1. 54th Golden Globes: English Patient, Brenda Blethyn and Geoffrey Rush - 1997
2. Cerebral Palsy telethon - 1997
3. Michelle McGann wins LPGA Healthsouth Inaugural - 1997
4. NHL approves move of Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix - 1996
5. Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg - 1995
6. -20 degrees F (-29 degrees C) (5:32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio - 1994
7. -36 degrees F (-38 degrees C) in New Whiteland, Indiana (state record) - 1994
8. Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal - 1993
9. Oakland A's unveil new elephant logo - 1993
10. Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA - 1993
11. STS-54 (Endeavour) lands - 1993
12. Cerebral Palsy telethon raises 23,500,000 - 1992
13. "City of Angels" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 878 performances - 1992
14. IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992 - 1992
15. Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble - 1992
16. Rowdy Roddy Piper beats Mountie to become WWF Intercontinental Champ - 1992
17. 42nd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 11-5 at Chicago - 1991
18. 48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves - 1991
19. Eastern Airlines shuts down operation - 1991
20. Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title - 1991
21. Sgt Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt - 1991
22. Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, vs. Australia at Adelaide - 1990
23. President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon - 1989
24. "48 Hours" premiers on CBS-TV - 1988
25. Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874 - 1987
26. Cerebral Palsy telethon - 1986
27. Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands - 1986
28. Spain recognizes Israel - 1986
29. 4 die in a car and train crash in Buda Ill - 1985
30. "Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen peaked at #9 - 1985
31. California Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital - 1984
32. Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km - 1984
33. Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia - 1983
34. Aust-WI one-day game that produced a Privy Council libel case - 1982
35. Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Okla, kills 6 kids and teacher - 1982
36. Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide - 1981
37. US and Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages - 1981
38. John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison - 1979
39. Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame - 1978
40. Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI - 1978
41. Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame - 1977
42. President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) - 1977
43. World's largest crowd-12.7 million-for Indian religious festival - 1977
44. 4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq - 1975
45. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Colgate Golf Triple Crown - 1975
46. Belgium government of Leburton falls - 1974
47. Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak - 1974
48. Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, and Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame - 1972
49. 24th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 2-1 at Boston - 1971
50. Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial - 1971
51. NHL Writers' Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Assn - 1971
52. "No, No Nanette" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 861 performances - 1971
53. Dutch bishops says he is in favor of married priest - 1970
54. Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails) - 1970
55. UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist - 1970
56. AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-25 - 1969
57. Joanne Carner wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational - 1969
58. NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 10-7 - 1969
59. WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting - 1968
60. Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will "Vse Zene" (All to wife) - 1967
61. Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister - 1966
62. Neil Simons, Coleman and Fields' musical "Sweet Charity," premieres - 1966
63. Tippetts cantate "Vision of St. Augustine," premieres in London - 1966
64. AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 27-24 - 1964
65. KFME TV channel 13 in Fargo, ND (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1964
66. 1st episode for "Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed - 1961
67. Eisenhower and Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact - 1960
68. Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League - 1958
69. U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test - 1957
70. Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field - 1956
71. 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower) - 1955
72. "Millionaire" TV program premieres on CBS - 1955
73. "Scrabble" debuts on board game market - 1955
74. Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary - 1953
75. NFL takes control of New York Yanks - 1952
76. PGA approves allowing black participants - 1952
77. Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane - 1950
78. SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392 - 1947
79. Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily - 1943
80. Japanese forces invade Burma - 1942
81. Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers - 1942
82. British offensive in Eritrea - 1941
83. British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan - 1941
84. Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 sec - 1939
85. GM began mass production of diesel engines - 1938
86. Cy Young, Tris Speaker and Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - 1937
87. Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record (7h28m25s) - 1937
88. KLM begins flight path between Curaeao and Aruba - 1935
89. Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement - 1934
90. Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, 1st coming at 7 seconds of game - 1932
91. Acadia National Park, Maine established - 1929
92. Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 sec - 1929
93. British government decides to send troops to China - 1927
94. -48 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Van Buren, Maine (state record) - 1925
95. WMC-AM in Memphis Tennessee begins radio transmissions - 1923
96. Geological survey says U.S. oil supply would be depleted in 20 years - 1922
97. Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sign Pact of Union - 1921
98. Alexandre Millerand forms French government - 1920
99. U.S. Senate votes against membership in League of Nations - 1920
100. "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 m high x 25 m wide kills dozens, Boston - 1919
101. Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly - 1918
102. Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die - 1917
103. 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die - 1915
104. Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude - 1915
105. Raymond Poincare installed as president of France - 1913
106. Germany and Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty - 1910
107. National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated by Congress - 1910
108. Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way," premieres in New York City - 1909
109. Gerhart Hauptmann's "Und Pippa Tanzt!," premieres in Berlin - 1906
110. 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between U.S. and England - 1903
111. New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced - 1903
112. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms - 1899
113. Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game - 1898
114. Aurora Ski Club, 1st in U.S., founded in Minnesota - 1886
115. Battle at Abu Klea Sudan: 800-1000 killed - 1885
116. Jules Massenet's opera "Manon," premieres in Paris - 1884
117. 1st Negro lodge of U.S. Masons approved, New Jersey - 1871
118. NV Suriname Bank established - 1865
119. Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC - 1865
120. General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland - 1863
121. Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads) - 1862
122. Georgia becomes 5th state to secede - 1861
123. MS troops take Ft. Massachusetts an Ship Island - 1861
124. Napoleon III marries Eugenie de Montijo - 1853
125. Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," premieres in Rome - 1853
126. Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim) - 1840
127. Aden conquered by British East India Company - 1839
128. Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland - 1833
129. Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres - 1829
130. Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans - 1825
131. Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50 degrees F (10 degrees C) - 1810
132. Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law - 1808
133. Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope - 1806
134. Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy - 1795
135. French King Louis XVI sentenced to death - 1793
136. Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) - 1770
137. Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling - 1746
138. Richard Steele publishes "Crisis," defending Hanoverian success - 1714
139. King Louis XIV and Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain - 1668
140. France cedes Roussillon and Cerdagne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona - 1493
141. French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War - 1419
142. Pope Benedictus VI elected - 0973
143. Theodosius installed as co-emperor of East Roman Empire - 0379
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