| 2010 | The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 is passed by the U.S. House of Representatives |
| 2006 | ETA terrorist group declares ceasefire against Spain |
| 1998 | 18th Golden Raspberry Awards |
| 1997 | "Sunset Boulevard," closes at Minskoff New York City after 977 performances |
| 1997 | Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU) |
| 1997 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Tara Lipinski (USA) |
| 1996 | Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International |
| 1996 | STS-76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit |
| 1995 | Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist |
| 1994 | Dutch Ambassador to U.S. christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton) |
| 1994 | Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.68 sec) |
| 1994 | South African Government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland |
| 1994 | Soyuz TM-21 lands |
| 1993 | Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS |
| 1992 | "Private Lives" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 37 performances |
| 1992 | Danielle Ammaccapane wins Standard Register Ping Golf Championship |
| 1992 | England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final |
| 1992 | Joseph A. Molloy elected New York Yankee general partner |
| 1992 | Record producer Lou Adler weds Paige Hannah (Daryl's sister) |
| 1992 | U.S. Air New York to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die |
| 1991 | Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia seizing drugs |
| 1991 | New York Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY" |
| 1991 | Pamela Smart (High School teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband |
| 1990 | "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 188 performances |
| 1990 | "Les Miserables," opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston |
| 1990 | Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill |
| 1990 | The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games |
| 1989 | Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years |
| 1989 | U.S. Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York City Board of Estimate |
| 1988 | Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill |
| 1988 | WA beat Queensland by 5 wkts to win the Sheffield Shield Final |
| 1987 | Betsy King wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open |
| 1986 | Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99) |
| 1986 | HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament |
| 1986 | Heart's "These Dreams," single goes #1 |
| 1986 | Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS) |
| 1986 | Kania skates ladies world record 1500m (1:59.30) |
| 1986 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA) |
| 1986 | Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1985 | NASA launches Intelsat VA |
| 1984 | Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game |
| 1983 | Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president |
| 1982 | 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched |
| 1982 | Iran offensive against Iraq |
| 1981 | 1st class postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents |
| 1981 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Desert Inn Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| 1981 | Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6 |
| 1981 | Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)/30k (1:29:18.8) |
| 1979 | Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt |
| 1979 | NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques and Whalers) |
| 1978 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1978 | Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm and Market, SF, dedicated |
| 1978 | Rutle's "All You Need is Cash" is show on NBC-TV |
| 1977 | Dutch Den Uyl government falls |
| 1977 | Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India |
| 1977 | Uyl government falls |
| 1975 | "Dinge-competed" wins Eurovisie Song festival |
| 1975 | "Dr. Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1975 | "Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 18 performances |
| 1975 | Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship |
| 1975 | Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong" |
| 1975 | Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens |
| 1972 | "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1972 | Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified) |
| 1972 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP |
| 1972 | Nick Mileti purchases Cleveland Indians for $9 million |
| 1972 | Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1970 | "Blood Red Roses" opens and closes at John Golden Theater New York City |
| 1970 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| 1969 | "Billy" opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 1 performance |
| 1969 | "Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| 1969 | 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years |
| 1968 | Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia |
| 1968 | Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone |
| 1968 | Student riot in Nanterre near Paris |
| 1967 | Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1965 | D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) |
| 1965 | U.S. confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong |
| 1964 | Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section |
| 1964 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational |
| 1963 | Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me" |
| 1963 | British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler |
| 1963 | Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st and only Heisman Trophy winner |
| 1962 | "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert New York City for 300 performances |
| 1960 | 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes |
| 1959 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament |
| 1958 | 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72 |
| 1958 | Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1957 | Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian |
| 1956 | "Mr Wonderful" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 383 performances |
| 1956 | Death penalty against KPM-director Leon Jungschlaeger |
| 1956 | Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis, Jr. premieres in New York City |
| 1954 | 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield, Michigan |
| 1953 | Antonin Zapotocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia |
| 1953 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open |
| 1952 | Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44 |
| 1947 | President Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty |
| 1946 | 1st U.S. rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up) |
| 1946 | Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan |
| 1945 | Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt |
| 1945 | U.S. 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein |
| 1944 | 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin |
| 1943 | Dutch work week extended to 54 hour |
| 1943 | Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium |
| 1943 | SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children |
| 1942 | Heavy German assault on Malta |
| 1941 | Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation |
| 1939 | Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany |
| 1935 | Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York) |
| 1934 | 1st Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Georgia |
| 1934 | Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000) |
| 1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt makes wine and beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal |
| 1929 | 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes |
| 1929 | KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions |
| 1929 | USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor |
| 1928 | Noel Coward's musical "This Year of Grace," premieres in London |
| 1927 | Federico Garcia Lorca's "El Maleficio," premieres in Madrid |
| 1922 | British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison |
| 1914 | World's 1st airline, St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins |
| 1903 | New York Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale |
| 1903 | Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought |
| 1896 | Charilaos Vasilakos wins 1st marathon (3:18) |
| 1895 | Auguste and Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience |
| 1894 | Stanley Cup: Mont AAA beat Ottawa Generals, 3-1 (1st Cup game ever) |
| 1888 | English Football League established |
| 1882 | Edmunds Act adopted by U.S. to suppress polygamy in the territories |
| 1874 | Young Men's Hebrew Association organizes in New York City |
| 1873 | Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico |
| 1872 | Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment |
| 1871 | William Holden of North Carolina becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment |
| 1865 | Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas, Alabama to Macon, Georgia |
| 1862 | San Marino and Italy conclude treaty of friendship and cooperation |
| 1861 | 1st U.S. nursing school chartered |
| 1841 | Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones) |
| 1822 | Gioacchino Rossini marries Isabella Colbran in Bologna |
| 1822 | New York Horticultural Society founded |
| 1794 | Congress bans U.S. vessels from supplying slaves to other countries |
| 1790 | Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st U.S. Secretary of State |
| 1778 | Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state |
| 1775 | Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament |
| 1765 | Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists |
| 1733 | Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer) |
| 1692 | Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king |
| 1680 | Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas |
| 1638 | Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony |
| 1630 | 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston) |
| 1622 | 1st Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown, Virginia; 347 slain |
| 1621 | Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Netherlands |
| 1594 | French King Henri IV festival in Paris |
| 1556 | Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1457 | Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book |
| 1349 | Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death) |
| 752 | Stephen II elected Catholic Pope (or 23rd)
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