| 2012 | Spain announces it expects its debt levels to increase in 2013 |
| 2012 | Singer George Michael experiences 'major anxiety' and cancels the Australian leg of his tour; the singer resulted from life-threatening pneumonia in November 2011 |
| 2011 | After a rare public outcry, President Thein Sein of Burma decides to halt the controversial Myitsone Dam project |
| 2011 | Typhoon Nesat causes 43 deaths in the Philippines; forecasts predict Typhoon Nalgae will cause further flooding problems |
| 2010 | American Actor Tony Curtis dies in Las Vegas, Nevada; Curtis appeared in over 100 films |
| 2010 | Somali pirates seized Indian crewmen and the Panamanian-flagged ship they were sailing off the coast of Tanzania |
| 1997 | 1st time 3 cons home runs in post season-Raines, Jeter, O'Neill (New York Yankees) |
| 1997 | Hooters agrees to pay $2 million in discrimination suits |
| 1997 | Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0 |
| 1997 | Yankees Tim Raines, Derek Jeter and Paul O'Neill are 1st to hit 3 consecutively homers in post season (Yankees beat Indians 8-6) |
| 1995 | Cleveland Indian Albert Belle hits his 50th home run of season |
| 1994 | NHL goes on strike |
| 1994 | Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), launches into orbit |
| 1994 | Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi |
| 1994 | Vladimir Meciars HZDDS wins Slovakia parliamentary election |
| 1993 | 6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed |
| 1993 | General Colin Powell retires at 56 |
| 1992 | 26th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks wins |
| 1992 | Kansas City Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits |
| 1992 | Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars |
| 1991 | Reverend Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti |
| 1990 | Chicago White Sox beat Seattle 2-1 in last game at Comiskey Park |
| 1990 | Pittsburgh Pirates wins NL East title |
| 1989 | NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii and Ascension |
| 1989 | Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but gets his 300th strikeout |
| 1989 | Senegambia separates back into Gambia and Senegal |
| 1989 | Toronto Blue Jays wins AL East title |
| 1988 | Andrei Gromyko retires |
| 1988 | Dave Stieb, loses 2nd consecutive no hitter bid with 2 outs in 9th |
| 1988 | IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer |
| 1988 | Louise Ritter, U.S., jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal |
| 1988 | Robin Givens and Mike Tyson appear on Barbara Walter's Show |
| 1988 | Los Angeles Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings |
| 1987 | Suriname constitution ratified |
| 1986 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1986 | U.S. releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov |
| 1985 | Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM in New York |
| 1984 | Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner |
| 1984 | Browns set a team record for allowing most sacks (11), Kansas City wins 10-6 |
| 1984 | California Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0 |
| 1984 | New York Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg |
| 1982 | National railroad strike in Belgium |
| 1981 | Last game at Minn's Metropolitan Stadium, lose to Kansas City 5-2 |
| 1981 | Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics |
| 1980 | 1,754 turn out to see Phillies play New York Mets at Shea Stadium |
| 1980 | A's Rickey Henderson sets AL stolen base record at 98 en route to 100 |
| 1980 | Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein |
| 1980 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1979 | Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games without a shutout |
| 1979 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic |
| 1978 | Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati, |
| 1978 | Phillies clinch NL East title |
| 1978 | Cleveland, Houston, New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title |
| 1977 | Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns |
| 1977 | Ringo releases "Ringo the 4th" album |
| 1977 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1975 | 5 drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel (Niagara Falls New York) |
| 1974 | General Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds General Spinola as President of Portugal |
| 1973 | 3rd New York City Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 2:57:07 |
| 1973 | 4th New York City Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:21:54 |
| 1973 | Mel Gray begins NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions |
| 1973 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cameron Park Golf Open |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1973 | New York Yankees close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5, Ralph Houk |
| 1972 | Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa) |
| 1972 | Roberto Clemente, is 11th to get 3,000 hits |
| 1971 | Last Washington Senator home game, New York Yankees win career 5th forfeit game Yankees trailing 4-2 in 9th with 2 outs, fans rush field |
| 1970 | New American Bible published |
| 1969 | Atlanta's 10th straight win, clinches NL West pennant |
| 1968 | 1st Boeing 747 rolls out |
| 1968 | AL and NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires |
| 1968 | Sharon Miller wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational |
| 1968 | Supremes release "Love Child" |
| 1967 | BBC starts their own popular music radio station |
| 1967 | Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition) |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R.'s Kosmos 186 and 188 complete 1st automatic docking |
| 1966 | Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1966 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1965 | Donovan's 1st U.S. TV appearance (Shindig) |
| 1965 | Los Angeles Dodger Don Drysdale (23-12) wins 13th straight game, 7 by shutouts |
| 1964 | "Oh What a Lovely War" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 125 performances |
| 1963 | "Student Gypsy" opens at 84th St. Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| 1963 | 56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office |
| 1962 | A's Bill Fischer ends 84 1/3 consec innings pitched without a walk |
| 1962 | John F. Kennedy routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi |
| 1962 | James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi |
| 1962 | KCRL TV channel 4 in Reno, NV (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | KMEX TV channel 34 in Los Angeles, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open |
| 1962 | New York Mets lose record 120th game as Cubs turn triple play and beat New York 5-1 |
| 1960 | Flintstones premieres, 1st prime time animation show |
| 1960 | On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids" |
