| 2009 | A gun battle between U.S. agents and suspected people smugglers shuts down San Ysidro U.S. Mexico border crossing |
| 1997 | Seattle Mariners break record for most home runs in a year (258) |
| 1996 | Howard Stern radio show premieres in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on WZMT 97.9 FM |
| 1996 | Howard Stern radio show premieres in West Palm Beach, Florida on WCLB 95.5 FM |
| 1994 | Pinatubo volcano in Philippines erupts, kills at least 14 |
| 1993 | "Les Miserables," opens at Playhouse, Edinburgh |
| 1993 | Paul Chu group reports super conduction at -123 degrees C (record high) |
| 1992 | Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL |
| 1992 | Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's department stores in New York City |
| 1992 | Mud storm kills 30 in South France |
| 1992 | 1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period |
| 1991 | New York Islanders Mike Bossy and Denis Potvin inducted into NHL Hall of Fame |
| 1990 | Nancy Lopez wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1990 | PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War |
| 1990 | Saddam says he will destroy Israel |
| 1989 | Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning |
| 1988 | Fiji's new constitution is proposed |
| 1988 | Jose Canseco is baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases and hit 40 home runs |
| 1988 | Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39) |
| 1986 | Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10) |
| 1986 | Congress selects the rose as U.S. national flower |
| 1984 | 36th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Cheers, John Ritter and Tyne Daly |
| 1984 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic |
| 1984 | SF 49er Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games |
| 1984 | Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues |
| 1983 | Argentina military regime gives amnesty to military and political assassins |
| 1983 | Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9 |
| 1983 | Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1983 | Heavyweight Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in Ohio |
| 1983 | Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game (beating Cards) |
| 1982 | "Doll's Life" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1982 | Amin Gemayel sworn in as president of Lebanon |
| 1982 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1979 | Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, New York City |
| 1979 | Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic |
| 1979 | Somali constitution approved by president |
| 1979 | St. Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th and final base of his career |
| 1978 | 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit |
| 1977 | 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise |
| 1977 | Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels |
| 1976 | Ford-Carter TV debate |
| 1976 | South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them |
| 1976 | Soyuz 22 returns to Earth |
| 1974 | "Gypsy" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 120 performances |
| 1974 | BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service |
| 1973 | Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power |
| 1973 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Open |
| 1972 | Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law |
| 1972 | President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines |
| 1971 | John Vermeers painting "The liefdesbrief" stolen |
| 1970 | Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia |
| 1970 | Gary Muhrcke wins 1st New York Marathon |
| 1969 | 1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV |
| 1969 | "Clues Hint at Beatle's Death," reported in Illinois University newspaper, sparking widespread rumours of Paul McCartney's death |
| 1968 | WKAS TV channel 25 in Ashland, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | WKMA TV channel 35 in Madisonville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | WKON TV channel 52 in Owenton, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | WKZT TV channel 23 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Greek Colonels regime frees ex-premier Georgios Papandreou |
| 1967 | Radio Malta stops testing |
| 1964 | "Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in New York City |
| 1963 | Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State |
| 1963 | WMEB TV channel 12 in Orono, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | ABC's 1st color TV series-Jetsons |
| 1962 | Los Angeles Dodger Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104 |
| 1962 | Martin Walser's "Esche und Angora," premieres in Berlin |
| 1962 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open |
| 1962 | NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts |
| 1961 | 1st movie to become a TV series - How to Marry a Millionaire |
| 1961 | Ernie Banks ends 717 consecutive-games-played streak |
| 1958 | Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 1958 | Stravinsky's "Thieni," premieres in Venetie |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1957 | "That'll Be Day" by Buddy Holly and Crickets reaches #1 |
| 1957 | Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2 |
| 1957 | WTIC TV channel 61 in Hartford, CT (CBS/FOX) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw |
| 1955 | Pakistan signs Pact of Baghdad |
| 1955 | Yankees clinch pennant by beating Red Sox, 3-2 |
| 1953 | KHQA TV channel 7 in Hannibal-Quincy, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event |
| 1952 | Dodgers clinch NL pennant |
| 1952 | Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech |
| 1952 | Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for hw boxing title |
| 1950 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Sunset Hills Golf Open |
| 1950 | Philadelphia A's Joe Astroth is 4th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th) |
| 1950 | U.S. Mustangs accidentally bombs British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed |
| 1949 | Indian owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant |
| 1949 | Truman announces evidence of U.S.S.R.'s 1st nuclear device detonation |
| 1948 | Braves clinch NL pennant |
| 1942 | Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions |
| 1942 | Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad |
| 1942 | Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1941 | General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London |
| 1941 | German air raid on Russian naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks) |
| 1940 | French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees |
| 1940 | Dutch nazi collaborator Mussert's 1st meeting with Hitler |
| 1939 | Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits and beat Phillies 22-4 |
| 1938 | British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich |
| 1938 | Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in New York City (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100' of microfilm) |
| 1937 | Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit |
| 1936 | Giants Carl Hubbell notches his 16th en route to 24 consecutive wins |
| 1933 | Yankees commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12 |
| 1932 | Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| 1926 | Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1925 | George Kaufman's "Butter and Egg Man," premieres in New York City |
| 1925 | Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP |
| 1923 | 80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law |
| 1922 | B Brechts "Drum in the Night," premieres in Germany |
| 1920 | Alexander Millerand elected president of France |
| 1914 | Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves |
| 1913 | Roland Garros is 1st to fly over Mediterranean Sea |
| 1913 | Serbian troops march into Albania |
| 1912 | 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released |
| 1912 | Mark Sennet presents 1st Keystone Cops film (Cohen Collects a Debt) |
| 1911 | Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot |
| 1908 | Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th and disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay and pennant) |
| 1908 | University of Alberta opens |
| 1907 | Proclamation sets fineness and weight of silver and bronze coins of Canada |
| 1905 | Mbunga-siege of Fort Mahenge German East-Africa broken |
| 1904 | Francis Younghusbands leaves Lhasa Tibet |
| 1897 | 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming) |
| 1895 | French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms |
| 1890 | Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning |
| 1880 | Jules Ferry forms French government |
| 1879 | Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia |
| 1879 | Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone |
| 1877 | Hurricane strikes Curaeao and Bonaire kills 200 |
| 1876 | Ottawa Rough Riders play their 1st game |
| 1873 | Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title |
| 1868 | Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain) |
| 1863 | Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins |
| 1862 | Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers |
| 1857 | Russian warship Leffort disappears in Finland Gulf in storm; 826 die |
| 1846 | Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune |
| 1845 | 1st baseball team, New York Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code |
| 1845 | Hunger strike in Hague |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle sails to Charles Island in Galapagos archipelago |
| 1830 | Dutch troops occupy Brussels |
| 1806 | Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis from Pacific Northwest |
| 1803 | Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army |
| 1795 | Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris |
| 1780 | British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Pt |
| 1779 | John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats HMS Serepis |
| 1746 | Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor |
| 1739 | Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade |
| 1719 | Liechtenstein declares independence from German empire |
| 1666 | Princess Maria of Orange-Nassau marries Mauritius earl of Simmeren |
| 1642 | Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1st commencement |
| 1561 | King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida |
| 1513 | King Henry III and Emperor Maximilian conquer Doornik |
| 1408 | Battle of Othee |
| 1122 | Concord of Worms |
| 951 | Otto I the Great becomes king of Italy |
