- 354 Roman Emperor Constantius gives grand circus and theater shows to mark 30th year of his reign as Caesar in Arles
- 680 Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers killed at Karbala by army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on the way to Kufa
- 732 Battle of Tours: Umayyad army led by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi defeated by Frankish Aquitainian force led by Charles Martel during Umayyad invasion of Gaul
- 1375 Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands
- 1471 Battle of Brunkeberg: Swedish regent Sten Sture defeats forces led by Danish King Christian I
- 1549 Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector & imprisoned
- 1575 Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeated the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
- 1578 German Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen, subsidized by England
- 1631 Saxon army occupies Prague
- 1684 Advisement to view a rhinoceros in a tavern in Ludgate Hill, London published - 1st rhinoceros in Europe since 1515 [1]
- 1695 King William III escapes South Netherlands, back to England
- 1720 French government proclaims strike on banknotes
War of the Polish Succession
1733 France declares war on Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI
- 1760 Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)
- 1780 Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in the Caribbean, hitting Barbados first. Atlantic's deadliest recorded hurricane.
- 1787 Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army
- 1799 Convention of Alkmaar: British-Russian invasion army departs Holland
- 1802 1st non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma
1st President of Mexico
1824 Guadalupe Victoria takes office as the first (interim) President of the United Mexican States
Occupation of Beirut
1839 British troops under General Charles Napier occupy Beirut
Billiard Ball Patented
1865 John Wesley Hyatt patents the billiard ball made from cellulose nitrate (celluloid) in Albany, New York (patent US50359A)
- 1868 1st written account of a Canadian football game
- 1868 Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
Great Chicago Fire
1871 The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and costing $222m in damage
- 1874 Fiji becomes a British possession
- 1886 1st dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY
- 1888 Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 at Mud Run, Pennsylvania
- 1889 Barnard College is founded in New York City after Columbia University refuses to accept women
- 1892 Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan
- 1899 African-American inventor Issac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
- 1900 Foreign ministers in Peking begin their first serious negotiations over what conditions their nations will impose on the Chinese after putting down the Boxer uprising
- 1900 In Manchuria, Russia captures the major city of Mukden, part of their own plan to take over the whole province
- 1902 South Africa's President of Transvaal Paul Kruger visits Utrecht
Women's Social and Political Union
1903 The Women's Social and Political Union is formed by Emmeline Pankhurst to fight for women's rights in Britain
- 1904 Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete games AL 1,098, NL 1,089
- 1904 Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St NYC
Wuchang Uprising
1911 Chinese revolutionaries begin an armed rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty in Wuchang, causing the Viceroy of Huguang to flee the city (Taiwan National Day)
PM Robert Borden
1911 Robert Borden becomes the 8th Prime Minister of Canada
- 1911 The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
- 1913 British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 killed)
- 1913 Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic & Pacific waters mix
President Yuan Shikai
1913 Yuan Shikai installed as the 1st President of China
The Woman Without a Shadow
1919 Richard Strauss and Hugo van Hofmannsthal's opera "Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without A Shadow)", premieres in Vienna, Austria
Chiang Kai-shek Rises to Power
1928 Chiang Kai-shek becomes Director of the State Council of China
Baseball History
1930 AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
Yankees Sign McCarthy
1930 MLB New York Yankees announce signing former Chicago Cubs manager Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
- 1931 A J Bennett hits H Garbarino for 1st scoring pass in Canada's Big 4
- 1931 William Waltons "Belshazzar's Feast" premieres in Leeds
- 1932 "Betty & Bob" premieres on radio
- 1932 Dnjepr Dam in USSR put into operation (world's biggest)
- 1933 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale
- 1935 Coup under Gen Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy
Porgy & Bess
1935 George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway NY
- 1935 League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia
Sudetenland Annexed
1938 Germany completes its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
Shostakovich's 1st String Quartet
1938 Premiere performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st String Quartet
- 1941 RAF bombs Piraeus to prevent German heavy armor advancing
- 1941 WW2: Battle of Moscow - Germans Wehrmacht forces encounter stronger than expected resistance at the Mozhaisk line, west of Moscow
- 1942 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp
- 1943 US bombers accidentally strike Enschede, Netherlands, causing 151 deaths
- 1944 Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die
