1. 69th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, The English Patient wins Best Picture, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win lead acting awards - 1997
2. Australian parliament overturns world's 1st and only euthanasia law - 1997
3. 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins - 1996
4. Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual - 1996
5. Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament - 1996
6. MTA raises New York City bridge tolls to $3.50 each way - 1996
7. "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 322 performances - 1994
8. F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die - 1994
9. Robert F Kennedy, Jr. divorces Emily Black - 1994
10. "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 53 performances - 1994
11. Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel - 1993
12. 1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space - 1992
13. "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater New York City for 245 performances - 1992
14. Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space - 1992
15. Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens: 5-6 die - 1992
16. 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane and Ghosts Can't Do It wins - 1991
17. Barcelona Dragons beat NY/New Jersey Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game - 1991
18. Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament - 1991
19. In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen] - 1991
20. "Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago - 1991
21. New York Yankees beat New York Mets, 9-3 - 1991
22. Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sgt Slaughter - 1991
23. Indian troops leave Sri Lanka - 1990
24. Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec) - 1990
25. Mary Martin in "Peter Pan," 1st seen on TV since 1973 - 1989
26. Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska - 1989
27. "Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 61 performances - 1988
28. Quarterback Dan Fouts retires - 1988
29. 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross - 1987
30. WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria - 1987
31. 58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa," William Hurt and G Page win - 1986
32. NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status" - 1986
33. Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling - 1986
34. U.S. and Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra - 1986
35. 5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins - 1985
36. Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins) - 1985
37. Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic - 1985
38. Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah) - 1985
39. Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52) - 1984
40. Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51) - 1984
41. IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics - 1984
42. U.S. submarine Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia - 1982
43. Bombay beat Delhi by innings and 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy - 1981
44. Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba - 1981
45. "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC - 1981
46. 42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54 - 1980
47. ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline" - 1980
48. Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks - 1980
49. 10 rebounds and 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Penn Mich State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts, - 1979
50. 1st appearance as Australian cricket capt for Kim Hughes - 1979
51. "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 116 performances - 1979
52. Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center - 1979
53. Wings release "With a Little Luck" - 1978
54. Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military - 1976
55. Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title - 1975
56. 36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Marquette 76-64 - 1974
57. Harley Race beats Dory Funk, Jr. in Kansas City, to become NWA champ - 1973
58. Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title - 1973
59. Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile - 1973
60. San Francisco 49er President Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams - 1973
61. Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland - 1972
62. Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors and Sjimmie" strip - 1970
63. Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational - 1968
64. University of Michigan holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam - 1967
65. Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance - 1966
66. U.S. Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus - 1965
67. Kennedy half-dollar issued - 1964
68. 24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cin beats Ohio State 71-59 - 1962
69. Benny Paret, KOed in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later - 1962
70. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue and Blue Boys - 1962
71. New York Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows - 1961
72. U.S. appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene - 1960
73. Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact - 1959
74. Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) - 1958
75. 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service - 1955
76. British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years - 1955
77. Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances - 1955
78. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1953
79. Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa - 1952
80. Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship - 1950
81. U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman - 1950
82. U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button - 1950
83. 21st Academy Awards - "Hamlet," Laurence Olivier and Jane Wyman win - 1949
84. Walter and John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win - 1949
85. Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency - 1947
86. John D Rockefeller, Jr. donates New York City East River site to the U.N. - 1947
87. Gen Eisenhower, Montgomery and Bradley discuss advance in Germany - 1945
88. Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports and 1300 gliders - 1945
89. Operation Varsity: British, U.S. and Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine - 1945
90. U.S. minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa - 1945
91. 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape) - 1944
92. 811 British bombers attack Berlin - 1944
93. In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians - 1944
94. British troops defeat British Somalia - 1941
95. German troops occupy El Agheila Libya - 1941
96. Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox - 1941
97. LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship - 1941
98. Richard Wright and Paul Green's "Native Son," premieres in New York City - 1941
99. Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois) - 1937
100. National Gallery of Art established by Congress - 1937
101. Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins and 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 mins), ends 1-0 - 1936
102. Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network - 1935
103. U.S. declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945 - 1934
104. Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency - 1933
105. 1st U.S. radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD) - 1932
106. 1st religious services telecast in U.S. (W2XBS New York City) - 1930
107. Planet Pluto named - 1930
108. R˜nsburgse Boys soccer team forms - 1930
109. Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie - 1927
110. Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian and Netherlands Wielingen Treaty - 1927
111. The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands - 1926
112. KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions - 1925
113. Greece becomes a republic - 1924
114. Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish - 1922
115. 1st U.S. coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC) - 1920
116. Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England - 1913
117. Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway New York City - 1913
118. 83 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March - 1910
119. "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world - 1906
120. 1st automobile sold - 1898
121. 37 miners killed at Franklin, Washington - 1894
122. Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" - 1890
123. Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from U.S. (to Turkey) - 1887
124. 1st telephone call between New York and Chicago - 1883
125. German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB - 1882
126. Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut - 1880
127. British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost - 1878
128. University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat - 1877
129. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms - 1868
130. Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY - 1860
131. Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas - 1855
132. State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam - 1848
133. Canada gives blacks the right to vote - 1837
134. Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio - 1832
135. Philadelphia and Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized - 1828
136. Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia - 1801
137. Benjamin West (U.S.) becomes president of Royal Academy of London - 1792
138. Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers - 1765
139. Netherlands William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover - 1734
140. Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts - 1721
141. Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island - 1664
142. Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS RC emperor Ferdinand III - 1645
143. 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia - 1629
144. Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England - 1603
145. France and England sign Peace of Boulogne - 1550
146. German Parliament opens in Worms - 1545
147. End of Gelderse war victory - 1379
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