1. Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423 - 1995
2. Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day" - 1995
3. Soyuz TM-22, lands - 1995
4. 114th U.S. Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Michael Stich (61 76 75) - 1994
5. 46th Emmy Awards: Fraiser, Picket Fences and Kelsey Grammer wins - 1994
6. Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle - 1994
7. Missie McGeorge wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship - 1994
8. 107th U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (63 63) - 1993
9. Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies world record (3:50.46) - 1993
10. Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die and 8,000 injured - 1992
11. 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston - 1991
12. Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers and Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0 - 1991
13. Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation - 1991
14. "La Toya: Growing Up in The Jackson Family" goes on sale - 1991
15. New York Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium - 1991
16. Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud - 1989
17. KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO - 1989
18. 1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy - 1988
19. 108th U.S. Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) - 1988
20. 108th U.S. Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4hrs 55 min - longest men's final in U.S. Open history - 1988
21. Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship - 1988
22. Sports Aid - jogging to feed the world - 1988
23. 4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins - 1987
24. Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die - 1987
25. Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded - 1986
26. President Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres - 1986
27. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1986
28. Flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner - 1985
29. International Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km - 1985
30. Pete Rose of Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record - 1985
31. Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs vs. India - 1985
32. 103rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 67 75 60) - 1983
33. Fashion designer Donna Karen marries Stephan Weiss - 1983
34. Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards - 1983
35. Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship - 1983
36. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1983
37. 96th U.S. Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats Hana Mandlikova (63 61) - 1982
38. Chris Evert wins her 6th and final U.S. Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY - 1982
39. Debbie Maffett (Calif), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983 - 1982
40. 2nd government of Agt forms - 1981
41. Chile adopts its constitution - 1980
42. Ron LeFlore (91st) and Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record - 1980
43. 29th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Carroll O'Conner and Bea Arthur - 1977
44. 97th U.S. Mens Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy Connors (26 63 75 60) - 1977
45. Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open - 1977
46. 90th U.S. Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight U.S. Open Final (Evert wins) - 1976
47. Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977 - 1976
48. Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless) - 1976
49. Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan and John Milner come to bat 12 times each - 1974
50. Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup - 1973
51. BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont - 1972
52. "2 by 2" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 343 performances - 1971
53. Egypt adopts its constitution - 1971
54. Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972 - 1971
55. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1969
56. A's drop grievance filed with National Labor Relations against C Finley - 1967
57. Beatles' Magical Mystery Bus driven around England - 1967
58. French president De Gaulle visits Poland - 1967
59. Indian/Chinese border fights - 1967
60. U.S. Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material - 1967
61. WSRE TV channel 23 in Pensacola, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1967
62. WUNE TV channel 17 in Linville, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1967
63. WUNF TV channel 33 in Asheville, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1967
64. WUNG TV channel 58 in Concord, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1967
65. 80th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Esther Bueno-Fraiser beats N Richey (63 61) - 1966
66. 86th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64) - 1966
67. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1966
68. Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat - 1966
69. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pacific Ladies' Golf Classic - 1966
70. Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show - 1966
71. Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks - 1965
72. Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets - 1965
73. George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company - 1964
74. Gillette's 20 year contract with MSG and ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleveland Auditorium - 1964
75. Beatles cut "Love Me Do" and "PS I Love You" with Andy White on drums - 1962
76. Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles - 1962
77. KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, California (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1962
78. Bob Dylan's 1st New York performance - 1961
79. 17th Olympic games close in Rome, Italy - 1960
80. 74th U.S. Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64) - 1960
81. 80th U.S. Mens Tennis: Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97) - 1960
82. Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans - 1959
83. "Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements - 1959
84. Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4 - 1959
85. Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0 - 1959
86. Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island - 1958
87. Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR - 1956
88. Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8) - 1956
89. Yanks Yogi Berra ties career record for home runs (236) by a catcher - 1956
90. 69th U.S. Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward (64 62) - 1955
91. 75th U.S. Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Ken Rosewall beats (97 63 63) - 1955
92. KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting - 1955
93. 1st Miss America TV broadcast - 1954