- 1946 Max Frisch's play "Die Chinesische Mauer" (The Chinese Wall) premieres in Zürich
- 1954 1st National Film Awards (India): "Shyamchi Aai" wins the Golden Lotus
Ho Chi Minh Takes Hanoi
1954 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops
Giant
1956 "Giant", directed by George Stevens, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean in his last role, premieres in NYC
Sports History
1956 Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match v Australia in Karachi
- 1957 A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England becomes the world's first major nuclear accident
Eisenhower Apologizes for Racial Insult
1957 US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware
- 1957 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Event of Interest
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
- 1959 Pan Am begins regular flights around the world
- 1960 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
- 1960 Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die
- 1960 Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
- 1960 WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1961 Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros & NY Mets
- 1961 Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
- 1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
The Bob Newhart Show
1961 Variety TV show "The Bob Newhart Show" premieres on NBC in the US
- 1962 Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
From Russia With Love
1963 "From Russia With Love" 2nd James Bond film based on a novel by Ian Fleming, starring Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi, premieres in London
Nobel Peace Prize
1963 American chemist and anti-nuclear weapons campaigner Linus Pauling wins the Nobel Peace Prize the same day the first nuclear test treaty comes into effect [1]
TV Show Appearance
1965 The Supremes appear on the "The Ed Sullivan Show"
- 1966 The Beach Boys release their influential single "Good Vibrations"
Event of Interest
1967 Brendan Behan's "Borstal Boy" premieres in Dublin
Music History
1968 George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd
- 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Music History
1969 "Jesus Christ Superstar" soundtrack album by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice is recorded
Event of Interest
1973 US Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after pleading no contest to allegations of tax fraud
- 1974 Canadian bicyclist John Hathaway begins 2-year ride of 50,600 miles
Election of Interest
1974 Labour Party led by Harold Wilson wins UK general election
- 1974 MLB Oakland A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against team owner Charlie Finley
- 1974 The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and its political wing the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) founded at the Spa Hotel in the village of Lucan near Dublin
- 1975 Israel formally signs protocol for the Sinai II Agreement accord with Egypt, in Jerusalem [1]
Lisztomania
1975 Ken Russell's surreal biographical musical comedy film "Lisztomania", starring Roger Daltrey as 19th-century Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, and soundtrack arranged by progressive rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman, premieres
Event of Interest
1976 Beijing reports arrest of Mao Zedong's widow
- 1976 Giant's Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey opens with the NY Giants going down 24–14 to the Dallas Cowboys in from of 76,042 fans
- 1976 Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33
- 1978 Aerosmith's Steve Tyler & Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb
- 1978 British pop music magazine "Smash Hits" first published
Event of Interest
1978 Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Jomo Kenyatta as President of Kenya, rules for 24 years
- 1978 Steve Perry joins Journey
Event of Interest
1978 US Congress approves dollar coin honoring women's suffrage campaigner Susan B. Anthony
- 1979 Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game
- 1979 Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
- 1979 Recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC
Music History
1979 Rock band Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood
- 1980 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria
Private Benjamin
1980 Comedy film "Private Benjamin" is released starring Goldie Hawn
- 1980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
- 1980 Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in AL Championship series
Event of Interest
1981 Anwar Sadat's funeral service held in Cairo
- 1982 Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia
Canonization
1982 Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
- 1982 US imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union
Event of Interest
1983 Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzḥak Shamir as Prime Minister
- 1983 NBC premiere of true life drama "Adam", based on John Walsh's son's murder
- 1983 Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers
- 1985 Sudan adopts interim constitution
- 1985 US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
- 1986 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador
Event of Interest
1986 Shimon Peres resigns as Prime Minister of Israel
Tunnel of Love
1987 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen's 8th studio album "Tunnel of Love"
- 1987 Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks
- 1987 Giant's Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record HR in his 4th cons game
