1. Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud and time served - 1997
2. "Jackie - An American Life," opens at Belasco Theater New York City - 1997
3. Nanny Louise Woodward, murder sentenced downgrade to manslaughter - 1997
4. "Joseph and the Amazing" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 223 performances - 1993
5. Slowakije government of Meciar forms - 1993
6. Bernie Kosar ends NFL record of 308 passes without an interception - 1991
7. Browns set club record for largest lead blown (led 23-0), Philadelphia 32-30 - 1991
8. Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic - 1991
9. Martina Navratilova ties Chris Evert, 157 pro tennis tournament wins - 1991
10. Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game - 1991
11. South Africa's 1st cricket international since 1970 - one-day vs. India - 1991
12. Lebanon releases 2 french hostages (Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari) - 1990
13. Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov, resigns - 1989
14. Germans begins demolishing Berlin Wall - 1989
15. China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938 - 1988
16. MLB All-Star team beats Japan 3-1 in Tokyo (Game 5 of 7) - 1988
17. NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes - 1988
18. Orel Hershiser (23-8) is a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young Award - 1988
19. Steve Bedrosian edges Rick Sutcliffe 57-55 to win NL Cy Young Award - 1987
20. Bangladesh Constitution restored - 1986
21. Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic - 1985
22. Australia all out 76 vs. West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21 - 1984
23. Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood - 1984
24. Miami Hurricanes blows 31-0 lead in 3rd quarter lose to Md 42-40 - 1984
25. "Amen Corner" opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 83 performances - 1983
26. Federal government shut down - 1983
27. IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankrupcy - 1982
28. Susan Cooper/Hume Cronyns "Foxfire," premieres in New York City - 1982
29. Ernest Thompson's "West Side Waltz," premieres in New York City - 1981
30. "Oh, Brother!" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 3 performances - 1981
31. Poland acknowledges Solidarity union - 1980
32. Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks - 1978
33. Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title - 1978
34. Yanks trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath and Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison and Griffin - 1978
35. Amsterdam: RAF-terrorists Gert Schneider/Christof Wackernagel arrested - 1977
36. Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (New York City) - 1977
37. Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore - 1976
38. Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald and crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior - 1975
39. PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses United Nations in New York City - 1975
40. Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career - 1975
41. U.N. General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism - 1975
42. 2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT win - 1974
43. Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0 - 1974
44. Joe Torre wins NL MVP, Vida Blue wins AL MVP - 1971
45. U.S. table tennis team arrived in China - 1971
46. "2 by 2" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 343 performances - 1970
47. Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched - 1970
48. R Rodgers/M Charnins musical "Two by Two," premieres in New York City - 1970
49. "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV - 1969
50. Judy Rankin wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open - 1968
51. Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar and return flight - 1968
52. Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed - 1968
53. KXNE TV channel 19 in Norfolk, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1967
54. Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier - 1966
55. Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon - 1966
56. Manneke Piss statue stolen in Brussels - 1965
57. Netherlands 2nd Chamber accept marriage princess Beatrice and Claus von Amsberg - 1965
58. Willie Mays wins NL MVP - 1965
59. Braves sign a 25-year lease to play in the new Atlanta stadium - 1964
60. "Something More!" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 15 performances - 1964
61. Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545 - 1963
62. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open - 1963
63. "Nowhere to Go, But Up" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 9 performances - 1962
64. Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill - 1960
65. Corinne Rottschaeffer elected Miss World - 1959
66. Bertolt Brecht's "Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo o Ui," premieres - 1958
67. WUFT TV channel 5 in Gainesville, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1958
68. Cleveland Browns' Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble return with a 89-yard run (and TD), beating Pittsburgh 24-0 - 1957
69. NFL record crowd (102,368), '49ers vs Rams in LA - 1957
70. Gene de Paul/John Meyer's musical "Li'l Abner," premieres in New York City - 1956
71. "Vamp" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 60 performances - 1955
72. Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising U.S. flag) dedicated in Arlington - 1954
73. Lt Col John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled - 1954
74. Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised) - 1953
75. Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN - 1952
76. 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance - 1951
77. After 9 years, Cleveland Indians fire manager Lou Boudreau - 1950
78. Clifford Odet's "Country Girl," premieres in New York City - 1950
79. Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected President of Guatemala - 1950
80. Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner - 1950
81. Spanish dictator Franco ends war in Gibraltar - 1950
82. Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election - 1946
83. "Are You with It?" opens at Century Theater New York City for 264 performances - 1945
84. College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0 - 1945
85. General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania - 1945
86. Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by U.S. - 1945
87. German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany - 1944
88. U.S. 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery - 1944
89. Philip Barry's "Without Love," premieres in New York City - 1942
90. U.S. - British troops occupies Oran Algeria - 1942
91. U.S. troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey Morocco - 1942
92. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game - 1940
93. 8.3 earthquake shakes East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska - 1938
94. Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth) - 1938
95. Brazilian dictator Getulio Vargas proclaims "Estado novo" - 1937
96. Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic - 1933
97. Hirohito ascended throne as Emperor of Japan - 1928
98. Belgium crown prince Leopold weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden - 1926
99. Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37 - 1926
100. Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou) - 1926
101. Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA - 1926
102. German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany - 1923
103. George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," premieres in New York City - 1920
104. 1st observance of National Book Week - 1919
105. American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis) - 1919
106. German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherland - 1918
107. Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski - 1918
108. 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House - 1917
109. Faure's 2nd Violo Sonate, premieres - 1917
110. New soviet government suspends freedom of press (temporary) - 1917
111. Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly and charitable works) - 1911
112. Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath) - 1911
113. 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room - 1908
114. Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia - 1905
115. Race riot in Wilmington North Carolina (8 blacks killed) - 1898
116. Fred Lugard signs accord with king Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki - 1894
117. 1st CRU championship game: Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal, 45-5 - 1892
118. 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston) - 1891
119. Granville T. Woods patents electric railway - 1891
120. Gottlieb Daimler's motorcycle, world's 1st, unveiled - 1885
121. Toronto Argonauts defeat Ottawa FC 9-7, for 1st ORFU Championship - 1883
122. Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa," premieres in Moscow - 1878
123. Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa - 1871
124. Gold coins from the Sydney Mint become legal tender in Canada - 1866
125. Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico - 1864
126. Kingston, Georgia burned during Sherman's March to Sea - 1864
127. Louis Napoleon banished to America - 1836
128. HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from Valparaiso - 1834
129. Osage Treaty signed - 1808
130. Kentucky outlaws dueling - 1801
131. France ends forced worship of God - 1793
132. Netherlands and France signs treaty - 1785
133. Congress forms U.S. Marine Corps - 1775
134. English parliament accept army reduction - 1697
135. Pope Innocent XI publishes decree Coelestis pastor - 1687
136. Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English - 1674
137. Failed palace revolution against Richelieu France - 1630
138. Willem Louis of Nassau appointed viceroy of Friesland - 1584
139. Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots - 1567
140. Antwerps painter John Matsys banished - 1544
141. John I Zapolyai of Transsylvania chosen as king of Hungary - 1526
142. Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats crusaders - 1444
143. Conrad I elecect German King - 0911
144. St. Leo I ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0461
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