| 2010 | Joran van der Sloot is extradited from Chile to Peru to face charges of killing a Peruvian woman; he is suspected of killing Natalie Holloway in Aruba |
| 2000 | Tony Awards, Copenhagen, Contact, The Real Thing revival, and Kiss Me Kate revival won major awards |
| 1995 | "Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect" closes at Golden New York City at 347 perf |
| 1995 | 49th Tony Awards: Love! Valour! Compassion! and Sunset Boulevard win |
| 1995 | 8th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,331,000 |
| 1995 | Dale Eggeling wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
| 1994 | Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96) |
| 1992 | San Jose voters reject Giants plan to build a new stadium
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| 1992 | USPO announces young Elvis beats old Elvis stamp |
| 1991 | 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania |
| 1991 | Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church |
| 1991 | Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders |
| 1991 | Robert Strauss becomes U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union |
| 1990 | 24th Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton and Patty Loveless |
| 1990 | Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy |
| 1990 | Los Angeles Dodger Ramon Martinez strikes out 18 Atlanta Braves |
| 1990 | New York Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917 |
| 1990 | Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die |
| 1989 | 2nd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $770,000 |
| 1989 | 43rd Tony Awards: Heidi Chronicles and Jerome Robbin's Broadway win |
| 1989 | Beijing cop shoots and wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping |
| 1989 | Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland |
| 1989 | Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in U.S.S.R., kills 100s |
| 1989 | Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary |
| 1989 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| 1989 | Red Sox lead Blue Jays 10-0 in 7th, but lose 12-11 in 12 for Blue Jays 12th consecutive victory at Fenway |
| 1988 | "Cabaret" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 262 performances |
| 1988 | 42nd Tony Awards: M Butterfly and Phantom of the Opera win |
| 1988 | 58th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (60 60) |
| 1988 | Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle the globe alone |
| 1988 | Longest game in Baltimore Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat New York 7-6) |
| 1988 | Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a New York Yankee |
| 1987 | Danny Harris beats Edwin Moses, ends streak of 122 cons hurdle wins |
| 1986 | Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in U.S. court |
| 1985 | STS-51-G vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1985 | Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law |
| 1984 | 18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers |
| 1984 | Arnold Palmer fails to make U.S. Open golf tournament 1st time in 32 yrs |
| 1984 | Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA" |
| 1984 | DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal |
| 1984 | New York Mets draft Shawn Abner, 17, #1 |
| 1983 | 53rd French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Mima Jausovec (61 62) |
| 1982 | "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," released in USA |
| 1982 | Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon |
| 1981 | 54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus |
| 1979 | South African President Vorster resigns due to scandal |
| 1979 | Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons |
| 1978 | "Working" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 25 performances |
| 1978 | 32nd Tony Awards: Da and Ain't Misbehavin' win |
| 1978 | 6th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner |
| 1978 | Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections |
| 1977 | Apple II, the 1st personal computer, goes on sale |
| 1977 | Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2 |
| 1975 | Oldest animal fossils in U.S. discovered in North Carolina |
| 1974 | NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks |
| 1974 | Never-to-be-repeated 10 cents Beer Night at Cleveland Stadium occurs |
| 1974 | 10 cents Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field and cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th |
| 1973 | 43rd French Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beats C Evert (67 76 64) |
| 1972 | Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard |
| 1972 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 1972 | Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3) |
| 1971 | Joseph Luns appointed Secretary-General of NATO |
| 1971 | Oakland A's beat Washington Senators, 5-3, in 21 innings |
| 1971 | Zaheer Abbas scores Cricket 274 at Edgbaston, 544 minutes 38 fours |
| 1970 | 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant |
| 1970 | San Diego Padres draft Mike Ivie #1 |
| 1970 | Tonga, formerly Friendly Islands, declares independence from U.K. |
| 1970 | WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days |
| 1969 | Beatles release Ballad Of John and Yoko/Old Brown Shoe, in US |
| 1969 | Nicky Hopkins quits rock and rolls, Jeff Beck Group |
| 1969 | 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hour flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft |
| 1968 | Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings |
| 1967 | 19th Emmy Awards: Mission Impossible, Monkees, Don Knotts and Lucy Ball |
| 1967 | KTVN TV channel 2 in Reno, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St. Louis Women's Golf Invitational |
| 1967 | Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy Series |
