| 2012 | U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney states the Palestinians are committed to destroying Israel |
| 2012 | The Chicago Public Schools reaches a deal with the Chicago Teachers Union to end an 8-day strike |
| 2011 | The 63rd Emmy Awards for U.S television programs is held in Los Angeles, California: Mad Men wins for the outstanding drama series |
| 2011 | In Berlin, Social Democrats do well in a state election; the Pirate Party enters a state parliament for the first time, with the Free Democrats achieving 2% of the vote |
| 2010 | In New Zealand, 100,000 people are left without water after a large storm; the storm took the roof off of Stadium Southland in Invercargill |
| 2010 | Chileans celebrate the 200-year anniversary of their independence |
| 1997 | Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame |
| 1997 | Ted Turner gives $1 billion to the United Nations |
| 1996 | Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts |
| 1995 | Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Baltimore to move Browns |
| 1995 | Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands |
| 1994 | 1st Presidents Golf Cup: U.S. beats International team 20-12 at Robert Jones Va |
| 1994 | Austrian conservative Vice President wins elections/extreme right gets 18.5% |
| 1994 | Deb Richard wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 1994 | Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS |
| 1994 | Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election |
| 1993 | Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994 |
| 1993 | LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins |
| 1993 | Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, and Yankees rally to beat Boston 4-3 |
| 1991 | John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians |
| 1991 | NCAA places Tenn on 2 years probation for football recruting violations |
| 1991 | Robert Helmick resigns as President of U.S. Olympic Committee |
| 1991 | Space shuttle STS-48 (Discovery 14) lands |
| 1990 | 500 pound Hershey Kiss is displayed in Times Square |
| 1990 | Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics |
| 1989 | Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico |
| 1988 | Burma suspends its constitution |
| 1988 | Coup in Haiti |
| 1988 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 1987 | Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 home runs |
| 1987 | U.S. and Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles |
| 1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1986 | David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 vs. India at Madras |
| 1985 | "Song and Dance" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 474 performances |
| 1984 | Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic |
| 1984 | Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place) |
| 1984 | Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons |
| 1983 | George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere |
| 1983 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 1983 | Lebanese and Syrian army battle |
| 1983 | New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chicago Bears 34-31 |
| 1982 | Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon |
| 1980 | "Les Miserables," opens at Palais des Sports, Paris |
| 1980 | Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base |
| 1980 | Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station |
| 1979 | Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid and Valentina Kozlov defect |
| 1979 | Steven Lachs, appointed California's 1st admittedly gay judge |
| 1979 | The Who opens New York City concerts at MSG |
| 1977 | All 4 Kiss members release solo albums |
| 1977 | Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore |
| 1977 | Courageous (U.S.) sweeps Australia (Australia) in 24th America's Cup |
| 1977 | Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship |
| 1977 | U.S. Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth and Moon together |
| 1976 | Cleveland manager Frank Robinson last game as a player |
| 1976 | Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election |
| 1976 | Reverend Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention |
| 1975 | Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF |
| 1974 | Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die |
| 1973 | West Germany and East Germany admitted to UN |
| 1972 | 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego) |
| 1971 | 19th Ryder Cup: U.S. beats Europe, 18 -13 at Old Warson CC Mo |
| 1969 | Tiny Tim and Miss Vicky get engaged |
| 1968 | Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits San Francisco Giants 2-0 |
| 1967 | Intrepid (U.S.) beats Dame Pattie (Australia) in 21st America's Cup |
| 1966 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational |
| 1965 | "Get Smart" premieres |
| 1965 | Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game |
| 1964 | Greek king Constantine II marries Danish princess Anne-Marie |
| 1964 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1963 | Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1 |
| 1963 | U.S.S.R. orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia |
| 1962 | Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games |
| 1962 | Charlie Finley is denied permission to move A's to Dallas-Ft. Worth |
| 1962 | Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open |
| 1959 | Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit |
| 1957 | "Wagon Train" premieres |
| 1957 | Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels |
| 1956 | Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 home runs in a seaon |
| 1955 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open |
| 1955 | Willie Mays hits record tying 9th home run at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock) |
| 1954 | Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2) |
| 1954 | KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | WLOS TV channel 13 in G'ville-Spartanburg, South Carolina (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1950 | Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission |
| 1949 | Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit |
| 1948 | "Hilarities (of 1949)" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 14 performances |
| 1948 | Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin) |
| 1948 | Ralph J. Bunche confirmed as acting United Nations mediator in Palestine |
| 1947 | National Security Act, passes |
| 1947 | USAF (U.S. Air Force) forms |
| 1946 | Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1945 | 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana schools to protest integration |
| 1944 | British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed |
| 1944 | Eindhoven free (Lightly Day) |
| 1944 | U.S. 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne |
| 1943 | Cardinals clinch NL pennant |
| 1943 | Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful) |
| 1942 | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service |
| 1940 | 19 German aircrafts shot down above England |
| 1940 | Elmer Harris' "Johnny Belinda," premieres in New York City |
| 1940 | Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani |
| 1939 | Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania |
| 1938 | Despite losing a double header, Yankees clinch pennant #10 |
| 1934 | St. Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1 |
| 1934 | U.S.S.R. admitted to League of Nations |
| 1931 | Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo |
| 1930 | Enterprise (U.S.) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup |
| 1930 | New York Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 home runs to beat St. Louis Browns, 7-6 |
| 1930 | Philadelphia A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row |
| 1929 | Pirates loss to Braves and clinch NL pennant for the Cubs |
| 1929 | Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in New York City |
| 1928 | Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928 |
| 1928 | Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro flight over English Channel |
| 1927 | 18 station CBS radio network begins, (WOR is New York City affiliate) |
| 1926 | 46th U.S. Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64) |
| 1926 | Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250 |
| 1926 | Jean Rene Lacoste wins U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1925 | Bill Tilden wins 6th straight U.S. tennis championship |
| 1924 | Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking |
| 1922 | 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands |
| 1922 | Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by New York's Joe Bush |
| 1922 | Hungary admitted to League of Nations |
| 1919 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage |
| 1919 | Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast |
| 1918 | Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts |
| 1915 | Boston Braves trounce St. Louis Cardinals 20-1 |
| 1914 | Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I |
| 1914 | General von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front |
| 1914 | Irish home rule bill receive Royal assent |
| 1914 | South African troops land in German South West Africa |
| 1911 | Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown |
| 1911 | Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in New York City |
| 1910 | 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage |
| 1909 | Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det |
| 1908 | Cleveland Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1 |
| 1905 | Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam |
| 1903 | Phillie's Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago Cubs, 10-0 |
| 1898 | Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda Sudan |
| 1897 | Gustave Kecker/Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of New York City," premieres in New York City |
| 1895 | Booker T. Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address |
| 1895 | D D Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes 1st chiropractor |
| 1891 | Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief |
| 1888 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four" |
| 1882 | Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board) |
| 1873 | Government bond agent Jay Cooke and Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St |
| 1862 | Confederate armies officially divide into corps |
| 1862 | General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia |
| 1851 | New York Times starts publishing at 2 cents a copy |
| 1850 | Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850 |
| 1849 | De Kempenaer's Dutch government resigns |
| 1848 | Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner |
| 1846 | Elizabeth Barrett and R Browning exchange last letters before eloping |
| 1842 | 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published |
| 1838 | Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden |
| 1830 | Horse beats 1st U.S. made locomotive (near Baltimore) |
| 1812 | Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses and 1,000 churchs |
| 1811 | English expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies |
| 1810 | Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day) |
| 1809 | Royal Opera House in London opens |
| 1793 | President Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building |
| 1789 | 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents and Congress |
| 1769 | John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (U.S.) |
| 1759 | Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British |
| 1755 | Ft. Ticonderoga, New York opens |
| 1739 | Turkey and Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks |
| 1679 | New Hampshire becomes a county Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| 1635 | Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France |
| 1573 | Spanish attack Alkmaar |
| 1544 | Charles V of Germany and Francis I of France sign Peace of Crepy |
| 1544 | English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne |
| 1544 | Peace of Crepy: German emperor Charles V and French king Francois I |
| 1502 | Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th and last voyage |
| 1437 | Farmer uprising in Transsylvania |
| 324 | Chrysopolis emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius |
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