London ends, kills 8 |
| 1639 | Viceroy Thomas Wentworth sails back to England |
| 1635 | Sweden and Poland sign ceasefire Treaty of Stuhmsdorf |
| 1624 | 1st submarine tested (London) |
| 1556 | Emperor Charles resigns, his brother Ferdinand van Austria takes over |
| 1543 | Treaty of Venlo: Duke Willem of Gulik and Emperor Charles V |
| 1396 | Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis |
| 1217 | French prince Louis and English king Henry III sign peace treaty |
| 1213 | Battle at Muret: Crusade of Simon de Montfort beat Pedro II of Aragon |
| 1015 | Henry I becomes earl of Leuven |
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