1. 48th NHL All-Star Game: North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver - 1998
2. 55th Golden Globes Awards - 1998
3. ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando - 1998
4. Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00 - 1998
5. Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural - 1998
6. "Ragtime," opens at Ford Theater New York City - 1998
7. UCP Telethon - 1998
8. 47th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 11-7 at San Jose Arena - 1997
9. Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague play in 1997 - 1996
10. Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY - 1996
11. Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka vs. Kerala - 1995
12. Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia - 1995
13. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time - 1993
14. West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0 - 1993
15. 43rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 10-6 at Phila - 1992
16. 49th Golden Globes - 1992
17. Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr. Peter Hui - 1992
18. Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident - 1992
19. NHL All Star Game - Campbell-10, Wales-6 (Brett Hull, MVP) at Phila - 1992
20. Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel - 1991
21. Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours and 11 mins - 1991
22. U.S. acknowledges CIA and U.S. Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career - 1991
23. WLAF's New York Knights become NY-New Jersey Knights - 1991
24. South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African National Congress - 1990
25. Washington D.C., Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting - 1990
26. Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC) - 1989
27. Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey - 1989
28. IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988 - 1989
29. Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations and Stevie Wonder - 1989
30. West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup - 1989
31. Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board - 1988
32. 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins - 1987
33. 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth - 1986
34. AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For," hits #1 - 1986
35. New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46) - 1986
36. US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise - 1985
37. 80th Islander and 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll and Bossy) 9-1 win - 1984
38. IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball - 1983
39. Iran accepts U.S. offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets - 1981
40. Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity - 1981
41. Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce - 1980
42. Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1 - 1980
43. Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000 - 1980
44. Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon - 1979
45. Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, vs. Pak Karachi - 1978
46. Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries) - 1978
47. Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB - 1978
48. Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG - 1977
49. Superbowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh, WR - 1976
50. "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS - 1975
51. "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV - 1974
52. Israel and Egypt sign weapons accord - 1974
53. Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH - 1973
54. Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak - 1973
55. John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC - 1973
56. Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ - 1971
57. Hasse Borjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec - 1970
58. NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 16-13 - 1970
59. Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris - 1969
60. "Happy Time" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 286 performances - 1968
61. Hester and Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in New York City - 1968
62. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1968
63. 20th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 3-0 at Montreal - 1967
64. Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison - 1967
65. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1967
66. Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada - 1967
67. Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD) - 1966
68. H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname - 1965
69. Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35) - 1964
70. Plans for World Trade Center announced (New York City) - 1964
71. Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59) - 1963
72. Southern University closed due to demonstrations - 1962
73. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1962
74. US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas - 1962
75. Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote and parliament by a single seat - 1961
76. US and Japan sign joint defense treaty - 1960
77. Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open - 1959
78. 1st black in NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins) - 1958
79. 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min - 1957
80. German DR forms own army (National People's Army) - 1956
81. Fanfani forms Italian government - 1954
82. Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open - 1953
83. 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands - 1951
84. Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR" - 1951
85. NFL rules tackles, guards and centers ineligible for forward pass - 1951
86. NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts - 1951
87. Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed," premieres in London - 1950
88. Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion - 1950
89. 1st U.S. Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson) - 1949
90. South African Rev Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer - 1949
91. "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont) - 1949
92. 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria - 1948
93. Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS) - 1948
94. Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000) - 1947
95. "Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 831 performances - 1947
96. Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400 - 1947
97. Warsaw freed by Soviet army - 1945
98. 1st Chinese naturalized U.S. citizen since repeal of exclusion acts - 1944
99. Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis - 1943
100. Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts - 1943
101. Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad - 1943
102. Uprising in Warsaw ghetto - 1943
103. US rations bread and metal - 1943
104. Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart and Wiardi Beckman - 1942
105. SA wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* vs. NSW - 1939
106. Bradman scores 104* for South Australia vs. NSW at the SCG - 1938
107. Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame - 1938
108. Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End," premieres in New York City - 1934
109. White Sands National Monument, New Mexico established - 1933
110. -27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), Watts, Oklahoma (state record) - 1930
111. Shostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad - 1930
112. "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio - 1929
113. Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo - 1929
114. 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies - 1923
115. Irish author Liam O'Flaherty and others occupy Rotunda in Dublin - 1922
116. William Archer's "Green Goddess," premieres in New York City - 1921
117. WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France - 1919
118. Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die - 1915
119. Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy - 1913
120. English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before - 1912
121. 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania) - 1911
122. Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair," premieres - 1908
123. French government of Combes falls - 1905
124. Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re - 1901
125. Jan Blockx's "T˜l Uilenspiegel" premieres in Brussels - 1900
126. 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in U.S. (New York City) - 1896
127. British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa - 1896
128. Amsterdam's AFC soccer team forms - 1895
129. General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum - 1884
130. 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I and Bismarck - 1871
131. Elegant California Theater opens in San Francisco - 1869
132. Battle of Ft. Moultrie, SC - 1865
133. Confederate Territory of Arizona forms - 1862
134. Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW Mexico - 1854
135. British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims - 1850
136. Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st U.S. electrical journal, appears - 1840
137. San Martin leads a revolutionary army over Andes - 1817
138. French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance - 1795
139. Governor/viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England - 1795
140. English settlers arrive in Aust's Botany Bay to setup penal colony - 1788
141. Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) - 1778
142. San Jose, California, founded - 1777
143. 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston) - 1733
144. Frederik I/Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia - 1701
145. English king Willem III travels to The Hague - 1691
146. Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama - 1671
147. French Prince Louis II of Conde captured - 1650
148. 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston - 1644
149. Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting - 1644
150. Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru - 1535
151. Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde - 1520
152. King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV - 1486
153. Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod - 1478
154. German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia - 1307
155. Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die - 0532
156. General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans - 0350
157. Saint Mark elected Catholic Pope - 0336
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