1. New York Yankee 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs Anaheim - 1997
2. STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands - 1997
3. After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel - 1995
4. Bruce Seldon TKOs Joe Hipp in 10 for heavyweight boxing title - 1995
5. Mike Tyson returns to the ring and DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds - 1995
6. 34th Walker Cup: U.S., 19-5 - 1993
7. Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin - 1993
8. Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13 - 1993
9. George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon - 1993
10. Mattel and Fisher Price toys merge - 1993
11. Sally Gunnell runs lady world record 400m hurdles (52.74") - 1993
12. Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL vs. Australia) - 1992
13. Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 vs. Australia - 1992
14. Hurricane Bob hits U.S. - 1991
15. Janajev and KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev - 1991
16. Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA - 1991
17. Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic - 1990
18. Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat - 1990
19. New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 home runs (approx 128 at bat) - 1990
20. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland - 1989
21. Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT) - 1988
22. Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as President of Burma - 1988
23. New York Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer - 1988
24. Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran, Iran - 1986
25. Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei - 1985
26. 66th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at Shoal Creek Ala - 1984
27. Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf - 1984
28. Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for president - 1984
29. Sally Quinlan wins LPGA MasterCard Golf International Pro-Am - 1984
30. Dodgers trade Dave Stewart and Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut - 1983
31. LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 years for counterfeiting - 1983
32. Renaldo Nehemiah of U.S. sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec - 1982
33. Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space - 1982
34. 2 U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22 - 1981
35. George Brett ends hitting streak at 30 - 1980
36. Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die - 1980
37. Willy Russell's "Educating Rita," premieres in London - 1980
38. Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight - 1979
39. "My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days) - 1979
40. Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little - 1979
41. Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov and Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space - 1979
42. 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran - 1978
43. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. - 1977
44. President Gerald R. Ford won Republican President nomination at Kansas City convention - 1976
45. Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager - 1975
46. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1973
47. Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge - 1973
48. Sandra Palmer wins LPGA St. Paul Golf Open - 1973
49. Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0 - 1969
50. Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1 - 1967
51. Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed - 1966
52. Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences - 1965
53. Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0 - 1965
54. Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched - 1964
55. NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City - 1963
56. Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55 - 1962
57. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament - 1962
58. U.S. vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson visits West Berlin - 1961
59. Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by U.S.S.R. (U-2 incident) - 1960
60. Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive) - 1960
61. Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ - 1959
62. Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League - 1959
63. Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit - 1959
64. NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters - 1958
65. New York Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to San Francisco in 1958 - 1957
66. U.S. Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon - 1957
67. Fay Crocker wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open - 1956
68. 32.4 cm precipitation at Burlington, Connecticut (state record) - 1955
69. Hurricane Diane kills 200 and 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. U.S.) - 1955
70. U.S. raises import duty on bicycles 50% - 1955
71. WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B (DJs must play Fats Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's) - 1955
72. Ralph J. Bunche named undersecretary of UN - 1954
73. England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0 - 1953
74. Bill Veeck (Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit - 1951
75. ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic and Acrobat Ranch) - 1950
76. J Arens and D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A - 1947
77. Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds and wins - 1945
78. Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed - 1944
79. Gen Bradley visits Montgomery - 1944
80. Last Japanese troops driven out of India - 1944
81. Nazi's give parts of Paris to Resistance - 1944
82. Paris police strike against nazi occupiers - 1944
83. Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy - 1944
84. U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris - 1944
85. U.S. 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy - 1944
86. Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle - 1943
87. U.S. air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen - 1943
88. 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is - 1942
89. 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France - 1942
90. Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab - 1942
91. Gen Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad - 1942
92. Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout - 1941
93. 37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, New Jersey (state record) - 1939
94. Trial against Ljev Kamenev and Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow - 1936
95. 48th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (61 64) - 1934
96. Hitler elected Fuhrer (95.7% of German voters) - 1934
97. Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament - 1934
98. 47th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (86 36 30 ret) - 1933
99. 46th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (62 62) - 1932
100. Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game - 1931
101. 36th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61) - 1922
102. Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits - 1921
103. Afghanistan declares independence from U.K. - 1919
104. Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank," premieres in New York City - 1918
105. Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws - 1917
106. Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands - 1915
107. Elmer Rice' "On Trial," premieres in New York City - 1914
108. German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad - 1914
109. German fleet bombs English coast - 1914
110. Harris Theater (Candler, Coan and Harris) opens at 226 W 42nd St. New York City - 1914
111. Frenchman Pegoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe - 1913
112. Percy Aldridge Grainger's "Shepherd's Key," premieres - 1912
113. New York Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times - 1911
114. Indianapolis 500 race track opens - 1909
115. Russian tsar installs "Imperial Duma," without legislative powers - 1905
116. Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game - 1903
117. Start of the one and only olympic cricket match, in Paris - 1900
118. 1st electric taxi's drive in London - 1897
119. William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum - 1891
120. 1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins - 1888
121. 2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia - 1864
122. New York Herald reports gold discovery in California - 1849
123. Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris - 1839
124. HMS Beagle anchors at Angra Azores - 1836
125. Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario) - 1826
126. Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII - 1821
127. Java again in Dutch hands - 1816
128. U.S. warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere - 1812
129. Spain and France sign anti-English alliance - 1796
130. Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac - 1791
131. W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn - 1787
132. Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government and restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720 - 1772
133. Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French - 1702
134. Russian czar Peter the Great begins term - 1698
135. 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass - 1692
136. Battle at Szalankemen: Austrians beat Turks - 1691
137. Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Groenlo - 1627
138. French king Henri IV occupies Rouen - 1591
139. Sigismund III becomes king of Poland - 1587
140. Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in France - 1561
141. Emperor Charles V's troops besieges Marseille - 1524
142. Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German emperor - 1493
143. Burgundy and acquires Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands and France - 1477
144. Maximilian I, son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, weds Mary of - 1477
145. Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II - 1458
146. King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry - 1399
147. King James I of Argon censors Hebrew writing - 1263
148. Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon - 1099
149. Battle at Manzikert: Seldjuken sultan Alp Arslan beats Byzantine King - 1071
150. St. Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0440
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