1. "Skylight" opens at Royale Theater New York City - 1996
2. Andres Galarraga is 4th to hit 30 home runs for Rockies in 1995 - 1995
3. Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits home runs in 3rd of 4 games - 1995
4. 3000 U.S. militia lands on Haiti - 1994
5. Swedish government of Bildt resigns - 1994
6. 45th Emmy Awards: Seinfeld, Picket Fences and Ted Danson wins - 1993
7. Actress Michele Phillips (Knots Landing) is robbed at gunpoint - 1993
8. Brandie Burton wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic - 1993
9. Kimberly Clarice Aiken, 18, Miss South Carolina wins 67th Miss America - 1993
10. Parliamentary election in Poland - 1993
11. Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years - 1993
12. Barry Bonds joins Willie Mays, Howard Johnson and Ron Gant as having (2) 30-HR/30-steal seasons - 1992
13. Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m) - 1992
14. U.N. Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia - 1992
15. Precious Bunny wins the 46th Little Brown Jug - 1991
16. Appeals court restores America's Cup to U.S. after New York Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran) - 1989
17. Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens - 1989
18. French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die - 1989
19. Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance - 1988
20. U.S. Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board - 1988
21. Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Mich), 24, crowned 61st Miss America - 1987
22. "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson premieres - 1986
23. Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1 - 1986
24. Dean Jones scores 210 vs. India at Madras - 1986
25. Fed health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients - 1986
26. 12,000 die and 40,000 injured in Mexico's earthquake (8.1) - 1985
27. Britain and China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997 - 1984
28. St. Kitts and Nevis declares independence from U.K. - 1983
29. 34th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Barney Miller, Alan Alda and Carol Kane - 1982
30. New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chicago Bears 10-0 - 1982
31. Sandra Haynie/Kathy McMullen wins Portland Ping Team Golf Championship - 1982
32. Streetcars stop running on Market St. after 122 years of service - 1982
33. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel perform a reunion concert in Central Park - 1981
34. Satellites China 10 and 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket - 1981
35. Simon and Garfunkel reunite for a New York City Central Park concert - 1981
36. No Nukes Concert at MSG includes Springsteen and Crosby, Stills and Nash - 1979
37. Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Portland Golf Classic - 1976
38. "Going Up" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 49 performances - 1976
39. Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor - 1975
40. Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die - 1974
41. Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden - 1973
42. Frank Robinson homers in record 32nd ML park (Arlington Tx) - 1973
43. NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington D.C. - 1973
44. U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test - 1973
45. 1st New York City Women's Marathon won by Beth Bonner in 2:55:22 - 1971
46. 2nd New York City Marathon won by Norman Higgins in 2:22:54 - 1971
47. "Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres - 1970
48. Denny McLain's 31st win and Mickey Mantle's 535th HR - 1968
49. Nigeria begins offensive against Biafra - 1967
50. Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open - 1965
51. Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections - 1965
52. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. - 1962
53. Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1 - 1960
54. Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland - 1959
55. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1958
56. 1st underground nuclear explosion at Las Vegas, Nevada - 1957
57. 1st International conference of black writers and artists meets (Sorbonne) - 1956
58. Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns and flees - 1955
59. Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season - 1955
60. Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico - 1955
61. Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Wichita Golf Open - 1954
62. "Hazel Flagg" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 190 performances - 1953
63. 1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV - 1951
64. Italian civil servants strike for pay increase - 1951
65. European Payment Union forms in Paris - 1950
66. Great Three acknowledge Bond government as only German government - 1950
67. U.N. reject membership of China's People Republic - 1950
68. 62nd U.S. Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats A L Brough (46 64 15-13) - 1948
69. 68th U.S. Mens Tennis: "Pancho" Gonzales beats E Sturgess (62 63 14-12) - 1948
70. Richard A Gonzales wins U.S. Tennis Open - 1948
71. Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year" - 1947
72. Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea - 1945
73. Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London - 1945
74. Finland and Russia agree to cease fire - 1944
75. Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed - 1944
76. Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record - 1943
77. Liberator bombers sinks U-341 - 1943
78. 1st meeting of partizans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia - 1941
79. German army conquerors Kiev - 1941
80. Nazi's force German Jews, 6 and over to wear Jewish stars - 1941
81. Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes - 1940
82. British Expeditionary Force reaches France - 1939
83. Lord Haw-Haw becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin - 1939
84. Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland - 1939
85. Bruno Haptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby - 1934
86. New York Giants clinch the pennant - 1933
87. 14th PGA Championship: Tom Creavy at Wannamoisett CC Rumford RI - 1931
88. Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria - 1931
89. Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1 - 1931
90. Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater New York City) - 1928
91. 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague - 1926
92. 45th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (46 119 63 46 63) - 1925
93. Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann," premieres in Leipzig - 1923
94. Queen Wilhelmina's takes Dutch throne with 119 word speech - 1922
95. 41st U.S. Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 63 61) - 1921
96. 1st landing on Schiphol (Farman F-22 of Soesterberg) - 1916
97. Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa - 1916
98. Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits Kansas City (Federal League), 6-2 - 1914
99. Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions - 1912
100. Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda - 1912
101. Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights - 1911
102. George Cohan's "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," premieres in New York City - 1910
103. Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony, premieres in Prague - 1908
104. Gen Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties - 1904
105. King Leopold II deny Belgian cruelty in Congo - 1903
106. 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of President William McKinley - 1901
107. New Zealand is 1st country to grant all its women the right to vote - 1893
108. Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540 - 1890
109. World's 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium) - 1888
110. Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track and field record pole-vaulting 11' 2" at age 17 years and 198 days - 1879
111. 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich) - 1876
112. Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa - 1876
113. Black Friday: Jay Cooke and Co fails, causing a securities panic - 1873
114. Siege of Paris begins - 1870
115. Atlanta University forms - 1865
116. 3rd Battle of Winchester Virginia (Opequon, 3rd Winchester) - 1864
117. Battle of Chickamauga Georgia (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat - 1863
118. Battle at Blackford's Ford Virginia - 1862
119. Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties) - 1862
120. Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car - 1854
121. Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (U.S.) and Lassell (England) - 1848
122. Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elopes - 1846
123. Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake - 1838
124. Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina - 1833
125. English and Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver - 1799
126. George Washington's farewell address as president - 1796
127. Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned - 1795
128. Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga - 1777
129. England and Russia sign military agreement - 1755
130. Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Virginia on fire - 1676
131. Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France - 1668
132. Brandenburg and Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau - 1657
133. Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg - 1656
134. Perpignan surrenders to French troops - 1642
135. Grave surrenders to earl Mauritius - 1602
136. Treaty of Plessis-lez-Tours (Anjou/Dutch States-General) - 1580
137. 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die - 1559
138. Emperor Charles I and England sign anti-French covenant - 1523
139. English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers - 1356
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