1. USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympic Gold medal - 1998
2. CNN begins spanish broadcasts - 1997
3. Aravinda De Silva gets 107* and 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory - 1996
4. "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 29 performances - 1996
5. "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 17 performances - 1996
6. Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship - 1996
7. Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title - 1996
8. Montreal Canadian's 1st game in their new arena - 1996
9. Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup - 1996
10. British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record) - 1995
11. Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House - 1995
12. U.S. approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck - 1995
13. Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan, 32 killed - 1994
14. It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark - 1994
15. "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 30 performances - 1994
16. 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta - 1993
17. 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire - 1992
18. 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Islamic Jihad - 1992
19. De Klerk wins a white only referendum - 1992
20. "Death and the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 159 performances - 1992
21. Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit - 1992
22. 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty - 1991
23. Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St. Patrick Day parade - 1991
24. John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire," premieres in New York City - 1991
25. New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70% - 1991
26. Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International - 1991
27. PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak - 1990
28. "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 44 performances - 1989
29. Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St. Patrick Day Parade - 1989
30. Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115 - 1988
31. Iran says Iraq uses poison gas in the war - 1988
32. "Les Miserables," opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo - 1988
33. IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 - 1987
34. Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 vs. Pak - 1987
35. Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF - 1986
36. Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open - 1985
37. Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623' - 1985
38. 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy - 1983
39. 9th People's Choice Awards - 1983
40. 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador - 1982
41. FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms - 1981
42. Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov U.S.S.R. - 1979
43. Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia and R Gardner USA - 1979
44. Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (U.S.S.R.) - 1979
45. Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne - 1979
46. Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast - 1978
47. Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm - 1978
48. Reds don green uniforms for St. Patricks Day - 1978
49. Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877 - 1977
50. Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76) - 1976
51. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried - 1976
52. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1976
53. Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92) - 1975
54. Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International - 1974
55. Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge - 1973
56. St. Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday - 1973
57. Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK - 1972
58. Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of Los Angeles Dodgers - 1970
59. U.S. casts their 1st United Nations Security Council veto (Support England) - 1970
60. Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM - 1969
61. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open - 1969
62. 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington D.C. by U.S. and 6 European nations - 1968
63. Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St. Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open - 1968
64. South Africa government bans Defense and Aid Fund - 1966
65. U.S. submarine locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean - 1966
66. Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help) - 1965
67. Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game - 1963
68. Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York beatified (canonized in 1975) - 1963
69. Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese - 1963
70. New York DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players - 1961
71. South Africa leaves British Commonwealth - 1961
72. Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA - 1960
73. WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1960
74. Australia and U.S.S.R. restore diplomatic relations - 1959
75. Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India - 1959
76. Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd U.S.), measures Earth shape - 1958
77. Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted - 1957
78. Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash - 1957
79. 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show and Lucy Ball - 1956
80. Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal - 1955
81. Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St. Louis Browns for $2,475M - 1953
82. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1953
83. WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1953
84. WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1953
85. Government of Drees takes power - 1951
86. Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England vs. NZ Christchurch - 1951
87. Belgian government of Eyskens resigns - 1950
88. Element 98 (Californium) announced - 1950
89. Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra - 1945
90. Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke - 1944
91. Aldemarin (Ned) and Fort Cedar Lake (U.S.) torpedoed and sinks - 1943
92. F. Hugh Herbert's "Kiss and Tell," premieres in New York City - 1943
93. Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported - 1942
94. General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander - 1942
95. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. opens - 1941
96. KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR - 1935
97. Dollfuss, Mussolini and Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome) - 1934
98. German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter - 1932
99. Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee - 1931
100. General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel - 1929
101. Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid - 1929
102. U.S. government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty - 1927
103. Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3 - 1926
104. Richard Rodgers and L Hart's musical "Girl Friend," premieres in New York City - 1926
105. Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations - 1926
106. Eugene O'Neill's "Welded," premieres in New York City - 1924
107. Netherlands and U.S.S.R. begin talks over U.S.S.R. recognition - 1924
108. Sweden and U.S.S.R. exchange diplomats - 1924
109. Dr. Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London) - 1921
110. Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics - 1921
111. Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die) - 1921
112. Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day and minimum wages - 1919
113. U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford - 1918
114. U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles - 1918
115. 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St. Louis - 1917
116. Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne - 1917
117. Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick - 1912
118. DHC soccer team forms in Delft Neth - 1910
119. Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds) - 1908
120. Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title - 1908
121. President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake" - 1906
122. Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10 - 1906
123. Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in NY - 1905
124. Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1 - 1902
125. Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands - 1901
126. Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 - 1900
127. Windsor luxury hotel in New York City catches fire, 92 die - 1899
128. 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, New York City (for 1 hour 40 minutes) - 1898
129. After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" - 1897
130. U.S. and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering U.S. - 1894
131. British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574 - 1891
132. Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed - 1886
133. John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, California - 1884
134. Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 vs. Eng - 1877
135. 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks) - 1876
136. Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux indian camps - 1876
137. National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized - 1871
138. Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary - 1870
139. Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued - 1868
140. Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities) - 1863
141. Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed - 1861
142. Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh - 1860
143. 1st park land purchased by a U.S. city, Worcester, Massachusetts - 1854
144. "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence - 1847
145. Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour - 1845
146. Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London - 1845
147. Indians land in Ohio, a 12 mile area in Upper Sandusky - 1842
148. Texas abolishes slavery - 1836
149. Phoenix Society forms (New York) - 1833
150. England and Netherlands sign a trade agreement - 1824
151. Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres - 1804
152. English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die - 1800
153. British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War - 1776
154. Britain repeals Stamp Act - 1766
155. 1st St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City - 1762
156. Prince Mas Said of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java - 1757
157. St. Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in New York City at Crown and Thistle Tavern - 1756
158. Transylvania Land Co. buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief - 1755
159. 1st official St. Patrick's Day - 1753
160. Willem K. H. Friso appointed mayor of Drente - 1722
161. England declares war on Netherlands - 1672
162. Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered - 1658
163. Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam - 1580
164. French troops invade Flanders - 1537
165. French king Francois I freed from Spain - 1526
166. Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines - 1521
167. Magelhaes lands on Homohon - 1521
168. Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England - 1190
169. Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor - 0455
170. St. Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave - 0432
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