| 1997 | "ER" is performed live on TV |
| 1997 | Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (714 mph) |
| 1997 | STS-86 (Atlantis 20) launches into orbit |
| 1997 | WNBA announces it will add Detroit and Washington D.C. franchises |
| 1994 | Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1992 | "Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" opens at Paramount New York City |
| 1992 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1992 | Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova |
| 1992 | Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea) |
| 1992 | Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as Detroit's winningest manager |
| 1992 | U.S. Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle |
| 1992 | Gregory Kingsley, 12, wins right to divorce his parents and live with his foster parents, he takes name Shawn Russ |
| 1991 | "Good and Evil" premieres on ABC TV |
| 1991 | Paramount at Madison Square Garden in New York City opens |
| 1990 | "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia |
| 1990 | 1st 8 New York Yankees hit safely vs Baltimore Orioles to tie record |
| 1990 | Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title |
| 1990 | Saddam Hussein warns that U.S. will repeat Vietnam experience |
| 1990 | U.N. Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq |
| 1989 | Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam |
| 1989 | Ronald Harwood's "Another Time," premieres in London |
| 1989 | Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits and 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons |
| 1988 | Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s |
| 1988 | Kathy Guadagnino wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic |
| 1988 | Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter and Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m freestyle (3:16.53) |
| 1987 | 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka |
| 1986 | Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court |
| 1986 | Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits San Francisco Giants, 2-0 |
| 1985 | Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India |
| 1985 | Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus |
| 1985 | Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season |
| 1984 | "Quilters" opens at Jack Lawrence Theater New York City for 24 performances |
| 1984 | 1st London performance of musical "Stepping Out" presented |
| 1984 | Egypt and Jordan regain diplomatic relations |
| 1984 | New York Met Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit home runs as a teen and in 40s |
| 1983 | 35th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Cheers, Ed Flanders and Shelley Long |
| 1983 | Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0 |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1982 | Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak, beats No Illinois 31-6 |
| 1982 | Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children) |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1981 | Nolan Ryan's 5th career no-hitter as Astros beat Dodgers 5-0 |
| 1981 | Rolling Stones begin their 6th U.S. tour at John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia |
| 1980 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1980 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1980 | Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith, and Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres |
| 1979 | "Evita" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 1568 performances |
| 1979 | California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant |
| 1978 | PSA Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die |
| 1977 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
| 1976 | "Porgy and Bess" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 122 performances |
| 1976 | Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park |
| 1974 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1973 | 3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days |
| 1973 | Mets beat Expos 2-1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium |
| 1973 | Willie Mays night at Shea Stadium |
| 1972 | Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber |
| 1972 | KAVT (now KSMQ) TV channel 15 in Austin, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1972 | Norway votes to join common market |
| 1972 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
| 1970 | Ringo releases his "Beaucoups of Blues" album |
| 1967 | WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | 12th LPGA Championship won by Gloria Ehret |
| 1966 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Cello Concert premieres in Moscow |
| 1966 | Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1 |
| 1965 | "Do I Hear a Waltz?" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 220 performances |
| 1965 | 60 year old Satchel Paige of Kansas City A's pitches 3 scoreless innings |
| 1965 | Beatle cartoon show begins in U.S. |
| 1965 | Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal |
| 1964 | Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark |
| 1962 | Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia |
| 1962 | Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1962 | Weatherly (U.S.) beats Gretel (Australia) in 19th running of America's Cup |
| 1962 | Yankees clinch AL pennant |
| 1961 | KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | Chubby Checker's "Twist," hits #1 |
| 1960 | For 1st time since 1927, Pirates clinch NL pennant |
| 1960 | New York Yankees clinch AL pennant |
| 1960 | Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses |
| 1959 | Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley (37) and David Brown (43) wed |
| 1957 | 300 U.S. Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark |
| 1957 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| 1957 | Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced |
| 1956 | 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada) |
| 1956 | Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0 |
