| 2012 | Former U.S. Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty resigns from Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign, planning instead to work for the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington, D.C. |
| 2012 | A University of Nebraska-Lincoln communication specialist predicts that future use of unmanned aerial vehicles in journalism will become widespread |
| 2011 | The 8th largest search engine in the world, Russia's Yandex, marks its first venture outside the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by expanding into Turkey |
| 2011 | The U.S. officially ends its Don't ask, don't tell military policy, allowing gay and lesbian personnel to publicly declare their sexual orientation |
| 2010 | In Parana, Brazil, a stadium collapses during a car race, injuring 110 people |
| 2010 | The brightest object in the night sky next to the Moon is the planet Jupiter, as it makes its closest approach to Earth since 1963 |
| 2004 | Tropical Storm Jeanne kills more than 550 during flooding in Haiti |
| 2000 | Patent on RSA cryptograph algorithm ends |
| 1997 | Yankees clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive |
| 1995 | Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central |
| 1994 | Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands |
| 1992 | Colleen Walker wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 1992 | Frances votes in favor of Maastricht treaty |
| 1992 | Leanza Cornett (Florida), 21, crowned 66th Miss America 1993 |
| 1992 | Phils' Mickey Moradini makes an unassisted triple play |
| 1992 | Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands |
| 1991 | Lion's Terry Taylor reinstated after 1 year drug related suspension |
| 1990 | Both Germanys ratify reunification |
| 1990 | Saddam Hussein demands U.S. networks broadcast his message |
| 1990 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1989 | FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa |
| 1989 | Musical "Miss Saigon," premieres in London |
| 1989 | U.S. Air overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, 2 people die |
| 1988 | Darrell Evans hits his 400th career home run |
| 1988 | Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving |
| 1988 | Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons |
| 1987 | "Big River" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 1005 performances |
| 1987 | 39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis and Sharon Gless wins |
| 1987 | Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race |
| 1987 | Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions |
| 1987 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 1987 | Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown |
| 1986 | Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State |
| 1985 | Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players |
| 1985 | Walt Disney World receives its 200-millionth guest |
| 1984 | "Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1984 | Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time |
| 1984 | Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23 |
| 1983 | 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play New York Mets at Shea Stadium |
| 1983 | Cryptographic Communications System and Method (RSA) patented |
| 1982 | Jalaluddin takes a one-day hat-trick Pakistan vs. Australia |
| 1982 | NFL players begin a 57 day strike |
| 1981 | 24th Ryder Cup: U.S., 18 -9 at Walton Heath GC, England |
| 1981 | Belize declares independence |
| 1981 | Joe Danelo kicks then New York Giant record 55 yard field goal |
| 1981 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| 1980 | Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium |
| 1980 | George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good |
| 1980 | Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium |
| 1980 | Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out |
| 1979 | Coup in Central African Rep: David Dacko overthrows emperor Bokassa I |
| 1979 | Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola |
| 1979 | NASA launches HEAO |
| 1978 | "Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 439 performances |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany |
| 1977 | "Estrada" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| 1977 | Vietnam and Djibouti ask for membership in U.N. |
| 1977 | Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune |
| 1976 | Metroliner official opens in Brussels |
| 1976 | Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women |
| 1976 | Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion |
| 1975 | 21st Ryder Cup: U.S., 21-11 at Laurel Valley Golf Club Pennsylvania |
| 1975 | David Bowie's 'Fame' single goes #1 for 2 weeks |
| 1975 | Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28" draw |
| 1973 | Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match |
| 1973 | Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season |
| 1972 | Police find cannabis growing on Paul and Linda McCartney's farm |
| 1970 | Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior |
| 1970 | Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample |
| 1969 | 18th Ryder Cup: Draw, 16-16 at Royal Birkdale, England |
| 1969 | Archies' "Sugar Sugar" hits #1 |
| 1969 | Pittsburgh Pirate Bob Moose no-hits New York Mets, 4-0 |
| 1968 | Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536 |
| 1967 | Benin separates from Nigeria |
| 1967 | British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank, Scotland |
| 1967 | Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38 |
| 1967 | WCAE TV channel 50 in St. John, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | WCIX TV channel 6 in Miami, Florida (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | U.S. Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23 |
| 1965 | WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Gunter Grass' "Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand," premieres in Berlin |
| 1964 | Paramount Theater (New York City) presented the Beatles with Steve and Eydie |
| 1962 | Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria |
| 1962 | Governor R. Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Universe (James Meredith) |
| 1961 | After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls |
| 1961 | James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | Roger Maris hits home run # 59 and barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yankees clinch pennant #26 |
