1. 125th Preakness - 1999
2. ABC News and Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com - 1997
3. STS 84 (Atlantis 19), launches, 6th Shuttle-Mir Mission - 1997
4. China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC - 1995
5. 40th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies - 1994
6. 119th Preakness: Mike Smith aboard Prairie Bayou wins in 1:56.6 - 1993
7. Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas opens - 1993
8. Jane Seymour and James Kesch, Marriage - 1993
9. Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub - 1993
10. Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy - 1992
11. New York department store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores - 1992
12. Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue - 1992
13. Defense releases docs claiming Noriega is "CIA's man in Panama" - 1991
14. Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier - 1991
15. Manchester United wins 31th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam - 1991
16. Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns - 1991
17. President Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Baltimore Oriole game - 1991
18. Red Sox and White Sox play then slowest 9 inning game (4:11) - 1991
19. "Cemetery Club" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 56 performances - 1990
20. Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45 - 1990
21. Edmonton Oiler Klima beats Boston Bruins in 6th period - 1990
22. Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe - 1990
23. "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million - 1990
24. Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams and replace him with Cito Gaston - 1989
25. "Chu Chem" closes at Ritz Theater New York City after 44 performances - 1989
26. Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by right-to-lifers - 1989
27. Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs - 1989
28. U.S. Basketball League cancels its summer schedule - 1989
29. 2nd American Comedy Award: Robin Williams and Tracey Ullman - 1988
30. "Carrie" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 5 performances - 1988
31. "Gospel at Colonus" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 61 performances - 1988
32. Moscow began withdrawing its 115,000 troops in Afghanistan - 1988
33. Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic - 1988
34. 1st Energiya Launch (U.S.S.R.) - 1987
35. Record archery score for a pair over 24 hrs, is set - 1987
36. Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years - 1986
37. Everton wins 25th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam - 1985
38. Lenore Muraoka wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic - 1983
39. Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion - 1983
40. 108th Preakness: Jack Kaenel aboard Aloma's Ruler wins in 1:55.4 - 1982
41. 2nd City TV's (SCTV) network premier (NBC) - 1981
42. George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK - 1981
43. "Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" airs - 1981
44. Len Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto - 1981
45. SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television debut on NBC - 1981
46. Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6 - 1981
47. 1st trans-U.S. balloon crossing - 1980
48. Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs - 1980
49. Shawn Weatherly, (South Carolina (will win Miss Universe), crowned 29th Miss USA - 1980
50. Jane Blalock wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic - 1977
51. 102nd Preakness: John Lively aboard Elocutionist wins in 1:55 - 1976
52. Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation - 1976
53. Fonz Song by Heyettes hits #91 - 1976
54. Kentucky Moonrunner by Cledus Maggard hits #85 - 1976
55. 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4 - 1975
56. Emmy 2nd Daytime Award and Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation - 1975
57. Mail truck terrorists take school in Maalot, 30 killed - 1974
58. Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president - 1974
59. California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats Kansas City Royals, 3-0 - 1973
60. Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt) - 1972
61. George Wallace shot and left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland - 1972
62. "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 6 performances - 1972
63. Ryukyu Is and Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 years of U.S. control - 1972
64. "70, Girls, 70" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 35 performances - 1971
65. 97th Preakness: Gustavo Avila aboard Canonero II wins in 1:54 - 1971
66. Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed - 1971
67. Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US - 1970
68. Elizabeth Hoisington and Anna Mae Mays named 1st female U.S. generals - 1970
69. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1970
70. Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College - 1970
71. South-Africa excluded from Olympic play - 1970
72. Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court - 1969
73. 1st AL game played in Milwaukee, is a 4-2 California win against Chicago - 1968
74. A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36 - 1968
75. Paul McCartney and John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, Joe Garagiola is substitute host - 1968
76. "Wonderwall" with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival - 1968
77. Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open - 1967
78. Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman - 1967
79. 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex vs. Somerset - 1966
80. Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Invitational - 1966
81. South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die - 1966
82. 91st Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2 - 1965
83. Canadian Football Players Association organizes - 1965
84. Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ - 1965
85. Sporting Portugal wins 4th Europe Cup II at Antwerp - 1964
86. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1964
87. Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched - 1963
88. Peter, Paul and Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer) - 1963
89. Tottenham Hotspur wins 3rd Europe Cup II at Rotterdam - 1963
90. U.S. Marines arrive in Laos - 1962
91. 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea - 1961
92. "Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19 - 1961
93. Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra - 1961
94. Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 - 1960
95. Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad - 1960
96. KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1960
97. Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed - 1960
98. 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst and Williams Teams reenact the original contest - 1959
99. U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik III - 1958
100. 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade - 1957
101. 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island) - 1957
102. Austrian state treaty signed making Austria independent again - 1955
103. Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins - 1955
104. KPUA (now KGMD) TV channel 9 in Hilo, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1955
105. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1955
106. Vienna Treaty: Brit, France, U.S. and U.S.S.R. restores Austria's independence - 1955
107. KGLO (now KIMT) TV channel 3 in Mason City, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast - 1954
108. Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Joe Walcott in Chicago - 1953
109. Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam - 1953
110. Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 1 for heavywgt boxing title - 1953
111. Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Washington Senators, 1-0 - 1952
112. Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners - 1952
113. 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends - 1948
114. 74th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:02.4 - 1948
115. Australia scores 721 runs in one day vs. Essex, world record - 1948
116. Bradman scores 187 Aust vs. Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five - 1948
117. Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabian troops attack Israel - 1948
118. 14,000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz - 1944
119. Cincinnati Red Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0 - 1944
120. Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill and George VI discuss D-Day plan - 1944
121. Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne - 1944
122. Halifax bombers sinks U-463 - 1943
123. Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction - 1943
124. Gasoline 1st rationed in U.S. (17 Eastern States) - 1942
125. Nazi occupiers in Netherlands arrests 2,000 Dutch officers - 1942
126. 1st British turbojet flies - 1941
127. British attack Halfaya-pass and Fort Capuzzo in Egypt and Libya - 1941
128. Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks lose 13-1 - 1941
129. Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music - 1941
130. 1st nylon stockings sold in U.S. - 1940
131. 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300 - 1940
132. German armour division moves into Northern France - 1940
133. German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen Winkelman surrenders - 1940
134. Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP) - 1940
135. Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris - 1940
136. Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium - 1938
137. 63rd Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4 - 1937
138. Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon England from South Africa in record 4d16h - 1936
139. Pirates beat Phillies 20-5 - 1935
140. Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive - 1934
141. Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia - 1934
142. 1st voice amplification system to be used in U.S. Senate - 1933
143. Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno - 1931
144. Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (San Francisco to Cheyenne) - 1930
145. Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio) - 1929
146. Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance - 1928
147. 52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8 - 1926
148. British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike - 1926
149. Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms - 1923
150. Soccer team ADO '20 forms in Heemskerk - 1920
151. Brooklyn Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0 - 1919
152. 1st airmail postal service (New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.) - 1918
153. 1st regular airmail service (between New York and Washington) inaugurated - 1918
154. 43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6 - 1918
155. 44th Preakness: Charles Peak aboard Jack Hare, Jr. wins in 1:53.4 - 1918
156. Greeks troops lands at Smyrna - 1918
157. Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game - 1918
158. Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front - 1916
159. Henri Rabauds opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire," premieres in Paris - 1914
160. 37th Preakness: Clarnence Turner on Colonel Holloway wins in 1:56.6 - 1912
161. Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a New York Highlander game and is suspended - 1912
162. British house of commons accept Parliament Bill - 1911
163. Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates - 1911
164. Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil with the Sherman Antitrust Act - 1911
165. New York Giants' Hooks Wiltse strikes out 4 batters in 1 inning - 1906
166. Las Vegas, Nevada founded - 1905
167. Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville - 1905
168. Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft - 1902
169. Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola - 1902
170. Tornado kills 78 in Texas - 1896
171. 20th Kentucky Derby: Frank Goodale aboard Chant wins in 2:41 - 1894
172. British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms - 1891
173. Jules Massenets opera "Griselde," premieres in Paris - 1891
174. Operations begin at Philips and Co in Holland - 1891
175. Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum - 1891
176. Canadian Meti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan - 1885
177. Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary and Germany - 1883
178. May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania - 1882
179. 2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38 - 1876
180. National Woman Suffrage Association forms - 1869
181. Dutch Government of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls - 1868
182. Battle of New Market, Virginia - 1864
183. Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign) - 1864
184. Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Ft. Darling), Virginia - 1862
185. Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London - 1862
186. Department of Agriculture created - 1862
187. Gen Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores - 1862
188. Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens - 1862
189. Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London - 1858
190. 2nd San Francisco Vigilance Committee organized - 1856
191. Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), crowned - 1851
192. Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded - 1849
193. Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse - 1836
194. Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith - 1829
195. Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority, under T Matulesia - 1817
196. King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt - 1800
197. Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles - 1800
198. France and Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris - 1796
199. French troops occupy Milan - 1796
200. Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was: chief min) - 1730
201. James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun - 1718
202. War of Spanish Succession, 1st Amer conflict between England and France - 1702
203. 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts - 1672
204. Pope Alexander VII convicts Jansenisme - 1665
205. Treaty of Munster: Spain and Netherlands ratified - 1648
206. 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vocklamarkt Upper-Austria - 1625
207. Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law - 1618
208. Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king - 1610
209. Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold - 1602
210. Louis van Nassau and huguenots occupy Valenciennes - 1572
211. Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell - 1567
212. Anna Boleyn and Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest - 1536
213. German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war - 1525
214. Cheese and Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse - 1492
215. Archbishop Konrad vs. Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Koln cathedral - 1248
216. English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury - 1213
217. Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy - 1004
218. Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0884
219. Abd-al-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordova Spain - 0756
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