| 1996 | The Nintendo 64 is released in the US, selling half a million systems on the first day. |
| 1995 | US troops indicted on child rape charges in Japan. |
| 1992 | Magic Johnson announces his (short-lived) comeback. |
| 1989 | Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter DeBernardi become the first people in history to go over the Canadian side of Niagara Falls (and survive) |
| 1989 | A.A. Busch Jr (of Busch Beer fame) died. |
| 1988 | UN peacekeeping forces win the Nobel Peace prize. |
| 1988 | The first shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster is launched successfully. |
| 1984 | Prince has the number one single, album, and movie all at once, the first artist to do so since the Beatles. |
| 1983 | US Congress invokes the War Powers Act for the first time ever (to keep US troops in Lebanon). |
| 1982 | Seven people killed by cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules. |
| 1978 | Pope John Paul I died. |
| 1977 | Muhammad Ali beats Ernie Shavers and claims the heavyweight crown in the most watched prize-fight in history. (Also, this fight was the first to be officiated by a woman). |
| 1977 | Salyut 6 (Soviet space station) launched. |
| 1973 | Soyuz 12 (experimental Russian flight) returns to Earth. |
| 1973 | BME's Shannon Larratt born in Victoria, BC. |
| 1963 | The Rolling Stones start their first tour, opening for Bo Diddley and The Everly Brothers. |
| 1963 | Les Claypool (of Primus) born. |
| 1962 | Canada launches its first orbiting satellite. Alouette 1 studies the ionosphere from 1000km up. |
| 1957 | Andrew Dice Clay (the “actor”) born. |
| 1951 | First color television broadcast of a football game. |
| 1948 | Bryant Gumble (the news host) born. |
| 1943 | Lech Walesa (Polish solidarity leader) born. |
| 1940 | First US merchant ship (the “Booker T Washington”) launched under a black captain (Hugh Mulzac). |
| 1936 | First use of radio in a US Presidential campaign. |
| 1935 | Jerry Lee Lewis (the musician) born. |
| 1930 | First Canadian football game played under lights, UBC vs. Hamilton. |
| 1929 | Bob Newhart (the actor) born. |
| 1922 | Canada declares that it is not automatically at war just because Britain is. |
| 1901 | Enrico Fermi (the physicist) is born. |
| 1895 | Louis Pasteur died. |
| 1890 | First pro-baseball game, in which NY beats Washington 4-2 in NYC. |
| 1829 | Scotland Yard formed in London, England. |
| 1789 | The United States officially establish a military. |
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