1. "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show - 1998
2. World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany - 1998
3. "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released - 1996
4. Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire vs. Indians - 1996
5. 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games - 1995
6. Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win - 1995
7. Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3 - 1994
8. Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth - 1993
9. Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey - 1993
10. 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton - 1992
11. 46th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2 - 1992
12. Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic - 1992
13. Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female U.S. poet laureate - 1992
14. Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play - 1992
15. Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in New York City - 1991
16. "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens - 1991
17. Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands - 1991
18. 44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1 - 1990
19. NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season - 1990
20. Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional - 1990
21. Ground breaking begins in Minnesota on world's largest mall - 1989
22. Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams - 1989
23. Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan - 1989
24. Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame - 1989
25. Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman - 1989
26. Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her - 1988
27. 41st NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2 - 1987
28. 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor - 1987
29. "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years - 1987
30. Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic - 1987
31. Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Baltimore Orioles - 1985
32. Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847 - 1985
33. "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV - 1985
34. Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members - 1984
35. 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx - 1983
36. Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict - 1982
37. 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young - 1981
38. Theme From New York, New York by Frank Sinatra hits #32 - 1980
39. Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup vs. England, in 40 3 overs - 1979
40. New York Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record - 1979
41. Rock group "Little Feat" disbands - 1979
42. Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR - 1978
43. Sierra Leone adopts constitution - 1978
44. 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4 - 1976
45. "Gong Show" premieres on TV, syndication - 1976
46. 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61) - 1975
47. Janis Ian releases "At 17" - 1975
48. U.S.S.R. launches Venera 10 for Venus landing - 1975
49. Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings - 1974
50. 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe - 1973
51. Hurricane Agnes kills 117 - 1972
52. Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight - 1970
53. John and Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show - 1969
54. Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7 - 1969
55. Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing - 1968
56. Mariner 5 Launch, Venus Flyby - 1967
57. Steve Allen Show," premieres on CBS-TV - 1967
58. U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit - 1967
59. Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured - 1966
60. Miami beats St. Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball - 1966
61. Beatles release album "Beatles VI" - 1965
62. Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits New York Mets but loses in 11, 1-0 - 1965
63. John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published - 1965
64. Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open - 1964
65. New York Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR - 1963
66. Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days - 1963
67. 106 degrees F, hottest temperature in San Francisco - 1961
68. Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open - 1959
69. 58th U.S. Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa - 1958
70. British parachutists lands on Cyprus - 1958
71. Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela - 1958
72. 42.0 cm rain falls on East St. Louis, Illinois, state record - 1957
73. Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ - 1957
74. "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 221 performances - 1956
75. President Eisenhower signs order adding words 'under God' to the Pledge - 1954
76. Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal - 1953
77. Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn - 1953
78. Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia - 1953
79. Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight - 1953
80. 52nd U.S. Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas - 1952
81. Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings - 1952
82. Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss - 1952
83. Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2) - 1952
84. Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus - 1952
85. 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau - 1951
86. "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater New York City for 37 performances - 1951
87. State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor - 1949
88. WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1949
89. Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia - 1948
90. Canadian Library Association established - 1946
91. 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan - 1944
92. General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles, France - 1944
93. 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport, Connecticut - 1942
94. Anne Frank begins her diary - 1942
95. French government of Reynaud resigns - 1942
96. Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released - 1942
97. Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia - 1941
98. Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita, Kansas - 1941
99. Auschwitz concentration camp opens, 3 million killed there - 1940
100. German forces occupied Paris during WW II - 1940
101. German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral - 1940
102. Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge - 1938
103. Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin - 1938
104. Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal, kid books author - 1938
105. Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens - 1936
106. Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends - 1935
107. Hitler and Mussolini meet in Vienna - 1934
108. Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City - 1934
109. WOQ-AM in Kansas City Missouri goes off the air - 1934
110. Lou Gehrig and Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games - 1933
111. German government of von Papen forms - 1932
112. French "St. Philbert" overturns off St. Nazaire France, drowns 450 - 1931
113. Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler - 1931
114. VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht - 1930
115. Prussia and Vatican sign Concord - 1929
116. Republican National Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover - 1928
117. 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60) - 1926
118. Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe and Maurice Tate vs. South Africa - 1924
119. WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY - 1924
120. Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane) - 1923
121. 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa - 1922
122. Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament - 1922
123. President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore - 1922
124. 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock and Brown) - 1919
125. 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London - 1917
126. Gen Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I - 1917
127. Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers - 1907
128. Norway restricts woman's voting rights - 1907
129. Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia - 1906
130. Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants - 1904
131. 1st golf championship is played - 1901
132. Hawaiian Territorial Government begins - 1900
133. France signs Niger Convention - 1898
134. Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass) - 1881
135. 14th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47 - 1880
136. 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Philadelphia Athletics) - 1876
137. California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise - 1876
138. All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games - 1870
139. Congress rules Black soldiers must receive equal pay - 1864
140. U.S. Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg - 1864
141. Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia - 1863
142. Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance - 1861
143. Fire destroys part of San Francisco - 1850
144. Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner - 1847
145. Belgian Liberal Party forms - 1846
146. California declares independence from Mexico in Sonoma - 1846
147. 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario - 1841
148. 1st Henley Regatta held - 1839
149. Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine - 1834
150. Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper - 1834
151. Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont - 1834
152. Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria - 1800
153. Capt William Blighs reaches Timor - 1789
154. Continental Congress adopts Stars and Stripes replacing Grand Union flag - 1777
155. U.S. Army founded - 1775
156. 1e edition of Dr. Johnsons "Dictionary" - 1755
157. Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet - 1673
158. Battle at Dunes: English and French fleet beat Spanish - 1658
159. Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax beats royalists - 1645
160. 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts - 1642
161. Russia and Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov - 1634
162. 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Virginia files against Cicely Jordan, he loses - 1623
163. Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis - 1615
164. At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands - 1597
165. Catharina de Medici and Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism - 1565
166. Duke Willem van Gulik of Gelre marries Jeanne d'Albret - 1541
167. Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis - 1535
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