1. Seattle Mariners break record for most home runs in a year (258) - 1997
2. Howard Stern radio show premieres in West Palm Beach Florida (WCLB 95.5 FM) - 1996
3. Howard Stern radio show premieres in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania (WZMT 97.9 FM) - 1996
4. Pinatubo volcano in Philippines erupts, kills at least 14 - 1994
5. "Les Miserables," opens at Playhouse, Edinburgh - 1993
6. Paul Chu group reports super conduction at -123 degrees C (record high) - 1993
7. 1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period - 1992
8. Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL - 1992
9. Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's department stores in New York City - 1992
10. Mud storm kills 30 in South France - 1992
11. New York Islanders Mike Bossy and Denis Potvin inducted into NHL Hall of Fame - 1991
12. Nancy Lopez wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic - 1990
13. PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War - 1990
14. Saddam says he will destroy Israel - 1990
15. Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning - 1989
16. Fiji's new constitution is proposed - 1988
17. Jose Canseco is baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases and hit 40 HRs - 1988
18. Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39) - 1988
19. Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10) - 1986
20. Congress selects the rose as U.S. national flower - 1986
21. 36th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Cheers, John Ritter and Tyne Daly - 1984
22. Amy Alcott wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic - 1984
23. SF 49er Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games - 1984
24. Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues - 1984
25. Argentina milt regime gives amnesty to military/political assassins - 1983
26. Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9 - 1983
27. Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for heavyweight boxing title - 1983
28. Heavyweight Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in Ohio - 1983
29. Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game (beating Cards) - 1983
30. Amin Gemayel sworn in as president of Lebanon - 1982
31. "Doll's Life" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 5 performances - 1982
32. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1982
33. Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, New York City - 1979
34. Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic - 1979
35. Somali constitution approved by president - 1979
36. St. Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th and final base of his career - 1979
37. 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit - 1978
38. 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise - 1977
39. Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels - 1977
40. Ford-Carter TV debate - 1976
41. South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them - 1976
42. Soyuz 22 returns to Earth - 1976
43. BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service - 1974
44. "Gypsy" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 120 performances - 1974
45. Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power - 1973
46. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Open - 1973
47. Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law - 1972
48. President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines - 1972
49. John Vermeers painting "The liefdesbrief" stolen - 1971
50. Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia - 1970
51. Gary Muhrcke wins 1st New York Marathon - 1970
52. 1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV - 1969
53. "Clues Hint at Beatle's Death," reported in Illinois Univ newspaper, sparking widespread rumours of Paul McCartney's death - 1969
54. WKAS TV channel 25 in Ashland, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1968
55. WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1968
56. WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1968
57. WKMA TV channel 35 in Madisonville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1968
58. WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1968
59. WKON TV channel 52 in Owenton, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1968
60. WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1968
61. WKZT TV channel 23 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1968
62. Greek Colonels regime frees ex-premier Georgios Papandreou - 1967
63. Radio Malta stops testing - 1967
64. "Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in New York City - 1964
65. Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State - 1963
66. WMEB TV channel 12 in Orono, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1963
67. ABC's 1st color TV series-Jetsons - 1962
68. Los Angeles Dodger Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104 - 1962
69. Martin Walser's "Esche und Angora," premieres in Berlin - 1962
70. Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open - 1962
71. NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts - 1962
72. 1st movie to become a TV series - How to Marry a Millionaire - 1961
73. Ernie Banks ends 717 consecutive-games-played streak - 1961
74. Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island - 1958
75. Stravinsky's "Thieni," premieres in Venetie - 1958
76. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1958
77. Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2 - 1957
78. "That'll Be Day" by Buddy Holly and Crickets reaches #1 - 1957
79. White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw - 1957
80. WTIC TV channel 61 in Hartford, CT (CBS/FOX) begins broadcasting - 1957
81. Pakistan signs Pact of Baghdad - 1955
82. Yanks clinch pennant by beating Red Sox, 3-2 - 1955
83. KHQA TV channel 7 in Hannibal-Quincy, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1953
84. 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event - 1952
85. Dodgers clinch NL pennant - 1952
86. Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech - 1952
87. Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for hw boxing title - 1952
88. Patty Berg wins LPGA Sunset Hills Golf Open - 1950
89. Philadelphia A's Joe Astroth is 4th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th) - 1950
90. U.S. Mustangs accidentally bombs British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed - 1950
91. Indian owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant - 1949
92. Truman announces evidence of U.S.S.R.'s 1st nuclear device detonation - 1949
93. Braves clinch NL pennant - 1948
94. Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions - 1942
95. Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad - 1942
96. Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany - 1942
97. General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London - 1941
98. German air raid on Russ naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks) - 1941
99. Dutch nazi collaborator Mussert's 1st meeting with Hitler - 1940
100. French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees - 1940
101. Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits and beat Phillies 22-4 - 1939
102. British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich - 1938
103. Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in New York City (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100' of microfilm) - 1938
104. Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit - 1937
105. Giants Carl Hubbell notches his 16th en route to 24 consecutive wins - 1936
106. Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12 - 1933
107. Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - 1932
108. Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title - 1926
109. George Kaufman's "Butter and Egg Man," premieres in New York City - 1925
110. Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP - 1925
111. 80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law - 1923
112. B Brechts "Drum in the Night," premieres in Germany - 1922
113. Alexander Millerand elected president of France - 1920
114. Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves - 1914
115. Roland Garros is 1st to fly over Mediterranean Sea - 1913
116. Serbian troops march into Albania - 1913
117. 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released - 1912
118. Mark Sennet presents 1st Keystone Cops film (Cohen Collects a Debt) - 1912
119. Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot - 1911
120. Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th and disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay and pennant) - 1908
121. University of Alberta opens - 1908
122. Proclamation sets fineness and weight of silver and bronze coins of Canada - 1907
123. Mbunga-siege of Fort Mahenge German East-Africa broken - 1905
124. Francis Younghusbands leaves Lhasa Tibet - 1904
125. 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming) - 1897
126. French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms - 1895
127. Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning - 1890
128. Jules Ferry forms French government - 1880
129. Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia - 1879
130. Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone - 1879
131. Hurricane strikes Curaeao and Bonaire kills 200 - 1877
132. Ottawa Rough Riders play their 1st game - 1876
133. Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title - 1873
134. Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain) - 1868
135. Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins - 1863
136. Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers - 1862
137. Russian warship Leffort disappears in Finland Gulf in storm; 826 die - 1857
138. Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune - 1846
139. 1st baseball team, New York Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code - 1845
140. Hunger strike in Hague - 1845
141. HMS Beagle sails to Charles Island in Galapagos archipelago - 1835
142. Dutch troops occupy Brussels - 1830
143. Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis from Pacific Northwest - 1806
144. Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army - 1803
145. Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris - 1795
146. Brit Maj John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Pt - 1780
147. John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats HMS Serepis - 1779
148. Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor - 1746
149. Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade - 1739
150. Liechtenstein declares independence from German empire - 1719
151. Princess Maria of Orange-Nassau marries Mauritius earl of Simmeren - 1666
152. Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1st commencement - 1642
153. King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida - 1561
154. King Henry III and Emperor Maximilian conquer Doornik - 1513
155. Battle of Othee - 1408
156. Concord of Worms - 1122
157. Otto I the Great becomes king of Italy - 0951
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