1. Shelly Moore, 18, of Tennessee, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA - 1997
2. India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's - 1996
3. Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 37th consecutive save - 1995
4. Kerrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open - 1995
5. "Play's the Thing" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 75 performances - 1995
6. 109.8 degrees F (43.2 degrees C) in Cordoba, Spain - 1994
7. Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina - 1994
8. Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed - 1994
9. Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91) - 1993
10. Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago - 1993
11. Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria - 1993
12. England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record - 1992
13. Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler - 1992
14. Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million - 1991
15. Estonia declares it's independence from U.S.S.R. itself independent - 1991
16. Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29) - 1991
17. Gene Michael names New York Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson - 1990
18. George Steinbrenner steps down as New York Yankee owner - 1990
19. Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields) - 1990
20. New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 home runs (approx 132 at bat) - 1990
21. Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed - 1989
22. Howard Johnson joins B Bonds and W Mays to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases - 1989
23. Janet B Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22) - 1989
24. Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45) - 1989
25. 6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed - 1988
26. Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21) - 1988
27. Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead - 1986
28. Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th - 1986
29. 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden) - 1985
30. Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle - 1985
31. Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US - 1985
32. Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers - 1985
33. Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win - 1985
34. Don Lever becomes 1st captain of New Jersey Devils - 1982
35. U.S. Marines land in Beirut, Lebanon - 1982
36. Cleve Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles - 1980
37. Mt. Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone - 1980
38. New York Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day - 1980
39. Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season - 1980
40. Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest - 1980
41. U.N. Security Council condemns (14-0, U.S. abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital - 1980
42. India premier Charan Singh resigns - 1979
43. Singer Vikki Carr and Michael Nilsson wed - 1979
44. Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London - 1978
45. Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds - 1978
46. Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open - 1978
47. Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6) - 1978
48. NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - 1977
49. Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126 - 1975
50. Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing - 1975
51. Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat - 1974
52. Nelson Rockefeller becomes V.P. - 1974
53. Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph) - 1974
54. President Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation - 1974
55. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open - 1972
56. U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test - 1972
57. FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr - 1971
58. Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique - 1970
59. 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record) - 1969
60. 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia - 1968
61. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1968
62. Alvin Dark (52-69) is fired, rehired, and fired again as manager of A's - 1967
63. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open - 1967
64. Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert - 1966
65. Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 home runs while playing together on the same team - 1965
66. Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 U.S. hit) - 1965
67. Lyndon Baines Johnson signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion - 1964
68. President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act - 1964
69. Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 vs. India in only Test Cricket innings - 1964
70. Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders - 1964
71. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. - 1962
72. East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13 - 1961
73. Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses, beat Braves - 1961
74. Senegal breaks from Mali federation, declaring independence - 1960
75. U.S.S.R. recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space - 1960
76. Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months - 1959
77. Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years - 1958
78. Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0 - 1958
79. Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Washington Senators, 6-0 - 1957
80. "Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater New York City for 62 performances - 1957
81. USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m) - 1957
82. White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0 - 1957
83. Republicans convene at Cow Palace - 1956
84. 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale, California - 1955
85. Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria - 1955
86. General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia - 1953
87. Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation - 1953
88. Stalin meets Chou Enlai - 1952
89. 78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland - 1949
90. Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution - 1949
91. 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220) - 1948
92. U.S. expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin - 1948
93. Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time - 1947
94. Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph - 1947
95. Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR - 1945
96. Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament - 1945
97. Russian troops occupy Harbin and Mukden - 1945
98. Tommy Brown, Brooklyn Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17) - 1945
99. 26th PGA Championship: Bob Hamilton at Manito G and CC Spokane Wash - 1944
100. "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway - 1944
101. Gen de Gaulle returns to France - 1944
102. Russian offensive at Jassy and Kisjinev - 1944
103. U.S. and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap - 1944
104. Dim-out regulations implemented in San Francisco - 1942
105. Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males - 1941
106. 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain - 1940
107. British Prime Minister Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" - 1940
108. Leon Trotsky, revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson, dies Aug 21 - 1940
109. 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc) - 1939
110. Russ offensive under gen Zjoekov against Jap invasion in Mongolia - 1939
111. Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd and last grand slam - 1938
112. Milt coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador - 1935
113. Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match - 1934
114. 45th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61) - 1931
115. Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval - 1930
116. Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (New York City) - 1930
117. 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed - 1929
118. Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia - 1926
119. WJR-AM in Detroit Michigan begins radio transmissions - 1925
120. London harbor strike ends - 1923
121. 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris - 1922
122. 35th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats M Browne (46 64 62) - 1921
123. 1st U.S. coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting - 1920
124. Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes - 1920
125. Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal "Ha-Refuah" - 1920
126. Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League - 1920
127. Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland - 1920
128. Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg) - 1919
129. Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I - 1918
130. Italy declares war on Turkey - 1915
131. White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleveland in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, and $31,500 - 1915
132. Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans - 1914
133. Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s - 1914
134. Battle of Bounderies: Lorraine, Ardennen, Sambre and Meuse, Mons - 1914
135. Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny France - 1914
136. German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp - 1914
137. 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pegoud-France) - 1913
138. Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine) - 1913
139. Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect - 1912
140. Washington Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings - 1912
141. U.S. supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua - 1910
142. Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo - 1908
143. Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony - 1901
144. Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games - 1900
145. Dial telephone patented - 1896
146. Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" - 1895
147. Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland - 1893
148. Longest U.S. men's single tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest - 1888
149. Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow - 1882
150. Government Kappeijne of Coppello resigns - 1879
151. President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over - 1866
152. President Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx - 1865
153. 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia (about 3900 casualties) - 1864
154. Wilberforce University forms in Ohio - 1856
155. Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard - 1852
156. Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England - 1795
157. Gen Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio - 1794
158. Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska - 1791
159. George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis - 1781
160. Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland - 1745
161. Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering - 1741
162. Battle of Lens: French duke d'Enghien defeats Spaniards - 1648
163. Britain and Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification - 1641
164. 1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia - 1619
165. Spanish garrison of Sluis surrenders to count Maurice - 1604
166. 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East - 1597
167. English queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: aid to Netherland - 1585
168. Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium - 1566
169. Turkish Admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis - 1534
170. Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko - 1191
171. Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines - 0917
172. Gregory of Tours selected bishop of Tours - 0573
173. Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem - 0002
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