1. Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million - 1997
2. Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation - 1997
3. Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 home runs in 2 consec yrs - 1997
4. 115th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 46 75) - 1995
5. 35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats U.S., 14-10 - 1995
6. 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser and Candice Bergen wins - 1995
7. Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship - 1995
8. Browns and Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleveland for only time, Browns 22-6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles - 1995
9. 108th U.S. Womens Tennis: Aranxta S Vicario beats Steffi Graf (16 76 64) - 1994
10. Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke - 1994
11. 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo planes produced - 1993
12. Actress Loretta Young, 80, weds costume designer Jean Louis, 85 - 1993
13. Israel and PLO sign joint recognition statements - 1993
14. Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball - 1992
15. Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents - 1992
16. MTV Video Music Awards, Howard Stern appears as fartman - 1992
17. Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination - 1991
18. Yolanda Gail Devers runs U.S. female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs) - 1991
19. 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win U.S. Open - 1990
20. 1st time in New York Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0 - 1990
21. 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different - 1990
22. Ellis Island reopens as a museum - 1990
23. George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki - 1990
24. Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas, Nevada - 1990
25. Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq - 1990
26. Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning - 1990
27. 109th U.S. Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (76 16 63 76) - 1989
28. 5 days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners, - 1989
29. Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record - 1989
30. Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown - 1989
31. East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary and Czech) - 1989
32. Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship - 1989
33. 102nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (63 36 61) - 1988
34. Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989 - 1988
35. Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas and Yucatan - 1988
36. Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel - 1986
37. Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla - 1984
38. Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across U.S. (24 days) - 1984
39. 97th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (61 63) - 1983
40. Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title - 1983
41. Decca releases Beatle audition "Complete Silver Beatles" album - 1982
42. "Guernica" of Pablo Picasso returns to Spain - 1981
43. Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18 - 1980
44. Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick - 1980
45. 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed - 1979
46. 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9 - 1978
47. 98th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 62 62) - 1978
48. Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds and 30") - 1978
49. Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win U.S. Open on 3 different surfaces - 1978
50. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open - 1978
51. "Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 243 performances - 1978
52. 91st U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull (76 62) - 1977
53. Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits - 1977
54. Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5) - 1977
55. Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation - 1977
56. Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation - 1977
57. Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978 - 1977
58. 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard - 1976
59. 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, New York - 1976
60. Lou Brock ties (104) and then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark - 1974
61. New York Dolls disband - 1974
62. Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau - 1974
63. Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs - 1974
64. Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton - 1973
65. New York Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St. Louis - 1973
66. 20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR - 1972
67. 92nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe (36 63 67 64 63) - 1972
68. Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship - 1972
69. Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8) - 1972
70. Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open - 1972
71. U.S. Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to U.S.S.R. (disputed) - 1972
72. WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1972
73. KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1971
74. New York Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time - 1969
75. U.S. performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado - 1969
76. 81st U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones (119 64) - 1967
77. 87th U.S. Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (64 64 86) - 1967
78. Chicago White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Det Tigers, 6-0 - 1967
79. Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic - 1967
80. Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British and not Spanish - 1967
81. Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win - 1967
82. KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting - 1967
83. Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks - 1966
84. Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title - 1966
85. Neal Diamond's 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry) - 1966
86. Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1965
87. Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards - 1965
88. WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1965
89. Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms - 1964
90. Rod Steward records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" - 1964
91. 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama - 1963
92. Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0 - 1963
93. Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather - 1963
94. 82nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64) - 1962
95. KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1962
96. Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign) - 1962
97. WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1962
98. 75th U.S. Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones (63 64) - 1961
99. 81st U.S. Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Rodney G Laver (75 63 62) - 1961
100. Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400 - 1961
101. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. - 1961
102. Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2) - 1960
103. New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit - 1960
104. WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1958
105. "Mask and Gown" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 39 performances - 1957
106. Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia - 1956
107. Louisville Kentucky public schools integrates - 1956
108. WSYE (now WETM) TV chan 18 in Elmira-Corning, New York (NBC) 1st broadcast - 1956
109. "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV - 1955
110. 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria - 1954
111. Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls - 1954
112. WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting - 1954
113. Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner" - 1953
114. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open - 1952
115. British begins economic boycott of Iran - 1951
116. Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium - 1950
117. "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" closes at Broadway New York City after 76 performances - 1949
118. Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life - 1948
119. Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England - 1948
120. KLS-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA) - 1945
121. Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis - 1945
122. Lt-gen Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far" - 1944
123. British 8th army occupies Tarente - 1943
124. German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City - 1943
125. Italian fleet anchors at Malta - 1943
126. Lt-Gen Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London - 1943
127. British troops lands on Madagascar - 1942
128. RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf - 1942
129. Canada declares war on Germany - 1939
130. In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany - 1939
131. 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0) - 1937
132. Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0 - 1937
133. 1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park) - 1933
134. 53rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J H Crawford (63 11-13 46 60 61) - 1933
135. 52nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (64 64 64) - 1932
136. Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season - 1932
137. Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in New York City - 1932
138. Lord Cecil of British Government says War was never so improbable - 1931
139. Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia - 1930
140. 22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2) - 1927
141. Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn - 1926
142. Germany joins League of Nations - 1926
143. Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out - 1924
144. Leopold and Loeb found guilty of murder - 1924
145. Irish Free state joins League of Nations - 1923
146. Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig consecutive HRs - 1922
147. Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0 - 1919
148. New York City welcomes home Gen John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers - 1919
149. Treaty of St. Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany - 1919
150. Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers - 1918
151. 1st U.S. paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opens - 1913
152. Cleveland Call and Post forms - 1913
153. George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia - 1913
154. Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway - 1913
155. Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber - 1910
156. Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes - 1905
157. Utrecht soccer team UVV forms - 1902
158. 20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record) - 1900
159. 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska - 1899
160. Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda - 1898
161. Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20 - 1897
162. Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention - 1884
163. 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) - 1882
164. Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo - 1880
165. Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam - 1872
166. Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms - 1870
167. Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan - 1869
168. George Bizets opera "Les Pˆcheurs de Perles," premieres in Paris - 1863
169. Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia - 1861
170. Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities - 1861
171. John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Brooklyn vs New York) - 1858
172. 1st performance by U.S. actor Edwin Booth (Richard III) - 1849
173. 1st theater opens in Hawaii - 1847
174. Elias Howe patents sewing machine - 1846
175. Japan invents the rickshaw - 1846
176. King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange - 1845
177. Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres in Paris - 1838
178. Simon Bolivar named president of Peru - 1823
179. Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie - 1813
180. British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St. George - 1798
181. Prussia signs trade agreement with US - 1785
182. George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers - 1776
183. John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va - 1608
184. Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots - 1547
185. English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5 - 1547
186. Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal - 1510
187. Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death - 1349
188. Arnulf I the Old becomes landsheer of Flanders - 0918
189. St. Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0422
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