| 2008 | Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy |
| 2004 | Hurricane Ivan hits Alabama and Florida killing nearly 30 |
| 1997 | Edison International purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M |
| 1997 | Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000 |
| 1996 | 2nd Presidents Golf Cup: U.S. beats International team 16 -15 at Robert Jones Va |
| 1996 | Bangladesh beat UAE by 104 runs to win the ACC Trophy Final |
| 1996 | Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 1996 | Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan's #34 |
| 1995 | Cards shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays |
| 1994 | "Sound of Motown," premieres in Rotterdam |
| 1994 | Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St. Maarten |
| 1994 | Moslem fundamentalists kidnap and behead 16 citizens in Algeria |
| 1993 | Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament |
| 1992 | Ted Weiss, despite dying on 14th, wins congressional New York City seat |
| 1991 | "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show |
| 1991 | 19th du Maurier Golf Classic: Nancy Scranton |
| 1991 | NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly |
| 1991 | SD State freshman Marshall Faulk sets NCAA rushing record of 386 yards |
| 1991 | U.S. women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver) |
| 1990 | 42nd Emmy Awards - LA Law and Murphy Brown win |
| 1990 | Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves |
| 1990 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 1990 | Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000 |
| 1990 | France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf |
| 1988 | "Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna |
| 1988 | Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics |
| 1988 | Museum of Moving Image in London opens |
| 1988 | Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi |
| 1986 | 1st broadcast of "LA Law" on NBC-TV |
| 1986 | Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead |
| 1985 | 26th Ryder Cup: Europe beat U.S., 16 -11 at The Belfry, England |
| 1985 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 1985 | Olof Palme forms Sweden minority government |
| 1985 | Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings |
| 1985 | Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert |
| 1985 | Yankees trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro |
| 1984 | Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985 |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1983 | Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting New York City subway |
| 1983 | Israel premier Begin resigns |
| 1982 | 1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc |
| 1982 | Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut |
| 1982 | Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat |
| 1981 | U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor |
| 1981 | Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" against capitalism/marxism |
| 1980 | Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary" |
| 1979 | Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL and NL (Astros) |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans |
| 1978 | Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1978 | Yankees beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yankees lead 2 games |
| 1977 | "Man of La Mancha" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 124 performances |
| 1977 | Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when manager Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound) |
| 1977 | President Carter meets with 15 record company executives |
| 1977 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1976 | Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who ...," premieres in New York City |
| 1976 | Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days |
| 1975 | Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game |
| 1974 | Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens |
| 1974 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic |
| 1973 | "Star Trek-Animated" premieres on TV |
| 1973 | Dutch Guilder devalued 5% |
| 1973 | Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing |
| 1973 | Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1 miles |
| 1972 | WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1971 | 1st broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC-TV |
| 1970 | Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million |
| 1970 | PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan |
| 1970 | Rotterdam harbor strikes end |
| 1969 | Cards Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 New York Mets in a game |
| 1968 | "Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV |
| 1968 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational |
| 1968 | Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry |
| 1968 | WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8) |
| 1967 | KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched |
| 1966 | Dutch political party (D'66) forms |
| 1966 | Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth |
| 1965 | "Lost in Space" premieres |
| 1964 | Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland |
| 1964 | Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald" |
| 1963 | 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham |
| 1963 | Alou brothers-Felipe, Matty, and Jesus-appear in San Francisco outfield for 1 inn |
| 1963 | Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria |
| 1963 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1963 | WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | "Bravo, Giovanni" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 76 performances |
| 1962 | Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (U.S. wins) |
| 1962 | KC A's Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1962 | WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | 61st U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus |
| 1961 | Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph |
| 1959 | Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in U.S. to begin a 13-day visit |
| 1958 | 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ |
| 1958 | Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ) |
| 1957 | "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres |
| 1957 | Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany |
| 1957 | SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game |
| 1955 | WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, Florida (CBS) begins |
| 1953 | Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner) |
| 1953 | KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, Arizona (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee |
| 1952 | European Parliament forms in Strasbourg |
