1. 48th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Carlos Perez (Mon)/Darren Holmes - 1997
2. 61st Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods at 21 (270 18 under par) - 1997
3. "American Daughter" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 88 performances - 1997
4. Hartford Whalers last NHL game - 1997
5. NHL Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Lemieux's last NHL regular game - 1997
6. Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A's vs Yankees in NY - 1997
7. En route to NHL record 62 victories Detroit Red Wings win #61 - 1996
8. Ottawa Senators eliminate Stanley Cup Champs New Jersey Devils from playoff - 1996
9. Yankees beat the Mets 2-0 - 1995
10. President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death - 1994
11. United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India - 1994
12. 14th Emmy Sports Award presentation - 1993
13. "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 40 performances - 1993
14. Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," premieres in London - 1993
15. "2 Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 160 performances - 1992
16. 5.5 earthquake hits Netherlands - 1992
17. American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50% - 1992
18. Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver and Dallas - 1992
19. Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood - 1992
20. Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (New York Yanks 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); Yanks score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2 - 1992
21. Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St. John's basketball team - 1992
22. Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie - 1992
23. BPAA U.S. Open by Pete Weber - 1991
24. 4th largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando play at Minneapolis - 1990
25. Final episode of Pat Sajak's late night TV show on CBS - 1990
26. New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1 - 1990
27. "Welcome to the Club" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 12 performances - 1989
28. Italy government of De Mita forms - 1988
29. 1st 3 San Diego Padres hit home runs off San Francisco starter Roger Mason - 1987
30. Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999) - 1987
31. 50th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279 - 1986
32. Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record - 1986
33. Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic - 1986
34. Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue - 1986
35. Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second - 1986
36. Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas - 1985
37. Caps 1-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-1 lead - 1985
38. Katrin Dorre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30) - 1985
39. Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania - 1985
40. "TASS" denounced U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics - 1985
41. 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth - 1984
42. India beat Pak by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah - 1984
43. Pete Rose becomes 1st NL to get get 4,000 hits in a career - 1984
44. Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago - 1983
45. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1983
46. Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault - 1983
47. Penguins 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Preliminary-Isles win series (3-2) - 1982
48. Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart" - 1981
49. Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax) - 1981
50. 44th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275 - 1980
51. Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic - 1980
52. Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation - 1980
53. "Grease" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 3,388 performances - 1980
54. "Reggae" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 21 performances - 1980
55. U.S. boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow - 1980
56. Christian Turks occupy St. Jansbasiliek - 1979
57. Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours - 1979
58. Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda - 1979
59. Jackson slugs a 3-run HR in the 1st inning, and the field is showered - 1978
60. New York Yanks defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day - 1978
61. 1st NBA playoff game for Cleveland Cavliers, they lose 100-95 to Wash - 1976
62. Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes - 1976
63. 39th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276 - 1975
64. Chad military coup by General Odingar - 1975
65. Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war - 1975
66. Penguins 5-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 1-0 lead - 1975
67. 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days - 1972
68. 34th Golf Masters Championship: Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279 - 1970
69. Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon - 1970
70. Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed - 1970
71. Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation - 1970
72. 33rd Golf Masters Championship: George Archer wins, shooting a 281 - 1969
73. Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s - 1966
74. 1st U.S. Senate black page, Lawrence W. Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by New York Sen Jacob Javits - 1965
75. Beatles record "Help" - 1965
76. 36th Academy Awards - "Tom Jones," Sidney Poitier and Patricia Neal win - 1964
77. Ian D. Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia - 1964
78. New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day - 1964
79. Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit - 1963
80. Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game - 1963
81. Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new NL record - 1962
82. U.S. steel industry forced to give up price increases - 1962
83. "Carnival!" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 719 performances - 1961
84. U.N. General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid - 1961
85. France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara - 1960
86. Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit - 1960
87. USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit - 1959
88. Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed) - 1959
89. Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists - 1959