94. 20.4 cm rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record) - 1954
95. KXJB TV channel 4 in Valley City (Fargo) (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1954
96. Lee Meriwether (Calif), 19, crowned 27th Miss America 1955 (1st on TV) - 1954
97. KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, California (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1953
98. WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1953
99. West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews - 1952
100. Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes - 1951
101. Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice - 1951
102. 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited - 1950
103. 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton, Ohio - 1950
104. "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts - 1950
105. Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence - 1950
106. 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation - 1946
107. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference - 1944
108. U.S. 5th pantzer division is 1st to enter nazi-Germany - 1944
109. Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno - 1943
110. Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia liquidated - 1943
111. Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island - 1943
112. U.S. and Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea - 1943
113. Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany - 1942
114. Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels - 1941
115. Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get U.S. into WW II - 1941
116. Franklin D. Roosevelt orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight - 1941
117. 54th Postmaster General: Frank C. Walker of Pennsylvania takes office - 1940
118. Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS - 1940
119. Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs - 1940
120. Hitler begins operation-Seelowe (invasion England) - 1940
121. Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw - 1939
122. British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley - 1939
123. Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany - 1939
124. 51st U.S. Womens Tennis: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (64 62) - 1937
125. 57th U.S. Mens Tennis: J D Budge beats G vs. Cramm (61 79 61 36 61) - 1937
126. A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game - 1936
127. Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam - 1936
128. 49th U.S. Womens Tennis: H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (62 64) - 1935
129. U.S. captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year - 1935
130. Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at U.S. Tennis championship - 1933
131. Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles - 1930
132. SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system - 1929
133. 1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger - 1928
134. Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees - 1928
135. After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2 - 1927
136. Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers - 1927
137. 21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1) - 1926
138. Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu - 1926
139. Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining - 1926
140. U.S. defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship - 1926
141. Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies - 1926
142. After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks - 1923
143. Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run - 1923
144. ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over New York's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower - 1923
145. British mandate of Palestine begins - 1922
146. Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader - 1922
147. U.S. Marines invade Honduras - 1919
148. Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series - 1918
149. German troops conquer Kavalla Greece - 1916
150. T Handy publishes "St. Louis Blues" - 1914
151. Netherland Olympic Committee forms - 1912
152. Philadelphia A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game - 1912
153. 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood) - 1910
154. Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet - 1909
155. President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique - 1900
156. FA Cup stolen in Birmingham - 1895
157. Bronx Gas and Electric Company opens on Frisby and Tremont Ave - 1893
158. Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago) - 1893
159. Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" - 1889
160. Mayflower (U.S.) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup - 1886
161. Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia - 1885
162. James Cutler patents postal mail chute - 1883
163. Triple landslides bury Elm Switz - 1881
164. Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen - 1877
165. 1st newspaper cartoon strip - 1875
166. Mountain Meadows Massacre-120 colonists killed by indians in Utah - 1857
167. 1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos) - 1853
168. Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R - 1852
169. "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st U.S. concert - 1850
170. 1st singing of Stephen Fosters "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh) - 1847
171. 1st Canadian track and field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds) - 1839
172. Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth - 1831
173. Battle of Lake Champlain, New York; American Navy defeats British - 1814
174. Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury - 1789
175. Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce - 1786
176. Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British - 1777
177. Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace" - 1773
178. Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament - 1741
179. French and Spanish troops under duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona - 1714
180. Battle at Malplaquet: Engl/Aust/Dutch Great Alliance beat France - 1709
181. Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power - 1697
182. Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists - 1649
183. Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda Ireland, most inhabitants massacred - 1649
184. Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir - 1648
185. Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol - 1645
186. Catholic and Lutheran theology debated in Worm - 1557
187. Willem III becomes earl of Holland - 1304
188. Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English - 1297
189. Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor - 0813
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