1. 31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and LeAnn Rimes - 1997
2. 1st competitive game played on turf in Holland (in third grade) - 1996
3. 50th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Seat Supersonic, 4 games to 2 - 1996
4. 96th U.S. Golf Open: Steve Jones shoots a 278 wins at Oakland Hills CC - 1996
5. Liselotte Neumann wins First Bank Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic - 1996
6. Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hits his 400th NL career HR (429) - 1995
7. Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002 - 1995
8. Martin Brodeur becomes 1st Devil to win Calder Trophy - 1994
9. Ken Griffey, Jr. slugs his 100th career home run in Seattle's - 1993
10. Colo Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game - 1992
11. Great British postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill - 1992
12. Jeff King is 5th to be thrown out twice trying to steal in an inning - 1992
13. Longest salami is 68'9 and 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway - 1992
14. Red Sox Mark Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yanks 1-0) - 1992
15. 91st U.S. Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 282 at Hazeline National GC Minn - 1991
16. Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR - 1991
17. Colleen Walker wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open - 1991
18. "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 241 performances - 1991
19. Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row - 1991
20. New York City Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week" - 1991
21. Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day - 1991
22. With 3 runs in 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5 - 1991
23. Nelson and Winnie Mandela visit Leidseplein, Amsterdam - 1990
24. Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956 - 1989
25. "Ghostbusters II" premieres - 1989
26. Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since U.S. open began, today 4 more are made all on 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate and Price) - 1989
27. Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home - 1988
28. In Santa Barbara, California, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hours 20 mins - 1988
29. Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens - 1987
30. Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted after shooting 4 youths who tried to rob him - 1987
31. 1 day general strike in South Africa - 1986
32. 85th U.S. Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills CC Mich - 1985
33. Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International - 1985
34. T. C. Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of U.S. Open - 1985
35. Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58'11 ") in Indianapolis quadruple bogies 5th hole and never recovers - 1985
36. Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race - 1984
37. Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d) - 1984
38. Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal - 1983
39. European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10 - 1983
40. Pope John Paul II visits Poland - 1983
41. Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany - 1983
42. U.S.S.R. party leader Yuri Andropov elected president - 1983
43. Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners - 1982
44. "Blues Brothers," premieres in Chicago - 1980
45. Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patented - 1980
46. Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit - 1979
47. "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6 - 1979
48. Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo, Syria - 1979
49. Cincinnati Red Tom Seaver no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 - 1978
50. Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough" - 1978
51. "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway - 1977
52. Fianna Fail-party wins Irish elections - 1977
53. Leonid Brezhnev named president of U.S.S.R. - 1977
54. Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over Kansas City Royals - 1977
55. Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa, Soweto Day - 1976
56. Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber and Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players - 1975
57. Italy's Communist party PCI, wins - 1975
58. Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD - 1975
59. Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation - 1975
60. 74th U.S. Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot GC NY - 1974
61. Sandra Haynie wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Open - 1974
62. Leonid I Brezhnev visit U.S. - 1973
63. Groningen soccer team forms in Groningen - 1971
64. Racial disturbance in Jacksonville, Florida - 1971
65. Kenneth A. Gibson elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey - 1970
66. Race riots in Miami, Florida - 1970
67. Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. from House - 1969
68. 68th U.S. Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill CC NY - 1968
69. Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's U.S. open under par - 1968
70. Mickey Wright wins LPGA "500" Ladies Golf Classic - 1968
71. 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival - 1967
72. 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade and Man of La Mancha win - 1966
73. "Rowan and Martin Show," debuts on NBC-TV - 1966
74. Quake strikes Niigata Japan - 1964
75. Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM - 1963
76. Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open - 1963
77. Valentina Tereshkova (U.S.S.R.) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6 - 1963
78. 2 U.S. Army officers killed in Saigon - 1962
79. Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host - 1961
80. Discoverer 25 launched - 1961
81. Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris - 1961
82. "Psycho," opens in New York - 1960
83. "Flip Top Box" by Dicky Doo and The Don'ts hits #46 - 1958
84. Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia - 1958
85. French offensive in Algeria - 1957
86. White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 home runs to beat Washington Senators 8-6 - 1957
