| 2009 | Panic ensues when an earthquake strikes off the Bali coast in Indonesia, causing few injuries and little material damage |
| 1996 | "Skylight" opens at Royale Theater New York City |
| 1995 | Andres Galarraga is 4th to hit 30 home runs for Rockies in 1995 |
| 1995 | Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits home runs in 3rd of 4 games |
| 1994 | 3000 U.S. militia lands on Haiti |
| 1994 | Swedish government of Bildt resigns |
| 1993 | 45th Emmy Awards: Seinfeld, Picket Fences and Ted Danson wins |
| 1993 | Actress Michele Phillips (Knots Landing) is robbed at gunpoint |
| 1993 | Brandie Burton wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 1993 | Kimberly Clarice Aiken, 18, Miss South Carolina wins 67th Miss America |
| 1993 | Parliamentary election in Poland |
| 1993 | Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years |
| 1992 | Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m) |
| 1992 | U.N. Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia |
| 1992 | Barry Bonds joins Willie Mays, Howard Johnson and Ron Gant as having (2) 30-home run/30-steal seasons |
| 1991 | Precious Bunny wins the 46th Little Brown Jug |
| 1989 | Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens |
| 1989 | French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die |
| 1989 | Appeals court restores America's Cup to U.S. after New York Supreme Court gave it to New Zealand (New Zealand protested US's use of a catamaran) |
| 1988 | Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance |
| 1988 | U.S. Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board |
| 1987 | Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Michigan), 24, crowned 61st Miss America |
| 1986 | "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson premieres |
| 1986 | Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1 |
| 1986 | Dean Jones scores 210 vs. India at Madras |
| 1986 | Federal health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients |
| 1985 | 12,000 die and 40,000 injured in Mexico's earthquake (8.1) |
| 1984 | Britain and China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997 |
| 1983 | St. Kitts and Nevis declares independence from U.K. |
| 1982 | 34th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Barney Miller, Alan Alda and Carol Kane |
| 1982 | New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chicago Bears 10-0 |
| 1982 | Sandra Haynie/Kathy McMullen wins Portland Ping Team Golf Championship |
| 1982 | Streetcars stop running on Market St. after 122 years of service |
| 1981 | Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel perform a reunion concert in Central Park |
| 1981 | Satellites China 10 and 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket |
| 1981 | Simon and Garfunkel reunite for a New York City Central Park concert |
| 1979 | No Nukes Concert at MSG includes Springsteen and Crosby, Stills and Nash |
| 1976 | "Going Up" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 49 performances |
| 1976 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Portland Golf Classic |
| 1975 | Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor |
| 1974 | Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die |
| 1973 | Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden |
| 1973 | Frank Robinson homers in record 32nd ML park in Arlington, Texas |
| 1973 | NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington D.C. |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1971 | 1st New York City Women's Marathon won by Beth Bonner in 2:55:22 |
| 1971 | 2nd New York City Marathon won by Norman Higgins in 2:22:54 |
| 1970 | "Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres |
| 1968 | Denny McLain's 31st win and Mickey Mantle's 535th home run |
| 1967 | Nigeria begins offensive against Biafra |
| 1965 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open |
| 1965 | Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1 |
| 1959 | Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1957 | 1st underground nuclear explosion at Las Vegas, Nevada |
| 1956 | 1st International conference of black writers and artists meets (Sorbonne) |
| 1955 | Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns and flees |
| 1955 | Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season |
| 1955 | Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico |
| 1954 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Wichita Golf Open |
| 1953 | "Hazel Flagg" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 190 performances |
| 1951 | 1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV |
| 1951 | Italian civil servants strike for pay increase |
| 1950 | European Payment Union forms in Paris |
| 1950 | Great Three acknowledge Bond government as only German government |
| 1950 | U.N. reject membership of China's People Republic |
| 1948 | 62nd U.S. Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats A L Brough (46 64 15-13) |
| 1948 | 68th U.S. Mens Tennis: "Pancho" Gonzales beats E Sturgess (62 63 14-12) |
| 1948 | Richard A Gonzales wins U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1947 | Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year" |
| 1945 | Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea |
| 1945 | Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London |
| 1944 | Finland and Russia agree to cease fire |
| 1944 | Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed |
| 1943 | Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record |
| 1943 | Liberator bombers sinks U-341 |
| 1941 | 1st meeting of partizans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia |
| 1941 | German army conquerors Kiev |
| 1941 | Nazi's force German Jews, 6 and over to wear Jewish stars |
| 1940 | Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes |
| 1939 | British Expeditionary Force reaches France |
| 1939 | Lord Haw-Haw becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin |
| 1939 | Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland |
| 1934 | Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby |
| 1933 | New York Giants clinch the pennant |
| 1931 | 14th PGA Championship: Tom Creavy at Wannamoisett CC Rumford RI |
| 1931 | Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria |
| 1931 | Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1 |
| 1928 | Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater New York City) |
| 1926 | 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague |
| 1925 | 45th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (46 119 63 46 63) |
| 1923 | Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann," premieres in Leipzig |
| 1922 | Queen Wilhelmina's takes Dutch throne with 119 word speech |
| 1921 | 41st U.S. Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 63 61) |
| 1916 | 1st landing on Schiphol (Farman F-22 of Soesterberg) |
| 1916 | Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa |
| 1914 | Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits Kansas City (Federal League), 6-2 |
| 1912 | Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions |
| 1912 | Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda |
| 1911 | Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights |
| 1910 | George Cohan's "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," premieres in New York City |
| 1908 | Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony, premieres in Prague |
| 1904 | General Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties |
| 1903 | King Leopold II deny Belgian cruelty in Congo |
| 1901 | 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of President William McKinley |
| 1893 | New Zealand is 1st country to grant all its women the right to vote |
| 1890 | Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540 |
| 1888 | World's 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium) |
| 1879 | Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track and field record pole-vaulting 11' 2" at age 17 years and 198 days |
| 1876 | 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Michigan) |
| 1876 | Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa |
| 1873 | Black Friday: Jay Cooke and Co fails, causing a securities panic |
| 1870 | Siege of Paris begins |
| 1865 | Atlanta University forms |
| 1864 | 3rd Battle of Winchester Virginia (Opequon, 3rd Winchester) |
| 1863 | Battle of Chickamauga Georgia (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat |
| 1862 | Battle at Blackford's Ford Virginia |
| 1862 | Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties) |
| 1854 | Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car |
| 1848 | Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (U.S.) and Lassell (England) |
| 1846 | Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elopes |
| 1838 | Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake |
| 1833 | Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina |
| 1799 | English and Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver |
| 1796 | George Washington's farewell address as president |
| 1795 | Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned |
| 1777 | Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga |
| 1755 | England and Russia sign military agreement |
| 1676 | Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Virginia on fire |
| 1668 | Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France |
| 1657 | Brandenburg and Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau |
| 1656 | Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg |
| 1642 | Perpignan surrenders to French troops |
| 1602 | Grave surrenders to earl Mauritius |
| 1580 | Treaty of Plessis-lez-Tours (Anjou/Dutch States-General) |
| 1559 | 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die |
| 1523 | Emperor Charles I and England sign anti-French covenant |
| 1356 | English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers |
