1. Emmy 23rd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 16th time - 1996
2. "Tartuffe: Born Again," opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 29 performances - 1996
3. Laverne and Shirley 20th anniversary reunionn special, televised - 1995
4. Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open - 1994
5. Toronto NBA franchise unveils name "Raptors" and logo - 1994
6. Riddick Bowe TKOs Jesse Ferguson in 2 for heavyweight boxing title - 1993
7. California Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in New Jersey - 1992
8. India launches its Agni rocket - 1992
9. Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of Tonight Show - 1992
10. Inter Milan wins 20th UEFA Cup at Rome - 1991
11. NFL Owners agree to add 2 teams in 1994 - 1991
12. Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea - 1991
13. Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times - 1990
14. Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23 - 1990
15. Final episode of "Newhart" airs - 1990
16. Microsoft releases Windows 3.0 - 1990
17. North and South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen - 1990
18. 34th LPGA Championship won by Sherri Turner - 1988
19. Karoly Grosz succeeds party leader Janos Kadar in Hungary - 1988
20. 30 killed in a Texas tornado - 1987
21. Cher called David Letterman an asshole on Late Night on NBC - 1986
22. Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader - 1985
23. Real Madrid wins 14th UEFA Cup at Madrid - 1985
24. U.S. sailor Michael L. Walker arrested for spying for U.S.S.R. - 1985
25. Pat Bradley wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Tournament - 1983
26. Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR - 1983
27. Soyuz 40 returns to Earth - 1981
28. Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue marry - 1980
29. Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau - 1979
30. Commencement of 1st ICC Trophy (PNG vs. E Afr and Singapore vs. Arg) - 1979
31. Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (94 years) - 1977
32. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic - 1977
33. Red Sox (6) and Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11 - 1977
34. NASA launches space vehicle S-179 - 1976
35. St. Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 HR - 1976
36. 8th ABA Championship: Kentucky Colonels beat Ind Pacers, 4 games to 1 - 1975
37. Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly and dies 14 months later - 1974
38. Soccer team Veendam forms - 1974
39. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1974
40. Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation - 1973
41. President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up - 1973
42. Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified - 1972
43. Ton Sijbrands becomes world checker champion - 1972
44. U.S. president Nixon begins visit Moscow - 1972
45. Arab terrorists kill 9 children and 3 adults on a school bus - 1970
46. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1970
47. Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0 - 1970
48. Stafford and Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface - 1969
49. Pittsburgh Pirate Willie Stargell hits 3 HRs, a double and a single - 1968
50. Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel - 1967
51. Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium) - 1967
52. "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," debuts on NET (now PBS) - 1967
53. 18th Emmy Awards: Fugitive, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore - 1966
54. Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open - 1966
55. Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," single goes #1 - 1965
56. Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic in Omaha, to become NWA champ - 1965
57. "Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious" hits #66 - 1965
58. Lyndon Baines Johnson presents "Great Society" - 1964
59. A. C. Milan wins 8th Europe Cup 1 at London - 1963
60. Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured - 1963
61. Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade - 1963
62. 14th Emmy Awards: Bob Newhart Show, E G Marshall and Shirley Booth - 1962
63. Netherlands telephone net becomes completely automated - 1962
64. Robert A. Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600m - 1962
65. Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game - 1962
66. 1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Needle in Seattle), opens - 1961
67. "Mother-In-Law" by Ernie K-Doe hits #1 - 1961
68. "Touchables In Brooklyn" by Dickie Goodman hits #42 - 1961
69. Virtually all coastal towns between 37th and 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM - 1960
70. Benjamin O Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black gen-major in USAF - 1959
71. KBTexas TV channel 3 in Bryan, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1957
72. Red Sox set AL record by smashing 4 home runs in 6th inning in 11-0 win - 1957
73. South Africa government approves race separation in universities - 1957
74. "Bob Hope Show," last airs on NBC-TV - 1956
75. KRIS TV channel 6 in Corpus Christi, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1956
76. Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th - 1955
77. 80th Preakness: Johnny Adams aboard Hasty Road wins in 1:57.4 - 1954
78. KREX TV channel 5 in Grand Junction, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1954
79. Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed - 1954
80. President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill - 1953
81. Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yanks beat Washington 12-4 - 1953
82. Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey - 1950
83. Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize - 1950
84. Richard Strauss' "4 Last Songs" (4 letzte Lieder) in London - 1950
85. 1st U.S. ballistic missile fired - 1947
86. "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece - 1947
87. Yankees turn triple-play and defeat Tigers' 5-3 - 1946
88. 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa - 1945
89. NSB-Fuhrer Rost van Tonningen attempts and fails at suicide - 1945
90. 1st jet fighter is tested - 1943
91. RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander" - 1943
92. Stalin disbands Komintern - 1943
93. Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany and Japan - 1942
94. British troops attack Baghdad - 1941
95. Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis - 1940
96. Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris - 1940
97. Hitler and Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel" - 1939
98. Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field - 1938
99. Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly sighted by John Mackay - 1933
100. World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated - 1933
101. Canned rattlesnake meat 1st goes on sale in Florida - 1931
102. Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930) - 1930
103. Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 home runs in a game - 1930
104. U.S. Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act - 1928
105. 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed - 1927
106. Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4 - 1927
107. Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China - 1926
108. Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop - 1926
109. "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1 - 1926
110. In Chicago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks - 1924
111. Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier - 1923
112. French troops occupy parts of Fort Douaumont Verdun - 1916
113. Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland) - 1915
114. Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row - 1911
115. 1st San Francisco fireboat, David Scannell, launched - 1909
116. Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Mddx vs. Somerset - 1907
117. 10th anniversary Olympic games close at Athens, Greece - 1906
118. 31st Preakness: Walter Miller aboard Whimsical wins in 1:45 - 1906
119. Wright Brothers patent the aeroplane - 1906
120. Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School - 1905
121. 36th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Mastermam wins in 2:22.6 - 1902
122. Associated Press organizes in New York City as non-profit news cooperative - 1900
123. Edwin S Votey patents pneumatic piano player - 1900
124. Montreal Athletic Association beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game - 1893
125. Dr. Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube - 1892
126. 1st motion picture shown to National Federation of Women's Clubs - 1891
127. Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers - 1888
128. 13th Preakness: Jim McLaughlin aboard Tecumseh wins in 2:49 - 1885
129. 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters - 1884
130. Cub's Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strikes out - 1883
131. 3rd Kentucky Derby: Billy Walker aboard Baden-Baden wins in 2:38 - 1877
132. Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500) - 1872
133. Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in cash - 1868
134. Battle of N Anna River, Virginia (Totopotamy River, Haw's Shop, Hanovertown) - 1864
135. General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg - 1863
136. War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops - 1863
137. Confederacion Granadina (now Colombia) forms - 1858
138. Violence in Senate, South Carolina rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner - 1856
139. Abraham Lincoln patents a buoying device - 1849
140. 1st wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon - 1843
141. Felix Mendelssohn's oratorium "St. Paul," premieres in Dusseldorf - 1836
142. 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga) - 1819
143. Former VP Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Virginia (acquitted) - 1807
144. Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila) - 1807
145. 1st public library opens (Connecticut) - 1803
146. Ceylonese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy - 1784
147. Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty - 1762
148. 1st life insurance policy in U.S., issued in Philadelphia - 1761
149. Russia and Austria signs treaty of cooperation - 1746
150. Emperor Karel VI crowned king of Hungary - 1712
151. France, England and Netherlands sign "Hedges Concerto" treaty - 1659
152. Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign Peace of Lubeck - 1629
153. Earl Mauritius and Willem Louis begins siege of Groningen - 1594
154. 1st atlas, with 70 maps, published - 1570
155. Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence and Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac - 1526
156. Open battle in England's 30-year War of the Roses (St. Albans) - 1455
157. Richard of York takes St. Albans, kidnapping King Henry VI - 1455
158. Jews are expelled/massacred from Brussels Belgium - 1370
159. Peace of Goulet - 1200
160. Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo - 1176
161. 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet - 0760
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