2015 Melbourne Cup won by Prince of Penzance ridden by Michelle Payne - 1st woman to win
2015 Game Maker Activision Blizzard (Call of Duty) buys King.com (Candy Crush) for $5.9 billion
2014 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for global action on climate change after warning from scientists
2014 New York's 104-storey One World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks
2013 Bobby Orr's autobiography "Orr: My Story" debuts at the #8 position on The New York Times best seller list for nonfiction
2013 8 people are killed and 10 are injured after a turboprop plane crashes in northern Bolivia
2013 6 people are killed after an overcrowded ferry sinks in Pattaya, Thailand
2012 Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase
2009 23rd Soul Train Music Awards: Michael Jackson, Charlie Wilson & Chaka Khan win
2007 Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule across Pakistan. He suspended the Constitution, imposed State of Emergency, and fired the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
1998 "Shakespeare in Love" directed by John Madden and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes premieres in New York (Best Picture 1999)
1998 "400 Degreez" 3rd studio album by Juvenile is released (Billboard no. 1 year end Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums 1999)
1997 Phillies 3rd baseman Scott Rolen selected unanimous Rookie of Year
1997 David Duval wins Championship at the Champions Golf Club
1997 California law ends affirmative action
1997 Boston shortstop Nomar Garciaparra is 6th unanimous AL Rookie of Year
1996 Mayumi Hirase wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup
1996 27th NYC Marathon won by Giacomo Leone of Italy in 2:09:54
1996 26th NYC Women's Marathon won by Anuta Catuna of Romania in 2:28:18
1996 "It's a Slippery Slope" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
1995 1st NBA game at Skydome, Toronto Raptors beat NJ Nets 94-79
1995 1st NBA game at Rose Garden, Port Trailblazers lose to Grizzlies 92-80
1995 1st NBA game at FleetCenter, Boston Celtics lose to Mil Bucks, 101-100
1994 Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s)
1994 Susan Smith who claimed her two children were carjacked arrested for murder
1994 Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches
1994 Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1
1993 Ken Daneyko sets NJ Devil 'Ironman' record by playing 322nd cons game
1992 Carol Moseley Brown elected first African American woman in US Senate
1992 Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President George H. W. Bush (R)
1992 "I Will Always Love You" (Dolly Parton cover) single released by Whitney Houston (Billboard Song of the Year 1993)
1991 Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps)
1991 42nd Formula One WDC: Ayrton Senna wins by 24 points
1991 22nd NYC Marathon won by Salvador Garcia of Mexico in 2:09:28
1991 21st NYC Women's Marathon won by Liz McColgan of Scotland in 2:27
1990 Gro Harlem Brundtland is installed as Prime Minister of Norway
1989 Minn Timberwolves' 1st NBA game, loses to Seattle, 106-94
1989 Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose
1989 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights
1988 Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping
1988 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
1988 President Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill
1988 Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane
1987 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
1987 Oakland 1st baseman Mark McGwire wins AL Rookie of Year
1986 Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US
1986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
1986 John Lennon "Menlove Avenue" album released posthumously
1986 Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique
1986 Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US
1985 President Alfonsín's Radical Burgerunie wins in Argentine legislative elections
1985 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
1985 36th Formula One WDC: Alain Prost wins by 20 points
1984 Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated
1984 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India
1983 Nashville Network begins on cable TV
1983 Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D)
1982 Pete Vuckovich becomes Milwaukee's 2nd consecutive AL Cy Young
1982 Detroit blocks 20 Cleve Cav shots tying NBA regulation game record
1981 Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers wins AL Cy Young Award
1980 Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland A's
1980 Ianford Wilson's "5th of July" premieres in NYC
1979 Moroccan offensive against Polisario Front
1979 Five people mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC
1979 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mizuno Japan Golf Classic
1978 USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty
1978 Michiko Okada wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic
1978 First broadcast of "Different Strokes" on NBC TV
1978 Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution
1977 Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic
1976 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA/Japan Mizuno Golf
1975 U.S. advice columnist Ann Landers asks in a mail-in survey if they could do it all over, would parents still become parents?
