1. "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 24 performances - 1995
2. New York City bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more - 1995
3. 58th Golf Masters Championship: Jose M Olazabal wins, shooting a 279 - 1994
4. "Les Miserables," opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka - 1994
5. BPAA U.S. Open by Del Ballard Jr - 1993
6. Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight loses - 1993
7. Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak - 1993
8. 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka - 1992
9. Floriade (Flower Show) opens at Hague, Netherlands - 1992
10. NHL strike ends after 10 days - 1992
11. Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138 - 1991
12. Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd and 42nd St, New York City) - 1991
13. Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores NHL record 93rd playoff goal - 1991
14. Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51) - 1991
15. CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan - 1990
16. Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown - 1990
17. 10th Emmy Sports Award presentation - 1989
18. 24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Alabama - 1989
19. H. J. Heinz, Van Camp Seafood and Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins - 1989
20. Intel corp announces shipment of 80-486 chip - 1989
21. 52nd Golf Masters Championship: Sandy Lyle wins, shooting a 281 - 1988
22. 8th Golden Raspberry Awards: Leonard Part 6 wins - 1988
23. Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA San Diego Inamori Golf Classic - 1988
24. Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet - 1988
25. Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2 - 1988
26. Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan - 1986
27. "Big Deal" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 70 performances - 1986
28. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1986
29. At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game - 1985
30. Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals-Caps hold 1-0 lead - 1985
31. Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission - 1985
32. Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle - 1984
33. John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games - 1984
34. U.S. Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors - 1984
35. Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit - 1983
36. Caps 3-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isles win series 3-2 - 1983
37. Hennie Kuiper (Neth) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race - 1983
38. Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO - 1983
39. Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament - 1983
40. Los Angeles Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton in 3rd period, win in OT 6-5 - 1982
41. Penguins 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Preliminary- Isles hold 2-1 lead - 1982
42. "Caveman" with Ringo premieres - 1981
43. Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded - 1981
44. France performs nuclear test - 1981
45. Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament - 1981
46. J. R. Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome - 1979
47. Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian and a Bulgarian - 1979
48. Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced - 1978
49. 41st Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 276 - 1977
50. Beverly Klass wins LPGA Women's International Golf Satellite - 1977
51. Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inn game (3:17) - 1977
52. Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed-Yanks win 9-7 - 1976
53. Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title - 1976
54. Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs - 1975
55. American Boccaccio Association forms - 1974
56. Magicians Penn and Teller 1st meet - 1974
57. Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir - 1974
58. BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143 - 1973
59. Kansas City opens its new park, Royals Stadium, with 12-1 rout of Rangers - 1973
60. Pakistan suspends constitution - 1973
61. 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars - 1972
62. U.S., U.S.S.R. and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons - 1972
63. 1st baseball game at Phila's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos 4-1 - 1971
64. U.S. table tennis team arrives in China PR - 1971
65. 40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night," Rod Steiger and K Hepburn win - 1968
66. "George M!" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 435 performances - 1968
67. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1968
68. 39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons," E Taylor and P Scofield win - 1967
69. Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project - 1964
70. Iranian motor launch catches fire and sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf) - 1964
71. Thresher, U.S. atomic-powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston - 1963
72. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1963
73. 1st baseball game at LA's Dodger Stadium, they lose 6-3 to Reds - 1962
74. 1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2 - 1962
75. New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th HR - 1962
76. 25th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 280 - 1961
77. Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel - 1961
78. Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to John F. Kennedy about New Guinea - 1961
79. New Washington Senators loses 1st regular-season game 4-3 to White Sox - 1961
80. 24th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 282 - 1960
81. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open - 1960
82. Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill - 1960
83. Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda - 1959
84. Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco - 1958
85. John Osborne's "Entertainer," premieres in London - 1957
86. Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns - 1957
87. Suez canal reopens for all traffic - 1957
88. U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test - 1957
89. Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs - 1956
90. Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1 - 1956
91. 19th Golf Masters Championship: Cary Middlecoff wins, shooting a 279 - 1955
92. 9th NBA Championship: Syrac Nats beat Ft. Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 3 - 1955
93. Dr. Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine - 1955
94. Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely - 1955
95. KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1954
96. 7th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1 - 1953
97. "House of Wax," 1st 3-D movie, released (New York City) - 1953
98. 13th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 282 - 1949
99. Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek - 1948
100. Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers) - 1947
101. King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned - 1947
102. 1st election for Japanese Diet - 1946
103. Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech) - 1945
104. Canadian troops conquer Deventer - 1945
105. General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland" - 1945
106. German troops attack Ijsselbrug - 1945
107. NFL's Boston Yanks and Brooklyn Tigers merge - 1945
108. U.S. troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa - 1945
109. U.S. troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany - 1945
110. William Schuman and Antony Tudors ballet premieres in New York City - 1945
111. "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously - 1944
112. Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis - 1944
113. 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis - 1943
114. General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia - 1943
115. Cigarettes and candy rationed in Holland - 1942
116. German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica - 1941
117. Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government" - 1940
118. Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews - 1939
119. Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania - 1939
120. 2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France - 1938
121. Austria becomes a state of Germany - 1938
122. New York makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license - 1938
123. 200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena - 1936
124. Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London - 1935
125. Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 3 games to 1 - 1934
126. Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd) - 1932
127. George Headley scores 223 vs. England at Kingston - 1930
128. Synthetic rubber 1st produced - 1930
129. Czarina re-christened Stalingrad (now Volgograd) - 1925
130. Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald - 1925
131. Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play - 1924
132. Hitler demands "hatred and more hatred" in Berlin - 1923
133. Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers - 1917
134. 1st professional golf tournament held - 1916
135. President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1 - 1913
136. Walter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings - 1913
137. RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st and last voyage - 1912
138. Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50) - 1896
139. President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Illinois - 1887
140. Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen - 1887
141. U.S. Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo - 1884
142. Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco and Hawaii) - 1882
143. California St. Cable Car RR Co starts service - 1878
144. 1st human cannonball act performed in London - 1877
145. Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, South Carolina - 1877
146. 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans - 1872
147. Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22 - 1872
148. William Hammond Hall's maps and surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted - 1871
149. Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9 - 1869
150. 1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem" - 1868
151. Brits defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala - 1868
152. American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms - 1866
153. At Appomattox, Gen Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last - 1865
154. Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of Mexico - 1864
155. Rebel Gen Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tennessee - 1863
156. Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York City); sold rights for $100 - 1849
157. More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa - 1845
158. New York "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley - 1841
159. Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile - 1835
160. 1st hotel in Hawaii opens - 1825
161. Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Leon - 1825
162. 2nd Bank of U.S. chartered - 1816
163. Austria declares war on realm of Naples - 1815
164. Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth - 1790
165. U.S. Patent system forms - 1790
166. Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz - 1741
167. Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing - 1739
168. Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale - 1694
169. Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon - 1656
170. Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg - 1589
171. Henri II of France occupies Metz - 1552
172. 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice - 1516
173. Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen - 1512
174. France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan - 1500
175. Louis III, crowned King of France - 0879
176. St. Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0847
177. Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth - 0837
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