| 1998 | Mark McGwire breaks Roger Marris' 62 home run record for a season, and goes on to hit 70 home runs for the 1998 season |
| 1996 | "7 Guitars" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City |
| 1996 | 110th U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (75 64) |
| 1996 | 116th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Michael Chang (61 64 76) |
| 1996 | 48th Emmy Awards: ER, Dennis Franz and Kathy Baker wins |
| 1996 | Dottie Pepper wins Safeway LPGA title |
| 1996 | Men's championship at U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1996 | Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
| 1996 | Sri Lanka defeat Australia to win Singer World Series at Colombo |
| 1995 | Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title |
| 1994 | "Philadelphia, Here I Come" opens at Criterion New York City for 52 performances |
| 1994 | Last U.S., British and French troops leave West-Berlin |
| 1994 | MTV awards feature newlyweds Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley |
| 1994 | Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station |
| 1994 | U.S. Air Boeing 737 crashes at Pittsburgh Airport, killing all 132 on board |
| 1993 | Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL |
| 1993 | Cheek Junxia wins world record ladies 10 km (29:31.78) |
| 1993 | Houston's Darryl Kile throws 3rd no-hitter of season in 7-1 over Mets |
| 1992 | Danny Tartabull has 9 RBIs as Yankees beat Orioles 16-4 |
| 1992 | Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting in Dallas, Texas on KGEL-FM 97.1 |
| 1991 | 111th U.S. Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Jim Courier (62 64 60) |
| 1991 | Buffalo Bill Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pitts (52-34) |
| 1991 | Macedonia votes for independence from Yugoslavia |
| 1991 | Michelle Estill wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
| 1990 | 104th U.S. Womens Tennis: Gabriela Sabatini beats Steffi Graf (62 76) |
| 1989 | George Brett gets his 2,500th hit |
| 1989 | Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk Belgium |
| 1989 | Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder) |
| 1988 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1988 | Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43 m (7' 11 ") |
| 1988 | NL President Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commish |
| 1987 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1986 | Westinghouse sells Muzak |
| 1985 | "USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers |
| 1985 | 105th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (76 63 64) |
| 1985 | 7 die in a car and train crash in San Jose, California |
| 1985 | Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hour women swim record of 42.05 miles in 25 meter pool |
| 1985 | Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
| 1985 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship |
| 1985 | Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits |
| 1984 | 98th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris E L Mills (46 64 64) |
| 1984 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-41G mission |
| 1983 | NASA launches RCA-6 |
| 1982 | Dutch social dem party wins elections, fascist enters Dutch parliament |
| 1980 | Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest |
| 1979 | Cheryl Prewitt of Mississippi, 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980 |
| 1979 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1978 | 2nd game of Boston Massacre; Yankees beat Red Sox 13-2 |
| 1978 | Irani army shoots on Khomeini followers in Teheran, 100s killed |
| 1977 | Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy |
| 1977 | Jimmy McCullough quits Wings |
| 1976 | Fons Rademakers' film "Max Havelaar" premieres in Amsterdam |
| 1975 | Boston begins court ordered busing of public schools |
| 1975 | Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal |
| 1974 | 88th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Evonne Goolagong (36 63 75) |
| 1974 | 94th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ken Rosewall (61 60 61) |
| 1974 | Ian Thompson wins marathon (2:13:18.8) |
| 1974 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 1974 | President Gerald Ford pardons former President R Nixon of all federal crimes |
| 1973 | 87th U.S. Womens Tennis: M S Court beats E Goolagong Cawley (76 57 62) |
| 1973 | Billy Martin named manager of Texas Rangers |
| 1973 | Hank Aaron sets record of most home runs in 1 league (709) |
| 1973 | Rebecca Ann King (Colorado), 23, crowned 46th Miss America 1974 |
| 1972 | Chicago Cub Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th game for 6th straight year |
| 1972 | Jim Ryan (U.S.) and Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide and fall in qualifying competitions for 1,500m finals, ending Ryan's chances for gold |
| 1971 | John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington D.C. |
| 1969 | 2nd U.S. Tennis Open smallest session - 3708 (men's singles final-rain) |
| 1969 | 89th U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Tony Roche (79 61 62 62) |
| 1969 | Suleiman Maghrabi appointed premier of Libya |
| 1969 | U.S. amateur Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Bob Lutz (97 63 61) |
| 1968 | "Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand premieres |
| 1968 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1968 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pacific Ladies Golf Classic |
| 1968 | Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant |
| 1967 | Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10 |
| 1967 | Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic |
| 1966 | Star Trek premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1966 | "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV |
| 1965 | Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana and Florida |
| 1965 | KC A's Bert Campaneris plays all 9 positions in a game |
| 1963 | 77th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Smith Court (75 64) |
| 1963 | 83rd U.S. Mens Tennis: R H Osuna beats Frank Froehling III (75 64 62) |
| 1963 | Algerian population accepts constitution |
| 1963 | Braves Warren Spahn ties Christy Mathewson with 13 20-win seasons |
| 1963 | Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys |
| 1963 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open |
| 1962 | Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary) |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | East Germany limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners |
| 1958 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open |
