1. 3rd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - 1997
2. Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space - 1997
3. Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen - 1997
4. San Francisco Giant J. T. Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch - 1997
5. Chris Harris scores 130 in losing NZ side vs. Australia, World Cup - 1996
6. Mark Waugh scores 110 vs. NZ for his third century of the World Cup - 1996
7. -36.8 degrees F (-38.2 degrees C) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67 degrees N - 1995
8. President Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament - 1995
9. Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in U.S. - 1995
10. Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m - 1995
11. Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile - 1994
12. Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN - 1993
13. Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records - 1991
14. John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award - 1991
15. Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked first - 1991
16. 16th People's Choice Awards - 1990
17. Lithuania declares it's Independence - 1990
18. Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International - 1990
19. Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire - 1988
20. Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point - 1987
21. 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC - 1986
22. 12th People's Choice Awards - 1986
23. 187.27 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange - 1986
24. Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons - 1986
25. Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km - 1986
26. NFL adopts instant replay rule - 1986
27. Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader - 1985
28. Chris Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic - 1984
29. Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki Finland won by Torvill and Dean (GRB) - 1983
30. Ice Pairs Championship at Helsinki won by Valova and Vasiliev (URS) - 1983
31. Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA) - 1983
32. Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA) - 1983
33. Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname - 1982
34. Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion - 1982
35. Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington D.C. - 1982
36. Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins - 1981
37. Johnny Mize and Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame - 1981
38. Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Aust vs. Pak cricket draw - 1980
39. Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic - 1979
40. Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game - 1979
41. Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed - 1978
42. USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC - 1978
43. Moslems hold 130 hostages in Washington D.C. - 1977
44. Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails - 1975
45. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1975
46. Mount Etna in Sicily erupted - 1974
47. Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album - 1974
48. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic - 1973
49. "Inner City" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 97 performances - 1972
50. 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills and Nash, Peggy Lee win - 1970
51. Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation - 1970
52. Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting - 1968
53. Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet - 1968
54. Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay" - 1968
55. Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne) - 1967
56. Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out - 1966
57. Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto - 1965
58. Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain - 1963
59. Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks and Maple Leafs (20 each) - 1961
60. Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus - 1960
61. "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens - 1959
62. Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit" - 1959
63. Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21" - 1958
64. Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets - 1958
65. Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship - 1956
66. U.S. Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics - 1954
67. 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) - 1953
68. American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches - 1953
69. Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed - 1948
70. Reginald Weit became the 1st black to play in the U.S. Tennis Open - 1948
71. WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1948
72. 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs - 1945
73. Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death - 1945
74. Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested - 1944
75. Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands - 1943
76. 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp - 1942
77. General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia - 1942
78. Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra - 1942
79. Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn, to become wrestling champ - 1941
80. Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Bill to lend money to Britain - 1941
81. Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country - 1938
82. Bank of Canada opens - 1935
83. Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe - 1935
84. Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer - 1934
85. President and Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington - 1930
86. Netherlands and Belgium tie 1-1 (soccer match in Amsterdam) - 1928
87. 1st armored commercial car hold-up in U.S., Pittsburgh - 1927
88. 1st golden gloves tournament - 1927
89. Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (New York City) - 1927
90. Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein - 1926
91. 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins - 1924
92. Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife," premieres in London - 1924
93. NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games - 1924
94. Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2 games - 1922
95. General strike in Germany, crushed - 1919
96. Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia - 1918
97. Save the Redwoods League founded - 1918
98. 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13) - 1917
99. British troops occupy Baghdad - 1917
100. 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-min periods, formerly played in 30-min halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep - 1912
101. Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 vs. SAfr), his only Test hit wicket - 1910
102. Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, 2 games to 1 - 1905
103. Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games - 1904
104. Cincinnati Enquirer reports Balt mgr John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant - 1901
105. Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed - 1895
106. 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachuetts) - 1892
107. Great blizzard of '88 strikes the North East U.S. - 1888
108. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton New Jersey - 1882
109. Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos," premieres in Paris - 1867
110. Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano) - 1867
111. Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina - 1865
112. Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee - 1864
113. Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief - 1862
114. Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution - 1861
115. Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," premieres in Venice - 1851
116. Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school) - 1850
117. HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile - 1835
118. U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs - 1824
119. 1st normal school in U.S. opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt - 1823
120. Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews - 1812
121. Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise - 1810
122. Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols - 1795
123. Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens - 1794
124. Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia, is 1st to obtain more than 1 U.S. patent - 1791
125. Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington D.C. - 1789
126. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time) - 1779
127. 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes - 1702
128. Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000 - 1669
129. NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights - 1665
130. Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising - 1649
131. Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille - 1598
132. Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France - 1597
133. Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel - 1567
134. League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II - 1563
135. Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X - 1513
136. Tebriz] shah Ismail I of Persia crowned - 1502
137. Romeo and Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare - 1302
138. Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople - 0843
139. Goths lay siege to Rome - 0537
140. Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome - 0417
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