1. Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Atl Ocean (4m56s) - 2001
2. 98th U.S. Golf Open: at Olympic Club SF - 1998
3. 35th NHL draft Boston picks center Joe Thornton 1st - 1997
4. "Defending the Caveman," closes at Helen Hayes New York City after 671 performances - 1997
5. Women's National Basketball Association begins as New York Liberty beats LA Sparks - 1997
6. Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal) - 1994
7. "Camelot" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 56 performances - 1993
8. English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat - 1993
9. STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit - 1993
10. 92nd U.S. Golf Open: Tom Kite shoots a 285 at Pebble Beach GL California - 1992
11. Actor Michael Chiklis (Commish) marries Michelle Epstein - 1992
12. Actress Marina Sirtis, Star Trek NG, marries rocker Michael Lamper - 1992
13. Danielle Ammaccapan wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open - 1992
14. Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham and Allan Lamb - 1992
15. Islanders Denis Potvan and Michael Bossy inducted into NHL Hall of Fame - 1991
16. Jorg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia - 1991
17. New York Islanders Denis Potvin and Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame - 1991
18. At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a New York Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!" - 1990
19. Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame - 1990
20. Parliament of W and E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens - 1990
21. U.S. House of Representatives vote 254-177 to stop U.S. flag burning, doesn't pass - 1990
22. Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium - 1989
23. Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson remarry - 1989
24. Supreme Court rules ok to burn U.S. flag as a political expression - 1989
25. Yankees trade Rickey Henderson to A's for Plunk, Cadaret and Polonia - 1989
26. 42nd NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3 - 1988
27. Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon - 1988
28. Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years - 1988
29. 87th U.S. Golf Open: Scott Simpson shoots a 277 at Olympic Club in SF - 1987
30. Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open - 1987
31. Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB - 1987
32. Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant - 1987
33. Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with Kansas City Royals - 1986
34. Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record) - 1986
35. "Living on Video" by Trans-X peaks at #61 - 1986
36. President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments - 1986
37. "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18 - 1986
38. American, Brazilian and West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele - 1985
39. Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss - 1983
40. Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery - 1983
41. John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity - 1982
42. Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away" - 1982
43. Washington D.C. jury finds John Hinckley, Jr. innocent by insanity - 1982
44. 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000 - 1981
45. 81st U.S. Golf Open: David Graham shoots 273 at Merion GC in Ardmore Pa - 1981
46. Don Fagan and Walter Becker quit Steely Dan - 1981
47. Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf - 1981
48. Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200 - 1981
49. Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election - 1981
50. Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy - 1979
51. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Rice's musical "Evita," premiers in London - 1978
52. Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison - 1977
53. Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM - 1977
54. Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy - 1976
55. Elton John, Eagles and Beach Boys play Wembley - 1975
56. "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg opens - 1975
57. Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow - 1975
58. Soyuz 19 returns to Earth - 1975
59. West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win Cricket World Cup - 1975
60. 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana - 1971
61. 71st U.S. Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 280 at Merion GC in Ardmore PA - 1971
62. Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf - 1971
63. International Court of Justice asks South-Africa to pull out of Namibia - 1971
64. 70th U.S. Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine National Minn - 1970
65. Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup, in Mexico City - 1970
66. Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892 - 1970
67. Judy Rankin wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic - 1970
68. Dmitri Shostakovitch's 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow - 1969
69. John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m) - 1969
70. Zager and Evans release "In the Year 2525" - 1969
71. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns - 1968
72. Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th and lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th and Yanks beat them 6-3 - 1967
73. Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam - 1966
74. 65th U.S. Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive CC in St. Louis - 1965
75. Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later - 1964
76. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open - 1964
77. Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day, in 2nd game of DH, Mets get 3 hits, 3 being fewest hits in NL DH - 1964
78. Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII - 1963
79. USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m - 1962
80. Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0) - 1960
81. Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere - 1956
82. German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners - 1956
83. Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters - 1956
84. John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0) - 1954
85. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open - 1952
86. "17" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 180 performances - 1951
87. Patty Berg wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open - 1951
88. Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones - 1951
89. Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit - 1950
90. 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I - 1948
91. 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced (DR Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records) - 1948
92. Columbia commits to 33 1/3 rpm records, plans to phase out 78's as Dr. Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates "long playing record" - 1948
93. Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor-General of India - 1948
94. Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens - 1948
95. WNAC (now KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1948
96. 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas - 1946
97. Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million - 1946
98. Fed judge rules Seattle club doesn't have to play returning serviceman - 1946
99. U.S. defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WW II - 1945
100. Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead - 1943
101. 129 degrees F (54 degrees C), Tirat Zevi, Israel - 1942
102. Jacqueline Kennedy's mother marries Hugh Auchincloss - 1942
103. President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. - 1942
104. Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa - 1942
105. Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m) - 1942
106. 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria - 1941
107. After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns - 1941
108. German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State - 1940
109. Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - 1939
110. New York Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement - 1939
111. Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit - 1938
112. Bradman scores 101* in 77 minutes, Australia vs. Lancashire - 1938
113. French People's front government-Blum falls - 1937
114. 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans - 1933
115. Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling (New York City) - 1932
116. Jack Sharkey beats Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title - 1932
117. Ruth hits 3 home runs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th and lose 15-7 - 1930
118. NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms - 1924
119. Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud - 1923
120. HSC '21 soccer team forms in Haaksbergen - 1921
121. Bauer forms German government - 1919
122. German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet - 1919
123. Hawaiian Red Cross forms - 1917
124. Boston Rube Forster no-hits New York Yankees, 2-0 - 1916
125. Mexican troops beat U.S. expeditionary force under Gen Pershing - 1916
126. Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of Gen De Law - 1915
127. Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane - 1913
128. 13th U.S. Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Philadelphia Cricket Club PA - 1907
129. E. W. Scripps founded United Press - 1907
130. Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to New York club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913) - 1904
131. Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place - 1903
132. Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers - 1900
133. Guam becomes a territory of U.S. - 1898
134. British Roseberry government falls - 1895
135. Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company - 1894
136. 1st Ferris wheel premieres, Chicago's Columbian Exposition - 1893
137. Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria - 1887
138. F. W. Woolworth opens 1st store, failed almost immediately - 1879
139. Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg," premieres in Munich - 1868
140. Battle at Upperville Virginia, 389 casualities - 1863
141. Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe - 1858
142. Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels - 1849
143. Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine - 1834
144. African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (New York City) - 1821
145. Great Stoneface Mt. found in New Hampshire - 1805
146. Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil and Mexicana off Vancouver, BC - 1792
147. Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne - 1791
148. U.S. Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire is 9th to ratify - 1788
149. Vizille France population demands local parliament - 1788
150. 1st U.S. bachelor of medicine degree, Dr. John Archer - 1768
151. Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Neth - 1749
152. King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter - 1684
153. Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded - 1672
154. French troops under king Louis XIV occupy Utrecht - 1672
155. Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England - 1667
156. Treaty of Kardis: Russia and Sweden sign peace treaty - 1661
157. Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views - 1633
158. 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown - 1607
159. Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda - 1572
160. Great fire in Moscow - 1547
161. Battle at Landriano: Leyva beats France - 1529
162. Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian - 1498
163. Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats Diederik - 1128
164. Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German emperor of Elzas - 0996
165. Battle at Vezerone: Burgundy beats France - 0524
|
