1. Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive - 1997
2. Mens Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Elvis Stojko (CAN) - 1997
3. "Play On!," opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 61 performances - 1997
4. Erik and Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents - 1996
5. "Love Thy Neighbor," opens at Booth Theater New York City - 1996
6. U.K. admits humans can catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease) - 1996
7. Beatles song, "Baby It's You," with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single in more than 30 years - 1995
8. Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record) - 1995
9. Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured - 1995
10. 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins - 1994
11. Brett Hart wins WWF championship at Wrestlemania X - 1994
12. "Cyrano - The Musical" closes at Neil Simon New York City after 137 performances - 1994
13. El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war - 1994
14. "Flowering Peach" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 41 performances - 1994
15. Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament - 1994
16. Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on 1st inn to win Logan Cup - 1994
17. "No Man's Land" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 61 performances - 1994
18. Wrestlemania X at MSG NY, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna - 1994
19. Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa - 1994
20. Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (36.02 sec) - 1993
21. IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England - 1993
22. Morton Downey, Jr. weds Lori Krebs - 1993
23. Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set - 1992
24. Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses - 1992
25. Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in suit against Disney - 1991
26. Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album deal with Sony records - 1991
27. Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus - 1991
28. U.S. forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland - 1991
29. Los Angeles Lakers retires Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33 - 1990
30. Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident - 1990
31. Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation - 1989
32. Richard J. Kerr replaces Robert M. Gates as deputy director of CIA - 1989
33. David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly," premieres in New York City - 1988
34. Laura Davies wins Circle K LPGA Tucson Golf Open - 1988
35. Mike Tyson KOs Tony Tubbs in 2 for heavyweight boxing title - 1988
36. FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment) - 1987
37. NASA launches Palapa B2P - 1987
38. Soap opera "Capitol" final episode - 1987
39. Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit - 1987
40. Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.36) - 1987
41. 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (U.K. record) - 1986
42. Jacques Chirac forms French government - 1986
43. Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race - 1985
44. Andy Kaufman and Fred Blassie's "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres - 1984
45. Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools - 1984
46. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open - 1983
47. 1st-class debut of Richie Richardson, Leeward Is vs. Barbados - 1982
48. France performs nuclear test - 1982
49. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7 wks - 1982
50. Rev A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa - 1982
51. Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years - 1981
52. Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr - 1981
53. U.S. appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran - 1980
54. Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center - 1979
55. Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders - 1978
56. Communists/socialists win French municipal elections - 1977
57. Parisians elect former PM Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century - 1977
58. Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India - 1977
59. Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.70) - 1976
60. Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery - 1976
61. Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death - 1973
62. 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche - 1972
63. S Mansholt succeeds Malfatti as chairman of European Committee - 1972
64. Boston Bruins win 13th straight NHL game - 1971
65. Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near Addis Ababa - 1969
66. Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar - 1969
67. U.S. president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970 - 1969
68. Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from U.S. paper money - 1968
69. Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) - 1968
70. Supremes release "The Happening" - 1967
71. WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1967
72. Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open - 1966
73. 27th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Michigan 91-80 - 1965
74. Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs. NZ at Delhi - 1965
75. ESRO established, European Space Research Organization - 1964
76. 1st "Pop Art" exhibition (New York City) - 1963
77. Sikkim crown prince Paldan Thondup Namgyal marries Hope Cooke - 1963
78. Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater - 1962
79. 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line - 1958
80. Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting - 1958
81. Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission - 1958
82. Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it - 1957
83. 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends - 1956
84. E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP - 1956
85. Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (U.S.S.R.) explodes - 1956
86. Tunisia gains independence from France - 1956
87. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test - 1956
88. Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp - 1956
89. KXTV TV channel 10 in Sacramento, California (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1955
90. 16th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: La Salle beats Bradley 92-76 - 1954
91. 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania) - 1954
92. "King and I" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 1246 performances - 1954
93. 24th Academy Awards - "American in Paris," H Bogart and Vivian Leigh win - 1952
94. Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan - 1952
95. U.S. senate ratifies peace treaty with Japan - 1952
96. Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java - 1951
97. 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90 - 1948
98. 20th Academy Awards - "Gentleman's Agreement," L Young, R Colman win minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC - 1948
99. 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic - 1947
100. Belgian government of Spaak, resigns - 1946
101. U.S. 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar - 1945
102. Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River New Jersey, killing 16 - 1944
103. Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes - 1944
104. British offensive against Mareth-line - 1943
105. German U-384 bombed and sinks - 1943
106. Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia - 1942
107. General MacArthur vows, "I shall return" - 1942
108. Major German assault on Malta - 1942
109. Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn - 1941
110. Paul Reynoud becomes French premier - 1940
111. 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania - 1939
112. Franco-offensive at Guadalajara Spain - 1937
113. "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio - 1935
114. Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Philadelphia A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers - 1934
115. Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany - 1934
116. Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Germany - 1934
117. Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed - 1933
118. Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR - 1932
119. Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin - 1931
120. Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph - 1930
121. Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn - 1924
122. Stanley Cup: Mont Canadiens (NHL) sweep Vanc Millionaires (PCHA) in 2 - 1924
123. Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA - 1923
124. Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent - 1923
125. USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier - 1922
126. WIP-AM in Philadelphia Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions - 1922
127. 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (1 month) - 1920
128. U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld - 1920
129. U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger - 1920
130. Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium - 1916
131. 1st international figure-skating tournament held in U.S., New Haven - 1914
132. National Squash Tennis Association forms (New York City) - 1911
133. Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway New York City - 1911
134. George B. Shaws "Captain Brassbound's Conversion," premieres in London - 1906
135. 1st known intercollegiate basketball game, Yale beats Penn 32-10 - 1897
136. 1st U.S. orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in New York - 1897
137. France signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia - 1897
138. Marines land in Nicaragua to protect U.S. citizens - 1896
139. Uprising in Matabeleland - 1896
140. General Federation of Womans' Clubs founded - 1890
141. German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck - 1890
142. Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia" - 1888
143. 1st AC power plant in U.S. begins commercial operation, Massachusetts - 1886
144. John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine - 1885
145. Yiddish theater opens in New York with Golldfaden operetta - 1885
146. Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property - 1883
147. Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville Kentucky of $14,000 - 1868
148. 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville North Carolina - 1865
149. Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives - 1865
150. Battle of Pensacola Florida - evacuated by Federals - 1863
151. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston) - 1852
152. King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez - 1848
153. U.S. and Siam sign commercial treaty - 1833
154. U.S. Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions - 1816
155. Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule - 1815
156. Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands - 1814
157. French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, and advance to Cairo - 1800
158. Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings - 1760
159. Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land" - 1697
160. France and Spain signs accord for fighting protestantism - 1627
161. Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana - 1616
162. United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms - 1602
163. French king Henri IV and duke van Mercour sign treaty - 1598
164. Duke van Alva leads "tenth penning" in Ponts the Ce - 1569
165. Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants - 1525
166. Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic" - 1345
167. 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet - 0141
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