| 2012 | The United Communist Party of Nepal is removed from the U.S. terror list citing they have made a 'credible commitment to pursuing peace and reconciliation.' |
| 2012 | President Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Party's nomination as candiate for the 2102 Presidential election |
| 2011 | P. J. Harvey's album 'Let England Shake' wins best album in the United Kingdom and Ireland |
| 2011 | The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee recalls four News International executives for further examination of phone hacking within the organization |
| 2010 | China leads an investigation into its commercial pilots upon learning over 200 of them falsified their resumes |
| 2010 | Twenty-three Shia Muslim activists are charged with terrorism and attempting to overthrow the government of Bahrain |
| 2004 | Former President Bill Clinton undergoes a quadruple bypass operation |
| 1998 | Men's championship at U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1998 | Safeway LPGA Golf Championship |
| 1997 | Princess Diana's funeral |
| 1997 | Women's championship at U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1996 | Baltimore Orioles' Eddie Murray's 500th career home run |
| 1995 | Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games |
| 1995 | Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood |
| 1994 | 11th MTV Awards: Aerosmith, Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson win |
| 1994 | Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg" |
| 1994 | Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78) |
| 1994 | Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30) |
| 1993 | Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
| 1993 | Jerry Lewis' 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922 |
| 1992 | Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86) |
| 1991 | 33rd Walker Cup: U.S., 14-10 |
| 1991 | Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname |
| 1991 | Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence |
| 1991 | U.S.S.R. recognizes independence of the 3 Baltic republics |
| 1990 | 7th MTV Awards: Sinead O'Connor wins |
| 1989 | 6th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins |
| 1989 | Amateur Athletic Federation strips Ben Johnson of all track records |
| 1989 | Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution |
| 1988 | Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard |
| 1988 | Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal |
| 1988 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1987 | Benjamin and Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital |
| 1987 | Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48) |
| 1987 | Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal |
| 1986 | 300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Striesand's benefit concert |
| 1986 | Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed |
| 1986 | Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k) |
| 1986 | Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1986 | U.S.S.R. charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying |
| 1984 | Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead," premieres in New York City |
| 1984 | Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 |
| 1982 | Dutch Internal minister Mr. M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists |
| 1982 | Jerry Lewis' 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000 |
| 1982 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War" |
| 1982 | Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell's number |
| 1982 | Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland |
| 1981 | "They're Playing Our Song" closes at Imperial New York City after 1082 performances |
| 1981 | Bob Lemon named New York Yankee manager for 2nd time |
| 1980 | 94th U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61) |
| 1980 | Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s) |
| 1980 | College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for |
| 1980 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 1980 | Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981 |
| 1980 | Macalaster University of St. Paul, Minnesota beating Mount Senario 17-14 |
| 1979 | "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 578 performances |
| 1978 | Begin and Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1977 | Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977 |
| 1976 | Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears |
| 1976 | Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet |
| 1975 | 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey |
| 1975 | 89th U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62) |
| 1975 | Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed |
| 1975 | Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976 |
| 1975 | Tennis Star Martina Navratilova requests U.S. political asylum |
| 1975 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1973 | New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed |
| 1972 | John and Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon |
| 1972 | Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre |
| 1971 | Jerry Lewis' 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises |
| 1970 | New York Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle |
| 1970 | Palestinians seize 3 jetliners |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1969 | "Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 1166 performances |
| 1968 | Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1965 | India invades West Pakistan |
| 1965 | KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1963 | Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history |
| 1963 | Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records |
| 1963 | Major league baseballs 100,000th game |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar U.S.S.R. |
| 1959 | Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
| 1958 | Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959 |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean |
| 1957 | Elvis records "White Xmas," "Silent Night" and "Here Comes Santa Claus" |
| 1955 | "Catch a Star" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 23 performances |
| 1955 | J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname |
| 1954 | 68th U.S. Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86) |
| 1954 | 74th U.S. Mens Tennis: E V Seixas, Jr. beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64) |
| 1954 | U.S. plane shot down above Siberia |