| 1960 | U.N. General Assembly admit 13 African countries and Cyprus (96 nations) |
| 1960 | WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1959 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open |
| 1958 | Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits New York Yankees 1-0 |
| 1958 | Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo) |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1955 | Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH |
| 1955 | Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 home runs in a season |
| 1954 | 1st FORTRAN computer program run |
| 1954 | 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution |
| 1954 | KETC TV channel 9 in Saint Louis, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Angeles |
| 1954 | Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy |
| 1953 | Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league home run |
| 1952 | KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | 1st North Pole jet crossing |
| 1951 | NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball |
| 1951 | Swiss males votes against female suffrage |
| 1949 | Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3% |
| 1949 | Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional |
| 1948 | "Magdalena" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| 1948 | Mexican Baseball league disbanded |
| 1946 | Churchill argues for a "US of Europe" |
| 1945 | German rocket engineers begin work in U.S. |
| 1944 | Polish forces free Terneuzen, Netherlands |
| 1943 | Liberator bombers sinks U-338 |
| 1942 | Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m |
| 1939 | British fleet takes German U-27 boat |
| 1939 | Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1938 | Dmitri Shostakovich's Suite for jazz orchestra, premieres |
| 1938 | Emlyn Williams' "Corn is Green," premieres in London |
| 1933 | Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2 |
| 1932 | Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant |
| 1932 | Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer |
| 1932 | Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables |
| 1931 | Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184 |
| 1927 | New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th home run of season off Tom Zachry |
| 1924 | Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams |
| 1924 | Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats New York Giants to win 300th game |
| 1922 | Goodman and Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in New York City |
| 1922 | Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games |
| 1919 | 2nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers CC Roslyn NY |
| 1919 | Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 home runs |
| 1919 | Booth Tarkington's "Clarence," premieres in New York City |
| 1918 | Royal Dutch Blast furnace and Steel factory opens in Hague |
| 1917 | British assault on Polygon-forest, France |
| 1913 | 19th U.S. Golf Open: Francis Ouimet shoots a 304 at The Country Club MA |
| 1911 | Yankees set team record 12 errors in a double header |
| 1908 | Chicago White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Philadelphia 1-0 |
| 1905 | Cleveland makes AL record 7 errors in an inning |
| 1904 | George Ade's "College Widow," premieres in New York City |
| 1904 | Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II |
| 1902 | Chicago White Sox Jim Callahan no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0 |
| 1896 | John Mcdermott wins 1st U.S. marathon (New York City) |
| 1884 | 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria |
| 1884 | Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and Vice President |
| 1881 | Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president |
| 1879 | U.S. Grants come to San Francisco for elaborate extended visit |
| 1877 | Chase National Bank opens in New York City (later merges into Chase Manhattan) |
| 1876 | Ottawa Football Club forms |
| 1873 | Panic sweeps New York Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) New York shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal |
| 1870 | Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French |
| 1870 | Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing New York treasury |
| 1870 | Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel |
| 1863 | Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee, ends |
| 1861 | Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union |
| 1860 | 1st British royalty to visit U.S., Prince of Wales (King Edward VII) |
| 1859 | George Simpson patents electric range |
| 1854 | Battle at Alma Krim: 1,000 British soldiers died |
| 1854 | British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in Crimea |
| 1850 | Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue |
| 1839 | 1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem) |
| 1833 | Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires |
| 1828 | Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory," premieres in Paris |
| 1797 | U.S. frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston |
| 1793 | British troops under major-general Williamson lands on (French) Haiti |
| 1792 | French defeat Prussians at Valmy |
| 1787 | Prince Willem V returns to Hague |
| 1777 | Paoli massacre |
| 1746 | Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland |
| 1697 | Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war) |
| 1688 | French troops occupies Palts |
| 1674 | 2nd West Indie Company forms |
| 1664 | Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women and black men |
| 1643 | 1st battle at Newbury: King Charles I vs Robert Devereux' armies |
| 1620 | Battle at Jassy: Turks beat king Sigismund III of Poland |
| 1604 | Spanish army under Spinola recaptures Oostende |
| 1565 | Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Florida and massacre the French |
| 1530 | Luther advises protestant monarch compromise |
| 1519 | Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of world |
| 1378 | Robert de Geneve, "butcher of Cesena" crowned anti-pope Clemens VII |
| 1258 | Cathedral of Salisbury inaugurated |
| 622 | Prophet Mohammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina) |
| 451 | General Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne |
| 368 | Emperor Valentinianus visits Nijmegen |
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