1975 Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)
1974 Chako Higuchi wins Japan LPGA Golf Classic
1974 "Lorelei" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 320 performances
1973 Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury
1971 "Play Misty For Me" premieres
1970 US President Richard Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
1970 Marxist Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile
1970 Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award
1970 "President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 72 performances
1969 Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium
1968 NY Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Canyon Ladies Golf Classic
1968 Ex-premier of Greece Georgios Papandreou buried. 300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta
1968 Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon
1968 19th Formula One WDC: Graham Hill wins by 12 points
1967 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins, becoming one of the bloodiest battles of the war
1967 Boston's Jim Lonborg wins AL Cy Young
1965 Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously
1964 Philadelphia voters approve $25 million to build a new sports stadium
1964 LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for US President
1963 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Cavern City Golf Open
1963 14th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Joe Weatherly wins
1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 72 points vs LA Lakers
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 UN General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant as acting Secretary-General after the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash
1960 Tammy Grimes' "Unsinkable Molly Brown" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 532 performances
1960 Pittsburgh Pirates' Vern Law wins Cy Young Award
1960 Ivory Coast adopts constitution
1959 David Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins Israeli parliamentary election
1958 USSR performs nuclear test
1957 USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit
1956 "The Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)
1955 First virus crystallized (announced)
1955 Bernardus J Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht
1955 Australia takes control of Cocos Islands
1955 Argentine ex-president Juan Perón arrives in Nicaragua
1954 Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe
1953 First live color US coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1953 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly
1953 "Tokyo Story", Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama and Setsuko Hara, is released
1952 Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel
1952 Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
1948 2nd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Chicago
1946 Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution
1945 Lindsay Hassett scores 187 & 124* for Aust Services at Delhi
1944 US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1944 Pro-German government of Hungary flees
1944 German troops in Vlissingen surrender
1944 Allied commandos land at Westkapelle, on the Dutch island of Walcheren
1943 P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North Holland
1943 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1942 William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
1942 Mort Cooper wins NL MVP
1942 Despite Ted Williams winning Triple Crown, Yanks Joe Gordon wins AL MVP
1942 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault
1941 Hirohiti's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails
1939 Clare Booth's "Margin for Error" premieres in NYC
1937 NHL Howie Morenz Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 6-5 in Mont
1937 Maurice Archambaud bicycles world record for distance in one hour (45.796 km)
1936 President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1935 Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42)
1935 George II returns to Greece after 12 years and regains monarchy
1934 Dizzy Dean chosen as NL MVP
1934 Although Lou Gehrig wins Triple Crown, Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP
1931 First commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured
1930 Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
1930 First vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
1930 Bank of Italy renamed Bank of America
1928 Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
1927 Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley, Vermont
1927 Rodgers & Hart's musical "Connecticut Yankee" premieres in NYC
1927 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record)
1926 Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager
1922 Greek parliament bans Prince Andreas for life
1920 "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater
1918 Thousands of revolutionary German sailors with the fleet at Kiel mutiny, seize the city, and set up councils of workers and sailors
1918 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1918 Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves
1917 1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce
1916 Treaty establishes British suzerainty over Qatar
1911 Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T
1908 William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th U.S. President over William Jennings Bryan
1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal as the worldwide standard for help
1905 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners
1903 Giovanni Giolitti becomes Prime Minister of Italy; a progressive liberal, he will hold his post through most of the next decade and introduce social, agrarian and labor reforms
1903 Colombia grants independence to Panama
1900 First US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
1899 James J Jeffries beats Tom Sharkey in 25 for heavyweight boxing title
1896 William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president
1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator
1896 J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales
1889 Chaplain Ariëns founds first roman catholic workers group
1888 Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes
1886 Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao
1885 Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1883 US Supreme Court decides federal courts have no jurisdiction over Native American tribal Council (Ex parte Crow Dog)
1883 Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1883 American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture
1874 James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
1869 Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms
1868 Ulysses Grant (R) wins US presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1868 First black US Congressman elected (John W Menard, Louisiana)
1867 Battle at Mentana: French & Papal troops beat Giuseppe Garibaldi
1863 Battle of Grand Coteau in Southwestern Louisiana in the American Civil War
1862 Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana
1861 Battle of Port Royal, fought in Port Royal Sound, South Carolina begins, Union victory (US Civil War)
1856 A British fleet bombards Canton
1848 Johan Thorbeckes revises the Constitution of the Netherlands
1839 Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed
1839 First Opium War - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1838 The Times of India, world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce
1820 Cuenca (Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca), Ecuador, declares independence
1813 US troops under General Coffee destroy Indian village at Talladega Ala
1812 Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma
1796 John Adams elected president of the United States of America
1794 French troops conquer Maastricht
1793 French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined
1791 Battle at Wabash: Indians assault general St Clair, 637 soldiers killed
1783 Washington orders Continental Army disbanded
1783 John Austin, a footpad turned murderer, is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows
1762 Spain acquires Louisiana
1762 Britain & Spain sign Treaty of Paris
1760 Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria
1752 George Frideric Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation
1716 Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Tsar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August I's Polish kingdom
1676 Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier
1656 Treaty of Vilnius: Russia & Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS]
1655 England & France sign military & economic treaties
1640 English Long Parliament forms
1629 Prince Frederick Henry festival in The Hague
1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1534 English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII becomes Head of Church of England
1529 London - 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament
1527 Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary
1493 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica
1468 Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.
1394 Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
644 Umar ibn al-Khattab, second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina
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