1927 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
1928 - The first analog TV service is inaugurated by WGY, Schenectady, New York.
1934 - Dust Bowl: A strong two-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl in North America.
1942 - William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
1970 - Henry "Dickie" Marrow" is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, N.C..
1970 - The Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, killing 26.
1973 - Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times dismissed.
1976 - The last episode of the TV medical drama Marcus Welby, M.D. is aired.
1995 - In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
1996 - After taking-off from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
1997 - IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.
1998 - Nuclear testing: In the Rajasthan Desert, India conducts its first underground nuclear tests violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and inflaming its rival neighbor Pakistan (who already has nuclear weapons).
1998 - ZDTV, "the official technology television network", starts broadcasting. It lasted six years until the G4techTV Merger and it turned into a gaming channel.
2003 - Rafael Palmeiro becomes the 19th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas.
2004 - The Stockline Plastics factory explosion in Glasgow kills nine people.
2005 - The eleventh edition of the International Trade Fair KOSOVA opens in Gjakova,Kosova.
