| 2001 | 115th U.S. Womens Tennis |
| 2001 | 121st U.S. Mens Tennis |
| 1997 | Sinn Fein accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmamen |
| 1995 | "Broadway Limited" last train ride (began in 1902) |
| 1995 | 109th U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (76 06 63) |
| 1995 | Chynna Phillips weds William Baldwin |
| 1995 | Dean St. Station in Brooklyn, is 6th Metropolitan Transportation Authority station to close since 1904 |
| 1995 | Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41) |
| 1994 | Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), launches into orbit |
| 1994 | Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed |
| 1993 | Croupier of casino in Bristol England, shoots a 4, a record 8 times |
| 1993 | PLO recognizes state of Israel |
| 1993 | Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, resigns |
| 1992 | 1st time Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home |
| 1992 | 9th MTV Awards: Howard Stern appears as Fartman |
| 1992 | Robin Yount, is 17th to get 3,000 hits |
| 1991 | Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland |
| 1990 | 110th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 62) |
| 1990 | Bush and Gorbachev meet in Helsinki and urge Iraq to leave Kuwait |
| 1990 | Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr. Johnson's forces |
| 1990 | Oakland beats New York 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year |
| 1990 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship |
| 1989 | 103rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (36 75 61) |
| 1988 | Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers and Gossage to save 300 games |
| 1988 | Chris Evert defaults at U.S. Open due to a stomach flu |
| 1988 | U.S. swamps New Zealand at 27th America's Cup: New Zealand set to appeal |
| 1987 | Gary Hart admits on "Nightline," to cheating on his wife |
| 1987 | Largest U.S. Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016 |
| 1987 | Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59 |
| 1987 | Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter |
| 1986 | New York City jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet United Nations employee) of spying |
| 1985 | President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa |
| 1985 | Race riot in Birmingham England |
| 1984 | 104th U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl (63 64 61) |
| 1984 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship |
| 1984 | California Angel Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game |
| 1983 | Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas |
| 1983 | Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2) |
| 1983 | Vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis player |
| 1982 | "Your Arms are Too Short..." opens at Alvin New York City for 69 performances |
| 1982 | Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank in preparation for STS-5 |
| 1982 | Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight |
| 1981 | Vernon Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League |
| 1979 | 31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman and Ruth Gordon |
| 1979 | 93rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats C E Lloyd Mills (64 63) |
| 1979 | 99th U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis (75 63 63) |
| 1979 | Sally Little wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
| 1979 | Sid Bernstein offers $ billion for a Beatle reunion |
| 1979 | Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque |
| 1978 | 3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yankees beat Red Sox 7-0 |
| 1978 | 92nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats Pam Shriver (75 64) |
| 1978 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto) |
| 1978 | Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army |
| 1978 | Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979 |
| 1977 | 1st TRS-80 computer sold |
| 1977 | Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker and Allan Trammell debut together and will play together for 19 years |
| 1975 | Viking 2 Mars probe launch |
| 1974 | 88th U.S. Womens Tennis: B J M King beats E Goolagong Cawley (36 63 75) |
| 1973 | 93rd U.S. Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Jan Kodes (64 16 46 62 62) |
| 1973 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 1972 | 86th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats K Melville (63 75) |
| 1972 | Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973 |
| 1971 | 1,000 convicts riot and seize Attica, New York prison |
| 1971 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV) |
| 1971 | John Lennon releases "Imagine" album |
| 1971 | NHL great Gordie Howe retires |
| 1970 | Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun |
| 1969 | Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82 |
| 1969 | Seaplane crashes at Indianapolis, kills 83 |
| 1969 | Smallest U.S. Tennis Open single session-131 (men's doubles final only) |
| 1969 | WCVN TV channel 54 in Covington, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | 1st U.S. Open, held as an "open" (Arthur Ashe-wins) |
| 1968 | Arthur Ashe defeats Tom Okker to win U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1968 | Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7) |
| 1968 | WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V |
| 1967 | Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968 |
| 1967 | Uganda declares independence from Great Britain |
| 1965 | Francois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency |
| 1965 | Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0) |
| 1965 | Tibet is made an autonomous region of China |
| 1964 | East Germany government allows short visits to West Germany |
| 1964 | John Osborne's "Inadmissable Evidence," premieres in London |
| 1963 | Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy) |
| 1963 | Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools |
| 1962 | 76th U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (97 64) |
| 1962 | 82nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64) |
| 1962 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open |
| 1962 | Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses |
| 1962 | WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962 |
| 1960 | 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10) |
| 1958 | Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game |
| 1958 | Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London |
| 1957 | "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1 |
| 1957 | Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited |
