1. 80th PGA Championship at Sahalee CC, Seattle WA - 1998
2. Weetabix Women's British Golf Open - 1998
3. For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia) - 1997
4. Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections - 1994
5. Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA - 1994
6. 20th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sherri Steinhaur - 1992
7. 74th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 278 at Bellerive St. Louis - 1992
8. Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96) - 1992
9. Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants - 1991
10. President Bush declares recession is near an end - 1991
11. China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC - 1990
12. Iraq orders 4,000 Britons and 2,500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq - 1990
13. Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich - 1989
14. Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29) - 1988
15. IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence - 1988
16. Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis - 1988
17. Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers - 1988
18. Astrological Harmonic Convergence - Dawn of New Age - 1987
19. New York Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9 - 1987
20. Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives) - 1987
21. Val Skinner wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am - 1987
22. Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks and her single - 1986
23. "Papa Don't Preach," goes #1 for 2 weeks - 1986
24. Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed - 1986
25. Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday - 1985
26. Andrea Doria's safe opened - 1984
27. L.A. federal jury acquits auto maker John DeLorean on cocaine charges - 1984
28. Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500) - 1984
29. Paul Simon weds Carrie Fisher - 1983
30. Highest score in World Cup soccor match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0) - 1981
31. Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic - 1981
32. Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93) - 1981
33. Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath - 1980
34. Cozy Powell quits Rainbow - 1980
35. Jools Holland quits Squeeze - 1980
36. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1977
37. Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th - 1977
38. 58th PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional MD - 1976
39. St. Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo) - 1976
40. Peter Gabriel quits Genesis - 1975
41. "Rodgers and Hart" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 108 performances - 1975
42. Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs) - 1974
43. 54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich - 1972
44. Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at - 1972
45. Philip Potter appointed Secretary-General of World council of Churches - 1972
46. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1972
47. 52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK - 1970
48. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open - 1970
49. WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, Georgia begins broadcasting - 1969
50. Woodstock rock festival begins in New York - 1969
51. Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured and leaves - 1967
52. WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1967
53. AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins) - 1965
54. Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational - 1964
55. St. Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader - 1964
56. Independence is restored to Dominican Republic - 1963
57. Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer - 1962
58. 250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin - 1961
59. Martin L. King protests for black voting right in Miami - 1961
60. Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus - 1960
61. Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700') - 1960
62. Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms - 1960
63. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open - 1959
64. U.S.S.R. introduces installment buying - 1959
65. Adlai E. Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate - 1956
66. Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4 - 1956
67. Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor - 1955
68. 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood - 1954
69. Sports Illustrated magazine begins publishing - 1954
70. KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins - 1953
71. Shah of Persia and princess Soraya flee to Baghdad and Rome - 1953
72. West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England - 1950
73. Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem - 1948
74. Israeli pound becomes legal tender - 1948
75. Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs - 1947
76. Great Calcutta blood bath - Moslem/Hindu riot (3-4,000 die) - 1946
77. 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy - 1944
78. Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London - 1944
79. U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux - 1944
80. 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily) - 1943
81. Bulgarian czar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler - 1943
82. Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow - 1942
83. 45 German aircrafts shot down over England - 1940
84. 11th Olympic games closes in Berlin - 1936
85. U.S. explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere - 1934
86. 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (New York Yankee Babe Ruth) - 1927
87. 38th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (61 63) - 1924
88. Conference about German recovery payments opens in London - 1924
89. Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed - 1924
90. AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (New York City) - 1922
91. Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality - 1920
92. U.S. troops overthrows Archangelsk - 1918
93. KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0 - 1915
94. German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught - 1914
95. Zapata and Pancho Villa over run Mexico - 1914
96. Abd al-Hafid proclaims himself sultan of Morocco - 1907
97. 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000 - 1906
98. Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa - 1905
99. New York City begins building Grand Central Station - 1904
100. Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8 - 1903
101. Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster - 1898
102. Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala - 1896
103. Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their old Indian faith - 1894
104. Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia - 1890
105. British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria - 1882
106. Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth - 1876
107. Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion - 1870
108. 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault - 1864
109. Battle of Front Royal Virginia (Guard Hill) - 1864
110. Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam - 1864
111. Chickamauga campaign GA - 1863
112. Emancipation Proclamation signed - 1863
113. President Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy - 1861
114. Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri - 1861
115. Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan - 1858
116. Gioacchino Rossini marries Olympe Pelissier in Paris - 1846
117. Charles Darwin climbs Mt. Campana in Chile - 1834
118. Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited - 1829
119. Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators - 1819
120. Gen Hull surrenders Detroit and Michigan territory to England - 1812
121. Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth - 1797
122. Hungarian revolutionary Ignac Martinovics arrested in Vienna - 1794
123. British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC - 1780
124. Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt - 1777
125. "Geldermalsen" sails to East-Indies - 1748
126. Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots - 1745
127. Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton) - 1743
128. Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade - 1717
129. Yorktown Virginia founded - 1691
130. Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe - 1625
131. King Janos Sigismund Zapolyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II - 1570
132. Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate: Maximilian and Henry III beat France - 1513
133. Battle at Montlhery - 1465
134. Charles van Valois weds Margaretha van Anjou - 1290
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