1. San Francisco 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16 - 1997
2. Dottie Pepper and Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches - 1996
3. Jim Colbert and Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches - 1996
4. Tom Lehman and Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches - 1996
5. Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland - 1995
6. John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier - 1994
7. Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia - 1994
8. "Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 20 performances - 1994
9. British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination - 1993
10. C-130 flies into a Philippines hill and explodes, 16 killed - 1993
11. Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns - 1993
12. John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops - 1993
13. Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense - 1993
14. Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed - 1993
15. Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year - 1992
16. WNew AM (1130) New York City resigns air, replaced by WBBR - 1992
17. Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship - 1991
18. "Nick and Nora" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 9 performances - 1991
19. Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter - 1990
20. Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks - 1988
21. "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston - 1987
22. 150 killed during race riot in Karachi - 1986
23. Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift - 1986
24. CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure - 1986
25. Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielson wed - 1985
26. U.S.S.R. launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet - 1984
27. 3 Kansas City Royals suspended due to cocaine usage - 1983
28. Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB - 1983
29. Last 80 U.S. combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew - 1983
30. Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in New York City - 1983
31. Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of New York Giants - 1982
32. Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, and 4 others convicted of bribery - 1982
33. Sao Tome and Principe constitution approved - 1982
34. Spain reopens border with Gibraltar - 1982
35. 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation - 1981
36. NASA launches Intelsat V - 1981
37. New York Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M - 1980
38. Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena - 1980
39. ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 years of administrative hassles in Warsaw - 1980
40. Deposed Shah of Iran leaves U.S. for Panama - 1979
41. World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all U.S. hostages - 1979
42. Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James - 1978
43. Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, vs. India at Bangalore - 1978
44. Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground - 1976
45. Jamaica premier Manley wins elections - 1976
46. A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees) - 1974
47. American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness - 1973
48. Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens - 1973
49. Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland - 1973
50. Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year - 1973
51. Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game - 1973
52. US Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill - 1973
53. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1971
54. Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261 - 1970
55. S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed - 1970
56. Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus) - 1970
57. Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom - 1969
58. San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones - 1969
59. Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again" - 1967
60. Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel - 1967
61. Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die - 1967
62. Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus - 1966
63. John W Mecom, Jr. becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints - 1966
64. "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 12 performances - 1966
65. 3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River - 1965
66. Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000 - 1965
67. D Heneker and J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl," premieres in London - 1965
68. Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7) - 1965
69. Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde - 1965
70. William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball - 1965
71. 1st time 4 people in space - 1964
72. American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded - 1964
73. Canada adopts maple leaf flag - 1964
74. Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 12 weeks - 1962
75. Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel - 1961
76. Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time - 1961
77. John F. Kennedy visits Puerto Rico - 1961
78. L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels - 1961
79. King Boudouin of Belgium marries dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon - 1960
80. Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me" - 1959
81. Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes - 1956
82. KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1956
83. WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1956
84. Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons - 1954
85. Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands - 1954
86. WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, Florida (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting - 1953
87. Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation - 1952
88. KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1952
89. Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias - 1952
90. "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 90 performances - 1952
91. Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title - 1950
92. New York City's Port Authority opens - 1950
93. Albert Camus' "Les Justes" premieres in Paris - 1949
94. Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in New York City for perjury - 1948
95. Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game - 1946
96. Giants Filchock and Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt - 1946
97. John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest - 1945
98. Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel - 1944
99. Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms - 1944
100. U.S. Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star - 1944
101. US troops lands on Mindoro - 1944
102. Massachusetts issues 1st U.S. vehicular license plate tabs - 1942
103. Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland - 1941
104. German submarine U-127 sinks - 1941
105. Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint - 1941
106. North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing - 1941
107. USS Swordfish becomes 1st U.S. submarine to sink a Japanese ship - 1941
108. 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware - 1939
109. "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta - 1939
110. Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curacao - 1939
111. Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. - 1938
112. KVL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KEEN (now KING) - 1936
113. Detroit Lions win NFL championship - 1935
114. Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin - 1935
115. Fokker F18 Snip flies to Netherlands West Indies - 1934
116. Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15 - 1933
117. Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw) - 1930
118. Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro - 1929
119. Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads - 1927
120. Facist national symbol elevated in Italy - 1926
121. 1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden, Mont Candiens 3, New York Americans 1 - 1925
122. 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic - 1925
123. IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague - 1922
124. Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in New York City - 1919
125. Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence - 1919
126. American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting - 1918
127. Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia - 1917
128. French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun - 1916
129. Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow - 1914
130. British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea - 1914
131. Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary - 1914
132. Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League - 1909
133. Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army) - 1899
134. Cricket day 2 1st T Aus vs. Eng Aus 586 (Gregory 201) England 3-130 - 1894
135. Dvoraks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall New York City - 1893
136. James Naismith invents basketball (Canada) - 1891
137. Thomas Edison patents phonograph - 1877
138. 1st reigning king to visit U.S. (of Hawaii) received by President Grant - 1874
139. Battle of Nashville, TN - 1864
140. Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon and Glade Springs, VA - 1864
141. Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign) - 1863
142. GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun - 1859
143. 1st street-cleaning machine in U.S. 1st used in Philadelphia - 1854
144. Patent Office burns in Wash, DC - 1836
145. 1st General pharmacopoeia in U.S. published, Boston - 1820
146. Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia - 1815
147. Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri - 1811
148. 1st Irish magazine in U.S., Shamrock, is published - 1810
149. Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France - 1794
150. 1st life insurance policy issued in U.S. (Phila) - 1792
151. 1st U.S. law school established at University of Pennsylvania - 1791
152. Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval - 1791
153. Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen and Austria - 1745
154. Lord Delamere sides with King James II [NS 12/25] - 1688
155. Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal - 1680
156. Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War - 1667
157. English colonizing Connecticut - 1664
158. Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan - 1660
159. Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal - 1640
160. Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope - 1612
161. State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft - 1593
162. Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp - 1586
163. Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens prof of botany/medicine - 1582
164. Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar - 1582
165. Westmoreland flees to Scotland - 1569
166. Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope - 1488
167. Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II) - 1124
168. St. Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon - 0687
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