1. New York Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak - 1998
2. Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004 - 1997
3. Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award - 1997
4. Toronto's Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award - 1996
5. 25th New York City Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06 - 1995
6. 26th New York City Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00 - 1995
7. Last day of Test cricket for Martin Crowe - 1995
8. Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003 - 1995
9. New York MTA raises subway and bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50 - 1995
10. STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit - 1995
11. New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time - 1992
12. Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award - 1991
13. "Full House" 100th episode-twins are born - 1991
14. Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die - 1991
15. Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years - 1989
16. George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in New York City - 1989
17. "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 1018 performances - 1989
18. Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7) - 1988
19. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1988
20. Heavy snow closes schools from Washington D.C. to Maine - 1987
21. "Teddy and Alice" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 77 performances - 1987
22. Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World - 1987
23. France performs nuclear test - 1986
24. Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously - 1986
25. Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct - 1985
26. R. Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match vs. Australia at Brisbane - 1985
27. STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad - 1985
28. Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together" - 1984
29. Space shuttle astronauts retreive a satellite - 1st space salvage - 1984
30. 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas - 1983
31. New Jersey Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3 - 1983
32. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1982
33. U.S.S.R. KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as U.S.S.R. leader - 1982
34. Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket vs. India, goes to 215 - 1982
35. 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed, Double Eagle V - 1981
36. 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2) - 1981
37. Bill C. Davis' "Mass Appeal," premieres in New York City - 1981
38. Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year for the Oakland A's - 1981
39. Great Britain performs nuclear test - 1981
40. Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World - 1981
41. Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award - 1980
42. U.S. space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn - 1980
43. President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil - 1979
44. Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal - 1979
45. U.S. halts Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets - 1979
46. Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open - 1978
47. "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 33 performances - 1978
48. Ernest N. Morial elected mayor of New Orleans - 1977
49. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1977
50. New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial - 1977
51. New York Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award - 1975
52. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired after 36 years - 1975
53. South Africa suspended from United Nations General Assembly over racial policies - 1974
54. Dmitri Shostakovitch' 14th String Quartet premieres - 1973
55. 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die - 1970
56. Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103 - 1970
57. Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell - 1970
58. Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union - 1969
59. Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP - 1969
60. U.S. Army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19 - 1969
61. WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast - 1969
62. KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1968
63. Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional - 1968
64. Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic - 1967
65. Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7 - 1967
66. Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ - 1966
67. Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record - 1966
68. High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame - 1966
69. Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines - 1965
70. General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka - 1965
71. Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ - 1965
72. Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus - 1965
73. Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg - 1964
74. Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH - 1964
75. Train crash in Japan, kills 164 - 1963
76. Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails - 1960
77. White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP - 1959
78. Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award - 1958
79. Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted - 1956
80. 1st West German officers sworn in - 1955
81. Date returned to in "Back to the Future" and "Back to the Future II" - 1955
82. E Arcaro, E Sande and G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame - 1955
83. Ellis Island, immigration station in New York Harbor, closed - 1954
84. David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel - 1953
85. U.S. district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games - 1953
86. Philadelphia A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP - 1952
87. White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape - 1952
88. 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Ala - 1951
89. "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 289 performances - 1951
90. Gene Roberts sets NFL New York Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards - 1950
91. Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal - 1948
92. KPO-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR) - 1947
93. Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced - 1947
94. 1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago) - 1946
95. Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released - 1946
96. Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) - 1945
97. RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway - 1944
98. Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands - 1943
99. In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began - 1942
100. Germany's drive to take Moscow halted - 1941
101. WOV-AM and WNEW-AM in New York City swaps call letters - 1941
102. Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes) - 1940
103. Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David - 1939
104. Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland - 1938
105. Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill - 1936
106. Oakland Bay Bridge opens - 1936
107. St. Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes and William O DeWitt - 1936
108. 1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate's Forbes Field, lose to Brooklyn Dodgers 32-0 - 1933
109. 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken - 1933
110. 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal) - 1933
111. Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany - 1933
112. 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion - 1932
113. Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chicago Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1 - 1931
114. Sibelius/Ashton's ballet "Lady of Shalott," premieres in London - 1931
115. British steamer "Vestris" capsizes and sinks off Virginia, kills 110 - 1928
116. 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey opens - 1927
117. Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green - 1927
118. Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator - 1927
119. U.S. and Italy sign peace accord about war debts - 1925
120. Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron - 1924
121. In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power - 1923
122. Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments - 1921
123. Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner - 1920
124. Ross and Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia - 1919
125. Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic - 1918
126. Britain annexes Gilbert and Ellice archipelago - 1915
127. Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry - 1915
128. Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war - 1914
129. Robert Scott's diary and dead body found in Antarctica - 1912
130. 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon - 1910
131. C W Gregory (NSW vs. Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps - 1906
132. World's Fair in Paris opens, 50 million visitors - 1900
133. British troops reach Durban Natal - 1899
134. Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football - 1892
135. Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player - 1892
136. Montreal and Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game - 1885
137. Bay District Race Track opens - 1873
138. Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name - 1859
139. Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens - 1823
140. Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth - 1813
141. General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks - 1775
142. France and Bavaria renew secret treaty - 1727
143. Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy - 1682
144. Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn - 1673
145. Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends - 1614
146. Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza - 1591
147. Lotharius becomes king of France - 0954
148. Boniface III ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0607
149. Origin of Era of Ascension - 0295
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