1. Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48) - 1994
2. 14th annual star-athon $24,000,000 - 1993
3. Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed - 1993
4. Soyuz TM-16 launches - 1993
5. U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis - 1993
6. "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre St. Denis, Montreal - 1991
7. Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon - 1990
8. 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex - 1989
9. 1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins - 1988
10. 76th Australian Mens Tennis: M Wilander beats P Cash (63 67 36 61 86) - 1988
11. 9th ACE Cable Awards - 1988
12. Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup - 1988
13. Cerebral Palsy telethon - 1988
14. 61st Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76) - 1987
15. 43th Golden Globes: Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win - 1986
16. New York Islander Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point - 1986
17. South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president - 1986
18. Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons - 1986
19. 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched - 1985
20. Apple Computer unveils its Macintosh personal computer - 1984
21. Hulk Hogan pins Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title - 1983
22. Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB - 1982
23. Superbowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 26-21 in Pontiac Mich - 1982
24. Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques - 1981
25. Kim Hughes scores 213 vs. India at Adelaide - 1981
26. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1979
27. 31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo - 1978
28. Carter Executive Order on Intelligence - 1978
29. 5 lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid - 1977
30. Cleve Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89) - 1976
31. George Foreman KOs Ron Lyle in 5th round of a real slugfest - 1976
32. Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England - 1975
33. "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV - 1975
34. Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - 1973
35. WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (IND) 1st broadcast - 1972
36. NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-6 - 1971
37. 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana - 1970
38. Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec) - 1970
39. Queen Juliana appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa - 1969
40. Spanish Gen Franco announces state of emergency - 1969
41. WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1966
42. 24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes - 1964
43. CBS purchases 1964 and 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million - 1964
44. Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking - 1964
45. Buddy Rogers and Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ and Thesz becomes NWA champ - 1963
46. 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany - 1962
47. Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles - 1962
48. Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - 1962
49. Mickey Wright/Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament - 1962
50. Edward Albee's "American Dream," premieres in New York City - 1961
51. Lazard Brothers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68 - 1961
52. Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle - 1960
53. Dmitri Shostakovitch's comedy "Cheryomushk," premieres in Moscow - 1959
54. "Party with Comden and Green" closes at John Golden New York City after 38 performances - 1959
55. WHCT TV channel 18 in Hartford, CT (IND) begins broadcasting - 1959
56. After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion - 1958
57. 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record) - 1956
58. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open - 1954
59. BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter - 1954
60. 1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly New York Yanks - 1952
61. Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base - 1952
62. Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns - 1951
63. Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history - 1950
64. Australia all out 674 vs. India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*) - 1948
65. Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) - 1948
66. "Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 124 performances - 1948
67. NFL adds 5th official (back judge) and allows sudden death in playoffs - 1947
68. Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg - 1945
69. Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy - 1944
70. Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death - 1943
71. Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau - 1943
72. Musical "Star and Garter," premieres in New York City - 1942
73. British troops march into Abyssinia - 1941
74. 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile - 1939
75. Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler and George Sisler elected to Hall of Fame - 1939
76. Spanish government moves to Figueras - 1939
77. Benny Goodman and orch record "Stompin' at the Savoy" on Victor Records - 1936
78. 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co - 1935
79. Noel Coward's "Design for Living," premieres in New York City - 1933
80. J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ vs. England, Wellington - 1930
81. Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century - 1930
82. Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island - 1925
83. Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden - 1925
84. Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union - 1924
85. Russian city of St. Petersburg renamed Leningrad - 1924
86. Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established - 1923
87. -54 degrees F (-48 degrees C), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record) - 1922
88. Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo) - 1922
89. Lehman Caves National Monument established - 1922
90. German-British sea battle at Doggersbank and Helgoland - 1915
91. Opera "Madeleine," premieres in New York City - 1914
92. Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished - 1913
93. Gen Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts - 1908
94. Denmark sells Virgin Islands to USA - 1902
95. 1st games played in baseball's American League - 1901
96. Emily Hobhouse view lord Kitcheners concentration camp at Bloemfontein - 1901
97. Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army) - 1900
98. Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, forms in England - 1900
99. Belgium government of Vandenpeereboom forms - 1899
100. Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan - 1899
101. Battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries - 1892
102. Camille Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre," premieres - 1875
103. Gen J van Swieten conquerors Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die - 1874
104. Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St. Petersburg - 1874
105. Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza - 1862
106. Arsenal at Augusta, Georgia seized by Confederacy - 1861
107. Federal troops from Ft. Monroe are sent to Ft. Pikens - 1861
108. James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California - 1848
109. 1,500 New Mexican Indians and Mexicans defeated by U.S. Col Price - 1847
110. Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society - 1839
111. Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire - 1764
112. German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor - 1742
113. Czar Peter the Great begins civil system - 1722
114. Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st U.S. divinity professor (Harvard) - 1722
115. King Charles II disbands English parliament - 1679
116. Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe," premieres in Paris - 1659
117. 1st Jewish doctor in U.S., Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland - 1656
118. Duke of Orleans joins Fronde rebels - 1652
119. Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win - 1644
120. Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders - 1639
121. Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor - 1634
122. Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver - 1616
123. Amsterdams merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized - 1613
124. Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire - 1568
125. In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw - 1568
126. Heavy earthquake strikes Shaaxi China, kills 830,000 - 1556
127. Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy - 1534
128. Matthias I Corvinus chosen king of Hungary - 1458
129. King Edward III of England marries Philippa of Henegouwen - 1328
130. Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II - 1118
131. Synod of Worms: German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII - 1076
132. St. Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV - 0817
133. Stephen III ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0772
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