| 2010 | Jakarta launches female train carriages in an effort to reduce incidents of public sexual harassment |
| 2010 | In Sichuan, China, massive flooding sweeps two passenger train carriages into the river |
| 2009 | U.S. Army officer William Calley publicly apologizes for the mass killings in the Vietnamese community of My Lai |
| 1997 | New York Yankee 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless
inning vs Anaheim |
| 1997 | STS-85 (Discovery 23) lands |
| 1995 | After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel |
| 1995 | Bruce Seldon TKOs Joe Hipp in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1995 | Mike Tyson returns to the ring and DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds |
| 1993 | 34th Walker Cup: U.S., 19-5 |
| 1993 | Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin |
| 1993 | Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13 |
| 1993 | George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon |
| 1993 | Mattel and Fisher Price toys merge |
| 1993 | Sally Gunnell runs lady world record 400m hurdles (52.74") |
| 1992 | Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on
Test Cricket debut (SL vs. Australia) |
| 1992 | Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 vs. Australia |
| 1991 | Hurricane Bob hits U.S. |
| 1991 | Janajev and KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev |
| 1991 | Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA |
| 1990 | Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
| 1990 | Dodger Jose Offerman hits home run in his 1st at bat |
| 1990 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 home runs
(approx 128 at bat) |
| 1989 | Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist
president of Poland |
| 1988 | Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT) |
| 1988 | Muang Muang succeeds General Sein Lwin as President of Burma |
| 1988 | New York Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer |
| 1986 | Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran, Iran |
| 1985 | Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei |
| 1984 | 66th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at
Shoal Creek Ala |
| 1984 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship
of Women's Golf |
| 1984 | Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan
for president |
| 1984 | Sally Quinlan wins LPGA MasterCard Golf International Pro-Am |
| 1983 | LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 years for counterfeiting |
| 1983 | Dodgers trade Dave Stewart and Ricky Wright to
Texas for Rick Honeycut |
| 1982 | Renaldo Nehemiah of U.S. sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec |
| 1982 | Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space |
| 1981 | 2 U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22 |
| 1980 | George Brett ends hitting streak at 30 |
| 1980 | Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die |
| 1980 | Willy Russell's "Educating Rita," premieres in London |
| 1979 | "My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days) |
| 1979 | Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight |
| 1979 | Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little |
| 1979 | Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov and Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space |
| 1978 | 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran |
| 1977 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| 1976 | President Gerald R. Ford won Republican President nomination
at Kansas City convention |
| 1975 | Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager |
| 1973 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1973 | Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge |
| 1973 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA St. Paul Golf Open |
| 1969 | Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0 |
| 1967 | Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1 |
| 1966 | Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed |
| 1965 | Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences |
| 1965 | Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats
Chicago Cubs, 1-0 |
| 1964 | Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched |
| 1963 | NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters,
Oklahoma City |
| 1962 | Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55 |
| 1962 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque
Swing Parade Golf Tournament |
| 1961 | U.S. vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson visits West Berlin |
| 1960 | Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by U.S.S.R. (U-2 incident) |
| 1960 | Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive) |
| 1959 | Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become
NWA wrestling champ |
| 1959 | Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League |
| 1959 | Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit |
| 1958 | NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters |
| 1957 | New York Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to San Francisco in 1958 |
| 1957 | U.S. Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon |
| 1956 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open |
| 1955 | 32.4 cm precipitation at Burlington, Connecticut (state record) |
| 1955 | Hurricane Diane kills 200 and 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. U.S.) |
| 1955 | U.S. raises import duty on bicycles 50% |
| 1955 | WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B (DJs must play Fats Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's) |
| 1954 | Ralph J. Bunche named undersecretary of UN |
| 1953 | England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0 |
| 1951 | Bill Veeck (Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit |
| 1950 | ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic and Acrobat Ranch) |
| 1947 | J Arens and D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A |
| 1945 | Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds and wins |
| 1944 | Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed |
| 1944 | General Bradley visits Montgomery |
| 1944 | Last Japanese troops driven out of India |
| 1944 | Nazi's give parts of Paris to Resistance |
| 1944 | Paris police strike against nazi occupiers |
| 1944 | Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy |
| 1944 | U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris |
| 1944 | U.S. 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy |
| 1943 | Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle |
| 1943 | U.S. air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen |
| 1942 | Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab |
| 1942 | 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is |
| 1942 | 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France |
| 1942 | General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad |
| 1941 | Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout |
| 1939 | 37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, New Jersey (state record) |
| 1936 | Trial against Ljev Kamenev and Grigori Zinovjev because of
"Trotskyism" opens in Moscow |
| 1934 | 48th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (61 64) |
| 1934 | Hitler elected Fuhrer (95.7% of German voters) |
| 1934 | Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament |
| 1933 | 47th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats
Helen Moody (86 36 30 ret) |
| 1932 | 46th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats
Carolin A Babcock (62 62) |
| 1931 | Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game |
| 1922 | 36th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61) |
| 1921 | Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits |
| 1919 | Afghanistan declares independence from U.K. |
| 1918 | Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank," premieres in New York City |
| 1917 | Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw and
Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws |
| 1915 | Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands |
| 1914 | Elmer Rice' "On Trial," premieres in New York City |
| 1914 | German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad |
| 1914 | German fleet bombs English coast |
| 1914 | Harris Theater (Candler, Coan and Harris) opens at 226 W 42nd
St. New York City |
| 1913 | Frenchman Pegoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe |
| 1912 | Percy Aldridge Grainger's "Shepherd's Key," premieres |
| 1911 | New York Giant Christy Mathewson loses after
beating Reds 22 straight times |
| 1909 | Indianapolis 500 race track opens |
| 1905 | Russian tsar installs "Imperial Duma," without legislative powers |
| 1903 | Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game |
| 1900 | Start of the one and only olympic cricket match, in Paris |
| 1897 | 1st electric taxi's drive in London |
| 1891 | William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum |
| 1888 | 1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins |
| 1864 | 2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia |
| 1849 | New York Herald reports gold discovery in California |
| 1839 | Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris |
| 1836 | HMS Beagle anchors at Angra Azores |
| 1826 | Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario) |
| 1821 | Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII |
| 1816 | Java again in Dutch hands |
| 1812 | U.S. warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere |
| 1796 | Spain and France sign anti-English alliance |
| 1791 | Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac |
| 1787 | W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn |
| 1772 | Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government and restores full power
of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720 |
| 1702 | Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French |
| 1698 | Russian czar Peter the Great begins term |
| 1692 | 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass |
| 1691 | Battle at Szalankemen: Austrians beat Turks |
| 1627 | Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Groenlo |
| 1591 | French king Henri IV occupies Rouen |
| 1587 | Sigismund III becomes king of Poland |
| 1561 | Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith Scotland to assume throne
after spending 13 years in France |
| 1524 | Emperor Charles V's troops besieges Marseille |
| 1493 | Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German emperor |
| 1477 | Maximilian I, son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, weds Mary of |
| 1477 | Burgundy and acquires Burgundian possessions in the
Netherlands and France |
| 1458 | Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II |
| 1399 | King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry |
| 1263 | King James I of Argon censors Hebrew writing |
| 1099 | Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon |
| 1071 | Battle at Manzikert: Seldjuken sultan
Alp Arslan beats Byzantine King |
| 440 | St. Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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