| 2011: After scientists reviewed studies on cell phone safety, the World Health Organization classifies cell phone radiation as a carcinogenic hazard, possibly carcinogenic to humans |
| 2011: Release dates and titles for two films based on 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkein are announced |
| 2005: Watergate figure Deep Throat is revealed to be W. Mark Felt a former F.B.I agent |
| 1997: "Once Upon a Matress," closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 187 perf |
| 1997: Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race |
| 1996: Mark Van Thillo and Abigail Alling, former biospherian win $100,000 lawsuit against Biospheric Development for Space Biospheres Ventures |
| 1994: Padres scores 13 in 2nd vs Pirates |
| 1993: President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees |
| 1992: 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000 |
| 1992: Barb Mucha wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
| 1992: 46th Tony Awards: Dancing at Lughnasa and Crazy For You win |
| 1991: Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia |
| 1991: Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war |
| 1990: BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie |
| 1990: Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles |
| 1990: 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne |
| 1989: "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (New York City) |
| 1989: 1st International Rock Awards |
| 1989: Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns |
| 1989: 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards |
| 1987: Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1987: Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 3 |
| 1985: Tornados in Penn, Ohio, New York and Canada kill 88 and injured more than 1,000 |
| 1985: New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000 |
| 1985: Guatemala adopts constitution |
| 1985: 41 tornadoes hit Northeast U.S., killing 88 |
| 1984: U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1984: 57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge |
| 1984: Viv Richards hits 189* (170 balls) vs. England, ODI cricket record |
| 1983: 37th NBA Championship: Philadelphia 76ers sweep Los Angeles Lakers in 4 games |
| 1982: "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City for 63 perf |
| 1981: Cathy Reynolds wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
| 1980: Police and youthful rebels battle in Zurich |
| 1980: "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38 |
| 1979: Radio City Music Hall (New York City) reopens |
| 1979: "I Remember Mama" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 108 performances |
| 1979: Zimbabwe proclaims independence |
| 1977: Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed |
| 1977: "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 920 performances |
| 1977: Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar |
| 1976: Loudest Pennsylvania (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London |
| 1975: Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition |
| 1975: "Goodtime Charley" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 104 performances |
| 1974: Israel and Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights |
| 1974: U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1973: Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season |
| 1972: Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam |
| 1971: WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1970: Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1970: At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die) |
| 1970: KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" |
| 1969: Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore" |
| 1969: "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8 |
| 1969: "Dear World" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 132 performances |
| 1967: Bayern Munchen wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg |
| 1965: Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy |
| 1964: San Francisco Giants beat New York Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hours 32 minutes) |
| 1964: Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1962: "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV |
| 1961: Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St. Louis, opens |
| 1961: Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate |
| 1961: Benfica wins 6th Europe Cup 1 at Bern |
| 1961: Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth |
| 1961: John F. Kennedy visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris |
| 1959: Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open |
| 1958: U.S. performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests) |
| 1958: Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin" |
| 1957: Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) |
| 1956: Mickey Mantle home run just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof |
| 1955: Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed" |
| 1955: Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities |
| 1955: Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike |
| 1953: Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government |
| 1953: WSUN TV channel 38 in St. Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1951: Netherlands and South Africa sign cultural accord |
| 1950: Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial |
| 1950: Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins |
| 1949: Charley Lupica begins stay on 4' platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, and stays 117 days) |
| 1949: 31st PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Hermitage CC Richmond VA |
| 1948: Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings) |
| 1947: Communists grab power in Hungary |
| 1947: 79th Belmont: Ruperto Donoso aboard Phalanx wins in 2:29.6 |
| 1947: Italian government of Gasperi forms |
| 1947: Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft. Deposit and Perryville Md, kills 53 |
| 1944: Allied breakthrough in Italy |
| 1943: Cards Mort Cooper pitches 1st of back-to-back one-hitters |
| 1943: "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio |
| 1942: Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury |
| 1942: 25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Seaview CC Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| 1941: German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach and swimming pools |
| 1941: 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale |
| 1941: British troops vacate Kreta |
| 1941: 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton) |
| 1940: General-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken |
| 1940: Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris |
| 1938: Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's |
| 1937: 1st quadruplets to finish college (Baylor University) |
| 1937: German battleships bomb Almeria, Spain |
| 1937: Brooklyn Dodgers snap New York Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak |
| 1935: Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat |
| 1935: Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan |
| 1930: Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season |
| 1930: Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium |
| 1930: Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth |
| 1929: Atlantic City Convention Center opens |
| 1928: 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland |
| 1928: Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season |
| 1927: Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A) |
| 1927: Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play |
| 1926: Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia |
| 1926: Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup |
| 1923: China and U.S.S.R. exchange diplomats |
| 1921: Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700 |
| 1919: NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic |
| 1919: 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas) |
| 1917: 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball) |
| 1916: British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 |
| 1916: Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead) |
| 1915: An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London |
| 1914: Chicago White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleveland Indians, 6-1 |
| 1913: 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified |
| 1913: Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6) |
| 1912: U.S. Marines land on Cuba |
| 1910: Union of South Africa declares independence from U.K. |
| 1910: Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa |
| 1910: Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to New York City |
| 1909: 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, New York City) |
| 1908: Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium) |
| 1907: Taxis 1st began running in New York City |
| 1906: Attack on King Alfonso XIII and Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid |
| 1905: Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger |
| 1902: Australia Cricket all out 36 vs. England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever |
| 1902: Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal |
| 1900: Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074) |
| 1900: U.S. troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion |
| 1900: British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg |
| 1900: Piet de Law captures Lt-colonel Spragges Irish Yeomanry |
| 1899: Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park |
| 1894: John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal" |
| 1891: Work on trans-Siberian railway begins |
| 1889: Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Pennsylvania |
| 1883: French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar |
| 1880: League of American Wheelmen (1st U.S. bicycle association), forms in Newport, Rhode Island |
| 1879: 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition |
| 1879: Madison Square Garden opens |
| 1878: U.S. Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation |
| 1878: German battleship Grosser Kurfurst sinks, 284 killed |
| 1870: Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) |
| 1870: E. J. DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement |
| 1868: Dr. James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St. Cloud, Paris |
| 1868: 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio |
| 1864: Raid at Morgan's Kentucky |
| 1862: Battle of Seven Pines Virginia (Fair Oaks) |
| 1861: Mint at New Orleans closes |
| 1861: General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line |
| 1859: Philadelphia A's organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later |
| 1853: Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves New York aboard Advance |
| 1849: Last edition of Orange sheet "Journal de La Haye" |
| 1847: Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens |
| 1837: Astor Hotel opens in New York City, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria |
| 1836: HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope |
| 1821: Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st U.S. Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore |
| 1790: U.S. copyright law enacted |
| 1744: French troops conquer Kortrijk |
| 1727: France, England and Netherlands sign accord of Paris |
| 1696: John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius |
| 1678: Lady Godiva rode naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes |
| 1665: Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah |
| 1659: Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague |
| 1634: U.S. colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony |
| 1621: Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night |
| 1564: Battle on Gotland: Lubeck and Denmark beat Sweden |
| 1531: "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted |
| 1495: Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella and Venice sign anti-French Saint League |
| 1417: Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen |