1. Patent on RSA cryptograph algorithm ends - 2000
2. Yanks clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive - 1997
3. Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central - 1995
4. Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands - 1994
5. Colleen Walker wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic - 1992
6. Frances votes in favor of Maastricht treaty - 1992
7. Leanza Cornett (Florida), 21, crowned 66th Miss America 1993 - 1992
8. Phils' Mickey Moradini makes an unassisted triple play - 1992
9. Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands - 1992
10. Lion's Terry Taylor reinstated after 1 year drug related suspension - 1991
11. Both Germanys ratify reunification - 1990
12. Saddam Hussein demands U.S. networks broadcast his message - 1990
13. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1990
14. FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa - 1989
15. Musical "Miss Saigon," premieres in London - 1989
16. US Air overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, 2 people die - 1989
17. Darrell Evans hits his 400th career home run - 1988
18. Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving - 1988
19. Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons - 1988
20. 39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis and Sharon Gless wins - 1987
21. Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race - 1987
22. "Big River" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 1005 performances - 1987
23. Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions - 1987
24. Jan Stephenson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic - 1987
25. Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown - 1987
26. Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State - 1986
27. Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players - 1985
28. Walt Disney World receives its 200-millionth guest - 1985
29. "Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV - 1984
30. Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time - 1984
31. Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23 - 1984
32. 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play New York Mets at Shea Stadium - 1983
33. Cryptographic Communications System and Method (RSA) patented - 1983
34. Jalaluddin takes a one-day hat-trick Pakistan vs. Australia - 1982
35. NFL players begin a 57 day strike - 1982
36. 24th Ryder Cup: U.S., 18 -9 at Walton Heath GC, England - 1981
37. Belize declares independence - 1981
38. Joe Danelo kicks then New York Giant record 55 yard field goal - 1981
39. Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic - 1981
40. Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium - 1980
41. George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good - 1980
42. Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium - 1980
43. Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out - 1980
44. Coup in Central African Rep: David Dacko overthrows emperor Bokassa I - 1979
45. Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola - 1979
46. NASA launches HEAO - 1979
47. "Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 439 performances - 1978
48. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1978
49. Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany - 1978
50. "Estrada" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 7 performances - 1977
51. Vietnam and Djibouti ask for membership in U.N. - 1977
52. Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune - 1977
53. Metroliner official opens in Brussels - 1976
54. Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women - 1976
55. Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion - 1976
56. 21st Ryder Cup: U.S., 21-11 at Laurel Valley GC Pa - 1975
57. David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks - 1975
58. Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28" draw - 1975
59. Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match - 1973
60. Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season - 1973
61. Police find cannabis growing on Paul and Linda McCartney's farm - 1972
62. Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior - 1970
63. Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample - 1970
64. 18th Ryder Cup: Draw, 16-16 at Royal Birkdale, England - 1969
65. Archies' "Sugar Sugar" hits #1 - 1969
66. Pittsburgh Pirate Bob Moose no-hits New York Mets, 4-0 - 1969
67. Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536 - 1968
68. Benin separates from Nigeria - 1967
69. British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank, Scotland - 1967
70. Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38 - 1967
71. WCAE TV channel 50 in St. John, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1967
72. WCIX TV channel 6 in Miami, Florida (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1967
73. U.S. Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23 - 1966
74. WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1965
75. Gunter Grass' "Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand," premieres in Berlin - 1964
76. Paramount Theater (New York City) presented the Beatles with Steve and Eydie - 1964
77. John F. Kennedy proposes a joint U.S. - Soviet voyage to the moon - 1963
78. Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria - 1962
79. Gov R Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Univ (James Meredith) - 1962
80. After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls - 1961
81. James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi - 1961
82. Roger Maris hits home run # 59 and barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yanks clinch pennant #26 - 1961
83. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. - 1961
84. U.N. General Assembly admit 13 African countries and Cyprus (96 nations) - 1960
85. WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1960
86. Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open - 1959
87. Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits New York Yankees 1-0 - 1958
88. Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo) - 1958
89. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. - 1958
90. Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH - 1955
91. Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRS in a season - 1955
92. 1st FORTRAN computer program run - 1954
93. 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution - 1954
94. KETC TV channel 9 in Saint Louis, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1954
95. Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Angeles - 1954
96. Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy - 1954
97. Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR - 1953
98. KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting - 1952
99. 1st North Pole jet crossing - 1951
100. NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball - 1951
101. Swiss males votes against female suffrage - 1951
102. Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3% - 1949
103. Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional - 1949
104. "Magdalena" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 48 performances - 1948
105. Mexican Baseball league disbanded - 1948
106. Churchill argues for a "US of Europe" - 1946
107. German rocket engineers begin work in U.S. - 1945
108. Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth - 1944
109. Liberator bombers sinks U-338 - 1943
110. Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m - 1942
111. British fleet takes German U-27 boat - 1939
112. Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title - 1939
113. Dmitri Shostakovitch's Suite for jazz orchestra, premieres - 1938
114. Emlyn Williams' "Corn is Green," premieres in London - 1938
115. Pitts Crawfords beat New York Cubans to win Negro NL Championship, 3-0 - 1935
116. Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2 - 1933
117. Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant - 1932
118. Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer - 1932
119. Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables - 1932
120. Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184 - 1931
121. New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th HR of season off Tom Zachry - 1927
122. Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams - 1924
123. Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats New York Giants to win 300th game - 1924
124. Goodman and Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in New York City - 1922
125. Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games - 1922
126. 2nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers CC Roslyn NY - 1919
127. Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 HRs - 1919
128. Booth Tarkington's "Clarence," premieres in New York City - 1919
129. Royal Dutch Blast furnace and Steel factory opens in Hague - 1918
130. British assault on Polygon-forest, France - 1917
131. 19th U.S. Golf Open: Francis Ouimet shoots a 304 at The Country Club MA - 1913
132. Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header - 1911
133. Chicago White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Philadelphia 1-0 - 1908
134. Cleveland makes AL record 7 errors in an inning - 1905
135. George Ade's "College Widow," premieres in New York City - 1904
136. Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II - 1904
137. Chicago White Sox Jim Callahan no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0 - 1902
138. John Mcdermott wins 1st U.S. marathon (New York City) - 1896
139. 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria - 1884
140. Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and VP - 1884
141. Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president - 1881
142. U.S. Grants come to San Francisco for elaborate extended visit - 1879
143. Chase National Bank opens in New York City (later merges into Chase Manhattan) - 1877
144. Ottawa Football Club forms - 1876
145. Panic sweeps New York Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) New York shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal - 1873
146. Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French - 1870
147. Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing New York treasury - 1870
148. Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel - 1870
149. Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee, ends - 1863
150. Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union - 1861
151. 1st British royalty to visit U.S., Prince of Wales (King Edward VII) - 1860
152. George Simpson patents electric range - 1859
153. Battle at Alma Krim: 1,000 British soldiers died - 1854
154. British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in Crimea - 1854
155. Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue - 1850
156. 1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem) - 1839
157. Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires - 1833
158. 1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods - 1830
159. Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory," premieres in Paris - 1828
160. U.S. frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston - 1797
161. British troops under maj-gen Williamson lands on (French) Haiti - 1793
162. French defeat Prussians at Valmy - 1792
163. Prince Willem V returns to Hague - 1787
164. Paoli massacre - 1777
165. Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland - 1746
166. Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war) - 1697
167. French troops occupies Palts - 1688
168. 2nd West Indie Company forms - 1674
169. Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women and black men - 1664
170. 1st battle at Newbury: King Charles I vs Robert Devereux' armies - 1643
171. Battle at Jassy: Turks beat king Sigismund III of Poland - 1620
172. Spanish army under Spinola recaptures Oostende - 1604
173. Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Florida and massacre the French - 1565
174. Luther advises protestant monarch compromise - 1530
175. Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of world - 1519
176. Robert de Geneve, "butcher of Cesena" crowned anti-pope Clemens VII - 1378
177. Cathedral of Salisbury inaugurated - 1258
178. Prophet Mohammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina) - 0622
179. General Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne - 0451
180. Emperor Valentinianus visits Nijmegen - 0368
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