1. 32nd TNN Music City News Country Awards - 1998
2. 97th U.S. Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 276 Congressional CC Bethesda Md - 1997
3. British model Naomi Campbell, hospitalized on drug overdose - 1997
4. Danielle Ammaccapane wins Edina Realty LPGA Classic - 1997
5. Du Mauier Senior Golf Champions - 1997
6. "Little Foxes," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City after 56 performances - 1997
7. "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" opens at Plymouth New York City for 55 performances - 1995
8. Mark Ilott takes 9-19 incl all lbw hat-trick, Essex vs. Northants - 1995
9. Northants all out 46 vs. Essex and wins game next day - 1995
10. Disney's "Lion King," opens in theaters with $42 million - 1994
11. New York Giants cut quarterback Phil Simms - 1994
12. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice - 1994
13. 1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years - 1992
14. Director Frank Perry (Mommie Dearest) marries Virginia Bush Ford - 1992
15. During spelling bee, Quayle misspells potato, as potatoe - 1992
16. Erie Sailors (Florida Marlin farm team) 1st game beat Jamestown 6-5 in 13 - 1992
17. Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport, New York City - 1992
18. Jeff Reardon breaks Rollie Fingers' save record with #342 - 1992
19. Carolyn Tanny and Bob Trischel wed - 1991
20. Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo erupts - 1991
21. "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty and Madonna premieres - 1990
22. Baltimore Orioles pull their 9th triple play, vs. Yankees - 1989
23. Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth - 1989
24. NASA launches space vehicle S-213 - 1988
25. Turkish premier zal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens - 1988
26. Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy - 1987
27. Michael Spinks TKOs Gerry Cooney in 5 for heavyweight boxing title - 1987
28. 86th U.S. Golf Open: Ray Floyd shoots a 279 at Shinnecock Hills GC New York - 1986
29. Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open - 1986
30. Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity - 1986
31. Raymond Floyd wins U.S. Open golf tournament - 1986
32. En route to Halley's Comet, U.S.S.R.'s Vega 2 drops lander on Venus - 1985
33. Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title - 1985
34. "Pryor's Place," children show last airs on CBS-TV - 1985
35. Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus - 1985
36. "Thicke Of The Night," TV Talk Show last airs in syndication - 1984
37. Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran - 1984
38. Vitesse soccer team forms in Arnhem - 1984
39. Cards trade Keith Hernandez to Mets for Neil Allen and Rick Ownbey - 1983
40. Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion - 1983
41. Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat - 1982
42. Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education - 1982
43. 80th U.S. Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ - 1980
44. Dale Lundquis wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic - 1980
45. "Fearless Frank" opens at Princess Theater New York City for 12 performances - 1980
46. Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game - 1980
47. 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds - 1979
48. Italy's President Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair - 1978
49. Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American - 1978
50. Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days - 1978
51. New York Mets trade Tom Seaver to Reds for Pat Zachry - 1977
52. Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years) - 1977
53. Wim Polak becomes mayor of Amsterdam - 1977
54. Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team and umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium - 1976
55. Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor and Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick and Jim Freeman - 1976
56. 45th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Guillermo Vilas (62 63 64) - 1975
57. Carol Mann wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Classic - 1975
58. "Streak" by Ray Stevens hit #1 on U.K. pop chart - 1974
59. "American Graffiti" opens in New York City - 1973
60. Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die - 1972
61. West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof - 1972
62. Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League - 1971
63. 16th LPGA Championship won by Shirley Englehorn - 1970
64. 69th U.S. Golf Open: Orville Moody shoots a 281 at Champs GC in Houston - 1969
65. "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark and Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV - 1969
66. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic - 1969
67. Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon - 1969
68. 15th Curtis Cup: U.S., 10 -7 - 1968
69. "How Now, Dow Jones" closes at Lunt Fontanne New York City after 220 performances - 1968
70. "I Do! I Do!" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 561 performances - 1968
71. John Lennon and Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral - 1968
72. "New Faces of 1965" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 52 performances - 1968
73. Yummy Yummy Yummy by Ohio Express hits #4 - 1968
74. Bob Dylan records "Like a Rolling Stone" - 1965
75. Denny McLain in relief strikesout 1st 7 batters faced and record 14 in 6 2/3 innings, Bill Freehan ties catcher record of 19 putouts - 1965
76. South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products - 1965
77. Last French troops leave Algeria - 1964
78. Buddy Nobles runs world record marathon (2:14:28) - 1963
79. Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns - 1963
80. San Francisco Giants Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt .45s, 1-0 - 1963
81. "Sound of Music" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 1443 performances - 1963
82. Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 win - 1962
83. South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes - 1962
84. WWUP TV channel 10 in Sault Ste Marie, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1962
85. Expansion Washington Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500, Washington will lose their next 10 games - 1961
86. Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races - 1960
87. Argentina complains to United Nations about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann - 1960
88. Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament - 1958
89. 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St. Louis, Illinois (state record) - 1957
90. 57th U.S. Golf Open: Dick Mayer shoots a 282 at Inverness Club in Toledo - 1957
91. 89th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6 - 1957
92. Yanks trade Billy Martin and Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran - 1957
93. "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 123 perf - 1957
94. John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner - 1956
95. Australia score 8-758 vs. West Indies at Kingston, their best ever - 1955
96. Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factory nationalized - 1954
97. Browns end Yankees win streak at 18 and Browns 14-game losing streak - 1953
98. Johnny Mize is 93rd player to get 2,000 hits - 1953
99. New York City Transit Authority forms - 1953
100. WLFI TV channel 18 in Lafayette, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1953
101. Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory - 1951
102. Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel - 1949
103. 1st night game at Briggs Stadium: Detroit Tigers beat Philadelphia A's - 1948
104. Bradman is out for a duck, but Australia win Test Cricket anyway - 1948
105. WPIX TV channel 11 in New York City, New York (IND) begins broadcasting - 1948
106. WTNH TV channel 8 in New Haven, CT (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1948
107. 1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1) - 1947
108. 47th U.S. Golf Open: Lew Worsham shoots a 282 at St. Louis CC in MO - 1947
109. ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam - 1945
110. Dutch political party ANJV forms - 1945
111. U.S. forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific - 1944
112. Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms - 1943
113. 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province - 1940
114. Bread and flour rationed in Holland - 1940
115. France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris - 1940
116. Soviet Army occupies Lithuania - 1940
117. 1st night game at Brooklyn Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cincinnati Red Johnny Vander Meer hurls unprecedented 2nd consecutive no-hitter - 1938
118. Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated - 1934
119. Eddie Collins and Harry Heilmann, retire from baseball - 1931
120. Poland and U.S.S.R. sign friendship and trade treaty - 1931
121. 1st time New York curb stock exchange transacts more business than New York Exch - 1929
122. Ty Cobb, 41, steals home for 50th and final time - 1928
123. 7th French government of Briand falls - 1926
124. Philadelphia A's go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15 - 1925
125. 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal - 1924
126. Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile - 1924
127. J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI - 1924
128. Native Americans are proclaimed U.S. citizens - 1924
129. Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post and railroad strike - 1923
130. Bessie Coleman reaches France as U.S. 1st black pilot - 1921
131. De Zweef soccer team forms in Nijverdal - 1920
132. 1st nonstop Atlantic flight, Alcock and Brown, lands in Ireland - 1919
133. 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania - 1918
134. 50th Belmont: Frank Robinson aboard Johren wins in 2:20.6 - 1918
135. Boys Scouts of America forms - 1916
136. U.S. government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo - 1915
137. 26th U.S. Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Eleonora Sears (64 62) - 1912
138. World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam - 1908
139. 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference - 1907
140. Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in New York's East River (1,031 die) - 1904
141. Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time - 1902
142. Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Texas minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game - 1902
143. 7th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 331 at Myopia Hunt Club, Massachusetts - 1901
144. U.S. House of Representatives accept annexation of Hawaii - 1898
145. U.S. Marines attack Spanish off Guantanamo, Cuba - 1898
146. Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election - 1897
147. Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed - 1896
148. Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8 - 1894
149. Wilhelm II becomes emperor of Germany - 1888
150. Carlisle D. Graham survives 2nd ride in Niagara waterfall in barrel - 1887
151. New York Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 29-1 - 1887
152. Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo - 1887
153. 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground - 1878
154. Henry O. Flipper becomes 1st black graduate at West Point - 1877
155. Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a U.S. presidential convention - 1876
156. Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000 - 1876
157. Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a U.S. collegiate law school - 1871
158. Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, New York - 1869
159. Mike McCoole (U.S.) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout - 1869
160. Prussia attacks Austria - 1866
161. Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line - 1864
162. Capt Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James R Va - 1864
163. Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers - 1864
164. Robert E. Lee's home area, Arlington, Virginia, becomes a military cemetery - 1864
165. Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia - 1864
166. 2nd battle at Winchester Va, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualities - 1863
167. Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan" - 1862
168. Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry - 1861
169. 1st White settlement in Idaho, Franklin - 1860
170. San Francisco Water Works organized - 1857
171. Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory - 1851
172. Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49 degrees N - 1846
173. Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber - 1844
174. Arkansas becomes 25th state - 1836
175. Rioters in Safed Palestine kills many Jews - 1834
176. Jozef Napoleon becomes king of Spain - 1808
177. 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president - 1804
178. Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Heros - 1802
179. 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident - 1785
180. General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx - 1779
181. George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army - 1775
182. Austria uses 1st paper currency - 1762
183. Ben Franklin's performs his kite-flying experiment - 1752
184. Capt Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America - 1741
185. New Jersey established - 1664
186. Able Tasmania returns to Batavia after discovering Tasmania - 1643
187. King Charles I disbands English parliament - 1626
188. Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther - 1590
189. Battle at Carberry Scot: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwells army - 1567
190. Genoa Italy expels Jews - 1567
191. Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs, Bosnians - 1389
192. Battle at Leitha: Hungary-Austrian - 1246
193. King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark - 1219
194. King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England - 1215
195. Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren - 1094
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