1. 129th British Golf Open: at Royal Lytham - 2000
2. 55th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship - 2000
3. Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin and Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them - 1997
4. 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St. Andrews Scotland - 1995
5. "Hamlet" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 121 performances - 1995
6. Miguel Indurains wins his 5th Tour de France - 1995
7. Tracy Kerdyk wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic - 1995
8. All 40,000 ceiling tiles in Kingdome must be replaced - 1994
9. Amy Osmond, of Utah, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss - 1994
10. Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke - 1994
11. Don Mattingly becomes 6th New York Yankee to get 2,000 hits - 1994
12. Goodwill Games open in St. Petersburg - 1994
13. Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in New York City - 1994
14. Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 mins - 1994
15. Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley - 1993
16. British Aerospace 147 crash at Yinchuan, 55 killed - 1993
17. Chinese B737 crash at Yinchuan, at least 66 killed - 1993
18. New York Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yanks, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st - 1993
19. Emperor Haile Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen] of Ethiopia's, funeral - 1992
20. James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession - 1991
21. Rob Dibble back from 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at and hitting Cubs baserunner Doug Dascenzo Cubs win, 8-5 - 1991
22. Rosie Jones, (St. Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America - 1990
23. South-Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested - 1990
24. 118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon - 1989
25. Amy Alcott wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic - 1989
26. FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC and CBS for 1st time, America's Most Wanted - 1989
27. Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas - 1989
28. Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton - 1988
29. Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record) - 1987
30. Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last years World Series - 1987
31. Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39) - 1987
32. Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson - 1986
33. King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres - 1986
34. Kansas City Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save - 1984
35. Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984 - 1984
36. Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude - 1984
37. FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo - 1982
38. International Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985) - 1982
39. Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya - 1980
40. River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter - 1980
41. Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6 - 1980
42. George Brett gets his 1,000th hit - 1979
43. 33rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy - 1978
44. Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas - 1978
45. Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200 - 1978
46. Reggie Jackson returns and helps Yankees win their 5th straight - 1978
47. Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges - 1977
48. 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895) - 1976
49. Baltimore Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game - 1976
50. France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island - 1976
51. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1976
52. Wings release "Let 'em In" - 1976
53. Alan Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends," premieres in London - 1975
54. Los Angeles Dodgers W Crawford and Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs - 1975
55. 45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pitts - 1974
56. All star MVP: Steve Garvey (Los Angeles Dodgers) - 1974
57. Greek military dictatorship collapses - 1974
58. Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St. Louis-36 die - 1973
59. President Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation - 1973
60. Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan and Prime Minister of Oman - 1973
61. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1973
62. 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched - 1972
63. Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France - 1972
64. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic - 1972
65. 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Washington D.C. - 1969
66. All star MVP: Willie McCovey for the San Francisco Giants - 1969
67. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1969
68. Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt - 1968
69. PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane - 1968
70. Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed - 1968
71. 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires) - 1967
72. Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens - 1966
73. John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m) - 1966
74. Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!" - 1966
75. Beatles "Help" is released in UK - 1965
76. Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park - 1965
77. A's Bert Campaneris home runs on 1st pitch, hits a 2nd HR on 2nd at bat - 1964
78. Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage - 1964
79. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open - 1961
80. Bricusse and Newley's musical "Stop the world I want to ...," premieres - 1961
81. 15th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls - 1960
82. VP Richard Nixon begins visit on U.S.S.R. - 1959
83. 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords - 1958
84. Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph - 1956
85. Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame - 1956
86. New York Yankees Bob Cerv and E Howard are 1st to hit consecutive pinch HRs - 1955
87. General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (Natl Day) - 1952
88. Test Cricket debut of Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days - 1949
89. Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President - 1948
90. 1st (U.S. Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island - 1947
91. Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel - 1946
92. Marshal Henri Petain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial - 1945
93. Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 home runs in a doubleheader - 1944
94. Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin - 1944
95. Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland - 1944
96. U.S. forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II - 1944
97. U.S. troops occupy Pisa, Italy - 1944
98. Battle of Koersk, U.S.S.R. ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks) - 1943
99. U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini - 1943
100. German troops conquer Rostow - 1942
101. Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad - 1942
102. "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins - 1940
103. Bradman scores 103 in 178 mins on a Headingley sticky, 3rd Test - 1938
104. Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University) - 1937
105. Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building - 1935
106. Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 mins, 43 fours 2 sixes - 1934
107. Ashmore and Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia - 1931
108. France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics - 1931
109. Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed - 1930
110. Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with home runs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th) - 1930
111. Belgian NMBS/SNCFB forms - 1926
112. France government of Poincare, forms - 1926
113. New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers - 1925
114. Chinese Communist Party forms under Henk Sneevliet - 1921
115. Edward Gourdin of U.S., sets then long jump record at 25' 2 3/4" - 1921
116. British East Africa renamed Kenya and becomes a British crown colony - 1920
117. Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes - 1917
118. Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I - 1914
119. Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine - 1913
120. 7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2) - 1907
121. Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa - 1906
122. Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo - 1904
123. Ford Motor sells 1st Model A car - 1903
124. Pan-African Congress meets in London - 1900
125. Jack Barrett carries his cricket bat for Australia at Lord's (67) - 1890
126. John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire - 1888
127. Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge - 1886
128. 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan - 1880
129. 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed - 1877
130. 1st U.S. municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations - 1877
131. Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugenie as Regent of France - 1870
132. Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms - 1866
133. Battle of Woodstock, Virginia - 1864
134. Alexandra Park opens in North London - 1863
135. Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament - 1858
136. 1st interment in U.S. National Cemetery at Presidio - 1852
137. Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and U.S. - 1851
138. 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of New York takes office - 1850
139. Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts - 1848
140. Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada - 1840
141. HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso - 1834
142. William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter) - 1829
143. 1st U.S. swim school opens (Boston Mass) - 1827
144. Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napolean fights Czar Alexander I - 1812
145. Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin - 1803
146. Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt - 1798
147. James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation - 1764
148. Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides - 1745
149. Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia - 1726
150. 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of New York, arrive in Boston - 1664
151. Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar - 1645
152. Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings - 1599
153. Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis - 1594
154. Willem van Oranges troops occupy Roermond on the Spanjaarden - 1572
155. Battle at Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France - 1558
156. Turkey recognizes Janos Sigismund Zapolyai as vassal-king of Hungary - 1540
157. Karel I and evangelical monarchy signs Peace of Neurenberg - 1532
158. Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion - 1453
159. Council of Basel opens - 1431
160. G Cesarini opens Counsel of Basel (Ferrara/Florence) - 1431
161. Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV - 1403
162. Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany - 1298
163. Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community Wurzburg Germany annihilated - 1298
164. Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III - 1253
165. Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king - 1215
166. Crusaders attack Damascus - 1148
167. John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0685
168. Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire - 0636
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