1. Annika Sorenstam wins ITT LPGA Tour Championship - 1997
2. Jana Novotna (Czech) beats Mary Pierce (France) in Chase Tennis Champ - 1997
3. Irebe Skliva, 18, of Greece, crowned 46th Miss World - 1996
4. "Angels in America-Perestroika" opens at Walter Kerr New York City for 216 performances - 1993
5. 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold - 1992
6. "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" opens at Booth New York City for 232 performances - 1992
7. A day before he dies, Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS - 1991
8. Brigham Young Ty Detmer finishes NCAA career with record 4,031 yards passed in a season and 15,031 for career - 1991
9. Evander Holyfield TKOs Bert Cooper in 7 for heavyweight boxing title - 1991
10. Martin Lopez-Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:56.57) - 1991
11. Sacramento Kings ends NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games - 1991
12. Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Lorrie Nichols - 1991
13. Model Cheryl Tiegs marries actor Tony Peck - 1990
14. Test Cricket debut of Saeed Anwar (Pak vs. WI), scores 0 and 0 - 1990
15. Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines - 1989
16. Xenophobia Zolotas sworn in as premier of Greece - 1989
17. France performs nuclear test - 1988
18. Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal - 1988
19. Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract - 1988
20. 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijack Egyptair jet in Malta - 1985
21. Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China - 1985
22. Boston College QB Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard TD (Hail Mary Pass) to end game and beat Miami 47-45 - 1984
23. Limited-over International cricket debut for Wasim Akram, vs. NZ - 1984
24. Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 and Bob Holland age 38 (v WI) - 1984
25. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1984
26. Soyuz T-9 lands - 1983
27. U.S.S.R. leave weapon disarmament talks - 1983
28. Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB and mated for STS-6 - 1982
29. FCC drops limits on duration and frequency of TV ads - 1982
30. New York Islanders and Minnesota North Stars play to an 8-8 tie - 1982
31. 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy - 1980
32. 68th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 48-10 - 1980
33. National Black Independent Party forms - 1980
34. Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks - 1979
35. European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral - 1977
36. "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 96 performances - 1977
37. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1976
38. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1976
39. 63rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 9-8 - 1975
40. Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal - 1975
41. Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Greater Ft. Myers Golf Classic - 1975
42. 60 Ethiopia government officials executed - 1974
43. China People's Republic seated in United Nations Security Council - 1971
44. Danny Murtaugh, manager of world champ Pirates, announces retirement - 1971
45. KNCT TV channel 46 in Belton/Killeen, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1970
46. Milwaukee Bucks make their 1st NBA trade, giving Bob Love and Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson - 1968
47. "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Booth New York City after 36 performances - 1968
48. Chicago outfielder Tommie Agee is voted AL Rookie of Year - 1966
49. 31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern California (RB) - 1965
50. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1965
51. "Bajour" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 232 performances - 1964
52. Beatles release "I Feel Fine" and "She's a Woman" - 1964
53. Vatican abolished Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturgy - 1964
54. "Doctor Who," the long-running British sci-fi series debuts in England - 1963
55. Horatio Alger Society founded - 1963
56. John F. Kennedy's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House - 1963
57. Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for John F. Kennedy) - 1963
58. "Tambourines to Glory" closes at Little Theater New York City after 24 performances - 1963
59. Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is named NL's MVP - 1962
60. Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year - 1960
61. Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame on Hollywood Blvd - 1960
62. Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched - 1960
63. "Fiorello!" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 796 performances - 1959
64. British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia - 1955
65. KVFD (now KTIN) TV channel 21 in Ft. Dodge, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast - 1953
66. WJBF TV channel 6 in Augusta, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1953
67. Howard Swanson's "Short Symphony," premieres - 1950
68. Dr. Frank G Back (New York City) patents lens to provide zoom effects - 1948
69. French government of Schumann, forms - 1947
70. Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chi Cards (45-21) - 1947
71. 34th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 28-6 - 1946
72. French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000 - 1946
73. "Gypsy Lady" closes at Century Theater New York City after 79 performances - 1946
74. Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ends - 1945
75. U.S. 7th army under Gen Patch conquers Straatsburg - 1944
76. 1st printing of illegal "Warheid" - 1943
77. British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation - 1943
78. Phils owner William D. Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own team - 1943
79. U.S. forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island and Makin from Japs - 1943
80. 3rd and 5th Romanian army corp surrenders - 1942
81. Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized - 1942
82. Col-gen Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender - 1942
83. German 4th and 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad - 1942
84. Japan bombs Port Darwin, Australia - 1942
85. Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat is torpedoed - 1942
86. Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don - 1942
87. Steward Poon Lim begins floating in a raft 133 days - 1942
88. German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow - 1941
89. 1st edition of illegal "The Truth" publishes - 1940
90. Romania signs Driemogendheden pact - 1940
91. Nazi Gov of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star - 1939
92. Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy," premieres in New York City - 1937
93. Emile Janson becomes Belgian premier - 1937
94. John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," premieres in New York City - 1937
95. 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce - 1936
96. Life magazine hit newsstands - 1936
97. Nationally Crisis Committee forms in Hague - 1931
98. New York Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage - 1930
99. Noel Coward's "This Was a Man," premieres in New York City - 1926
100. German army commander Gen Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD - 1923
101. Germany's Stresemann government falls to SPD - 1923
102. President Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes - 1921
103. Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested game - 1912
104. Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital - 1911
105. 7.17" (18.2 cm) of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state rec) - 1909
106. Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes - 1909
107. Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy - 1906
108. Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physican, named minister of Haiti - 1905
109. 3rd Olympic games close in St. Louis - 1904
110. Enrico Caruso U.S. debut (Metropolitan Opera House, New York) in "Rigoletto" - 1903
111. 1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, SF) - 1899
112. Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers - 1899
113. Andrew J Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars - 1897
114. Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love - 1897
115. Battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed - 1892
116. P de Coubertin launches plan for Modern Olympic Games - 1892
117. Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco) - 1889
118. Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan - 1887
119. Opera "Trumpeter of Sackingen" 1st American production (New York City) - 1887
120. Amsterdam police attack meeting of social-democrats united - 1885
121. Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Assn - 1876
122. Railway bridge over Dutch Deep opens - 1871
123. Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process - 1868
124. Battle at Ball's Ferry Georgia (30 casualties) - 1864
125. Battle of Chattanooga and Orchard Knob, Tennessee begins - 1863
126. Patent granted for a process of making color photographs - 1863
127. Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m) - 1852
128. Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston - 1848
129. Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy New York) - 1835
130. Hector Berlioz's "Harold in Italy," premieres - 1834
131. French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium - 1832
132. Annapolis Maryland, becomes U.S. capital (until June 1784) - 1783
133. People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax - 1765
134. English premier John Carteret resigns - 1744
135. Nicholas Rowe's "Ulysses," premieres in London - 1705
136. Cardinal Francesco Albani elected Pope Clemens XI - 1700
137. English parliament throws out Jesuits - 1584
138. Water Geuzen under capt Slope enter Amsterdam - 1577
139. King Philip II confers with Dutch financial experts - 1556
140. St. Clemens Flood: Dike breaks at Flemish/Zeeuwse/Dutch coast - 1334
141. Pope Alexander III returns from exile to Rome - 1165
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