1. 44th McDonald's LPGA Championship - 1998
2. 123rd Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 1:54 - 1997
3. Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London - 1997
4. WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom - 1997
5. Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe - 1996
6. Habib and Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wkt, Leics vs. Worcs - 1996
7. Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election - 1994
8. Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled - 1993
9. 38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King - 1992
10. Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone and Fisk) - 1992
11. Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe - 1991
12. Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI - 1990
13. Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71 - 1990
14. European court rules pension rights for both men and women - 1990
15. WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann - 1990
16. Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000! - 1989
17. Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart - 1989
18. Nelson Mandela receives a BA from University of South Africa - 1989
19. Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" auctioned for $825M - 1989
20. Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic - 1987
21. "Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 102 performances - 1987
22. USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die - 1987
23. 112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8 - 1986
24. "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the U.K. pop chart - 1986
25. Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska - 1985
26. Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning - 1984
27. Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA - 1984
28. Israel and Lebanon sign a peace treaty - 1983
29. Stanley Cup: New York Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games - 1983
30. "Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 14 performances - 1981
31. Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff - 1981
32. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic - 1981
33. 106th Preakness: Angel Cordero, Jr. aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2 - 1980
34. Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours - 1980
35. Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured - 1980
36. Paul and Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live - 1980
37. -12 degrees F (-11 degrees C), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record) - 1979
38. Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation - 1979
39. Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs - 1979
40. Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run - 1978
41. Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel - 1977
42. 28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson and M Learned - 1976
43. Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed - 1976
44. 101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4 - 1975
45. 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love" - 1975
46. "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79 - 1975
47. Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches - 1975
48. NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time - 1975
49. Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels - 1974
50. Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet - 1974
51. Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's - 1973
52. Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run - 1973
53. "Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 21 performances - 1973
54. Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings - 1973
55. Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love" - 1973
56. U.S. performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle, Colorado - 1973
57. Netherlands and China PR exchange ambassadors - 1972
58. Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London - 1972
59. Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell," premieres off-Broadway - 1971
60. Washington State bans sex discrimination - 1971
61. Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits - 1970
62. Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament - 1970
63. Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft - 1970
64. 95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6 - 1969
65. Baltimore, Cleveland and Pittsburgh agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL - 1969
66. "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat," by Maskman and The Agents hits #92 - 1969
67. Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus - 1969
68. European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite - 1968
69. Frank Howard belts record 8th HR in 5th straight game - 1968
70. U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site - 1968
71. Dylan's 1965 U.K. Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back" - 1967
72. KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1966
73. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational - 1964
74. Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in New York, to become WWF champ - 1963
75. U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site - 1963
76. Marin County withdraws from BART district - 1962
77. Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers - 1961
78. 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park, California - 1960
79. Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122 - 1959
80. 84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2 - 1958
81. Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria - 1958
82. Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC) - 1957
83. Dutch Government of Drees resigns - 1955
84. School desegregation law, Brown vs. Board of education - 1954
85. Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision - 1954
86. Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open - 1953
87. Yanks and Browns use record 41 players in a game - 1953
88. 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4 - 1952
89. British government recognizes Republic of Ireland - 1949
90. Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha and Telel-Kadi - 1948
91. Soviet Union recognized Israel - 1948
92. "Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 148 performances - 1947
93. KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections - 1946
94. President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike - 1946
95. 2 U.S. P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu - 1945
96. Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java - 1944
97. Chinese/U.S. armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma - 1944
98. General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th - 1944
99. Operation Straightline: Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea - 1944
100. Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler - 1942
101. Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack - 1941
102. Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins invasion of France - 1940
103. Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance - 1940
104. 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball - 1939
105. Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy - 1938
106. Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network - 1938
107. Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier - 1937
108. Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico" - 1932
109. 56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6 - 1930
110. 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam - 1928
111. Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings - 1927
112. Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton - 1926
113. German government of Marx takes power - 1926
114. Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit - 1925
115. 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2 - 1924
116. Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC) - 1923
117. Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union - 1921
118. President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show - 1921
119. 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol - 1920
120. 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij) - 1920
121. British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced - 1916
122. 40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58 - 1915
123. Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st and winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever - 1915
124. Last liberal British government of Asquith falls - 1915
125. National Baptist Convention chartered - 1915
126. 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51 - 1911
127. Canada sets the designs for the 1 cent -50 cent coins - 1910
128. White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks - 1909
129. Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic - 1906
130. Waseda University of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball - 1905
131. Maurice Ravel's "Sheherazade," premieres in Paris - 1904
132. Cleveland Indians beat New York Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio - 1903
133. British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony) - 1900
134. Victoria and Albert Museum foundation laid England - 1899
135. Camp Merritt forms in Presidio - 1898
136. W G Grace completes his 100th 100 vs. Somerset at Bristol - 1895
137. 19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49 - 1894
138. Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel," premieres in New York City - 1890
139. Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London - 1890
140. Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry," premieres in Rome - 1890
141. Alaska becomes a U.S. territory - 1884
142. Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha - 1883
143. 7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40 - 1881
144. Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington D.C. - 1881
145. Revised version of New Testament - 1881
146. Edwin T. Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm - 1877
147. 7th U.S. Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft. Lincoln - 1876
148. 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75 - 1875
149. Bohemian Club incorporated - 1872
150. Indians fighter Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches - 1871
151. Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat - 1864
152. Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi - 1863
153. Battle of Princeton, West Virginia, ends, about 128 casualities - 1862
154. Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election - 1853
155. Fire destroy Centrum in St. Louis Missouri - 1849
156. Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns - 1848
157. Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax - 1846
158. Rubber band patents - 1845
159. Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day) - 1814
160. Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll - 1814
161. Papal States annexed by France - 1809
162. Lewis and Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase - 1804
163. John Hawkins and Richard French patent the Reaping Machine - 1803
164. Hard frost in southern New England - 1794
165. 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street - 1792
166. English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes - 1787
167. Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French and Indian War) - 1756
168. Tax revolt in Gorinchem - 1750
169. French army takes Austrian Netherlands - 1744
170. Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians - 1742
171. England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions - 1733
172. Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands" - 1712
173. King Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty - 1678
174. Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi - 1673
175. Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada) - 1672
176. Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria - 1648
177. Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg - 1631
178. Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface - 1630
179. 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey) - 1620
180. Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian - 1579
181. Scot earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII - 1544
182. Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers" executed - 1536
183. Panfilo de Narvaez departs to explore Florida - 1527
184. Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels - 1525
185. St. Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0884
186. Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I - 0352
187. 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet - 0218
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