1. NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again - 1998
2. Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin - 1997
3. Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station - 1997
4. Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion - 1995
5. San Diego Chargers beat Pittsburgh Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship - 1995
6. San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship - 1995
7. Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334 - 1995
8. Western Washington begins using new area code 360 - 1995
9. 15th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10 - 1994
10. Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%) - 1994
11. Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist - 1994
12. 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die - 1993
13. Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV - 1993
14. Top mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina arrested in Palermo - 1993
15. Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia - 1992
16. Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with U.S. man - 1992
17. Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum - 1992
18. Australia beat NZ 2-0 to win the World Series Cup - 1991
19. UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't) - 1991
20. 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds - 1990
21. 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins - 1990
22. AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch - 1990
23. Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent - 1990
24. New York Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106 - 1990
25. 10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 35 awards - 1989
26. "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 176 performances - 1989
27. Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic - 1989
28. Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble - 1989
29. Cerberal Palsy telethon raises $22,600,000 - 1989
30. Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes - 1988
31. Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras, world Test record - 1988
32. Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 and 8-75) vs. WI on Test debut - 1988
33. Living Seas opens at Epcot - 1986
34. Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery and Fred Chapell - 1985
35. Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president - 1985
36. Mike Gatting and Graeme Fowler both scores 200's vs. India - 1985
37. Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years - 1985
38. Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak - 1984
39. Schonbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44) - 1984
40. Dutch political party DS'70 disbands - 1983
41. Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard - 1983
42. Javed Miandad and Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand vs. India - 1983
43. Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours - 1983
44. "Forbidden Broadway" by/with Gerard Alessandrini premieres in New York City - 1982
45. Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame - 1981
46. "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV - 1981
47. Pam Gems' "Piaf!," premieres in London - 1980
48. Superbowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in N Orleans Superbowl MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE and Randy White, Dallas, DT - 1978
49. Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University coeds Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman - 1978
50. Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live" - 1977
51. Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament - 1977
52. Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford - 1976
53. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1976
54. US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit - 1976
55. Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence - 1975
56. Space Mountain opens at Disneyland - 1975
57. 24th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 134-123 at Seattle - 1974
58. Expert panel reports 18 -m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures - 1974
59. "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC - 1974
60. 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court - 1973
61. Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel - 1973
62. Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican - 1973
63. President Nixon suspends all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam - 1973
64. Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels - 1972
65. "Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 19 performances - 1971
66. Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt - 1971
67. George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" - 1971
68. Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's) - 1970
69. Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria - 1970
70. Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean - 1969
71. Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union - 1969
72. KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting - 1968
73. Superbowl I: Green Bay Packers beat Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 in LA Superbowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB - 1967
74. AFL Pro Bowl: All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19 - 1966
75. NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 36-7 - 1966
76. Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain" - 1965
77. Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich forms - 1965
78. Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent draft in New York City - 1964
79. Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract - 1964
80. 50th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64) - 1962
81. Dutch and Indonesian Navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea - 1962
82. NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 35-31 - 1961
83. Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open - 1961
84. Supremes signed with Motown Records - 1961
85. New York Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV - 1958
86. Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field - 1957
87. Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open - 1956
88. D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia - 1956
89. KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1956
90. NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30 - 1956
91. 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum - 1955
92. D Shostakovitch' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad - 1955
93. U.S.S.R. ends state of war with German Federal Republic - 1955
94. 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes and crashes in Washington D.C. station - 1953
95. GDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" - 1953
96. "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000 - 1951
97. Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest - 1951
98. 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C. - 1950
99. Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin - 1949
100. Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets - 1945
101. "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 429 performances - 1945
102. Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp - 1945
103. European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany - 1944
104. General Eisenhower arrives in England - 1944
105. Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die - 1944
106. 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught - 1943
107. World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed - 1943
108. Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II - 1942
109. Franklin D. Roosevelt asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II - 1942
110. German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church) - 1940
111. 1st NFL pro bowl, New York Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field - 1939
112. Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal - 1939
113. 1st all-glass windowless structure in U.S. completed, Toledo, Ohio - 1936
114. Horace Stoneham elected president of New York Giants - 1936
115. Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates - 1936
116. 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition - 1935
117. Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," premieres in New York City - 1935
118. 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die - 1934
119. Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut) - 1934
120. George Headley scores century on debut vs. England (made 176) - 1930
121. Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP - 1925
122. 3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms - 1924
123. Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier - 1922
124. 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21 - 1919
125. Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit," premieres - 1919
126. Pianist and statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland - 1919
127. Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires - 1919
128. W Collison and O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room," premieres in New York City - 1919
129. Japan claims economic control of China - 1915
130. Sydney, Kern and Smith's musical "Love o' Mike," premieres in New York City - 1915
131. C Hill and R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Aust - 1908
132. 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr. Lee De Forest - 1907
133. Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them - 1907
134. Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater - 1905
135. SCNEC soccer team forms - 1900
136. Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael and his Lost Angel," premieres in London - 1896
137. Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record - 1895
138. French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar - 1895
139. Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St. Petersburg - 1895
140. Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass - 1892
141. Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue - 1886
142. 1st U.S. ski club forms (Berlin NH) - 1882
143. U.S. Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens - 1877
144. Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly - 1870
145. Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori vs. Cechach," premieres in Prague - 1866
146. Ft. Fisher, North Carolina falls to Union troops - 1865
147. 1st U.S. newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal - 1863
148. Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis - 1861
149. 1st first-class game in Sydney, NSW vs. Vic at The Domain - 1857
150. Gen Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera - 1851
151. 1st Swedish magazine in U.S., Skandinavia, published in New York City - 1847
152. University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana - 1844
153. HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego - 1833
154. 1st U.S. railroad honeymoon trip, Mr. and Mrs. Pierson, Charleston, SC - 1831
155. 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run - 1831
156. 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London) - 1797
157. Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres - 1785
158. Continental Congress establishes court of appeals - 1780
159. People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England - 1777
160. Fraunces Tavern opens in New York City - 1762
161. British Museum opens in Montague House, London - 1759
162. Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam - 1754
163. Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism - 1752
164. Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army - 1586
165. Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic - 1582
166. 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens - 1562
167. France signs secret treaty with German Protestants - 1552
168. Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church - 1535
169. Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand - 1346
170. Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded/ousted - 0946
171. Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later) - 0708
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