87. 56th U.S. Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill CC NY - 1956
88. 88th Belmont: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:29.8 - 1956
89. Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament - 1955
90. Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine President Juan Peron - 1955
91. Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months - 1954
92. Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam - 1954
93. Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak and also ending St. Louis Brown 14 game losing streak - 1953
94. Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down - 1952
95. 51st U.S. Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Oakland Hills CC Mich - 1951
96. 83rd Belmont: David Gorman aboard Counterpoint wins in 2:29 - 1951
97. Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa - 1949
98. 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington" - 1947
99. Pravda denounces Marshall Plan - 1947
100. 46th U.S. Golf Open: Lloyd Mangrum shoots a 284 at Canterbury GC Cleve - 1946
101. "Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 1147 performances - 1946
102. 71st Preakness: Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8 - 1945
103. Boo Ferriss loses to Yanks 3-2 after starting his career with 8 wins - 1945
104. Iceland adopts constitution - 1944
105. King Edward VI visits Montgomery's HQ in Normandy - 1944
106. U.S. bombs Kyushu Japan - 1944
107. 1st U.S. federally owned airport opened Washington D.C. - 1941
108. Communist government installed in Lithuania - 1940
109. General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux - 1940
110. Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by Browns - 1938
111. St. Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row - 1938
112. Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA - 1937
113. Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge - 1936
114. Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert, Dutch Nazi collaborator - 1936
115. U.S. Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal" - 1935
116. National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down - 1933
117. U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, FDIC, created - 1933
118. Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights - 1932
119. President Hoover and VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention - 1932
120. Sutcliffe and Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorks vs. Essex - 1932
121. Austrian government of Ender falls - 1931
122. Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (New York to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days) - 1929
123. 31st U.S. Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont CC in Pa - 1927
124. South Africa all out 30 vs. England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7 - 1924
125. Sun Yat Sen founds military academy - 1923
126. Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics - 1922
127. 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia - 1917
128. 49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8 - 1917
129. Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0 - 1916
130. 1st U.S. airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000 - 1909
131. Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals - 1909
132. 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox - 1903
133. Ford Motors incorporates - 1903
134. Pepsi Cola company forms - 1903
135. Victor Trumper's 1st Test Cricket century 135* vs. England, Lord's - 1899
136. China's emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei - 1898
137. Temperature hits 127 degrees F at Fort Mojave, California - 1896
138. R. W. Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack - 1893
139. On Coney Island, the 1st roller coaster begins operating - 1884
140. 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (New York Gothams beat Cleveland Spiders 5-2) - 1883
141. 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa - 1882
142. Austria-Hungary and Serbia sign military treaty - 1881
143. Salvation Army forms in Londo - 1880
144. Gilbert and Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater New York City - 1879
145. President Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians - 1873
146. Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, New York City - 1871
147. Battle of Lynchburg, Virginia - 1864
148. Skirmish at Golgotha Georgia - 1864
149. Union Gen Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia - 1864
150. Battle of Vienna, Virginia and Secessionville, South Carolina, James Island - 1861
151. Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" - 1858
152. Natchex Mississippi, hit by tornado; about 500 die - 1842
153. London Working Men's Association forms - 1836
154. Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Illinois - 1832
155. King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp - 1823
156. Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina - 1822
157. Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia - 1815
158. Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French - 1815
159. 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch) - 1794
160. In support of the U.S., Spain declares war on England - 1779
161. Vice-adm Hardy sails out of Isle of Wright against Spanish Armada - 1779
162. Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it is Breed's Hill) - 1775
163. Liberty Bell rang for the 2nd Continental Congress - 1775
164. British capture Fort Beausejour, expel Acadians - 1755
165. Battle at Piacenza: Austria and Sardinia beat Spanish and French army - 1746
166. English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St. Lawrence River - 1745
167. Peace of Vossem: Fren King Louis XIV and Frederik Willem of Brandenburg - 1673
168. Judge directs U.S. colony Virginia to English crown - 1624
169. Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland - 1567
170. Battle at Stoke: Henry VII beats John de la Pole and Lord Lovell - 1487
171. German monarch declares pope and king's decree redundant - 1338
172. Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era - 0632
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