1. Chicago Bull's coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins - 1997
2. Colorado Avalanche Jari Kurri is 8th NHLer to score 600 career goals - 1997
3. Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing - 1997
4. U.S. Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18 - 1997
5. Woody Allen, 62 weds Soon-Yi Previn 27, adopted daughter of Mia Farrow - 1997
6. 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history - 1996
7. Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players - 1994
8. NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns - 1991
9. "Lettice and Lovage" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 284 performances - 1990
10. Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia - 1990
11. Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison - 1987
12. Rutan and Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling - 1986
13. Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG - 1984
14. Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter - 1983
15. Boycott becomes leading run-scorer in Test Crickets with 8033 - 1981
16. Sam Shepard's "True West," premieres in New York City - 1980
17. New York Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks - 1979
18. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1979
19. Islanders scored 7 goals in 1 period against New York Rangers, Trottier scores 8 points vs Rangers, 5 goals-NHL record 6 pts in 1 period - 1978
20. Congress passes Metric Conversion Act - 1975
21. Peter Seitz makes Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally free agents - 1975
22. "Good News" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 16 performances - 1974
23. Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjotakovitsj' Michelangelo-liederen - 1974
24. 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices - 1973
25. French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed - 1973
26. "Young and Restless" premieres on TV - 1973
27. 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannabalism - 1972
28. 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die - 1972
29. Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India vs. England at Delhi - 1972
30. "Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7 - 1972
31. Islanders end 15 games winless streak - 1972
32. 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" (record) - 1970
33. French author Regis Debray freed in Bolivia - 1970
34. NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m) - 1970
35. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test - 1970
36. 1st U.S. case of space motion sickness - 1968
37. 82 members of U.S. intelligence ship 'Pueblo' released by North Korea - 1968
38. Borman, Lovell and Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon - 1968
39. North Korea releases Pueblo crew - 1968
40. Brussels: NATO-Council accept "Flexible Response"-strategy - 1967
41. Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go," last program - 1966
42. India and Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed - 1964
43. Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig" - 1963
44. Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die - 1963
45. Cuba starts returning U.S. prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion - 1962
46. Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers 20-17 in AFL championship game - 1962
47. Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food and medical supplies - 1961
48. KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno, California (IND) begins broadcasting - 1961
49. Train accident in Italy, 70 die - 1961
50. De Quay's Dutch government falls - 1960
51. King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power - 1960
52. Abdallah Ibrahim forms government of Morocco - 1958
53. "Party with Comden and Green" opens at John Golden New York City for 38 performances - 1958
54. Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout and Bobby Simpson vs. South Africa - 1957
55. Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim "Junior" Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year - 1953
56. 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game - 1951
57. Last Belgian communities get electricity - 1951
58. Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in Bell Labs - 1947
59. Belgian Council of State forms - 1946
60. Highest ridership in New York City subway history (8.8 million passengers) - 1946
61. University of Tenn refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game - 1946
62. Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premieres in London - 1945
63. Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church - 1945
64. Beginning of harsh winter - 1944
65. 1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel and Gretel), Schenectady, New York - 1943
66. Gen Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day - 1943
67. Allies air attack on Den Helder - 1942
68. American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese - 1941
69. British troops overrun Benghazi Libya - 1941
70. Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma - 1941
71. John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance," premieres in New York City - 1940
72. Finnish counter offensive at Summa - 1939
73. South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland - 1939
74. Margaret Hamilton's costume catches fire in filming of "Wizard of Oz" - 1938
75. Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251 - 1933
76. Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death - 1933
77. Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die - 1933
78. Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios - 1930
79. Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in New York City - 1930
80. NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network - 1928
81. KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions - 1926
82. Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah - 1925
83. Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000 - 1923
84. BBC Radio began daily newscasts - 1922
85. Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano - 1922
86. Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament - 1920
87. King George V signs Home Rule Act - 1920
88. 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched - 1919
89. Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace - 1919
90. 3 British warships come close to Holland - 1917
91. J Kern/S Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie," premieres in New York City - 1915
92. President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law - 1913
93. 1st "Keystone Kops" film, titled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy" - 1912
94. Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation - 1912
95. Frank Wedekind's "Oaha, die Satire der Satire," premieres in Munich - 1911
96. Opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin) - 1911
97. Albert becomes king of Belgians - 1909
98. 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa - 1907
99. Fieldmarshal Lord Roberts departs Southampton to South Africa - 1899
100. Southampton: field marshal lord Roberts departures to South Africa - 1899
101. Tentative Turkish and German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway - 1899
102. Debussy's ballet "L'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres in Paris - 1894
103. Opera "Hansel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar) - 1893
104. Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear - 1888
105. Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed - 1876
106. 1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightner) - 1867
107. Union Gen Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis - 1862
108. 1st Chinese theater in U.S., Celestial John, opens in San Francisco - 1852
109. Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs - 1834
110. Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender - 1832
111. "Visit from St. Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel - 1823
112. Thomas Jefferson warned of slave revolts in West Indies - 1793
113. Maryland votes to cede a 10 mile area for District of Columbia - 1788
114. Washington resigns as U.S. Army's commander-in-chief - 1783
115. Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct - 1779
116. Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France - 1776
117. Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls" - 1776
118. France sets plan to tax clergymen - 1751
119. Prussian Emperor Karel VI sign Treaty of Berlin - 1728
120. Emperor Charles VI names Maria Elisabeth land guardian of Aust Neth - 1724
121. Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund - 1715
122. John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered - 1690
123. English king Jacob II flees to France - 1688
124. Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn - 1672
125. French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII - 1620
126. St. Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible - 1569
127. Peace of Atrecht - 1482
128. Boniface V begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0619
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