1. Emilee Klein wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open - 1996
2. Record 6,654 tap at Macy's Tap-o-mania in New York City - 1996
3. Cards reliever Tom Henke earns his 300th career save - 1995
4. 5.6 earthquake in Algeria, kills 171 - 1994
5. Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern Switz, destroyed by fire - 1993
6. "Real Inspector Hound" opens at Criterion New York City for 61 performances - 1992
7. Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic - 1991
8. Hurricane Bob hits North Carolina with 115 MPH wind - 1991
9. Pan Am games closes in Havana - 1991
10. Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin - 1989
11. Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as New York Yankee manager - 1989
12. FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment - 1988
13. Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million - 1988
14. Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket - 1988
15. Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL - 1987
16. Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24) - 1987
17. Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it - 1987
18. Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47) - 1987
19. Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness - 1986
20. Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on WYSP 94.1 FM - 1986
21. Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years) - 1986
22. John Tesh's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight - 1986
23. WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show - 1986
24. Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf - 1985
25. Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn - 1985
26. Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby) - 1985
27. Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire - 1984
28. Hurricane Alicia battered Houston and Galveston, Texas - 1983
29. Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out and Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order - 1983
30. Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel - 1983
31. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. - 1983
32. Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, ends after 22 innings - before Los Angeles Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th) - 1982
33. Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17) - 1982
34. NYSE sets trading record of 132,690,000 shares traded - 1982
35. Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance - 1982
36. Football running back, Herschel Walker, of University of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million - 1981
37. Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons - 1981
38. "My Fair Lady" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 119 performances - 1981
39. Kansas City Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400 - 1980
40. Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds - 1979
41. Nick Lowe marries singer Carlene Carter - 1979
42. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1979
43. Memphis Tenn settles with striking police officers and firefighters - 1978
44. 2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland - 1977
45. Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his NL record tying 5th one-hitter - 1977
46. U.S.S.R.'s Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon - 1976
47. Joanne Carner wins LPGA St. Paul Keller Golf Open - 1974
48. Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet - 1973
49. Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record - 1973
50. Police fine Paul and Linda McCartney 800 pounds in Sweden cannabis possession - 1972
51. Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly" - 1969
52. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic - 1968
53. Red Sox Tony Conigliaro is beaned by Angels Jack Hamilton - 1967
54. Rolling Stones release "We Love You" - 1967
55. WCBS radio in New York City goes all-news - 1967
56. Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box - 1965
57. Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler) - 1965
58. Beatles arrive in San Francisco, 2nd U.S. visit - 1964
59. Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon - 1964
60. South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies - 1964
61. U.S.S.R. launch 3 Kosmos satellites - 1964
62. James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi - 1963
63. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament - 1963
64. Peter, Paul and Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer" - 1962
65. Construction on Berlin Wall completed - 1961
66. 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie, Illinois - 1960
67. 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa - 1960
68. Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg) - 1960
69. Lew Burdette pitches to just 27 for a 1-0 no-hitter against Phillies - 1960
70. Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be President of Continental League - 1959
71. Betsy Palmer joins Today Show panel - 1958
72. Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title - 1958
73. Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland and Wales) - 1958
74. "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published - 1958
75. Perez Prado "Mambo King," receives one of the 1st gold records - 1958
76. TV game show scandal investigation starts - 1958
77. U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak - 1958
78. Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ - 1958
79. Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4 ") - 1957
80. Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open - 1957
81. Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46 - 1957
82. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1957
83. Cin Reds (8) and Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 home runs in a 9 inning game - 1956
84. Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1 - 1956
85. 46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record) - 1955
86. Hurricane Diane, kills 400 in US - 1955
87. Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria - 1955
88. James E. Wilkins is 1st black to attend a U.S. cabinet meeting - 1954
89. Cricket 1st-class debut of Raymond Illingworth - 1951
90. Hungary adopts constitution - 1949
91. Ralph Flanagan and his orch records "You're Breaking My Heart" - 1949
92. Naval torpedo and mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300 - 1947
93. Golf Writers Associaton of America forms - 1946
94. Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off - 1945
95. Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers - 1944
96. U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris - 1944
97. U.S. 20th Army corp conquers Chartres - 1944
98. Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd and final game, all with Giants - 1943
99. Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz - 1943
100. Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia - 1943
101. Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japs - 1942
102. Concentration camp Amersfoort opens - 1941
103. Phillies commit 8 errors in a game - 1941
104. 71 German aircrafts shot down above England - 1940
105. Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting U.S. and Canada - 1938
106. 1st FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston MA) - 1937
107. 106.5 degrees F-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa - 1936
108. 48th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H Cooke (61 64) - 1934
109. Bradman scores 244 in 5th Test Cricket, 316 mins, 32 fours 1 six - 1934
110. Ponsford and Bradman make 451 partnership in 316 minutes vs. Eng - 1934
111. Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon - 1932
112. Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic - 1932
113. Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game - 1931
114. Eastern Airlines begins passenger service - 1930
115. England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0 - 1926
116. Weather map televised for 1st time - 1926
117. Belgian and U.S. sign treaty about war debts - 1925
118. Cardinal Mercier warns Belgians against socialism/liberalism - 1925
119. France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied - 1924
120. 37th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61) - 1923
121. 1st class debut of Walter Hammond - 1920
122. Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right - 1920
123. Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois - 1919
124. Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD) - 1917
125. Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1 - 1915
126. Belgian army withdraws to Antwerp - 1914
127. French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg - 1914
128. President Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality" - 1914
129. Adolph Ochs (39) buys New York Times - 1896
130. Congress creates Bureau of Immigration - 1894
131. Hurricane hits Martinique, about 700 die - 1891
132. Carr Baker Neel and Samuel Neel win U.S. Lawn Tennis Association doubles - 1886
133. 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, California, 14,494' - 1873
134. 1st mail-order catalog issued by A. M. Ward - 1872
135. Battle at Gravelotte Privat: Prussia beat France, 32,000 casualties - 1870
136. Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse - 1868
137. 6th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia: Confederate assault - 1864
138. Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days - 1864
139. General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured - 1862
140. Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota - 1862
141. Netherlands and Japan sign trade agreement - 1858
142. Gen Stephen W Kearney's U.S. forces captures Santa Fe, New Mexico - 1846
143. Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded in New York - 1840
144. 1st U.S. marine expedition - 1838
145. Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago - 1835
146. Mt. Vesuvius erupts - 1834
147. Gloucester, Massachusetts, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore - 1817
148. Curacao governor De Veer sends miltia to stop rebellious slaves - 1795
149. Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000 - 1769
150. 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France - 1759
151. Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass) - 1735
152. Swedish, English and Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark - 1700
153. Russian czar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam - 1698
154. Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus - 1686
155. Jean Racine's "Iphigenie," premieres in Versailles - 1674
156. Spanish army under of general Spinola conquerors Lingen - 1605
157. King Navarra Henri de Bourbon marries Margaretha van Valois - 1572
158. Spanish king Philip II joins Council of Trente - 1564
159. Pope Nicolaus IV publishes degree "Supra montem" - 1289
160. King Alarik I's Visigoten occupies and plunders Rome - 0410
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