1. Pope John Paul II visits Cuba - 1998
2. 53th Golden Globes: Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta - 1996
3. Karrie Webb wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament - 1996
4. U.S. male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo - 1996
5. 52th Golden Globes: Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange - 1995
6. Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20) - 1994
7. Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane of chopping off spouse's penis - 1994
8. Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77 - 1993
9. Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder - 1993
10. CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf - 1991
11. 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh - 1990
12. Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players assn exec director - 1990
13. John McEnroe becomes 1st ever expelled from Australian Open - 1990
14. Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic - 1990
15. A woman is assaulted and raped in room of an Oklahoma football player - 1989
16. Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer - 1989
17. US accept immigration of 30,000 U.S. - Vietnamese children - 1988
18. BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to the University of Mississippi - 1987
19. 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38 degrees F (3 degrees C), Indiana - 1986
20. Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA - 1986
21. Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed - 1986
22. -19 degrees F (-28 degrees C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record) - 1985
23. -34 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Mt Mitchell, North Carolina (state record) - 1985
24. Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java - 1985
25. Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals - 1985
26. U.S. male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton - 1984
27. Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht - 1983
28. Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for U.S. military aid - 1983
29. "Little Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 36 performances - 1982
30. New York Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak - 1982
31. Bernhard Goetz is assault for 1st time on a New York subway train - 1981
32. "Shakespeare's Cabaret" opens at Bijou Theater New York City for 54 performances - 1981
33. Gold hits record $850 an ounce - 1980
34. Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal - 1980
35. Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer) - 1979
36. Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz - 1979
37. Superbowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB - 1979
38. Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks - 1978
39. Italy legalizes abortion - 1977
40. President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders - 1977
41. Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain and France - 1976
42. 28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal - 1975
43. Gold hits record $161.31/silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London - 1974
44. 3rd NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 33-28 - 1973
45. Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger" - 1973
46. Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh terr - 1972
47. Belgium government of Eyskens-Cools forms - 1972
48. Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become separate states of Indian union - 1972
49. Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory - 1972
50. "Alias Smith and Jones" premieres on ABC TV - 1971
51. Panama Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London - 1970
52. 22nd NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 3-3 at Montreal - 1969
53. AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24 - 1968
54. NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20 - 1968
55. U.S. B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland - 1968
56. AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-23 - 1967
57. U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming - 1967
58. U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti - 1967
59. Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd - 1966
60. Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured - 1965
61. Carl T. Rowan named director of U.S. Information Agency - 1964
62. John F. Kennedy arrives in Uruguay - 1962
63. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational - 1962
64. Snow falls in San Francisco - 1962
65. "Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 8 performances - 1961
66. KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls, ID (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1961
67. Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria - 1961
68. Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km - 1960
69. Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning - 1960
70. KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1958
71. Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City (doesn't happen) - 1958
72. KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1957
73. "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden New York City after 849 performances - 1956
74. William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker - 1956
75. 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City) - 1954
76. John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State - 1953
77. Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India - 1952
78. Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open - 1951
79. "Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater New York City after 460 performances - 1950
80. NY jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury - 1950
81. T. S. Eliot's "Cocktail Party," premieres in New York City - 1950
82. 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman) - 1949
83. W Indies vs. England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes and Jim Laker - 1948
84. Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel - 1947
85. "Sweethearts" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 288 performances - 1947
86. "Nellie Bly" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 16 performances - 1946
87. British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma - 1945
88. 447 German bombers attack London - 1944
89. 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg - 1944
90. Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad - 1943
91. Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk - 1943
92. Vice-admiral Cunningham appointed British adm of fleet - 1943
93. Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal - 1942
94. Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump" - 1942
95. Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain - 1942
96. Tito's partisans occupy Foca - 1942
97. 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria - 1941
98. 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX - 1941
99. Australia and Britain attack Tobruk Libya - 1941
100. British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned - 1941
101. Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship - 1940
102. George Kaufman and Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in New York City - 1939
103. U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer - 1939
104. U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee - 1939
105. Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance - 1938
106. 12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Washington (state record) - 1935
107. WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ) - 1935
108. Wilderness Society forms - 1935
109. U.S.S.R. and Finland stop non-attack treaty - 1932
110. Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London - 1929
111. 1st national opera broadcast from a U.S. opera house (Faust, Chicago) - 1927
112. Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties - 1926
113. Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe pres - 1925
114. 1st slalom ski race run, Murren, Switzerland - 1922
115. Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland - 1919
116. Kiwanis International founded in Detroit - 1915
117. Aristide Briand forms French government - 1913
118. British-Russian military intervention in Persia - 1910
119. August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten," premieres in Stockholm - 1908
120. New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public - 1908
121. Kenora Thistles sweep Mont Wanderers in 2 for Stanley Cup - 1907
122. Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," premieres in Brno - 1904
123. Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam - 1903
124. International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle New York City - 1903
125. "Wizard of Oz," premieres in New York City - 1903
126. Clyde Fitch's "Climbers," premieres in New York City - 1901
127. Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 sec - 1894
128. 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper - 1890
129. Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms - 1887
130. 1st U.S. sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis - 1880
131. Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem," premieres in Copenhagen - 1879
132. Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Vienna - 1874
133. City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years - 1863
134. Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign - 1861
135. Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Mass - 1853
136. 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News" - 1846
137. Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported - 1830
138. Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing - 1827
139. Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa - 1824
140. Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die - 1821
141. Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair" - 1818
142. Pineapple introduced to Hawaii - 1813
143. Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced - 1799
144. Prussia and Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided) - 1793
145. 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published - 1789
146. Russia and Persia sign Treaty of Riascha - 1732
147. 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston - 1677
148. Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army - 1664
149. Tsar Ivan IV defeats False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar - 1604
150. Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard - 1542
151. Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope - 1522
152. Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai and Shingon - 1324
153. Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V - 1276
154. Philip II, Henry II and Richard Lion hearted initiate 3rd Crusade - 1189
155. German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness - 1077
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