1. Pope John Paul II condemns U.S. embargo against Cuba - 1998
2. Chris Cairns scores 120, 96 balls, 10x4, 9x6 in Test NZ vs. Zim - 1996
3. Bernie Kosar is 2nd QB to throw TD passes in AFC and NFC Champ games - 1994
4. Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Hercegovina - 1994
5. 50th Golden Globes: Scent of a Woman, wins - 1993
6. Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack - 1993
7. Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die - 1993
8. NY Newsday reports Ore Sen Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women - 1993
9. U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan - 1993
10. "Visit" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances - 1992
11. Seinfeld debuts on NBC-TV - 1991
12. World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait - 1991
13. Dean Jones scores twin Test tons vs. Pakistan at Adelaide Oval - 1990
14. Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court - 1989
15. NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak - 1989
16. 45th Golden Globes: Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas - 1988
17. 62nd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (61 76) - 1988
18. Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-pt game in a televised title match - 1988
19. Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands - 1988
20. Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss) - 1987
21. Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion) - 1987
22. 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Bros, B Holly, J L Lewis and Elvis Presley) - 1986
23. Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB - 1986
24. "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 13 performances - 1986
25. Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised - 1985
26. Buffalo Sabres win NHL record 10th straight road game - 1984
27. Greatest unpaced 1-hr bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km - 1984
28. Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ - 1984
29. "A-Team" with Mr. T premieres on NBC - 1983
30. Bjorn Borg announces his retirement from tennis - 1983
31. Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $14,700,000 - 1983
32. In NBA, Portland scores all 17 pts in overtime to beat Houston 113-96 - 1983
33. Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean - 1983
34. Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:40.97) - 1983
35. Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approx date) - 1982
36. World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2 - 1982
37. 1st Richard Nixon museum opens in San Clemente, California - 1981
38. Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin - 1981
39. Mike Bossy becomes 1st in NHL to score 50 goals in 50 games - 1981
40. Red Sox trade Fred Lynn to Angels for Frank Tanana and Joe Rudi - 1981
41. Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - 1979
42. Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris - 1978
43. NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 14-13 - 1978
44. $1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris - 1977
45. Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC - 1977
46. Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, vs. WI Adelaide - 1976
47. Washington Caps end 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) beat New York Rangers 7-5 - 1976
48. "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV - 1975
49. Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame - 1975
50. 1st edition of women's magazine "Story" - 1974
51. 23rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 104-84 at Chicago - 1973
52. Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs - 1973
53. Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims - 1973
54. President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War - 1973
55. 2nd AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 26-13 - 1972
56. Ard Schenk becomes European all-round skating champ - 1972
57. Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi - 1972
58. Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest - 1972
59. NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-13 - 1972
60. 4th ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 122 at Carolina - 1971
61. -80 degrees F (-62 degrees C) in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska (US record) - 1971
62. UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row - 1971
63. Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (Calif) - 1970
64. Dolle Mina's burns her bra in Amsterdam - 1970
65. U.S. launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1 - 1970
66. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1970
67. Cream releases their last album "Goodbye" - 1969
68. Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - 1968
69. Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea - 1968
70. Stan Musial is named GM of Cards - 1967
71. Boston Celtic center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in loss to Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt Chamberlain - 1965
72. BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Dick Weber - 1965
73. "King Family Show" (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV - 1965
74. 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections - 1964
75. Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," premieres in New York City - 1964
76. Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - 1962
77. British spy Kim Philby defects to U.S.S.R. - 1962
78. Libya, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb - 1962
79. Supreme Court rules cities and states have right to censor films - 1961
80. Venezuela adopts constitution - 1961
81. Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m) - 1960
82. "Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 60 performances - 1958
83. Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez flees Venezuela, Larrazabal takes power - 1958
84. Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs. West Indies - 1958
85. Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open - 1955
86. KORK (now KVBC) TV channel 3 in Las Vegas, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast - 1955
87. Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP - 1954
88. Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games) - 1954
89. Bobby Simpson makes 1st-class debut for NSW 16 years 357 days - 1953
90. NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts) - 1953
91. NFL's National and American conference become Eastern and Western conf - 1953
92. 3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young and Gertrude Berg - 1951
93. 3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published - 1950
94. AP picks "Miracle Braves" of 1914 as greatest sports upset - 1950
95. Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel - 1950
96. NFL rule changes open way for 2-platoon system (offense and defense) - 1950
97. Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung - 1950
98. Bradman scores 201 in 272 mins vs. India, 21 fours 1 six - 1948
99. Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens - 1948
100. Test debut of Neil Harvey, vs. India at Adelaide - 1948
101. Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA - 1946
102. Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation - 1945
103. Arnold Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon," premieres in New York City - 1944
104. Det Red Wings score 15 goals against New York Rangers and NHL record 37 points, also most consecutive goals and most lopsided game 15-0 - 1944
105. 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp, California (state record) - 1943
106. British 8th army marches into Tripoli - 1943
107. Detroit Red Wings scores NHL record 8 goals in 1 period - 1943
108. Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured - 1943
109. Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain - 1942
110. Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army - 1942
111. Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center - 1941
112. WOR-AM in Newark New Jersey moves to New York City - 1941
113. Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile - 1940
114. Karl Radek and 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge - 1937
115. Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curacao forms - 1936
116. 20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations to 1/20 - 1933
117. El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers - 1932
118. Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto - 1930
119. George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia established - 1930
120. WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia South Carolina begins radio transmissions - 1930
121. "Abenteuer of brave Soldier Schwejk" premieres in Berlin - 1928
122. Eugene O'Neill's "Great God Brown," premieres in New York City - 1926
123. Ramsey MacDonald forms 1st Labour government in Britain - 1924
124. Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th) - 1923
125. Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies - 1920
126. Temp falls from 44 degrees F (7 degrees C) to -56 degrees F (49 degrees C) night of 23-24, Browning MT - 1916
127. 1st radio rescue at sea - 1909
128. US and Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo - 1908
129. Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American U.S. senator - 1907
130. Winnipeg Victorias sweep Toronto Wellingtons in 2 for Stanley Cup - 1902
131. Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Abbey Grange" - 1897
132. Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E, premieres - 1896
133. G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 min - 1894
134. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago - 1889
135. National Archery Association forms (Crawfordsville Ind) - 1879
136. 173 Blackfoot (140 women and children) killed in Montana by U.S. Army - 1870
137. Agoston Haraszthy, 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, imports 10,000 - 1862
138. Steamer Pacific lost - 1856
139. Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US - 1849
140. Patent granted for an envelope-making machine - 1849
141. Uniform U.S. election day for president and VP authorized - 1845
142. Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation - 1833
143. 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri - 1812
144. Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500 - 1796
145. 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia and Russia - 1793
146. Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid society) organized - 1793
147. Georgetown, 1st U.S. Catholic college, founded - 1789
148. Charles Messier catalogs M56 (globular cluster in Lyra) - 1779
149. Georg Friedrich Handel's opera "Ottone," premieres in London - 1723
150. Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire - 1719
151. England, Netherlands and Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French - 1668
152. King Louis XIV affirms covenant with R˜nstaten - 1663
153. Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament - 1647
154. Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for Parliamentarians - 1643
155. Dutch governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco Brazil - 1637
156. France and Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of Barwald - 1631
157. Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic - 1579
158. Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London - 1571
159. Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out - 1570
160. Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China - 1556
161. 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes manditory in England - 1552
162. "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed - 1492
163. 1st printing of Ramban's Sha'ar ha-Gemul - 1490
164. 1st English Parliament formally convened (some authorities) - 1265
165. Start of Islamic calendar - 0638
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