1. Boston Red Sox trade Mike Stanley back to the New York Yankees - 1997
2. San Diego Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels - 1997
3. Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0 - 1996
4. 77th PGA Championship: Steve Elkington shoots a 267 at Riviera California - 1995
5. Beth Daniels wins LPGA PING Welch's Golf Championship - 1995
6. Train crash in Tbilisi Georgia, 24 killed - 1994
7. Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24 - 1993
8. Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed - 1993
9. U.S. Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail - 1993
10. Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60) - 1991
11. Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney versus England at Old Trafford - 1991
12. 2 hot-air balloon crash at Alice Springs Australia, 13 killed - 1989
13. 71st PGA Championship: Payne Stewart shoots 276 at Kemper Lakes GC Ill - 1989
14. U.S. space shuttle STS-28 lands - 1989
15. Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games - 1988
16. Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit Opens - 1988
17. Ronald J. Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min - 1988
18. U.S. beats Jamacia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup - 1988
19. Cards outfie ld sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning - 1987
20. Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5 " jump - 1987
21. KRE-AM in Berkeley, California changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN) - 1986
22. Morocco and Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty - 1984
23. Last broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS-TV - 1981
24. Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 200m butterfly (2:05.96) - 1981
25. Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted - 1980
26. Tatyana Kazankina of U.S.S.R. sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in U.S.S.R. - 1980
27. Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits - 1979
28. Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed - 1978
29. Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin - 1978
30. Yanks score 5 runs in top of 7th. but rain causes game to be halted and thus score goes back to previous inning, Balt wins 3-0 - 1978
31. Randy Bachman quits BTO, they disband - 1977
32. Viv Richards out for 291 vs. England at Cricket Oval - 1975
33. Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th and last "Bonanza" - 1972
34. Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic - 1972
35. Paul and Linda McCartney release "Back Seat of My Car" - 1971
36. Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0 - 1969
37. Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote - 1969
38. WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1967
39. 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire - 1964
40. Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum - 1963
41. Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382 - 1963
42. Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously - 1962
43. Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany - 1961
44. Louise Suggs wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open - 1961
45. Central African Republic and Chad proclaim independence from France - 1960
46. U.S.S.R. draws adviseors out of China - 1960
47. Milt satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit) - 1959
48. Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2 - 1958
49. WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, Tennessee (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1956
50. Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield - 1955
51. 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470) - 1954
52. 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations - 1953
53. President Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee - 1953
54. U.S. Gen Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff - 1953
55. Great-Britain and Iraq sign new oil contract - 1951
56. Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship - 1950
57. President Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai - 1950
58. Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game - 1948
59. Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus - 1946
60. 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia - 1945
61. British 8th army occupies Florence - 1944
62. Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough - 1944
63. Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio - 1944
64. Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk - 1943
65. Red army evacuates Smolensk - 1941
66. Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins) - 1940
67. Goering's "Adler Tag" 45-48 German aircrafts shotdown over South-Engld - 1940
68. Sabotage suspected in crash of 'City of San Francisco' - 1939
69. Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's - 1939
70. Japanese attack Shanghai - 1937
71. Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum) - 1935
72. 16th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Blue Mound CC Milwaukee - 1933
73. Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist - 1933
74. Hitler refuses Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor - 1932
75. Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers and wins game 1-0 in 10 tying - 1932
76. Cincinnati Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6 - 1931
77. Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins - 1928
78. Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition government - 1923
79. Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president - 1923
80. U.S. Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day - 1923
81. Simon Kaufman and Marc Connelly's "Dulcy," premieres in New York City - 1921
82. 24th U.S. Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio - 1920
83. British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350 - 1919
84. Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga) - 1919
85. Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves - 1917
86. Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st U.S. bus line, in Minnesota - 1914
87. France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I - 1914
88. German army occupies forts at Luik - 1914
89. Dodgers and Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball and 1 hit by pitch - 1910
90. Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team - 1908
91. Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas - 1906
92. Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning - 1906
93. England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory - 1902
94. U.S. forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war - 1898
95. U.S. black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore - 1892
96. William Gray patents coin-operated telephone - 1889
97. Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch - 1881
98. Reciprocity Treaty between U.S. and Hawaii ratified - 1876
99. Wagner's "Of the Ring," premieres - 1876
100. Earthquakes kill 25,000 and causes $300 million damages (Peru and Ecuador) - 1868
101. Battle of Deep Bottom Virginia (Strawberry Plains) and Fussell's Mill VA - 1864
102. Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia - 1831
103. Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch - 1814
104. Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves - 1814
105. English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname - 1799
106. Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette - 1792
107. Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90 - 1788
108. English parliament accept India Act - 1784
109. Hunger strike in Rotterdam - 1740
110. Voltaire's "Zaire," premieres in Paris - 1732
111. King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia - 1713
112. French and Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German and Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany - 1704
113. State of Drenthe accredits Willem III as mayor - 1696
114. French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels - 1695
115. Litchfield, CT founded - 1651
116. Sweden and Denmark sign Peace of Bromsebro - 1645
117. Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap - 1642
118. Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein - 1630
119. Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII - 1624
120. John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication - 1608
121. Duke French van Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands - 1578
122. Spanish conquerors Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs - 1521
123. Kings Charles I and Francois I signs Treaty of Noyons - 1516
124. King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River - 1415
125. Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II - 1099
126. St. John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0523
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