| 1957 | President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction |
| 1956 | 70th U.S. Womens Tennis: Shirley J Fry beats Althea Gibson (63 64) |
| 1956 | 76th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Lewis Hoad (46 62 63 63) |
| 1956 | African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde forms |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan's Show |
| 1955 | Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run |
| 1955 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open |
| 1954 | Earthquake strikes Orleansville, Algeria: 1,400 killed |
| 1954 | Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season |
| 1953 | KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, California (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WFIE TV channel 14 in Evansville, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | 1st broadcast of "Love of Life" on CBS-TV |
| 1951 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open |
| 1950 | "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" closes at Mark Hellinger New York City after 293 performances |
| 1950 | "Where's Chartev?" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 792 performances |
| 1950 | 1st use of TV laugh track - Hank McCune |
| 1950 | Massive arrests of communists in France |
| 1948 | "Hilarities (of 1949)" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 14 performances |
| 1948 | Bkln Dodger Rex Barney no-hits New York Giants, 2-0 |
| 1948 | People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed |
| 1945 | Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies |
| 1945 | Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th and final home run |
| 1945 | Philadelphia A's Dick Fowler no-hits St. Louis Brown, 1-0 |
| 1945 | 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay and taped into the log |
| 1944 | Allied forces liberate Luxembourg |
| 1944 | Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day) |
| 1944 | Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal, Netherlands |
| 1944 | U.S. 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders |
| 1944 | Very strong hurricane hits Netherland |
| 1943 | 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome |
| 1943 | Lieutenant-general Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech/Prestwick |
| 1943 | Red Army occupies Bachmatsj |
| 1943 | U.S., British and French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche) |
| 1942 | Compulsory work for women, children and old males in Batavia |
| 1942 | Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon |
| 1940 | 28 German aircraft shot down above England |
| 1940 | 60th U.S. Mens Tennis: W D McNeill beats Robert L Riggs (46 68 63 63 75) |
| 1939 | Nazi army reaches Warsaw |
| 1936 | Yankees sweep Indians, New York clinches pennant on earliest date in history |
| 1934 | Armas Toivonen becomes 1st European marathoner (2:52:29.0) |
| 1934 | G Kaufman and M Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along," premieres in New York City |
| 1933 | 53rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Jack Crawford (63 1113 46 60 61) |
| 1932 | Frank Crosetti ties record, striking out twice in 1 inning |
| 1932 | Mine strikes at Belgian Borinage ended |
| 1932 | Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy |
| 1932 | Steamboat SS Observation explodes in New York City East River (71 killed) |
| 1928 | Silvio Cator of Haiti, sets then long jump record at 26' " |
| 1927 | Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium |
| 1926 | National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America |
| 1926 | Train disaster at Wassenaar, Netherlands, 4 die |
| 1923 | Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2) |
| 1922 | St. Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0 |
| 1922 | Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens |
| 1922 | William T. Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins |
| 1919 | Boston's police force forms strike |
| 1918 | Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms |
| 1914 | Belgian offensive from Antwerp |
| 1914 | Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved) |
| 1914 | Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0 |
| 1912 | J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph) |
| 1911 | 1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England) |
| 1909 | Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title |
| 1908 | Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hour airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va |
| 1908 | Russia takes part of Poland |
| 1904 | Mounted police 1st used in New York City |
| 1904 | Boston Herald again refers to New York baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2," Yankee name not official till 1913 |
| 1903 | 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated |
| 1899 | French Captain Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds |
| 1898 | Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders |
| 1895 | American Bowling Congress forms (New York City) |
| 1892 | E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon |
| 1881 | Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid" |
| 1875 | Lotta's Fountain (Kearny and Market) dedicated |
| 1867 | Luxembourg gains independence |
| 1863 | Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN |
| 1862 | Lee splits his army and sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry |
| 1861 | Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer |
| 1850 | California becomes 31st state |
| 1850 | Territories of New Mexico and Utah created |
| 1841 | Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300 |
| 1839 | John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph |
| 1830 | Charles Durant, 1st U.S. aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, New York City to Perth Amboy, NJ |
| 1817 | Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from U.S. college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College |
| 1776 | Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "US" |
| 1753 | 1st steam engine arrives in U.S. colonies |
| 1683 | Expelled Polish and Lotharings reach Wienerwald |
| 1675 | New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians |
| 1591 | Battle at Flores Azores: Spanish beat English |
| 1567 | Lomaraal van Egmond and Philip van Hoorne captured |
| 1561 | Sermon of Poissy |
| 1556 | Pope Paul IV refuses to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor |
| 1513 | Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland |
| 1492 | Columbus' fleet sets sail west |
| 701 | St. Sergius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
