1. "King David," closes at New Amsterdam Theater New York City - 1997
2. Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV - 1997
3. Fred Norris of the Howard Stern show changes his name legally to Eric - 1996
4. 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks) - 1995
5. 270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia - 1994
6. Roman Herzog elected president of Germany - 1994
7. Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication - 1994
8. Val Skinner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open - 1993
9. New York Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game - 1992
10. President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees - 1992
11. Last Cubans troops leave Angola - 1991
12. Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0 - 1991
13. San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship - 1991
14. U.S. Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion - 1991
15. A. C. Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna - 1990
16. Cost of rescuing savings and loan failures is put at up to $130 billion - 1990
17. Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26 - 1990
18. New York Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minnesota Twins 12-0 - 1990
19. 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone - 1989
20. Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe - 1989
21. Cleveland loses and drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (AL East) - 1989
22. Lincoln Square in Bronx named - 1989
23. Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990 - 1988
24. U.S. and West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa - 1986
25. Anderlecht wins 13th UEFA Cup at London - 1984
26. Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game - 1984
27. Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air - 1983
28. BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina - 1982
29. Cathy Morse wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic - 1982
30. Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles - 1982
31. Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders divine - 1982
32. Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage - 1981
33. NASA launches Intelsat V - 1981
34. ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton - 1980
35. 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly" - 1979
36. Borussia Monchengladbach wins 8th UEFA Cup at Dusseldorf - 1979
37. "Kids Are All Right" premieres - 1979
38. Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy - 1979
39. West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president - 1979
40. AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M - 1978
41. General strike in Peru - 1978
42. Benin adopts its constitution - 1977
43. Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth, children released May 27, siege ends June 11 - 1977
44. Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell - 1977
45. Amy Alcott wins '76 LPGA Golf Classic - 1976
46. Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1974
47. Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed - 1974
48. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale - 1971
49. Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands - 1971
50. Grateful Dead's in England, 1st performance outside of U.S. - 1970
51. San Diego Padres beat San Francisco Giants 17-16 in 15 innings - 1970
52. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (underground) - 1970
53. BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus - 1969
54. Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes - 1969
55. Who release rock opera "Tommy" - 1969
56. A. C. Milan wins 8th Europe Cup II in Rotterdam - 1968
57. Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London - 1968
58. Government bans submarines near South Africa - 1967
59. Beatles release "Paperback Writer" - 1966
60. Franz Jonas elected president of Austria - 1965
61. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open - 1965
62. Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150 - 1965
63. Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45) - 1964
64. NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000 - 1963
65. Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 home runs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio) - 1962
66. OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life - 1962
67. Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in U.S. Aurora 7 - 1962
68. "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 12 performances - 1960
69. "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24 - 1960
70. Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina - 1960
71. WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1960
72. WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast - 1960
73. WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (New York City) - 1960
74. "Party with Comden and Green" closes at John Golden New York City after 44 performances - 1959
75. Presbyterian church accepts women preachers - 1959
76. Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China - 1958
77. World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco - 1956
78. Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers - 1955
79. 79th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8 - 1953
80. Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes - 1953
81. WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting - 1953
82. Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels," premieres in London - 1951
83. Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day) - 1949
84. Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs - 1948
85. Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel - 1948
86. PC Hooft prize forms for literature - 1947
87. British milt police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz - 1945
88. German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British - 1945
89. Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader and Chief of Police, committed suicide - 1945
90. Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary - 1945
91. Winston Churchill resigns as British PM - 1945
92. British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy - 1944
93. Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front - 1944
94. Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead - 1944
95. Polo Grounds host 1st New York City night game since 1941 - 1944
96. 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund - 1943
97. In Dr. Faustus, Serenus Zeitblom begins his bio of Adrian Leverkuhn - 1943
98. Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr. Faustus - 1943
99. Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title - 1941
100. Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5) - 1941
101. 1st great dogfight between Spitfires - 1940
102. British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented - 1939
103. British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949 - 1939
104. Dmitri Shostakovitch appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad - 1939
105. Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland - 1939
106. Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die - 1939
107. 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati) - 1935
108. Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66) - 1934
109. Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds - 1932
110. Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England - 1931
111. Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die - 1928
112. Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard - 1926
113. Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate - 1926
114. 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain - 1923
115. "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances - 1922
116. Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat - 1922
117. Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films - 1922
118. "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in New York City - 1921
119. Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei - 1920
120. King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens - 1918
121. Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft - 1917
122. Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun - 1916
123. Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany during WW I - 1915
124. New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft - 1911
125. Dirigible explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die - 1908
126. Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Washington - 1908
127. 1st automobile trip across U.S. from San Francisco to New York, ended April 1 - 1903
128. 1st direct primary election law in U.S. adopted, by Wisconsin - 1903
129. 35th Belmont: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21 - 1901
130. Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13 - 1901
131. Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent - 1901
132. U.S. captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo - 1901
133. Associated Press News Service forms in New York - 1900
134. 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco - 1898
135. William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal - 1894
136. 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC - 1887
137. 12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39 - 1884
138. 9th Kentucky Derby: William Donohue aboard Leonatus wins in 2:43 - 1883
139. Baseball game between one-armed and one-legged players - 1883
140. 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa - 1882
141. Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia - 1878
142. 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston) - 1876
143. 1st Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43 - 1873
144. Canada's North West Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms - 1873
145. Postal cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time - 1873
146. Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken) - 1867
147. Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot - 1865
148. Grand Review begins in Washington D.C. - 1865
149. Battle of Dallas, Georgia - 1864
150. Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting - 1864
151. Battle at Front Royal, Virginia - 1862
152. Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Ft. Royal, Virginia - 1862
153. 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia - 1861
154. Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession - 1861
155. Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859) - 1853
156. Declaration of Bab (Baha'i festival) ('Azamat 7, 1) - 1844
157. South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify U.S. constitution - 1788
158. Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals - 1785
159. Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River) - 1774
160. Carlo Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo," premieres in Mantua - 1750
161. Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed - 1706
162. King Afonso VI of Portugal flees - 1667
163. King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England - 1660
164. Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland - 1647
165. Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists - 1644
166. 2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War - 1618
167. Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle - 1618
168. Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia - 1611
169. Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory - 1576
170. Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed - 1568
171. Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV - 1555
172. German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark - 1544
173. Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition - 1536
174. King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null and void - 1533
175. King Charles VIII and Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis - 1493
176. Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the British - 1430
177. Jews of Austria imprisoned and expelled - 1421
178. Jews of Syria and Austria expelled - 1420
179. King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews - 1275
180. Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France - 1059
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