Sports History
1995 Brian Lara scores 169 in Sharjah ODI versus Sri Lanka
- 1995 Million Man March held in Washington, D.C. (over 830,000 African American men attend)
- 1995 ODI in Sharjah WI 7-333 in 50 overs beat Sri Lanka 329 all out
- 1996 Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
- 1997 "Side Show," opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 91 performances
Murder of Interest
1998 Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a Spanish warrant requesting his extradition on murder charges
- 2000 MLB National League Championship: New York Mets beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 1
- 2001 The US Coast Guard lifts a ban on liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers entering Boston Harbor to make deliveries to Distrigas' Everett LNG terminal that had been imposed on September 26 in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11
- 2002 Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
- 2003 MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3
Sports History
2004 17-year old Lionel Messi makes his league debut for FC Barcelona in a 1-0 win against cross-town rivals Espanyol at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, Barcelona
- 2005 MLB American League Championship: Chicago White Sox beat Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 4 games to 1
F1 World Champion
2005 Renault driver Fernando Alonso wins season-ending Chinese Grand Prix at Shanghai International Circuit; first Spanish Formula 1 World Drivers champion; wins by 21 points from Kimi Räikkönen
- 2011 MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat Milwaukee Brewers, 4 games to 2
- 2012 Conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria, leads to 24 militant deaths and several structures set ablaze
- 2013 18 people are killed after Typhoon Wipha strikes Japan
- 2013 21 people are killed after a minibus hits a land mine in Nawa, Syria
- 2013 49 people are killed after Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes in the Mekong River, Laos
- 2013 The United States ends its 16-day government shut down and avoids default in a Bi-partisan deal in the Senate
- 2014 MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 1
- 2014 New Zealand, Malaysia, Angola, Spain and Venezuela are elected to the United Nations Security Council
- 2016 Ed Whitlock (85) becomes oldest person to complete a marathon under 4 hours, at Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 3 hours 56 minutes
- 2017 Findings published of neutron star collision that occurred two months prior on August 17, the first cosmic event seen in gravitational waves and light. Confirms heavy elements such as gold the result of such collisions
- 2017 Iraqi army seizes control of oil-rich Kirkuk, from Kurdish peshmerga
- 2017 Panama Papers Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia killed in a suspicious car bomb in Malta
- 2017 Storm formed from Hurricane Ophelia lashes Ireland, killing 3 people
Film & TV History
2018 Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex begin their first royal tour visiting Australia and New Zealand
- 2018 Chairman of China's Xinjiang’s government defends its detention camps for Uighur Muslims saying they provided “vocational education and training”
- 2018 Man Booker Prize is won by Anna Burns' "Milkman", the first winner from Northern Ireland
Event of Interest
2018 Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman denies knowledge of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi according to President Trump
- 2019 Egyptian archaeologists announce discovery of more than 20 painted wooden coffins from Theban necropolis of Asasif
- 2019 First plant-powered selfie taken by Pete the Fern as part of research into use of microbial fuel cells at London Zoo (London, England)
Film & TV History
2019 Netflix reveals its most popular original movie was Sandra Bullock's "Bird Box" and TV series "Stranger Things" for the year
- 2020 French teacher Samuel Paty beheaded by 18 year-old Islamist militant in Paris suburb of Éragny
Sports History
2021 Camden County Commissioners unveil Statue of boxing champion Jersey Joe Walcott at Wiggins Waterfront Park in Camden, New Jersey