| 1960 | West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany |
| 1958 | French Guinee becomes independent republic Guinea |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1957 | French government of Mauroy, resigns due to Algeria |
| 1957 | WKYT TV channel 27 in Lexington, Kentucky (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th home run |
| 1956 | White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses) |
| 1954 | "Boy Friend" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 483 performances |
| 1954 | Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the Navy |
| 1953 | Auguste/Jacques Piccard dives with bathosphere to 3150 m (record) |
| 1953 | Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
| 1953 | Robert Anderson's "Tea and Sympathy," premieres in New York City |
| 1953 | WICS TV channel 20 in Springfield, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WMT (now KGAN) TV channel 2 in Cedar Rapids-Waterloo, IA (CBS) begins |
| 1950 | 1st congress of International Astronautical Federation opens in Paris |
| 1950 | Radio's "Grand Ole Opry" is broadcasted on TV for 1st time |
| 1950 | WSM TV channel 4 in Nashville, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1949 | Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights |
| 1949 | Pirates Ralph Kiner hits his 54th home run and NL record 16th in September |
| 1947 | New York Yankees beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73,365-1st WS televised |
| 1946 | 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg |
| 1946 | Von Ribbentrop and Goering sentence to death by Nuremberg trial |
| 1945 | Hank Greenberg's final day home run wins pennant for Tigers |
| 1944 | Calais reoccupied by Allies |
| 1944 | Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms |
| 1943 | Pope Pius XII encyclical on Divine spirit |
| 1942 | 98 U-boats sunk this month (485,000 tons) |
| 1942 | Admiral Nimitz' B-17 finding Guadalcanal using National Geographic map |
| 1942 | SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period |
| 1941 | 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine |
| 1941 | 53 U-boats sunk this month (202,000 tons) |
| 1941 | German assault on Moscow: operation-Taifun, begins |
| 1940 | 47 German aircrafts shot down above England |
| 1940 | 59 U-boats sunk this month (295,000 tons) |
| 1939 | 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at New York City) |
| 1939 | 41 U-boats sunk this month (153,000 ton) |
| 1939 | Germany and Russia agree to partition Poland |
| 1939 | White Sox reliever Clint Brown sets record of 61st relief appearance |
| 1938 | British premier Chamberlain arrives in Munich |
| 1938 | Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany |
| 1937 | 6th Ryder Cup: U.S., 8-4 at Southport and Ainsdale, England |
| 1936 | International Commission of Straits (Dardanelles and Bosphorus) ends |
| 1936 | Pinewood Studios opens in Buckinghamshire, England |
| 1935 | Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premieres in Boston |
| 1934 | Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3 |
| 1934 | Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) |
| 1934 | St. Louis Card clinch pennant as Dizzy Dean wins his 30th of year |
| 1933 | Berlin/Hart/Heyman/Myers ballet "As Thousands Cheer," premieres in New York City |
| 1929 | 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel) |
| 1928 | Le Sifflet publishes 1st precursor of Kuifje (Tintin) |
| 1928 | Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium cycles record 76 miles 604 yards in 1 hour |
| 1927 | Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th home run, off Tom Zachary |
| 1926 | German/French/Belgian/Luxembourg steel cartel closes |
| 1925 | General Pangulos disbands Greek parliament |
| 1924 | Allies stop checking on German navy |
| 1923 | Canton Bulldogs win 1st on way to 17-0 season |
| 1922 | Government of Alexandros Zaimis forms in Greece |
| 1922 | New York Yankees clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1 |
| 1920 | Time Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd St. New York City |
| 1919 | Avery Hopwood's "Gold Diggers," premieres in New York City |
| 1916 | Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak |
| 1915 | Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit |
| 1908 | Maurice Maeterlinck's "L'oiseau Blue," premieres in Moscow |
| 1907 | Cards Ed Konetchy steals home twice and Joe Delahanty also steals home for record 3 steals of home (vs Boston) |
| 1904 | White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days |
| 1898 | City of New York established |
| 1895 | France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar |
| 1888 | "Jack the Ripper" butchers 2 more women, Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes |
| 1887 | Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Five Orange Pips" |
| 1887 | Volunteer (U.S.) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup |
| 1885 | Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate |
| 1880 | Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of Orion Nebula |
| 1878 | 1st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii |
| 1877 | 1st U.S. amateur swim meet (New York Athletic Club) |
| 1868 | Spain's Queen Isabella is deposed, flees to France |
| 1867 | Midway Islands formally declared a U.S. possession |
| 1864 | Battle of Preble's Farm Virginia (Poplar Springs Church) |
| 1864 | Black Soldiers given Medal of Honor |
| 1857 | U.S. occupies Sand, Baker, Howland and Jarvis Is south of Hawaii |
| 1846 | Anesthetic ether used for 1st time (Dr. Wm Morton extracts a tooth) |
| 1841 | Samuel Slocum patented the stapler |
| 1818 | Congress of Aken: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France and England |
| 1808 | Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire |
| 1805 | Napoleons army draws into the Rhine |
| 1791 | Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna |
| 1787 | 1st U.S. voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston |
| 1777 | Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance |
| 1730 | Duke Victor Amadeus XI of Savoye resigns |
| 1681 | Netherlands and Sweden sign treaty |
| 1659 | Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe) |
| 1659 | Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in U.S.) |
| 1649 | Last Swedish troops vacate Prague |
| 1626 | Battle between king Bethlen Gabor and earl Mansfeld-Wallenstein ends |
| 1619 | Remonstrant Society forms in Antwerp |
| 1555 | Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic |
| 1544 | King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France |
| 1520 | Suleiman I succeeds his father Selam I as sultan of Turkey |
| 1452 | 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible |
| 1399 | King Richard II of England abdicates throne |
| 1199 | Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew |
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