| 1958 | Oman turns over Gwadur (on Baluchistan coast) to Pakistan |
| 1958 | Paul Anka opens Asian tour in Tokyo |
| 1957 | 77th U.S. Mens Tennis: M J Anderson beats Ashley J Cooper (108 75 64) |
| 1957 | Jackie Wilson, releases his 1st solo single "Reet Petite" |
| 1957 | Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV |
| 1956 | Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks |
| 1955 | Earliest clinching of an NL pennant (Brooklyn Dodgers) |
| 1954 | Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to New York City for WINS radio |
| 1954 | SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communists in Asia |
| 1953 | "Carnival in Flanders" opens at New Century Theater New York for 6 performances |
| 1953 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgeno corona |
| 1952 | 72nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63) |
| 1952 | Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man and Sea" published |
| 1951 | Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF) |
| 1951 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sempiternus Rex |
| 1948 | British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound |
| 1947 | British government sails "Exodus" with fugitives from Nazis |
| 1946 | 60th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (119 63) |
| 1946 | 66th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom Brown, Jr. (97 63 60) |
| 1946 | Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minors record 456 |
| 1946 | Bulgaria ends monarchy |
| 1946 | Jack Kramer wins U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1946 | San Francisco 49ers play 1st AAFC game, lose to New York Yankees 21-7 |
| 1945 | U.S. invades Japanese-held Korea |
| 1945 | Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged |
| 1944 | 1st V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp |
| 1944 | Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany |
| 1943 | General Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II |
| 1943 | Lieutenant-general Bradley flies to Carthago/Algiers Sicily |
| 1943 | New York Giants' pitcher Ace Adams sets record by working in his 62nd game |
| 1941 | Blockade of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by Germany begins |
| 1941 | Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated |
| 1939 | Franklin D. Roosevelt declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe |
| 1939 | General Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw |
| 1939 | Indians Bob Feller, 20, is youngest pitcher to win 20 games |
| 1939 | Yankees beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7, game called because of lightning |
| 1937 | Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens |
| 1937 | Yankees trailing 6-1 in 9th, score 8 to beat Boston 9-6 |
| 1936 | Princess Juliana and German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld get engaged |
| 1935 | Willy de Supervise swims runs world record 200 m freestyle (2:25.2) |
| 1934 | 54th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Wilmer L Allison (64 63 16 86) |
| 1934 | Bradman scores 132 vs. Leveson-Gower XI, 90 minutes, 24 fours 1 six |
| 1934 | Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle for New Jersey catches fire, 133 die |
| 1933 | Spain's 2nd government of Azana forms |
| 1930 | 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie" |
| 1930 | New York City public schools begin teaching Hebrew |
| 1930 | Richard Drew creates Scotch tape |
| 1926 | League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany |
| 1924 | Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador |
| 1921 | 1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman of Washington D.C.) |
| 1920 | U.S. Air Mail service begins (New York City to San Francisco) |
| 1919 | Babe Ruth hits his 26th home run off Jack Quinn in New York, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 home run mark of 25 |
| 1914 | British trader Oceanic sinks off Scotland |
| 1907 | Pius X publishes encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis (anti-modernism) |
| 1905 | Pittsburgh Pirates strand NL record 18 men on base and lose to Reds 8-3 |
| 1900 | 6,000 killed when a hurricane and tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas |
| 1899 | British government sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa |
| 1892 | 1st appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion) |
| 1883 | New York Giants score 13 runs in an inning against Phillies |
| 1883 | Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont |
| 1868 | New York Athletic Club forms |
| 1863 | Federal troops reconquer the Cumperland Gap, Tennessee |
| 1863 | Battle of Sabine Pass TX: 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal forces |
| 1860 | Loss of steamer, "Lady Elgin" |
| 1858 | Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people |
| 1855 | Crimean war - assault of Malakof Tower under Mac-Mahon |
| 1854 | With a 3-2 count, Phillies Richie Ashburn fouls next 14, then walks |
| 1847 | U.S. under General Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey |
| 1833 | Charles Darwin departs to Buenos Aires |
| 1796 | Battle of Bassano-French beat Austrians |
| 1771 | Mission San Gabriel Archangel forms in California |
| 1760 | French army gives Montreal to General Jeffrey Amherst |
| 1755 | Battle at Lake George: English army beats France |
| 1713 | Pope Clemens XI publishes degree "Unigenitus" against Jansenism" |
| 1689 | China and Russia signs Treaty of Nertsjinsk (Nierchul) |
| 1664 | Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers |
| 1655 | Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw |
| 1628 | Bay of Matanzas Cuba: Piet Heyn captures Spanish silver fleet |
| 1565 | 1st permanent settlement in U.S. forms (St. Augustine, Florida) |
| 1565 | Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese and Knights of St. John |
| 1563 | Maximilian chosen king of Hungary |
| 1553 | City of Lichfield, England forms |
| 1545 | English earl Hertford leads retaliatory mission against Scotland |
| 1536 | Earl of Nassau disbands siege of Peronne |
| 1522 | Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st circumnavigation of globe, expedition begins under Ferdinand Magellan |
| 1514 | Battle at Ozra: Polish/Latvia army beats Russians |
| 1380 | Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dimitri beats Mongols |
| 1380 | Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars |
| 1303 | Anagni: French king Philip IV captures Pope Boniface VIII |
| 1276 | John XXI elected Pope |
| 1156 | Henry II Jasormigott leaves Bavaria |
| 1141 | Battle of Samarkand: Yelutashi defeats Islams |
| 1024 | Duke Koenraad II chosen German king |
