1. Next transit of Mercury visible in North America - 1999
2. 19th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 32 awards - 1997
3. William Shatner (66) weds Norine Kidd - 1997
4. "Into the Whirlwind" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 2 performances - 1996
5. "Master Class" opens at Golden Theater New York City for 601 performances - 1995
6. Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir - 1995
7. 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45 - 1994
8. "Glass Menagerie" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 57 performances - 1994
9. Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes) - 1994
10. Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election - 1994
11. Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach South Carolina on WYAV 104.1 FM - 1993
12. Joe Buttafuoco sentence to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher - 1993
13. Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die - 1992
14. Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 vs. SA, Durban) - 1992
15. Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive) - 1991
16. Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 game - 1991
17. President Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990 - 1990
18. Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album - 1990
19. U.S. 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit - 1990
20. Aaron Sorkin's "Few Good Men," premieres in New York City - 1989
21. Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award - 1989
22. "Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 497 performances - 1989
23. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1989
24. Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis and Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi - 1989
25. Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games - 1989
26. 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses - 1988
27. Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award - 1988
28. PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence - 1988
29. Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits) - 1988
30. 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver - 1987
31. Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34) - 1987
32. Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America - 1987
33. New York Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game - 1987
34. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1987
35. 2nd time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Sam Knison hosts) - 1986
36. 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy - 1983
37. Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed - 1983
38. Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev - 1982
39. "Camelot" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 48 performances - 1981
40. Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany, - 1980
41. ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage - 1979
42. Brit government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring - 1979
43. 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 1978
44. Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," premieres in London - 1978
45. Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP - 1978
46. President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran - 1977
47. Syrian army conquerors Beirut - 1976
48. Miss Teenage America Pageant - 1975
49. Ringo releases "Goodnight Vienna" and "Only You" in UK - 1974
50. Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war - 1973
51. Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway New York City - 1972
52. Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays - 1972
53. White Sox Dick Allen wins AL MVP - 1972
54. Intel advertises 4004-processor - 1971
55. 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland) - 1969
56. 1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back) - 1969
57. 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington D.C. against Vietnam War - 1969
58. Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar and indicent language in Tampa, Fla - 1969
59. Wendy's Hamburgers opens - 1969
60. 1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary "Ball Four" - 1968
61. Boston's Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP - 1967
62. Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km - 1967
63. WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting - 1967
64. Gemini XII (Lovell/Aldrin) returns to Earth - 1966
65. Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph) - 1965
66. Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV - 1964
67. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open - 1964
68. KBYU TV channel 11 in Provo, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1964
69. Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro - 1964
70. Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns - 1964
71. Don Drysdale wins Cy Young Award - 1962
72. Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth - 1961
73. Roger Maris is voted AL MVP - 1961
74. U.N. bans nuclear arms - 1961
75. Elgin Baylor of NBA Los Angeles Lakers scores 71 points vs New York Knicks - 1960
76. USS George Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched - 1960
77. Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Washington 31-17 - 1959
78. U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000 - 1957
79. Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in New York City - 1956
80. "Li'l Abner" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 693 performances - 1956
81. Poland and Yugoslavia sign trade agreement - 1955
82. 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins - 1954
83. WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting - 1953
84. WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1953
85. Cricket 1st-class debut of Hanif Mohammad, Pak XI vs. MCC, Lahore - 1951
86. New York Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year - 1951
87. Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey (Atl City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League - 1950
88. KRON TV channel 4 in San Francisco, California (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1949
89. WSAZ TV channel 3 in Huntington-Charleston, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast - 1949
90. William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as PM of Canada - 1948
91. Bradman scores his 100th 100, 172 vs. Indians at the SCG - 1947
92. Soccer team GVVV forms in Veenendaal - 1947
93. Joseph McCarthy's HUAC interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley - 1946
94. Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP - 1946
95. The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of - 1945
96. Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank - 1944
97. Cow Palace opens in San Francisco - 1941
98. Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier - 1941
99. 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime - 1940
100. 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington and AC Seagulls - 1940
101. New York Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic - 1940
102. Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia - 1939
103. Franklin D. Roosevelt lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. - 1939
104. Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews - 1939
105. Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check - 1939
106. 1st telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, New York - 1938
107. Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona - 1938
108. 1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers - 1937
109. Nazi-Germany and Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact - 1936
110. Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated - 1935
111. Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C. Urey (deuterium) - 1934
112. Walt Disney Art School created - 1932
113. 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC) - 1926
114. AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (New York City) - 1926
115. Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms - 1924
116. British Conservative wins election/Labour 2nd party - 1922
117. KYW-AM in Philadelphia Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions - 1921
118. Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen," premieres in Neurenberg - 1920
119. Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection - 1920
120. League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva - 1920
121. Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty) - 1919
122. Ital socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia - 1914
123. Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 and $10 gold coins - 1911
124. King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade - 1904
125. Eugen d'Alberts opera "Tiefland," premieres in Prague - 1903
126. Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist - 1902
127. James J. Jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 for heavyweight boxing title - 1901
128. Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal - 1899
129. Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed - 1889
130. British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong - 1887
131. Colonization of Africa orgainized at International conference in Berlin - 1884
132. British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger - 1882
133. American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh) - 1881
134. Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union - 1870
135. Free postal delivery formally inaugurated - 1869
136. 1st U.S. mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, New York - 1864
137. Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta - 1864
138. 1st U.S. poultry show opens in Boston - 1849
139. Opera "Maritana" is produced (London) - 1845
140. Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system - 1837
141. HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti - 1835
142. Felix Mendelssohn's "Reformation," premieres - 1832
143. Creek-indians lose all their property in US - 1827
144. Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura - 1826
145. Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland) - 1824
146. Allied troops occupies Groningen - 1813
147. Tax revolt in Amsterdam - 1813
148. 1st U.S. college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue - 1806
149. Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado) - 1806
150. 1st Catholic college in U.S., Georgetown, opens - 1791
151. Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress - 1777
152. Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland - 1763
153. New York General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath - 1727
154. Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands - 1715
155. Prince Willem III's army lands at Torbay England - 1688
156. English house of Commons accept Exclusion Bill - 1679
157. 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New York City (New Amsterdam) - 1660
158. Gelders Earl Willem of the Bergh flees - 1583
159. Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington - 1577
160. Francisco Pizarro arrives at Cuzco - 1533
161. Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn - 1532
162. Treaty of Beautiful garden (emperor-ecclesiastical goods) - 1527
163. Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco - 1492
164. In Spain, 6 Jews and 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic - 1492
165. 6 Jews and 5 Conversos accused of killing Christians in La Guardia Spain - 1491
166. Anna van Bretagne becomes devoted to end "la guerre folle" - 1491
167. Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells - 1348
168. Jan I becomes king of France, dies 4 days later - 1316
169. Battle at Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austrian - 1315
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