- 1998 Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach
- 1998 Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- 1997 "It's a Slippery Slope," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City
- 1996 Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
- 1995 Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939)
- 1994 "Government Inspector" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 37 performances
- 1994 Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88
- 1994 Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard
- 1994 Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44)
- 1994 Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44)
- 1993 Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones
- 1993 Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a
- 1993 Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews
- 1992 New York Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul
- 1992 Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle," premieres in LA
- 1992 Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs. Australia at the SCG
- 1992 Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings
- 1991 "Gypsy" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 477 performances
- 1991 "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
- 1991 Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala
- 1991 Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)
- 1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (18-25-26-32-42-44)
- 1987 100th U.S. Congress convenes
- 1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
- 1986 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns
- 1986 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
- 1986 Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland
- 1986 STS-61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem
- 1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-41 B mission
- 1984 Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh and Lillee
- 1981 50th hat trick in Islander history - John Tonelli scored 5 goals
- 1980 "1940's Radio Hour" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 105 performances
- 1980 Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India
- 1980 Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat
- 1978 1st postage stamp copyrighted by U.S. (Carl Sandburg stamp)
- 1978 U.S. hand over St. Stephan crown to Hungary
- 1977 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols
- 1976 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
- 1976 Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million
- 1975 "AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host
- 1975 "Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-TV
- 1974 "CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio
- 1974 England begins 3 day work week during mine strike
- 1973 "Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
- 1972 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
- 1972 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley
- 1972 Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from U.S.S.R.
- 1971 Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
- 1971 Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate
- 1969 Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame"
- 1969 WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1968 Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 8 weeks
- 1968 Dr. N E Shumway performs 1st U.S. adult cardiac transplant operation
- 1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by U.S. for soft-landing on Moon
- 1967 "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV
- 1967 KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1967 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140
- 1965 Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling
- 1964 Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move Kansas City A's to Louisville
- 1964 Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
- 1963 "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
- 1963 "Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 774 performances
- 1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings
- 1958 Gibson patents Flying V Guitar
- 1958 WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1957 Elvis Presley makes his 7th and final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
- 1957 Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow, Russia
- 1956 KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, Texas (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1956 Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
- 1953 WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1951 "Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 100 performances
- 1951 Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
- 1950 "Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater New York City for 3 performances
- 1950 Britain recognizes Communist government of China
- 1947 Ray Lindwall smashes 100 vs. England in MCG Test
- 1946 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum
- 1945 Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY
- 1942 1st around world flight, Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"
- 1942 Bob Feller, enlists in Navy and reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
- 1941 FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want and from fear)
- 1938 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx
- 1937 Bradman scores 270 Australia vs. England at the MCG, incl 110 singles
- 1936 Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)
- 1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
- 1930 Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 minutes, 49 fours
- 1929 Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
- 1928 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)
- 1927 U.S. Marines sent to Nicaragua
- 1926 Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland
- 1925 Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile and 14:44.6 5,000m
- 1924 Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches," premieres in Monte Carlo
- 1922 Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments
- 1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
- 1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state
- 1907 Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
- 1906 Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs," premieres in Paris
- 1903 Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam
- 1900 Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured
- 1900 Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso," premieres in Paris
- 1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
- 1896 1st U.S. women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
- 1896 Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
- 1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
- 1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union forms
- 1880 Record snow cover in Seattle-120 cm
- 1873 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"
- 1873 U.S. Congress begins investigating Credit Mobilier scandal
- 1861 Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
- 1861 New York City mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with N and S
- 1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn
- 1842 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
- 1839 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind"
- 1838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
- 1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
- 1784 Turkey and Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
- 1781 Battle of Jersey (Island in UK)
- 1773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
- 1759 George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis
- 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow
- 1690 Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king
- 1681 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
- 1663 Great earthquake in New England
- 1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
- 1622 Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide
- 1579 Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras
- 1540 King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
- 1535 City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro
- 1497 Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)
- 1496 Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi
- 1453 Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria
- 1352 French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star
- 1227 Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre
- 1099 Henry V crowned German king
- 1066 King Harald of England crowned
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