1. Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract - 1997
2. Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA - 1997
3. Nancy Kerring and Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5 - 1997
4. Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yds for TD - 1996
5. Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge - 1996
6. Zimbabwe and England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with Eng need 1 to win - 1996
7. David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with New York Yankees - 1995
8. "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 18 performances - 1994
9. Italian government of Berlusconi resigns - 1994
10. Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die - 1992
11. Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait - 1990
12. Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 U.S. servicemen - 1990
13. Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president - 1990
14. -18 degrees F in Denver, -23 degrees F in Kansas City, Missouri, -42 degrees F in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47 degrees F in Hardin Mont and -60 degrees F in Black Hills South Dakota - 1989
15. After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu - 1989
16. Chad adopts its Constitution - 1989
17. Cold wave: -4 degrees F in Oklahoma City, -6 degrees F in Tulsa, -12 degrees F in Pitts, - 1989
18. 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ - 1988
19. South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa - 1988
20. Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA and BC coast - 1988
21. Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin - 1987
22. India score 7-676 vs. Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket - 1986
23. 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2) - 1985
24. STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B - 1985
25. "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 4 performances - 1985
26. Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on New York City subway train - 1984
27. Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks - 1984
28. Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, vs. WI at the MCG - 1984
29. Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat - 1983
30. Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps - 1983
31. William Mastrosimones "Extremities," premieres in New York City - 1982
32. Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president - 1981
33. Belgium's 5th government of Martens forms - 1981
34. Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds - 1980
35. Pres-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) and James Watt (Interior) - 1980
36. Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer - 1978
37. Thailand adopts constitution - 1978
38. 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes - 1977
39. 35 Unification church couples wed in New York City - 1976
40. German DR banishes singer Nina Hagen - 1976
41. "Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum New York City for 429 performances - 1976
42. 2nd cease-fire between IRA and British; lasts until approx April 1975 - 1974
43. Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals - 1974
44. Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French - 1974
45. 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed - 1972
46. KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1971
47. U.N. General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General - 1971
48. U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test - 1971
49. Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment - 1970
50. Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots - 1969
51. Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower - 1968
52. WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1966
53. Belgian government shuts 6 coal mine - 1965
54. Director David Lean's "Dr. Zhivago," premieres - 1965
55. Great-Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH - 1965
56. Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up - 1965
57. Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) - 1964
58. Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49) - 1963
59. Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends - 1963
60. 1,000,000th NBA point scored - 1962
61. Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s - 1962
62. Kinderman Place in the Bronx named - 1962
63. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. - 1962
64. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1961
65. Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Ft. Worth - 1959
66. NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask - 1959
67. 2nd Dutch Beel government forms - 1958
68. "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1 - 1958
69. "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 56 performances - 1958
70. KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins - 1957
71. Last British/French troops leave Egypt - 1956
72. "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 221 performances - 1956
73. Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St. Louis Browns - 1953
74. French government of Pinay, resigns - 1952
75. WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting - 1952
76. Australia cricket all out 82 vs. West Indies at Adelaide - 1951
77. 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77 - 1950
78. KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, California (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1948
79. Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution - 1947
80. "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 54 performances - 1946
81. Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game - 1946
82. Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established - 1945
83. Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium - 1944
84. Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan - 1944
85. Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core - 1943
86. WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters - 1943
87. Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines - 1941
88. Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia - 1941
89. Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference - 1941
90. 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany - 1939
91. 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany - 1939
92. Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 vs. Queensland - 1939
93. Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo - 1939
94. Lincoln Tunnel, in New York City, opens to traffic - 1937
95. 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa - 1936
96. Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura - 1935
97. 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934) - 1934
98. Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games - 1934
99. 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo - 1930
100. Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St. Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2 - 1924
101. Philip Barry's "Youngest," premieres in New York City - 1924
102. Bill Ponsford and Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict - 1923
103. Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent - 1922
104. Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland) - 1919
105. US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman - 1919
106. Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack - 1917
107. Federal Baseball League disolved - 1915
108. Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati - 1915
109. U.S. postal savings stamps 1st issued - 1910
110. Saint-Saens/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St. Petersburg - 1907
111. Debussy's "Prelude l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres - 1894
112. Dutch coast hit by hurricane - 1894
113. French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated) - 1894
114. United States Golf Association forms (New York City) - 1894
115. Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain - 1888
116. 1st national accountants' society in U.S. formed (New York City) - 1886
117. Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee - 1885
118. August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja," premieres - 1883
119. 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison - 1882
120. "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Massachusetts) - 1877
121. Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse - 1870
122. HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands - 1832
123. Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest Jose Maria Morelos - 1815
124. British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480 - 1810
125. Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain and France - 1807
126. Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks - 1790
127. Continental Navy organized with 7 ships - 1775
128. Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny - 1772
129. Dutch people revolt against meat tax - 1731
130. English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead - 1715
131. Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck - 1689
132. Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York - 1688
133. Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente - 1642
134. Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die - 1596
135. English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal - 1536
136. Peace of St. Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik - 1465
137. Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus" - 1216
138. Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king - 1135
139. Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I - 0795
140. St. Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0401
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