1. 20th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: at Des Moines GC, W Des Moines, Iowa - 1999
2. 66th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 at Ballpark at Arlington, Texas - 1995
3. All star MVP: Jeff Conine (Florida Marlins) - 1995
4. 14th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus - 1993
5. Nancy Lopez wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic - 1993
6. President candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people" - 1992
7. Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy - 1991
8. Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Saudi-Arabia, 261 die - 1991
9. Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii - 1991
10. New York City police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts) - 1990
11. 60th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim All star MVP: Bo Jackson (Kansas City Royals) - 1989
12. President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game - 1989
13. Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor - 1988
14. Heart's "Alone," single goes #1 for 3 weeks - 1987
15. Orioles Cal Ripkin becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal - 1987
16. Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000 m in world record 30:13.74 - 1986
17. Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women) - 1986
18. Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara - 1986
19. Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep) - 1985
20. Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden - 1985
21. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1985
22. 55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco - 1984
23. All star MVP: Gary Carter, Mont Expos - 1984
24. England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe - 1984
25. Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989 - 1984
26. Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana - 1984
27. Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of NZ, crowned 32nd Miss Universe - 1983
28. 3rd U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Miller Barber - 1982
29. "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 5 performances - 1982
30. Hollis Stacy wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic - 1982
31. Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid - 1982
32. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1981
33. Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony - 1981
34. Sebastian Coe of U.K. sets record for 1K (2:12.18) - 1981
35. American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran - 1980
36. U.S. Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia and disintegrates - 1979
37. 49th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at San Diego Stadium - 1978
38. All star MVP: Steve Garvey, Los Angeles Dodgers - 1978
39. Auto with liquid gas crashes and explodes in Spain, 160 killed - 1978
40. Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr - 1977
41. 1st U.S. football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American) - 1976
42. 31st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner - 1976
43. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1976
44. In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks and Wedlocks" - 1976
45. Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC - 1975
46. House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry - 1974
47. World Football League plays 1st games - 1974
48. Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed - 1973
49. Chilean parliament nationalizes U.S. copper mines - 1971
50. Jane Blalock wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic - 1971
51. Phillies Deron Johnson 3 home runs caps his 4 in a row - 1971
52. David Bowie releases "Space Oddity" - 1969
53. Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman" - 1969
54. Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles - 1968
55. Start of Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to do so - 1968
56. 38th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 15 at Anaheim Stadium, CA - 1967
57. All star MVP: Tony Perez (Cin Reds) - 1967
58. Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition - 1967
59. Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion - 1965
60. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Midwest Golf Open - 1965
61. South-African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested - 1963
62. 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I) - 1962
63. Brothers Hank and Tommie Aaron homer in same inning - 1962
64. Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days - 1962
65. Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba) - 1962
66. U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island - 1962
67. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1962
68. 30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Pk, SF - 1961
69. Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ - 1961
70. 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC - 1960
71. Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution - 1960
72. Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger declare independence - 1960
73. Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence - 1960
74. Congress authorizes all U.S. currency to say "In God We Trust" - 1955
75. New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets - 1955
76. 1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss - 1954
77. General Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate - 1952
78. 17th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 in 14 at Comiskey Park, Chic Ted Williams breaks his elbow; 1st extra inning All Star Game - 1950
79. 1st air bombing of Jerusalem - 1948
80. Kingman Douglass, ends term as deputy director of CIA - 1946
81. 12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh - 1944
82. Franklin D. Roosevelt says he would run for a 4th term - 1944
83. 7th day of battle at Kursk - 1943
84. Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily - 1943
85. U.S. 45th Division occupies airport Comiso, Sicily - 1943
86. U.S. 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily - 1943
87. German troops attack Dnjepr - 1941
88. British and German dogfight above Lyme Bay - 1940
89. 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York New York Yankee/AL maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees - 1939
90. Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx and Queens opens - 1936
91. Franklin D. Roosevelt became 1st President to travel through Panama Canal - 1934
92. New York Giants beat Phillies 23-8 - 1931
93. Bradman scores 309 in a day vs England at Leeds, goes on to 334 - 1930
94. Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of government - 1925
95. Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi - 1924
96. Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M - 1923
97. Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day) - 1921
98. Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day/No Sunday work - 1919
99. 1st federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted - 1916
100. Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act - 1916
101. Germany cruiser Konigsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam - 1915
102. Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleveland 4-3 - 1914
103. Black intellectuals and activists organize Niagara movement - 1905
104. Niagara Movement founded by W. E. B. Dubois - 1905
105. British premier Lord Salisbury resigns - 1902
106. Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys and Lincolns - 1900
107. Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole - 1897
108. Auguste and Louis Lumiere show film for scientists - 1895
109. U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp - 1892
110. Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city - 1889
111. 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Bennett, Colorado (state record) - 1888
112. Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall - 1888
113. British fleet bombs Alexandria - 1882
114. Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early's Raid, Tennallytown, MD) - 1864
115. Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Washington D.C. - 1864
116. Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4 - 1863
117. Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief - 1862
118. Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - Gen Morris forces retreat of rebels - 1861
119. Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender - 1861
120. Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published - 1859
121. Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent vs. England) - 1848
122. London's Waterloo Station opens - 1848
123. Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," and "Gadfly" - 1818
124. U.S. invades Canada (Detroit frontier) - 1812
125. French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet - 1801
126. Prussia army moves into French territory - 1792
127. U.S. Marine Corps created by an act of Congress - 1789
128. Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US - 1781
129. Czarina Anne of Little Russia, expels Jews - 1740
130. Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne - 1740
131. Battle at Oudenaarde: Great Alliance beats France - 1708
132. Battle of Drogheda Boyne (Willem III (Neth-Engl) beat Jacobus II (Ire) - 1690
133. Netherlands and Denmark signs defense treaty - 1673
134. Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan - 1635
135. French king Henri III accept demands of Catholic League - 1588
136. Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII - 1533
137. Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague - 1525
138. Arnold van Egmont becomes duke of Gelre - 1423
139. English "Good Parliament" meets - 1376
140. Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV - 1347
141. Battle of Kortrijk Belgium (France vs Flanders) - 1302
142. Guldensporen battle of Belgium - 1302
143. Chwarizneense Turken defeats Jerusalem - 1244
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