- 1987 Hartford center Doug Jarvis ends his career having played an NHL record 964 consecutive games as the Whalers lose 6-2 to the New York Rangers
- 1988 NBC premieres tele-biopic, "Winnie", starring Meredith Baxter and based on life of [Gwyanna] Winifred Sprockett
- 1990 American Petroleum Institute (API) reports crude inventories dropped by more than 4 MMB in the last week
- 1990 US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space
- 1991 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
- 1991 Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
- 1991 US cuts all foreign aid to Haiti
- 1992 Floriade (Flower Show) closes at Hague, Netherlands
- 1993 Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed
- 1994 Lt-general Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti
- 1994 MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings
- 1994 Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred G. Gilman & Martin Rodbell for G-protein discoveries
Sports History
1994 NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56
- 1994 Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar
- 1995 "Garden District" opens at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC
- 1995 Israel begins West Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
- 1995 Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
- 1995 Robert E Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics
- 1996 "Sex & Longing" opens at Cort Theater NYC
- 1996 Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in New York City
- 1997 Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74
Nobel Prize for Economics
2002 American Vernon L. Smith and Daniel Kahneman awarded Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences for work in experimental economics
Election of Interest
2002 Former cricketer Imran Khan elected to the Pakistani Parliament after winning the seat of Mianwali-I
Nobel Prize in Literature
2002 Hungarian writer and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertész is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
Nobel Peace Prize
2003 Shirin Ebadi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, making her the 1st Iranian Muslim women to receive the prize
F1 World Champion
2004 Having already clinched his record 7th F1 World Drivers Championship, German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins a record 13th race of the season with victory at the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka
Election of Interest
2005 Negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany conclude with the two parties agreeing to form a grand coalition with Angela Merkel as chancellor after both parties lost seats in the 2005 German federal election
- 2008 Singapore becomes the first Asian country to slip into a recession since the credit crisis began: growth has faltered as a result of less demand for exports, a reduction in tourism, and the end of the real-estate boom
- 2009 After closed borders for nearly two hundred years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich to open their borders
- 2010 The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2012 Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G protein-coupled receptors
- 2013 Alice Munro is awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature
Nobel Peace Prize
2014 Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- 2015 Bombing at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey kills at least 95, injures 200
Film & TV History
2016 Actress Shailene Woodley arrested for trespassing while protesting against proposed Dakota Access Pipeline
- 2016 Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to UK-born Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland for work on contract theory
Thor: Ragnarok
2017 "Thor: Ragnarok" directed by Taika Waititi, starring Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, and Cate Blanchett premieres in Los Angeles, California
- 2017 Joel Embiid signs a five-year, $148 million designated rookie scale maximum contract extension with the 76ers
- 2018 Flash floods kills at least 10 in Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, Majorca, Spain
- 2018 Hurricane Michael makes landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as a category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph (250 km/h), going on to kill 27, having killed 15 in Central America
- 2019 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, after a year's delay due to Swedish Academy scandal
- 2019 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Austrian Peter Handke
- 2019 3,500 women are the first to be allowed to attend a football match in Iran for a World Cup qualifier in Tehran, since the Islamic revolution
- 2020 Italian teenage computer genius Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia at 15, beatified by the Catholic Church in Assisi, Italy
Event of Interest
2021 Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen says country won't bow to Chinese pressure in defiant speech on Taiwanese National Day, day after Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to "fulfil reunification"
Nobel Prize for Economics
2022 Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for discoveries which improved how society deals with financial crises [1]
Merrily We Roll Along
2023 Revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical "Merrily We Roll Along", based on George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's play, starring Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe, opens at Hudson Theater, NYC; wins 4 Tony Awards