| 1967 | Curt Flood's record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games) |
| 1966 | "Batman and His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70 |
| 1966 | Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras |
| 1966 | 98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6 |
| 1965 | Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" |
| 1964 | Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark |
| 1964 | Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Philadelphia Phillies, 3-0 |
| 1964 | Maldives adopts constitution |
| 1964 | Test Cricket debut of Geoff Boycott vs. Australia at Trent Bridge, 48 |
| 1963 | 1st transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio |
| 1963 | British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler |
| 1962 | Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to U.S. |
| 1961 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| 1958 | French premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers |
| 1958 | San Francisco Giants Hank Sauer and B Schmidt are 2nd to hit consecutive pinch home runs |
| 1957 | 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation |
| 1957 | May and Cowdrey make 411 stand vs. WI Ramadhin bowls 98 overs |
| 1956 | Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public |
| 1955 | "Mickey Rooney Show," TV comedy last airs on NBC |
| 1954 | Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m |
| 1954 | France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union |
| 1953 | Pittsburgh trades outfielder Ralph Kiner and Joe Garagiola to Chicago |
| 1951 | Mississippi Valley State University founded |
| 1951 | Pirate's Gus Bell hits for cycle helps beat Phillies 12-4 |
| 1950 | CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election |
| 1950 | Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25) |
| 1949 | "Cavalcade of Stars" debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950 |
| 1947 | "Louisiana Lady" closes at Century Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1947 | House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley act |
| 1946 | Largest solar prominence, 300,000 mi/500,000 km, observed |
| 1945 | 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa |
| 1945 | U.S., Russia, England and France agree to split occupied Germany |
| 1944 | 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day |
| 1944 | 1st submarine captured and boarded on high seas-U 505 |
| 1944 | 5th Army enters and liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies |
| 1944 | French general De Gaulle arrives in London |
| 1943 | Argentina taken over by General Rawson and Col Juan Peron |
| 1943 | St. Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter |
| 1942 | Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II |
| 1942 | Capitol Record Co. opens for business |
| 1942 | USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island |
| 1941 | Rep of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z |
| 1940 | 1st NL night game at Sportsman's Park (Dodgers 10, Cardinals 1) |
| 1940 | 1st night game at Forbes Field (Pirates 14, Braves 2) |
| 1940 | British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops |
| 1940 | German forces enter Paris |
| 1940 | The synthetic rubber tire unveiled |
| 1940 | Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas and oceans" |
| 1938 | 10th Walker Cup: Britain - Ireland, 7 - 4 |
| 1938 | 70th Belmont: James Stout aboard Pasteurized wins in 2:29.6 |
| 1937 | Leon Blum becomes premier of People's front government of France |
| 1932 | 64th Belmont: Tom Malley aboard Faireno wins in 2:32.8 |
| 1932 | Edouard Herriot becomes premier of France |
| 1929 | George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie in Rochester, New York |
| 1927 | 1st Ryder Cup: U.S. beats England, 9 -2 at Worcester CC Mass |
| 1927 | Johnny Weissmuller set swim records in 100-yard and 200-yard free-style |
| 1920 | Peace of Trianon between Allies and Hungary |
| 1919 | Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill |
| 1919 | U.S. Marines invade Costa Rica |
| 1917 | 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards and Elliott (Julia Ward Howe) |
| 1917 | American men begin registering for the draft |
| 1917 | Order of British Empire inaugurated |
| 1916 | Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack |
| 1913 | Suffragette Emily Davinson throws himself in front of king's horse |
| 1912 | Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses |
| 1912 | Massachusetts passes 1st U.S. minimum wage law |
| 1907 | Automatic washer and dryer introduced |
| 1896 | Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit |
| 1892 | Oil City and Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die |
| 1892 | Sierra Club forms in San Francisco |
| 1884 | 18th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Panique wins in 2:42 |
| 1878 | Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes |
| 1875 | Pacific Stock Exchange opens |
| 1873 | 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname |
| 1870 | 4th Belmont: W Dick aboard Kingfisher wins in 2:59 |
| 1868 | Van Bosse/Fock government begins |
| 1862 | Confederates evacuate Ft. Pillow, Tennessee |
| 1850 | Empire Engine Company No 1 organized |
| 1850 | Self deodorizing fertilizer patented in England |
| 1845 | Mexican - U.S. war starts |
| 1832 | 3rd national black convention meets, Philadelphia |
| 1831 | National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium |
| 1825 | Unseasonable hurricane hits New York City |
| 1812 | Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory" |
| 1805 | Tripoli forced to conclude peace with U.S. after war over tribute |
| 1800 | White House completed and President and Mrs. John Adams move in |
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