1. NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild - 1998
2. Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A's for 4th time - 1998
3. STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit - 1998
4. World League of American Football becomes NFL East - 1998
5. Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful - 1997
6. Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed - 1995
7. Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament - 1995
8. 45th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 9-8 at New York Rangers - 1994
9. 5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra - 1994
10. 51st Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Steven Speilberg - 1994
11. East beats West 9-8 in 45th NHL All Star Game at MSG in New York City - 1994
12. Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77 - 1993
13. Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride - 1992
14. Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space - 1992
15. 17th American Music Award: Milli Vanilli - 1990
16. Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide - 1990
17. Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with San Francisco Giants - 1990
18. Superbowl XXIII: San Francisco 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 20-16 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR - 1989
19. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1989
20. 1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad and Tobago vs. Leeward Is - 1988
21. 1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS vs. Transvaal - 1988
22. Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title - 1988
23. "334" club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20" of snow to attend New Jersey Devils 7-5 victory over Calgary at Meadowlands - 1987
24. Blizzard in NJ, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, New Jersey wins 7-5 - 1987
25. Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North - 1986
26. -30 degrees F (-34 degrees C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record) - 1985
27. Cold wave damages 90 percent of Florida's citrus crop - 1985
28. Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA - 1985
29. Zak Starkey (Ringo's son) marries Sarah Menikides - 1985
30. Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 pts - 1984
31. Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates - 1984
32. Superbowl XVIII: Los Angeles Raiders beat Washington Red Skins, 38-9 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Marcus Allen, Los Angeles Raiders, RB - 1984
33. 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds - 1983
34. Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an overtime Portland Trail Blazers out score them 17-0 and win 113-96 - 1983
35. 75% of North America is covered by snow - 1982
36. 40th Islander shut-out opponent-3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th - 1981
37. O A "Bum" Phillips becomes head coach of New Orleans Saints - 1981
38. Dissidents Andrei Sacharov and Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki - 1980
39. PGA begins a senior golf tour - 1980
40. West Indies beat England 2-0 to win 1st World Series Cup - 1980
41. Bank robbery in Beirut nets a record $20-50 million - 1976
42. Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched - 1975
43. George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title - 1973
44. Roe vs Wade: U.S. Supreme Court legalizes some abortions - 1973
45. US, North and South Vietnam and Vietcong sign boundary accord - 1973
46. 22nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 112-110 at LA - 1972
47. "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV - 1972
48. John and Yoko record "Power to the People" - 1971
49. 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, New York to London in 6 hours - 1970
50. Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa vs. Australia, Cape Town - 1970
51. Billy Preston becomes 5th Beatle - 1969
52. "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 110 performances - 1969
53. Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit - 1969
54. Roy Campanella and Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame - 1969
55. Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made - 1968
56. NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee and Phoenix - 1968
57. "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC - 1968
58. NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-10 - 1967
59. U.S. launches TIROS 9 weather satellite - 1965
60. Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia) - 1964
61. World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin - 1964
62. Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Naples Professional Golf Tournament - 1963
63. 10th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 125-115 at Philadelphia - 1960
64. Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die - 1960
65. French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu - 1960
66. Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title - 1960
67. USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects - 1959
68. KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC) 1st broadcast - 1958
69. Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula - 1957
70. Mad Bomber (George P. Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested - 1957
71. 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles - 1956
72. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open - 1956
73. Canadian Football Council forms - 1956
74. Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms - 1955
75. Arthur Miller's "Crucible," premieres in New York City - 1953
76. Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom - 1951
77. Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter - 1951
78. Polly Riley wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open - 1950
79. "All for Love" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 121 performances - 1949
80. Chinatown telephone exchange closed - 1949
81. Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his 1st Test Cricket innings vs. WI Barbados - 1948
82. 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA - 1947
83. KTLA TV channel 5 in Los Angeles, California (IND) begins broadcasting - 1947
84. US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency - 1946
85. Burma highway reopens - 1945
86. Heavy U.S. air raid on Okinawa - 1945
87. During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy - 1944
88. 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, California (state record) - 1943
89. Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach[1944]- - 1943
90. Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily for July 10th - 1943
91. Temperature rises 49 degrees F (9 degrees C) in 2 minutes in Spearfish, SD - 1943
92. Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain - 1942
93. Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06) - 1942
94. 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania - 1941
95. British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians - 1941
96. 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS - 1940
97. Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, SF, is dedicated - 1939
98. Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University - 1939
99. "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH, premieres (NJ) - 1938
100. French Laval government falls - 1936
101. Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady MacBeth," premieres in Leningrad - 1934
102. British Anglicans and Old-Catholic church merge - 1932
103. French government of Steeg falls - 1931
104. VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam - 1931
105. -35 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record) - 1930
106. Belgian chief of staff Gen Maglinse quits - 1926
107. Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu - 1925
108. Baldwin government resigns in England - 1924
109. Dutch Blast Furnace and Steel Factory opens - 1924
110. KGO-AM in San Francisco, California begins radio transmissions - 1924
111. Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet) - 1918
112. Paul Claudel's "L'echange," premieres in Paris - 1914
113. Opera "Germania," premieres in New York City - 1910
114. Vassily Kandinsky forms Kunstlerverein in Munich - 1909
115. Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops - 1905
116. After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series and begins King Edward VII series - 1901
117. National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati - 1895
118. Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in New York City - 1890
119. England complete 1st innings victory in Tests vs. Aust MCG - 1883
120. Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park - 1881
121. James Shields (D) elected U.S. senator from Missouri after previously serving as U.S. senator from Illinois and Minnesota - 1879
122. Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa - 1879
123. Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die - 1873
124. Union Gen Burnside's "Mud March" - 1863
125. Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20 - 1862
126. Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover - 1859
127. National Association of Baseball Players founded, New York - 1857
128. Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif - 1850
129. Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands - 1837
130. Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of Art exam - 1831
131. English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia - 1817
132. Lord Byron completes "Parisina" and "Siege of Corinth" - 1816
133. 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in U.S. held, New York City - 1814
134. Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada - 1813
135. Coup of Midderigh - 1798
136. Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland - 1775
137. Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain - 1771
138. Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French - 1760
139. Russian troops occupy Konigsberg, East Prussia - 1758
140. Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French - 1690
141. Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of Lords - 1689
142. Prince Willem III calls English parliament together - 1689
143. Postal service between New York and Boston inaugurated - 1673
144. Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia) - 1588
145. Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812) - 1584
146. English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis and William Byrd music press monopoly - 1575
147. England and France declare war on Emperor Charles V - 1528
148. Turks conquer Cairo - 1517
149. Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany - 1510
150. King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned - 1371
151. Battle at Basing: Danish invasion army beats Ethelred of Wessex - 0871
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