1. 15th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Larry Gilbert - 1997
2. 52nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Alison Nicholas - 1997
3. David Toms wins Quad City Golf Classic at 265 - 1997
4. Ford Senior Players Golf Championship - 1997
5. Indonesian ferry sinks, killing at least 77 - 1997
6. Cigar wins record 16th straight win, (ties Citation in 1940) - 1996
7. Space shuttle STS-70, Discovery 20, launches - 1995
8. Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan - 1994
9. O. J. Simpson, charged with murder, gives hair samples for testing - 1994
10. 64th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore - 1993
11. All star MVP: Kirby Puckett for the Minnesota Twins - 1993
12. Bob Milacki and 3 other Baltimore Oriole pitchers no-hit A's 2-0 - 1991
13. 9th Emmy Sports Award presentation - 1988
14. Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan - 1988
15. Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert - 1988
16. Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials - 1987
17. "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief - 1985
18. New York Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) and Elston Howard (32) uniforms - 1985
19. Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert - 1984
20. Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows - 1984
21. Sergei Bubka of U.S.S.R. pole vaults a record 5.89 m - 1984
22. 53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal - 1982
23. All star MVP: Dave Conception (Cin Reds) - 1982
24. Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed - 1982
25. 35th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott - 1980
26. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1980
27. Calif's Nolan Ryan and Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th - 1979
28. George Harrison releases "Faster" - 1979
29. Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR - 1978
30. Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years - 1978
31. BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent" - 1978
32. Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor President by chairman Henry Ford II - 1978
33. Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp - 1978
34. Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida - 1978
35. New York City experiences 25 hr black-out - 1977
36. 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Phila - 1976
37. All star MVP: George Foster (Cin Reds) - 1976
38. Last day of Test Cricket for Brian Close, aged 45 - 1976
39. 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record) - 1975
40. Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic - 1975
41. 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham - 1974
42. India's 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley) - 1974
43. Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating Kansas City 5-0 - 1973
44. Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina - 1973
45. Los Angeles Rams (Irsay) and Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners - 1972
46. 42nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-4 at Tiger Stadium, Detroit - 1971
47. All star MVP: Frank Robinson for the Baltimore Orioles - 1971
48. Building begins of Amsterdam metro - 1970
49. Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon - 1969
50. Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Ladies' Supertest Golf Open - 1969
51. 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland - 1968
52. French government-Couve de Murville forms - 1968
53. Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die - 1967
54. Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago - 1966
55. 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn - 1965
56. All star MVP: Juan Marichal (SF Giant) - 1965
57. Early Wynn, wins his 300th and last game at 43 - 1963
58. 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea - 1962
59. 91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon - 1962
60. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1962
61. 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York - 1960
62. KDBQ-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KYA - 1960
63. U.S. Democratic convention nominates John F. Kennedy as presidential candidate - 1960
64. 13th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright - 1958
65. 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham - 1958
66. Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open - 1958
67. WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1956
68. 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve - 1954
69. Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9 - 1954
70. Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams elbow - 1950
71. Rene Pleven forms French government - 1950
72. Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics - 1949
73. 15th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis - 1948
74. "Tidbits of 1946" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 8 performances - 1946
75. 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico - 1945
76. Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated - 1944
77. 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia - 1943
78. Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany - 1943
79. 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis - 1942
80. German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages - 1942
81. SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland - 1942
82. 24th PGA Championship: Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills CC Denver - 1941
83. Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder - 1941
84. Frank Sinatra made his recording debut - 1939
85. Kroller-Muller museum opens in Holland - 1938
86. 112 degrees F (44 degrees C), Mio, Michigan (state record) - 1936
87. 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin (state record) - 1936
88. Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer - 1935
89. U.S. - Russian commerce treaty takes effect - 1935
90. Babe Ruth hits HR #700, against Detroit - 1934
91. 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay - 1930
92. Sarnoff reports in New York Times "TV would be a theater in every home" - 1930
93. Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4) - 1926
94. French occupation force begins evacuating country - 1925
95. Albin Stenroos wins Olympic marathon (2:41:22.6) - 1924
96. Draft law passes - 1923
97. Race riots in Longview and Gregg counties Texas - 1919
98. Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal - 1917
99. 4th modern Olympic games opens in London - 1908
100. Phillies beat Pittsburgh 23-8 - 1900
101. Guglielmo Marconi patents radio - 1898
102. San Francisco Ferry Building at foot of Market St. opens - 1898
103. Ed Delahanty, becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 4 home runs in a game - 1896
104. 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia - 1882
105. Congress of Berlin discusses division of African colonization ends - 1878
106. Treaty of Berlin amended terms of Treaty of San Stefano - 1878
107. 29th Postmaster General: James N. Tyner of Indiana takes office - 1876
108. King Wilhelm of Prussia sends "Emser Depˆche" on Bismarck - 1870
109. Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana - 1868
110. Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man" - 1865
111. P. T. Barnum's museum burns down - 1865
112. Early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley - 1864
113. Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in New York City; about 1,000 die - 1863
114. Battle of Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana - 1863
115. Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Forrest's Raid) US895 CS150 - 1862
116. Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53 - 1861
117. U.S. forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua - 1854
118. John F. Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton - 1851
119. Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace - 1837
120. U.S. patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels - 1836
121. Source of Mississippi River discovered, Henry R. Schoolcraft - 1832
122. Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery) - 1787
123. Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop - 1787
124. Capt James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas - 1772
125. Russian-Turkish peace - 1700
126. Van Marco Cesti's opera "Il Pomo d'Oro," premieres in Vienna - 1668
127. Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert - 1657
128. Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar of Russia - 1645
129. Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies - 1643
130. Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army - 1573
131. Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer - 1568
132. Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht - 1522
133. Scottish King William captured - 1174
134. John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0574
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