| 1956 | Transatlantic telephone cable (Newfoundland-Oban) is used |
| 1955 | Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ |
| 1955 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Clock Golf Open |
| 1954 | Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election |
| 1954 | Indians win AL record 111 games |
| 1954 | WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, South Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game |
| 1949 | 4th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs |
| 1949 | Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place |
| 1948 | "Heaven on Earth" closes at Century Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| 1943 | Russian troops liberate Smolensk |
| 1941 | Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years |
| 1940 | German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government |
| 1940 | Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton |
| 1939 | German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs |
| 1939 | Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra and Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I |
| 1937 | "il duce" visits Berlin/named "the Fuhrer" to corporal 1st class |
| 1937 | Battle of of P'ing-hsin-kuan Wutai Mountain |
| 1936 | Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double |
| 1935 | Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset," premieres in New York City |
| 1934 | John Van Druten's "Distaff Side," premieres in New York City |
| 1934 | Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game |
| 1934 | Rainbow (U.S.) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup |
| 1933 | 1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia |
| 1933 | 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China |
| 1932 | Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th home run in last game of season |
| 1930 | Austrian government of Vaugoin forms |
| 1930 | Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager |
| 1930 | Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in New York City |
| 1929 | Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam |
| 1926 | 9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury Golf Club Westbury, New York |
| 1926 | Canadian government of MacKenzie King forms |
| 1926 | Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week |
| 1926 | International slavery convention signed by 20 states |
| 1926 | NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Red Wings |
| 1926 | Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament |
| 1926 | Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant |
| 1924 | Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH |
| 1922 | Giants beat St. Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant |
| 1920 | 34th U.S. Womens Tennis: M B Mallory beats M Zinderstein (63 61) |
| 1920 | Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game |
| 1919 | President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke |
| 1915 | Battle at Loos: 8,246 British and 0 German casualties |
| 1911 | French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed |
| 1911 | Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park |
| 1911 | Italy declares war on Turkey |
| 1909 | Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in N.Y. |
| 1908 | Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout |
| 1907 | Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony, premieres |
| 1906 | John Galsworthy's "Silver Box," premieres in London |
| 1904 | Charles Follis is 1st black to play pro football |
| 1897 | 1st British bus service opens |
| 1890 | Congress establishes Yosemite National Park |
| 1890 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" |
| 1888 | Royal Court Theatre, London, opens |
| 1888 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles" |
| 1886 | Comedy opera "Dorothy," 1st produced in London |
| 1882 | 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence and Worcester) |
| 1867 | Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Washington D.C. |
| 1862 | Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee |
| 1861 | Secretary of U.S. Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves |
| 1857 | Relief of Lucknow by Havelock and Outram begins |
| 1846 | U.S. troops under General Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico |
| 1844 | Canada defeat USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international |
| 1836 | HMS Beagle anchors at St. Michael |
| 1829 | Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolivar |
| 1804 | 12th amendment to U.S. constitution, regulating judicial power |
| 1789 | Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify) |
| 1781 | Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets |
| 1780 | Benedict Arnold joins the British |
| 1777 | English general William Howe conquers Philadelphia |
| 1775 | American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured |
| 1690 | Publick Occurrences, 1st U.S. (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st and last ed |
| 1663 | Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to Turkish invasion army |
| 1654 | England and Denmark sign trade agreement |
| 1639 | 1st printing press in America |
| 1639 | Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening |
| 1597 | Amiens surrenders to French King Henri IV |
| 1560 | Spanish king Philip II names Frederik Schenck of Toutenburg, 1st archbishop of Utrecht |
| 1555 | Freedom of Religion in Augsburg |
| 1513 | Vasco Nunez de Balboa is 1st European to see Pacific Ocean |
| 1493 | Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to America |
| 1492 | Crewman on Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early |
| 1396 | Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies |
| 1340 | England and France sign disarmament treaty |
| 1212 | Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia) |
| 1066 | Battle of Stampford Bridge King Harold Godwinson II of England, beaten by his brother King Harold Hardrada of Norway |
| 955 | Bishop Ratherius of Luik flees |
| 953 | Ratherius becomes bishop of Luik |
