1. STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit - 1996
2. Emmy 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time - 1995
3. World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai - 1995
4. Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run - 1994
5. Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack - 1994
6. Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center - 1994
7. Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132 - 1993
8. Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for 1st time (3,500.03) - 1993
9. Juventus wins 22th UEFA Cup at Torino - 1993
10. 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary - 1992
11. Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa LI - 1992
12. Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values - 1992
13. Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches - 1992
14. Ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title - 1992
15. "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" closes at Shubert New York City after 225 performances - 1991
16. Pat Bradley wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic - 1991
17. Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge - 1991
18. Willy T. Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500 - 1991
19. 116th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Summer Squall wins in 1:53.6 - 1990
20. General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC - 1990
21. Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1 - 1989
22. Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas - 1989
23. Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US - 1988
24. Red Sox retire Bobby Doerr's #1 - 1988
25. 1st American Comedy Award - 1987
26. Anti-apartheid activist Helene Pastoors sentenced to 10 years in South Africa - 1986
27. Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic - 1985
28. 110th Preakness: Angel Cordero, Jr. aboard Gate Dancer wins in 1:53.6 - 1984
29. "King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62 - 1984
30. Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game - 1984
31. Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat New York Islanders, 4 games to 1 - 1984
32. STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad - 1984
33. NASA launches Intelsat V - 1983
34. Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington D.C. - 1983
35. IFK Goteborg wins 11th UEFA Cup at Goteborg - 1982
36. Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion - 1982
37. Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters - 1981
38. "Blackstone" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 104 performances - 1980
39. Ringo and Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash - 1980
40. 105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2 - 1979
41. Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd - 1979
42. "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3 - 1979
43. "Smokey and the Bandit," premieres - 1977
44. Gold ownership legalized in Australia - 1976
45. Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge - 1976
46. Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence - 1976
47. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1976
48. 27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake and Jean Marsh - 1975
49. Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India - 1975
50. Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest - 1975
51. Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass - 1974
52. Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2 - 1974
53. Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election - 1974
54. 99th Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:54.4 - 1973
55. "Daisy" A Day by Jud Strunk hits #14 - 1973
56. "Smith" opens at Eden Theater New York City for 17 performances - 1973
57. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1972
58. WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1972
59. U.S.S.R. launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars - 1971
60. 20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible and Barbara Bain - 1968
61. Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games - 1968
62. U.S. bombs Hanoi - 1967
63. U.S.S.R. ratifies treaty with Engl and U.S. banning nuclear weapons in space - 1967
64. Patricia R. Harris named 1st U.S. black female ambassador (Luxembourg) - 1965
65. West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II - 1965
66. U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy - 1964
67. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open - 1963
68. 88th Preakness: John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2 - 1962
69. "Bravo, Giovanni" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 76 performances - 1962
70. Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea - 1962
71. "John Birch Society," by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99 - 1962
72. Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's NL hit record with 3,431 - 1962
73. U.S. performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) - 1962
74. New pier opens in Scheveningen - 1961
75. Alan Freed and eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola - 1960
76. Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed - 1960
77. Juan Marichal debuts as San Francisco Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter - 1960
78. USAF Maj Robert M. White takes X-15 to 33,222 m - 1960
79. Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands - 1959
80. Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party," in London - 1958
81. South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks - 1958
82. U.S. and Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) - 1958
83. Adone Zoli forms Italian government - 1957
84. 82nd Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Fabius wins in 1:58.4 - 1956
85. Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning HR, 1st HR in 8 straight games - 1956
86. Atkinson and Depeiaza make 347 stand for 7th wkt WI vs. Australia - 1955
87. Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project - 1954
88. Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St. George, Utah) - 1953
89. 77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4 - 1951
90. U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea - 1951
91. New York Times reports of worlds smallest and dumbest mechanical brain - 1950
92. Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam - 1946
93. Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England and Aust Services - 1945
94. 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork, Netherlands - 1944
95. German defense line in Italy collapsed - 1944
96. Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews) - 1943
97. Churchill pledges England's full support to U.S. against Japan - 1943
98. Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson and Wagner) - 1942
99. Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis - 1941
100. New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland - 1941
101. Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time) - 1940
102. French counter attack at Peronne under Gen De Gaulle - 1940
103. Churchill signs British-Russian anti-nazi pact - 1939
104. John Murray/Allen Boretz' "Room Service," premieres in New York City - 1937
105. NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936 - 1935
106. Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria - 1934
107. Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars - 1934
108. Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel - 1931
109. White woman win voting rights in South-Africa - 1930
110. Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death - 1929
111. General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government - 1929
112. 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal) - 1928
113. Explosion in coal mine in Mather, Pennsylvania, 195 die - 1928
114. "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pennsylvania coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners - 1928
115. French air force bombs Damascus, Syria - 1926
116. 49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4 - 1923
117. KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies - 1923
118. Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system - 1921
119. Washington 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings - 1918
120. Escadrille Americaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun - 1916
121. Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japs from owning land - 1913
122. AL President Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball - 1912
123. Maurice Ravels opera "L'Heure Espagnole," premieres in Paris - 1911
124. Philadelphia Athletics are 12 games back in AL, and will win World Series - 1911
125. Cleveland Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Washington 5-4 in 11 innings - 1910
126. Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title - 1909
127. Dutch King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel - 1906
128. Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes - 1906
129. Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel - 1906
130. Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier - 1906
131. Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ - 1905
132. Great Britain and Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria - 1902
133. Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago - 1900
134. World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy and Switzerland, opens - 1900
135. Post Office authorizes use of postcards - 1898
136. 1st auto (Benz) to arrive in Netherlands - 1896
137. Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway) - 1893
138. Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer - 1892
139. National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded - 1892
140. Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered - 1891
141. Camille Saint-Saens' 3rd Symphony in C, premieres - 1886
142. 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts) - 1885
143. German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland - 1885
144. Jan Matzeliger begins 1st mass production of shoes - 1885
145. Ringling Brothers circus premieres - 1884
146. Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield - 1878
147. President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia - 1865
148. Battle of Port Walthall Junction, Virginia (Bermuda Hundred) - 1864
149. Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania - 1864
150. Skirmish at Cassville Georgia - 1864
151. Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete - 1863
152. Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West - 1862
153. William Francis Channing and Moses G Farmer patents electric fire alarm - 1857
154. Sen Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, spoke out against slavery - 1856
155. Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia of Saxony-Weimar - 1853
156. 1st department store opens - 1848
157. Mexico gives Texas to U.S., ending the war - 1848
158. French Order of Legion d'Honneur forms - 1802
159. Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds - 1796
160. Netherlands captures French island of St. Maarten (held until 1795) - 1793
161. Russian army enters Poland - 1792
162. About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day it's cause is still unexplained - 1780
163. George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley - 1749
164. Uniformity Act of England goes into effect - 1662
165. Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen - 1652
166. Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army - 1643
167. Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form United Colonies of New England - 1643
168. France declares war on Spain - 1635
169. Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague - 1608
170. Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England - 1588
171. Spain confisquates English ships - 1585
172. Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines - 1571
173. English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary - 1568
174. Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel - 1547
175. Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht - 1517
176. George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles - 1515
177. Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir - 1506
178. St. Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0715
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