1. 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards: LeAnn Rines and Brooks and Dunn - 1997
2. "Titanic," opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City - 1997
3. Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Reno NV on KRZQ 96.5 FM - 1996
4. Sotherby begins 4 day auction of Jackie Onassis things nets $34.5 million - 1996
5. Laura Davis wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Golf Championship - 1995
6. President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City - 1995
7. Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti - 1994
8. General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke - 1994
9. Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of New York - 1994
10. Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia - 1993
11. Motley Crue's Mike Mars files for divorce from Emi-Canyn - 1993
12. Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy," premieres in New York City - 1993
13. Marion Berry, former mayor of Washington D.C., let out of prison - 1992
14. McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China - 1992
15. "Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 4 performances - 1992
16. Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off - 1991
17. Gordon Greenidge scores 223 vs. Aus, his last Test Cricket knock at home - 1991
18. U.S.S.R. grants republics right to secede under certain conditions - 1991
19. 11th Emmy Sports Award presentation - 1990
20. Betsy King wins LPGA USX Golf Classic - 1989
21. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Laker - 1989
22. Nolan Ryan blows a no hitter in 9th inning - 1989
23. Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts - 1989
24. A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles - 1988
25. Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hours or less - 1988
26. Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06) - 1988
27. 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct - 1987
28. New Jersey Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY - 1987
29. Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking - 1986
30. Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60m indoor (7 sec) - 1986
31. Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational - 1985
32. Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula - 1985
33. Flyers 5-Isles 3-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-0 lead - 1985
34. New Coke debuts - 1985
35. AIDS-virus identified, acquired immune deficiency syndrome - 1984
36. David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* vs. Sri Lanka - 1983
37. Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die - 1980
38. Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic - 1978
39. Reds Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 cons errorless games at 2nd - 1978
40. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1978
41. ADO The Hague soccer team forms - 1977
42. Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously and only loses 10 - 1977
43. Dr. Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops - 1977
44. Milt workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa - 1977
45. Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," premieres in London - 1975
46. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. - 1974
47. 26th Tony Awards: Sticks and Bones and 2 Gentlemen of Verona win - 1972
48. Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface - 1972
49. Betty Burfeind wins LPGA Birmingham Centennital Golf Classic - 1972
50. Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike - 1971
51. Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station - 1971
52. ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney - 1969
53. Los Angeles Laker Jerry West scores 53 points - 1969
54. Over 1000 mi flooded on Shantung Province China - 1969
55. Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy - 1969
56. 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 and 10 pence) - 1968
57. "I'm Solomon" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 7 performances - 1968
58. United Methodist Church forms - 1968
59. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational - 1967
60. Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty - 1967
61. Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite - 1965
62. Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0 - 1964
63. James Baldwin's "Blues for Mr. Charlie," premieres in New York City - 1964
64. New York State Theater opens - 1964
65. Jerry Bock and S Harnick's musical "She Loves Me," premieres in New York City - 1963
66. "She Loves Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 302 performances - 1963
67. 1st U.S. satellite to reach the moon launched - 1962
68. New York Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pirates 9-1 - 1962
69. Ranger 4, 1st U.S. satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral - 1962
70. Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open - 1961
71. "Tenderloin" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 216 performances - 1961
72. 1st performance of Ferde Grofe's "San Francisco Suite" - 1960
73. 1st heliport in Britain opens in London - 1959
74. "Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 472 performances - 1959
75. Gil Hodges hits his 300th HR and Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game - 1958
76. U.S. Supreme Court ends race segregation on buses - 1956
77. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Open - 1955
78. "Kismet" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 583 performances - 1955
79. Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers - 1954
80. General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA - 1953
81. KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, Arizona (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1953
82. WCOV TV channel 20 in Montgomery, Alabama (IND/CBS) begins broadcasting - 1953
83. Bob Cain of Browns and Bob Feller of Indians each pitch a one-hitter - 1952
84. New York Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game and hits his only HR - 1952
85. Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed - 1952
86. Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Richmond Women's Golf Open - 1951
87. 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5) - 1950
88. 4th NBA Championship: Min Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 2 - 1950
89. Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island - 1950
90. Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 3 - 1950
91. Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing - 1949
92. Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in San Francisco - 1949
93. Netherlands annexes Elten and Tudderen - 1949
94. KSTP TV channel 5 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (ABC) 1st broadcast - 1948
95. Brooklyn Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 - 1946
96. Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated - 1945
97. U.S. troops in Italy cross river Po - 1945
98. British and U.S. offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta - 1943
99. 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins - 1942
100. Luftwaffe bombs Exeter - 1942
101. Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt - 1941
102. Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss) - 1940
103. New York Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert - 1940
104. 1st performance of Bela Bartok's 2nd Concerto for violin - 1939
105. Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR - 1939
106. Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government - 1938
107. Carl Hubbell's 1st start of season is his 17th straight win - 1936
108. Dovo soccer team forms in Veenendaal - 1933
109. Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon - 1932
110. 1st London performance of operetta "Fasquita" staged - 1925
111. Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms - 1925
112. British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley - 1924
113. Charles Paddock runs world record 100m (10.4 secs) - 1921
114. Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara - 1920
115. Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season - 1919
116. Battle of Zeebrugge ends - 1918
117. Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea - 1918
118. National Urban League forms - 1918
119. Lord Dunsany's "Night at an Inn," premieres in New York City - 1916
120. ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA) - 1915
121. International Exhibition opens in Brussels - 1910
122. Denmark, Germany, England, France, Netherlands and Sweden sign North Sea accord - 1908
123. American Academy of Arts and Letters forms - 1904
124. New York Highlanders (Yankees) win their 1st game beating Washington Senators 7-2 - 1903
125. 1st know occurrence of word "hillbillie" (New York Journal) - 1900
126. Premier of motion pictures (Koster and Bial's Music Hall, New York City) - 1896
127. Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (New York City) - 1896
128. Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia - 1891
129. John Heemskerk Azn forms Dutch government - 1883
130. Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Patience" produced in London - 1881
131. 1st Dutch test drive of steam tram - 1878
132. Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up - 1871
133. Queen Victoria and Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel - 1867
134. Battle of Cane River, Louisiana (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry) - 1864
135. Arkansas troops seize Ft. Smith - 1861
136. Battle of San Antonio, Texas - 1861
137. Dem convention in Charleston South Carolina divided over slavery - 1860
138. Canada issues its 1st postage stamps - 1851
139. English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in New York City - 1838
140. Missolonghi captured by Turks - 1826
141. Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution - 1798
142. William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason - 1795
143. President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York - 1789
144. Opera "Il Re Pastore" is produced (Salzburg) - 1775
145. Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht - 1723
146. Richard Steele's "Tender Husband," premieres in London - 1705
147. Connecticut chartered as an English colony - 1662
148. English king Charles II crowned in London - 1661
149. Sweden and Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn - 1633
150. Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England - 1616
151. King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria - 1504
152. Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral and 6 ships return to Lisbon - 1501
153. Pedro Cabral lands and annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz) - 1500
154. 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter) - 1348
155. Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo - 1154
156. King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf - 1014
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