- 1996 30th Country Music Association Award: Brooks & Dunn win
- 1997 The Bruins beat the LA Kings, 6-5 in Boston to extend their NHL opening game unbeaten streak to 11-straight years (9-0-2)
- 1998 With his team struggling at 28 for 3, Australian cricket batsman Steve Waugh smashes a brilliant 157 to guide the tourists to an innings & 99 run win over Pakistan in the 1st Test in Rawalpindi
NHL Record
1999 Boston's Ray Bourque becomes highest goal-scoring defenseman in NHL history; 386th career goal in Bruins' 3-1 win v Carolina Hurricanes moves him 1 ahead of Paul Coffey
- 1999 #21 University of Alabama football team beats #3 Florida, 40-39 in overtime to snap the Gators' 30-game home win streak; future Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander crosses for 4 touchdowns for the Crimson Tide
- 1999 Atlanta Thrashers play first regular-season game in franchise history, a 4-1 loss to the visiting NJ Devils, before a crowd of 18,545 at Philips Arena; Kelly Buchberger scores first goal in Thrashers history
9/11 Attack on New York's World Trade Towers
2001 NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11
Television Premiere
2001 "Scrubs", starring Zach Braff as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian, premieres on NBC
Baseball Record
2001 Cubs right fielder Sammy Sosa becomes first player in MLB history to total 60 home runs in three seasons; Chicago slugger connects off Reds starter Lance Davis to reach milestone in 5-4 loss
- 2002 The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks
- 2004 American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan
- 2004 Montreal Expos earn the last win in the franchise's MLB history, beating New York Mets, 6 - 3 at Shea Stadium; Brad Wilkerson hits the Expos' final home run in 9th inning, his 32nd of the year
- 2004 Jeff Kent becomes all-time home run leader for MLB 2nd basemen when he hits 2 in Astros' 9-3 win v Rockies; 302 overall HR to break Ryne Sandberg's major league record established in 1997
- 2005 The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people
- 2005 NFL plays first regular season game outside the United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers, 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico
- 2006 Charles Carl Roberts murders five schoolgirls in a shooting incident at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania; he then commits suicide.
Summit of Interest
2007 President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il
Farm Aid Concert
2010 Farm Aid 23 held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Jeff Tweedy, Kenny Chesney, Jason Mraz, Norah Jones, Amos Lee, The BoDeans, and Jamey Johnson
Television Premiere
2011 TV spy drama "Homeland" starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis premieres on Showtime
- 2012 20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria
- 2012 10 people are killed after a minibus and truck collide in Ilocos Norte, Philippines
- 2013 8 people are killed and 14 are injured after an accident involving an SUV, church bus, and tractor trailer in Jefferson County, Tennessee
- 2014 15 people are killed after a gun powder plant explodes in Gorni Lom, Bulgaria
- 2014 Siege of Syrian town Kobani and its surrounds by ISIS prompts 130,00 people to flee the area
- 2015 Actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi are arrested in Vermont after leaving Canada
Sports History
2016 Veteran broadcaster Vin Scully calls his final LA Dodgers game (7-1 loss in SF) after a record 67 MLB seasons
Film & TV History
2016 Kim Kardashian is robbed at gunpoint of $10 million worth of jewelry in her hotel in Paris
- 2017 US scientists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young awarded Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for work on the body clock
Film & TV History
2018 US First Lady Melania Trump arrives in Ghana to begin a four-nation tour of Africa
Historic Event
2018 Saudi American journalist Jamal Khashoggi enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen again prompting a diplomatic crisis
- 2018 Nobel prize in Physics awarded to Arthur Ashkin (optical tweezers), Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland (both for laser beams)
- 2019 Australian women's cricket wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy smashes T20I world record 148 not out off 61 balls against Sri Lanka in Sydney; her century from Australian record 46 balls
- 2019 Two politicians in Peru claim to be the country's leader for a day until Mercedes Aráoz resigns so the constitutional court can rule on the matter
COVID-19 Pandemic
2020 US President Donald Trump announces via twitter that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19, President hospitalized later that day
- 2021 Massive oil slick from a pipeline discovered off California, along Orange County coast covering 13 square miles
