1. 64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Georgia Dome Atlanta - 2002
2. 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at St. Louis - 2001
3. World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minn - 1998
4. 69 year old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch - 1997
5. Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU) - 1997
6. 58th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Syracuse 76-67 - 1996
7. Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Boston MA on WBCN 104.1 FM - 1996
8. Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee - 1995
9. New York Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23 - 1995
10. Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza, dedicated - 1994
11. Alan Bennett's "Madness of George III," premieres in London - 1993
12. Stephane Powers weds Patrick de la Chenais - 1993
13. 5th Largest wrestling crowd (64,287-Toronto SkyDome) - 1992
14. Battleship USS Missouri, on which, Japan surrendered, decommissioned - 1992
15. Last defendant in St. John sex assault case sentenced to 3 years prob - 1992
16. NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded 18 games - 1992
17. NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history - 1992
18. Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman - 1992
19. WA beat NSW by 44 runs to win the Sheffield Shield Final - 1992
20. World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former U.S.S.R. - 1992
21. 53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Champion: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65 - 1991
22. Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with New York Mets - 1991
23. Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years - 1991
24. Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race - 1991
25. U.S. minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour - 1991
26. Warsaw Pact officially dissolves - 1991
27. 19th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King - 1990
28. 2nd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus wins - 1990
29. 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81 - 1990
30. CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger - 1990
31. Guns and Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames - 1990
32. "Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting - 1990
33. It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers - 1990
34. Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour - 1990
35. Wrestlemania VI, 67,678 in Toronto, Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan - 1990
36. 1st New York Mets - New York Yankee game in New York City since 1983, Yanks win 4-3 - 1989
37. A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of baseball - 1989
38. Delhi beat Haryana by innings and 141 to win Ranji Trophy - 1986
39. U.S. submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea - 1986
40. World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel - 1986
41. 47th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Villanova beats Georgetown 84-75 - 1985
42. 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000 - 1984
43. 3rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: Southern California beats Tenn 72-61 - 1984
44. 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours - 1984
45. Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England - 1983
46. New York Islander Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons - 1983
47. Anguilla, dependent territory of U.K., adopts constitution - 1982
48. U.S. formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama - 1982
49. CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax) - 1981
50. Baseball Players Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games - 1980
51. Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz - 1980
52. France performs nuclear test - 1980
53. Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist - 1980
54. Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah - 1979
55. Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open - 1979
56. Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails - 1977
57. NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason games - 1977
58. Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer - 1976
59. Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer - 1975
60. Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran - 1974
61. Pioneer Hall opens - 1974
62. Yourdon, Inc forms - 1974
63. Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Classic - 1973
64. Japan allows its citizens to own gold - 1973
65. John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence - 1973
66. 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico - 1972
67. Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike - 1972
68. U.S. and Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere - 1971
69. United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership - 1971
70. Bud Selig becomes CEO of Milwaukee Brewers - 1970
71. John and Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations - 1970
72. Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bank - 1970
73. President Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71 - 1970
74. Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp - 1969
75. Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals - 1969
76. KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast - 1968
77. 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work - 1967
78. 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal) - 1966
79. China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution" - 1966
80. South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years - 1965
81. Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control - 1965
82. 10 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April - 1964
83. John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years - 1964
84. Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno," premieres in New York City - 1964
85. New York City's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike - 1963
86. New York Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Dodgers for $40,000 - 1963
87. Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premier on TV - 1963
88. Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye - 1961
89. 2nd French atom bomb explodes in the Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria - 1960
90. Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee - 1960
91. RCA TIROS (TV and Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched - 1960
92. U Nu elected premier of Burma - 1960
93. KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, California (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting - 1958
94. Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank - 1958
95. Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising - 1957
96. World's biggest glass oven used - 1957
97. WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, Louisiana (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1957
98. 10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank and Damn Yankees win - 1956
99. KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1956
100. Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380 - 1956
101. Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam - 1955
102. EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus - 1955
103. WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (CBS) 1st broadcast - 1955
104. 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC - 1954
105. 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens - 1954
106. Earthquake and tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed - 1954
107. U.S. Air Force Academy forms - 1954
108. WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1954
109. J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea - 1953
110. KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting - 1953
111. Walcott Worrell and Weekes all make centuries in innings vs. India - 1953
112. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1952
113. H H H Johnson bowls WI to win vs. England 10-96 match on debut - 1948
114. 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat - 1947
115. 400,000 U.S. mine workers strike - 1946
116. Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii - 1946
117. Van Acker forms Belgian government (without CVP) - 1946
118. Weight Watchers forms - 1946
119. 1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes - 1945
120. Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo and Eibergen - 1945
121. Ruhrgebied sealed off by U.S. 1st and 9th army - 1945
122. Sons of Elburger Soccer team forms in Elburg - 1945
123. U.S. forces invade Okinawa during WW II - 1945
124. German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed - 1944
125. Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India - 1944
126. Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor - 1942
127. Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2 - 1942
128. Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine," premieres in New York City - 1941
129. Navy takes over Treasure Island, in San Francisco Bay - 1941
130. Nazi's forbid Jews access to cafes - 1941
131. Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq - 1941
132. U.S. recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain - 1939
133. Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York - 1938
134. Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title - 1938
135. Aden becomes British crown colony - 1937
136. Orissa constituted a province of British India - 1936
137. 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, New York - 1935
138. Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers - 1934
139. Hammond scores 336* vs. NZ at Auckland, 47 fours 10 sixes - 1933
140. Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany - 1933
141. Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses - 1933
142. Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000 - 1931
143. Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball - 1931
144. "Blue Angel," starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America - 1930
145. Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls - 1929
146. Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens - 1929
147. Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo - 1929
148. Luis Bunuel releases "Un Chien Andalou," 24-minute film - 1929
149. Morehouse College, Spellman College and Atlanta University affiliate - 1929
150. Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse - 1928
151. 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice - 1927
152. Halsteren Soccer team forms in Halsteren - 1926
153. 1st transmission of Danish state radio - 1925
154. Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated - 1925
155. Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co - 1924
156. Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but Gen Ludendorff acquitted - 1924
157. Imperial Airways forms in Britain - 1924
158. Church disforms in Wales - 1920
159. Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle (PCHA), 3 games to 2 - 1920
160. England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force - 1918
161. Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St. New York City - 1918
162. 1st U.S. national women's swiming championships held - 1916
163. UVS Soccer team forms in Lead - 1914
164. Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk - 1910
165. British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya - 1905
166. 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People" - 1900
167. North Carolina Mutual opens doors for business - 1899
168. London-Paris telephone connection opens - 1891
169. Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti - 1891
170. 1st dishwashing machine marketed in Chicago - 1889
171. Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam - 1888
172. Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem - 1881
173. Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens - 1881
174. 1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5) - 1876
175. British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die - 1873
176. Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premeres in Constantinople - 1873
177. 1st edition of The Standard - 1872
178. Hampton Institute opens - 1868
179. Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama - 1867
180. International Exhibition opens in Paris - 1867
181. Singapore, Penang and Malakka become British crown colonies - 1867
182. U.S. Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US - 1866
183. Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army - 1865
184. 1st wartime conscription law in U.S. goes into effect - 1863
185. Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA - 1862
186. Cincinnati became 1st U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary - 1853
187. San Francisco County Government established - 1850
188. Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands - 1836
189. Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine - 1826
190. French law rules the use of intention - 1803
191. Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000 - 1793
192. Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce - 1792
193. House of Representatives 1st full meeting, New York City, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker - 1789
194. Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol - 1778
195. Friedrich von Klinger's "Sturm und Drang," premieres in Leipzig - 1776
196. Ruins of Pompeii found - 1748
197. Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War - 1724
198. Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters - 1724
199. Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty) - 1663
200. Portugese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II - 1581
201. William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation - 1578
202. Bloys van Treslong conquers Brielle - 1572
203. English guilds/corp goes under state control - 1504
204. Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik - 1064
205. Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI - 0705
206. Justinianus becomes compassionate emperor of Byzantium - 0527
207. Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth - 0374
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