1. 79th PGA Championship: Davis Love III shoots a 269 at Winged Foot GC - 1997
2. First of America Senior Golf Classic - 1997
3. Macy's Tap-o-mania - 1997
4. Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open - 1997
5. Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit - 1996
6. China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC - 1995
7. Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle - 1994
8. New York Central park reservior officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis - 1994
9. Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0 - 1992
10. Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983 - 1991
11. Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR - 1990
12. Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment - 1990
13. 32nd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 12 -11 - 1989
14. Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game) - 1989
15. Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29) - 1988
16. LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991 - 1988
17. New York City 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy) - 1988
18. Republicans nominate George H. W. Bush for president - 1988
19. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1988
20. Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games - 1987
21. Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57) - 1987
22. Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame - 1987
23. Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market - 1986
24. Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am - 1986
25. Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship - 1986
26. Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones and pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen and outfielder Dave Henderson - 1986
27. Rioting at DMC concert, 40 injured - 1986
28. 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant - 1985
29. Dave Kingman hits his 400th HR - 1985
30. Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India - 1985
31. Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando - 1985
32. Pete Rose returns to Cin Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits) - 1984
33. Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas - 1983
34. Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18) - 1982
35. South Bend, Indiana jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin - 1982
36. Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic - 1980
37. "Blackstone" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 104 performances - 1980
38. George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401 - 1980
39. 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed - 1979
40. Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres - 1979
41. 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans) - 1978
42. Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole - 1977
43. Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8) - 1977
44. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1977
45. An earthquake and tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000 - 1976
46. Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match - 1976
47. Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic - 1975
48. Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one - 1973
49. Willie Mays hits 660th and last HR (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati) - 1973
50. Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game - 1972
51. Venera 7 launched, makes 1st softlanding on Venus - 1970
52. 51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR GC Dayton Ohio - 1969
53. Carol Mann wins LPGA Southgate Ladies' Golf Open - 1969
54. Hurricane Camille, kills 256 in Miss and Louisiana - 1969
55. New York Jets beat New York Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season) - 1969
56. Dick Beyers (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ - 1968
57. Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit - 1966
58. Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list - 1966
59. Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 vs. Aust at the Oval - 1964
60. Jim Hickman becomes 1st New York Met to hit for cycle - 1963
61. Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief - 1963
62. Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr - 1962
63. E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector - 1962
64. Building of Berlin Wall begins - 1961
65. Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress - 1961
66. Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow - 1960
67. Gabon gains independence from France, National Day - 1960
68. Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands - 1960
69. 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park - 1959
70. U.S.S.R. and Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor - 1959
71. Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open - 1958
72. World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec - 1958
73. Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher - 1957
74. Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany - 1956
75. Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 and doing $1.8 billion damage - 1955
76. Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship - 1952
77. 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180) - 1951
78. Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica - 1951
79. Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands - 1950
80. Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) and Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park HRs - 1950
81. Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent - 1948
82. Phillies commit 8 errors in a game - 1948
83. Tom Henrich hits his then record tying 4th grand slam of season - 1948
84. Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique," premieres - 1946
85. Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands - 1945
86. Koreas divided on 38th parallel with U.S. occupying the southern area - 1945
87. 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy - 1944
88. Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy - 1944
89. German fieldmarshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy - 1944
90. Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border - 1944
91. U.S. 12 Army corp occupies Orleans - 1944
92. U.S. 320th regiment infantry occupies Chateaudun - 1944
93. Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game - 1944
94. 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde - 1943
95. Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies - 1943
96. U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt - 1943
97. 1st European bombing run undertaken by U.S. forces - 1942
98. 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe - 1942
99. Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under adm George Murray on Hornet - 1942
100. Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany - 1942
101. U.S. bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France - 1942
102. German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan - 1941
103. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission - 1940
104. Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain - 1940
105. "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY - 1939
106. 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland) - 1938
107. Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship - 1938
108. Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game - 1933
109. Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09") - 1933
110. Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed - 1926
111. French-German trade agreement signed - 1924
112. In memory of Ray Chapman (died Aug 16), Yanks cancel game with Indians - 1920
113. British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan - 1918
114. Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000 - 1918
115. Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus - 1918
116. Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey - 1917
117. Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia - 1916
118. German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana - 1915
119. Hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas (275 killed) - 1915
120. Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life - 1915
121. French troops under gen de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins - 1914
122. Lithuiana surrenders to Germans - 1914
123. B Tarkington and HL Wilson's "Man from Home," premieres in New York City - 1908
124. Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay and Montgomery - 1908
125. Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union - 1907
126. Dutch government of De Master begins - 1905
127. Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 6-0 - 1904
128. Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U and begins Pulitzer Prizes - 1903
129. W B Purvis patents electric railway switch - 1897
130. George Washington Carmack discoveres gold in Klondike region of Yukon - 1896
131. Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4 - 1894
132. Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance - 1892
133. 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in New York City (People's Bath) - 1891
134. Electric self-starter for automobile patented - 1891
135. Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company - 1879
136. Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos - 1877
137. Phobos (Martian satellite) discovered (A Hall) - 1877
138. Opera "Gotterdammerung" premieres in Bayreuth - 1876
139. 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington - 1870
140. 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard) - 1869
141. Bathe and Prussia signs peace treaty - 1866
142. Federal batteries and ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC - 1863
143. Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee - 1863
144. Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky - 1862
145. 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind - 1859
146. 1st bank in Hawaii opens - 1858
147. US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California - 1846
148. British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death - 1836
149. HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time - 1836
150. Solymon Merrick patents wrench - 1835
151. Charles Darwins reaches top of Campana Chile - 1834
152. Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game - 1833
153. Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord - 1827
154. Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain - 1808
155. Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River - 1807
156. English beat Bataafs Navy in Saldanha Bay - 1796
157. Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Curaeao - 1795
158. Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded - 1788
159. Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups - 1787
160. Sweden and Russia sign peace treaty - 1743
161. France, Russia and Prussia sign agreement - 1717
162. Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish - 1648
163. Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma - 1585
164. Francois van Anjou visits English queen Elizabeth I - 1579
165. Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots - 1577
166. King Charles IX of France (13) declared an adult - 1563
167. Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France - 1544
168. Cardinal Borgia renounced his vows and office to marry a French princess - 1498
169. Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against emperor Kiyomori Taira - 1180
170. St. Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0682
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