90. 12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello and Music Man win - 1958
91. 11th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3 - 1957
92. 11th Tony Awards: Long Days Journey into the Night and My Fair Lady win - 1957
93. Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in U.S. is temp halted - 1957
94. "Shinbone Alley" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 49 performances - 1957
95. KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1956
96. 20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record) - 1955
97. Baltimore Orioles 1st game, loses to Tigers in Detroit 3-0 - 1954
98. Milwaukee Braves' Hank Aaron's 1st game - 1954
99. Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist - 1954
100. 1st game of Milwaukee Braves, they beat Cin Reds 2-0 - 1953
101. 3rd NBA Championship: Minnesota Lakers beat Washington Capitols, 4 games to 2 - 1949
102. 75 scientists ambushed on way to Mount Scopus - 1948
103. Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage and price freeze over - 1946
104. Eddie Klepp, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champ Cleveland Buckeyes, is barred from field in Birmingham Alabama - 1946
105. Canadian army liberates Teuge and Assen Netherlands from Nazis - 1945
106. Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna) - 1945
107. U.S. Marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa - 1945
108. South Carolina rejects black suffrage - 1944
109. Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games - 1944
110. Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany - 1944
111. Catholic University Nijegen closes - 1943
112. Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Jefferson Memorial - 1943
113. Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn - 1943
114. Heavy German assault on Tobruk - 1941
115. Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect - 1941
116. 2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed - 1940
117. Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft - 1940
118. Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 2 - 1940
119. W Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands," premieres in New York City - 1939
120. Clifford Goldsmith' "What a Life," premieres in New York City - 1938
121. Metaxas proclaims himself dictator of Greece - 1936
122. 4.7 million U.S. families report receiving welfare payments - 1934
123. U.S. Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act - 1934
124. 1st flight over Mount Everest by Lord Clydesdale - 1933
125. Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1 - 1933
126. Kozakken Boys soccer team forms in Werkendam forms - 1932
127. 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-U.S. (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Kohl) - 1928
128. Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, in 2 games and 2 ties - 1927
129. At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout - 1926
130. Bicyclists without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam - 1926
131. Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St. New York City - 1925
132. Greek plebiscite for a republic - 1924
133. Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships - 1923
134. 1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed - 1920
135. Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India - 1919
136. British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre) - 1919
137. Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital - 1918
138. 1st Federal League Game: Balt Terrapins beat Buffalo 3-2 - 1914
139. Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF) - 1912
140. Polo Grounds grandstand and left field bleachers go up in flames - 1911
141. Groundbreaking on Philadelphia's Shibe Park (home of A's and Phillies) - 1908
142. Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos and Vasco da Gama - 1906
143. Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army - 1904
144. Congress authorizes Lewis and Clark Expo $1 gold coin - 1904
145. J C Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyoming - 1902
146. Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist" - 1895
147. Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism - 1883
148. Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia - 1882
149. Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed) - 1873
150. Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in New York City - 1870
151. Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse) - 1869
152. Battle of Raleigh, North Carolina - 1865
153. Sherman's march through Georgia begins - 1865
154. Battle of Irish Bend, Louisiana (Ft. Bisland) - 1863
155. Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled in New York is 1st orthopedic hospital - 1863
156. After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft. Sumter surrenders to Confederates - 1861
157. 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California - 1860
158. Hungarian Republic proclaimed - 1849
159. Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope - 1842
160. HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia - 1834
161. English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics - 1829
162. William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects tap dance - 1808
163. 1st elephant arrives in U.S. from India - 1796
164. Battle at Millesimo Italy: Napoleon beats Austrians - 1796
165. French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen - 1759
166. George Frederic Handel's "Messiah" performed for 1st time (Dublin) - 1742
167. Dutch people protest bad quality of bread - 1741
168. Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich - 1741
169. John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate - 1668
170. English Short Parliament forms - 1640
171. Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots - 1598
172. Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope - 1556
173. Osmaanse army occupies Cairo - 1517
174. Battle at Najera Spain: Castilie and England beat Aragon and France - 1367
175. Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy - 1346
176. Battle at Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King Bela IV - 1241
177. Crusaders occupy Constantinople - 1204
178. Republic day of Gelnhausen - 1180
179. Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II - 1111
180. Bishop Gebhard van Eichstatt named Pope Victor II - 1055
181. Battle at Abydos: Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas - 0989
182. Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years - 0837
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