1. Fire breaks out at Palais de Chaillot in Paris - 1997
2. Space shuttle STS-70, Discovery 20, lands - 1995
3. Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her 2 children in South Carolina - 1995
4. 23rd and last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter, since July 16th - 1994
5. Doc Gooden admitted to Betty Ford Center - 1994
6. Mariners play Red Sox as home team at Fenway, as Kingdome is repaired - 1994
7. Military coup in Gambia: President Dawda Jawara flees - 1994
8. O. J. Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder - 1994
9. William Sigei runs world record 10k (26:52.53) - 1994
10. New York Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR - 1993
11. Soyuz TM-17 lands - 1993
12. Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison - 1992
13. Soyuz TM-15 launches - 1992
14. Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978 - 1991
15. 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St. Andrews Scotland - 1990
16. 90th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson - 1990
17. Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament - 1990
18. Greg LeMond of U.S. wins his 3rd Tour de France - 1990
19. Kristin Huxhold, 18, of Missouri, crowned America's Junior Miss - 1989
20. 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research - 1988
21. Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome - 1987
22. Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian) - 1987
23. U.S. began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf - 1987
24. House of Representatives impeaches Judge Harry E. Claiborne on tax evasion - 1986
25. 113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St. Andrews - 1984
26. 22nd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1) - 1984
27. Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win) - 1984
28. Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France - 1984
29. -128.6 degrees F (-89.2 degrees C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record) - 1983
30. Angels OF Brian Downing error ends his record streak at 244 games - 1983
31. Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world - 1983
32. Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law - 1983
33. Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle - 1982
34. Biggest mass wedding, Rev Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in New York City - 1982
35. Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life - 1981
36. Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic - 1979
37. "Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 106 performances - 1976
38. House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to Gen Robert E. Lee - 1975
39. 28th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning - 1973
40. 10.84" (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record) - 1972
41. Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus - 1972
42. Sudan military counter coup under premier Numeiry - 1971
43. Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit - 1969
44. U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 50 and Molniya 1-12 communications satellite - 1969
45. Atlanta Braves use a record 5 pitchers in 9th inning - 1967
46. Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Ladies' Golf Open - 1967
47. Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour - 1967
48. Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of British Cons party - 1965
49. Steve Ballesteros wins British Golf Open - 1964
50. Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles" - 1963
51. Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title - 1963
52. 1st U.S. Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off - 1962
53. 44th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 278 at Aronimink GC PA - 1962
54. Chicago White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles) - 1962
55. Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Tournament - 1962
56. WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1961
57. Cuba nationalizes all U.S. owned sugar factories - 1960
58. Benjamin Britten's "Missa Brevis" in D, premieres - 1959
59. U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island - 1958
60. 1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon - 1955
61. Phillies longest win streak since 1892 hits 11 - 1955
62. Virgin Islands (U.S.) adopts constitution (Revised Organic Act) - 1954
63. WTHI TV channel 10 in Terre Haute, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1954
64. Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution - 1952
65. Gen Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal - 1951
66. Frank Worrell completes 261 vs. England at Trent Bridge - 1950
67. King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium - 1950
68. -8 degrees F (-13 degrees C), Charlotte Pass, NSW (Australian record) - 1947
69. Estelle Bennett, rocker (Ronettes) - 1946
70. Menachen Begin's opposition group surprise attack on King David hotel - 1946
71. Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation - 1944
72. U.S. forces led by Gen George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily - 1943
73. 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks - 1942
74. Gasoline rationing using coupons begins - 1942
75. Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp - 1942
76. Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks - 1940
77. 1st black woman judge, Jane Matilda Bolin, New York City - 1939
78. Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections - 1937
79. Senate rejects Franklin D.. Roosevelt proposal to enlarge Supreme Court - 1937
80. Phillies John Moore hits 3 consecutive HRs - 1936
81. Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia - 1935
82. Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida," New York City-1st negro prima donna in US - 1933
83. Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight - 1933
84. 105 degrees F (41 degrees C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record) - 1926
85. 108 degrees F (42 degrees C), Troy, New York (state record) - 1926
86. Cincinnati Red Curt Walker ties record of 2 triples in an inning - 1926
87. Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher - 1925
88. Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508) - 1923
89. Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St. Louis teams are on top - 1922
90. 25th U.S. Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia CC in MD - 1921
91. De Falla and Massine's "Three-cornered Hat," premieres in London - 1919
92. Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park - 1918
93. Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM - 1917
94. British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades - 1917
95. A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco killing 10 - 1916
96. 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes - 1912
97. Philadelphia Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St. Louis Browns, 6-0 - 1905
98. Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro - 1901
99. Belgica crew see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs-1st to endure Antarct winter - 1898
100. Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful," in Colorado - 1893
101. V E Walker takes 10-104 in an innings for Middlesex vs. Lancs - 1865
102. Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman, 8449 conf, 3641 U.S. die - 1864
103. V E Walker takes 10-74 in an innings for England vs. Surrey - 1859
104. Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain - 1812
105. Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleveland - 1796
106. George Washington takes command of U.S. troops - 1775
107. Turks defeats Holy Roman Emp at Crocyka Yugoslavia and threaten Belgrade - 1739
108. Spain signs Treaty of Vienna - 1731
109. Diamonds found in Minas Geras, Brazil - 1729
110. Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France - 1691
111. City of Albany, New York chartered - 1686
112. 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre - 1648
113. Foundation laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro-palace for king Philip IV - 1632
114. 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC - 1587
115. Willem van Orange moves from Antwerp to Delft - 1582
116. Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Adm Barbarossa - 1535
117. Anna of Bohemia (12) marries Karel van Ferdinand of Austria - 1515
118. Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire - 1515
119. Louis of Hungary (9) marries Maria of Bohemia and succession to Hungarian throne - 1515
120. "Tractate Niddah" a talmudic edition, 1st printed - 1489
121. Treaty of Frankfurt - 1489
122. Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad II - 1456
123. King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France - 1306
124. English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk - 1298
125. St. Dionysius begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0260
126. Dionysius elected as bishop of Rome, succeeding Sixtus II - 0259
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