| 1952 | U.N. turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia |
| 1951 | "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld New York City after 740 performances |
| 1951 | Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8) |
| 1951 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum |
| 1950 | During Korean conflict, United Nations forces land at Inchon in South Korea |
| 1950 | East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification |
| 1950 | For a record 6th time, New York Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 home runs in one game |
| 1950 | Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phillies beat Reds 8-7 in 19 |
| 1950 | U.N. lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south |
| 1950 | U.S. troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul |
| 1949 | "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV |
| 1949 | WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1949 | WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, Florida (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | "Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater New York City for 134 performances |
| 1948 | F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph |
| 1948 | WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WMGM |
| 1947 | 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh |
| 1947 | Yankees clinch pennant #15 |
| 1946 | Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats |
| 1944 | British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs |
| 1944 | Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria |
| 1944 | U.S. 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall |
| 1944 | U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid |
| 1944 | U.S. troops lands on Palau and Morotai |
| 1943 | Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy |
| 1943 | Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens |
| 1943 | Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens |
| 1942 | U.S. aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal |
| 1941 | Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania |
| 1940 | 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2) |
| 1940 | Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher) |
| 1940 | Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company |
| 1940 | Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group |
| 1940 | Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe |
| 1938 | British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden |
| 1938 | John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day) |
| 1938 | Only time brothers hit back-to-back home runs (Lloyd and Paul Waner, Pitts) |
| 1937 | WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to San Francisco Zoo (at Sloat Blvd) |
| 1935 | Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany |
| 1931 | British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts |
| 1931 | Philadelphia A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland |
| 1930 | 1st International bridge match is held in London. U.S. team defeats England |
| 1928 | 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva |
| 1928 | Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin |
| 1928 | Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6 |
| 1928 | Stothard, Kalmar and Ruby's musical "Good Boy," premieres in New York City |
| 1923 | 43rd U.S. Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64) |
| 1923 | Bill Tilden wins U.S. Lawn Tennis Open |
| 1922 | Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 home runs in a game since 1897 |
| 1921 | Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus |
| 1921 | WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions |
| 1918 | CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state |
| 1917 | Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky |
| 1916 | 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France |
| 1916 | Britains 1st use of tanks (Battle of Somme) |
| 1915 | Boston Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals 20-1 |
| 1914 | Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I |
| 1914 | U.S. Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico |
| 1913 | 1st U.S. milch goat show held, Rochester, New York |
| 1912 | Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins |
| 1912 | War between Turkey and Montenegro breaks out in Albania |
| 1910 | Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South Africa |
| 1904 | Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight |
| 1903 | Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals" |
| 1899 | 5th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore CC MD |
| 1898 | National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY |
| 1894 | Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang |
| 1887 | Philadelphia celebrates 100th anniversary of U.S. Constitution |
| 1882 | British general Wolseley occupies Cairo |
| 1879 | Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club" |
| 1873 | Last German troops leave France |
| 1870 | Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18) |
| 1862 | Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV |
| 1857 | Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine |
| 1853 | 1st U.S. woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell |
| 1846 | Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reache Galapagos Islands |
| 1830 | 1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England) |
| 1830 | Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool and Manchester Railway |
| 1821 | Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua gain independ |
| 1812 | French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow |
| 1795 | Cape Colony surrenders to England |
| 1789 | Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State |
| 1787 | Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam |
| 1776 | British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution |
| 1774 | Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured |
| 1733 | King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons |
| 1707 | Rakoczi II and Czar Peter the Great sign social security agreement |
| 1683 | Germantown Pennsylvania founded by 13 immigrant families |
| 1656 | England and France sign peace treaty |
| 1644 | Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X |
| 1621 | Swedish troops occupy Riga |
| 1620 | Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims |
| 1619 | Prince Bethlen Gabors troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary |
| 1590 | Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII |
| 1584 | San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished |
| 1556 | Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain |
| 1514 | Thomas Wolsey appointed archbishop of York |
| 608 | St. Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
