1. Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s) - 1999
2. Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday - 1997
3. 78th PGA Championship: Mark Brooks shoots a 277 at Vallhalla GC KY - 1996
4. Emilee Klein wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship - 1996
5. "Thousand Clowns," closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 32 performs - 1996
6. Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected President of Guinee-Bissau - 1994
7. Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth - 1993
8. New York Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke - 1993
9. Pope John Paul II visits Mexico - 1993
10. Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out, Danny Tartabul-NY - 1993
11. Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game - 1992
12. 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed - 1991
13. 73rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick Ind - 1991
14. Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic - 1991
15. Shite Moslems release U.S. hostage Edward Tracy - 1991
16. Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands - 1991
17. Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start - 1991
18. Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion - 1990
19. New York Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 home runs (110 at bats) - 1990
20. Geoff Marsh and Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand vs. England - 1989
21. "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres - 1989
22. Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune - 1989
23. 225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR - 1988
24. Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte North Carolina opens - 1988
25. Meir Kahane renounced U.S. citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament - 1988
26. France and Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf - 1987
27. 68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo - 1986
28. 67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver - 1985
29. Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz - 1985
30. Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic - 1985
31. Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes 21st to hit 400 HR - 1985
32. Rudolf Povarnitsin of U.S.S.R. sets new high jump world record (7'10"12) - 1985
33. "Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 669 performances - 1985
34. 101,799 fans at soccer match Brazilie-France - 1984
35. Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds - 1984
36. Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform - 1984
37. During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes" - 1984
38. Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms - 1984
39. U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test - 1984
40. Twins Terry Felton loses and runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16) - 1982
41. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1982
42. Angola revises its constitution - 1980
43. Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran - 1980
44. Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns - 1980
45. 28 degrees F in Embarrass Minnesota - 1979
46. Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year - 1979
47. Funeral of Pope Paul VI - 1978
48. Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta - 1978
49. Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, vs. Aust at Headingley - 1977
50. Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami - 1976
51. Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die - 1976
52. Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game - 1975
53. U.S. vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to U.N. - 1975
54. 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC - 1974
55. Coup in East-Timor under UDT - 1974
56. Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey) - 1974
57. "Cheech and Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas - 1972
58. Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome - 1971
59. Harmon Killebrew hits home runs #500 and 501 - 1971
60. Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues - 1970
61. Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a HR in red seats at Riverfront - 1970
62. Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder - 1969
63. Pittsburgh Steelers beat New York Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo) - 1969
64. Beatles launch "Apple Records" label - 1968
65. Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves - 1968
66. Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches - 1967
67. Last Beatle concert tour of U.S. begins - 1966
68. 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles - 1965
69. Beatles movie "Help" opens in New York City - 1965
70. Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days - 1965
71. Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in New York City - 1964
72. Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?" - 1963
73. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational - 1963
74. Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3 - 1962
75. Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari" - 1962
76. Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2) - 1962
77. Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down - 1962
78. Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1 - 1961
79. Chad declares Independence from France - 1960
80. Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open - 1957
81. Paul Hindemith' opera "Harmonie der Welt," premieres in Munich - 1957
82. 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620 - 1956
83. Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel" - 1956
84. Indonesia government of Harahap forms - 1955
85. BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0 - 1954
86. Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh - 1954
87. Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan - 1952
88. 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois - 1951
89. 1st color baseball game, Braves vs Dodgers, telecast, WCBS-NYC - 1951
90. New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa - 1951
91. New York Giants lose to go 13 games behind Brooklyn Dodgers, later win pennant - 1951
92. 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885) - 1950
93. Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Brooklyn Dodger, 7-0 - 1950
94. Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time - 1950
95. King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium - 1950
96. 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi) - 1949
97. Gaston Eyskens forms Belgiangovt - 1949
98. Summer Olympics opens in London - 1948
99. Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito - 1945
100. British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy - 1944
101. French 5th Armour division recaptures Sees - 1944
102. Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz - 1944
103. U.S. air raid on Palembang - 1944
104. Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov - 1943
105. Richard Strauss' 2nd Horn Concert, premieres - 1943
106. U.S. amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily - 1943
107. 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium - 1942
108. British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed and sinks - 1942
109. Lt-gen Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar - 1942
110. FRD and PM Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter - 1941
111. 38 German aircrafts shot down above England - 1940
112. German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth - 1940
113. Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe - 1939
114. Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton - 1936
115. Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews - 1935
116. 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay - 1934
117. Temp reaches 136 degrees F (57.8 degrees C) at San Luis Potosi, Mex (world record) - 1933
118. Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve) - 1929
119. Persia and Iraq sign friendship treaty - 1929
120. Russian-Chinese border fights - 1929
121. Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils - 1928
122. Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists - 1928
123. Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double - 1926
124. 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken - 1924
125. Dutch Premier de Geer resigns - 1923
126. 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia - 1920
127. Weimar Republic begins in Germany - 1919
128. Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans - 1918
129. France declares war on Austria-Hungary - 1914
130. Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland - 1914
131. John Wray patents animation - 1914
132. Liner "Arapahoe" is 1st ship to use SOS distress call - 1909
133. SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC - 1909
134. Warren Bardsley (136 and 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test - 1909
135. St. Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn - 1907
136. German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa - 1904
137. Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain - 1896
138. $100,000 raised in U.S. for pedestal for Statue of Liberty - 1885
139. 1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Aust - 1884
140. Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos - 1877
141. Harry S. Parmelee patents sprinkler head - 1874
142. Cambodia becomes French protectorate - 1863
143. Nation's 1st successful silver mill, Virginia City, Nevada - 1860
144. George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal - 1835
145. Barbados hurricane begins - 1780
146. Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000 - 1772
147. Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish - 1718
148. English and Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk - 1695
149. 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Conde vs Willem III) - 1674
150. Emperor Rudolf forces out king of Bohemia - 1611
151. Germany throws out English sales people - 1597
152. Uprising of adel/burgerij in Austria fails - 1522
153. Rodrigo de Borja becomes Pope Alexander VI - 1492
154. Sea battle of Zierikzee - 1304
155. Clara van Assisi leads rules of life in order of Clarissen - 1253
156. Hadrianus hears of death of emperor Trajanus of Antioch - 0117
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