| 1954 | WINS New York City begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show |
| 1954 | Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters |
| 1953 | Adenauers CDU wins elections in West Germany |
| 1953 | Roy Campanella sets record for home runs by a catcher at 38 |
| 1952 | Canadian TV begins in Montreal |
| 1949 | Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes |
| 1948 | 37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0) |
| 1948 | Juliana becomes queen of Netherlands |
| 1946 | All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0) |
| 1946 | Terence Rattigan's "Winslow Boy," premieres in London |
| 1945 | A's catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended |
| 1945 | "Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" opens at Century Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1944 | General Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand |
| 1943 | "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79 |
| 1943 | 63rd U.S. Mens Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60) |
| 1943 | Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A's |
| 1942 | 56th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64) |
| 1942 | Czechoslovakian marathon runner Oskar Haks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| 1941 | 55th U.S. Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62) |
| 1941 | 61st U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63) |
| 1941 | All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star |
| 1941 | Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto |
| 1940 | Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania |
| 1940 | Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France |
| 1939 | 1st German air attack on Great Britain in WW II |
| 1939 | South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany |
| 1938 | Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch queen |
| 1930 | Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8 |
| 1928 | U.S.S.R. signs Briand-Kellogg-pact |
| 1927 | B. G. DeSylva/Lew Brown's musical "Good News," premieres in New York City |
| 1927 | Red Sox beat New York Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park |
| 1924 | Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails |
| 1924 | Charles Paddock captures 100 and 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track and field championships |
| 1923 | Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee |
| 1922 | 42nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64 |
| 1920 | 40th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63) |
| 1920 | Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight |
| 1917 | French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft |
| 1914 | Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris |
| 1913 | 19th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers |
| 1913 | 1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe Pegoud-France) |
| 1913 | Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club |
| 1912 | New York Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia, 3-0 |
| 1910 | Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed |
| 1909 | Word received, Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier |
| 1905 | Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms |
| 1905 | Chicago White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0 |
| 1905 | General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident) |
| 1904 | Soccer team Rheden forms |
| 1903 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Creeping Man" |
| 1901 | President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later |
| 1900 | British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa |
| 1899 | Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk |
| 1899 | U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note" |
| 1898 | Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman |
| 1889 | King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns |
| 1886 | Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award |
| 1883 | Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson and Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn |
| 1880 | Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, vs. Australia at The Oval |
| 1880 | W G Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, vs. Australia The Oval |
| 1876 | Race riot in Charleston SC |
| 1876 | Southern Pacific line from LA to San Francisco completed |
| 1873 | Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street |
| 1870 | Ship sinks in Gulf of Biskaje; 483 die |
| 1869 | 1st westbound train arrives in SF |
| 1869 | Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania |
| 1866 | Frederick Douglass is 1st U.S. black delegate to a national convention |
| 1863 | Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner South Carolina (1700 casualties) |
| 1863 | After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft. Wagner, SC |
| 1862 | Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland |
| 1861 | General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky |
| 1853 | Women's Right's Convention met (New York City) |
| 1848 | National Black Convention meets (Cleveland) |
| 1839 | Cherokee Nation forms |
| 1839 | Great fire in NY |
| 1837 | Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men) |
| 1819 | Thomas Blanchard patents lathe |
| 1791 | Mozarts opera "La Clemenza di Tito," premieres in Prague |
| 1776 | Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sinks; 600 die |
| 1776 | 1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of New York) |
| 1732 | VOC fires Netherlands-Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare |
| 1716 | 1st U.S. lighthouse built (Boston) |
| 1715 | Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland |
| 1690 | King Willem III escapes back to England |
| 1688 | Austrian armies occupy Belgrade |
| 1683 | Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance |
| 1675 | Swedish Admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships |
| 1672 | Willem III's troops reconquer Naarden on France |
| 1634 | Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat |
| 1628 | Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle |
| 1622 | Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die |
| 1620 | 1st stones layed in Western Tower |
| 1543 | French and Turkish fleet occupies Nice |
| 1522 | Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip |
| 1492 | Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands |
| 394 | Battle of Frigidus North-Italy |
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