1. 4-1, Mark McGwire his a 538 foot HR - 1997
2. Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom - 1997
3. Seat Mariner Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Oakland A's but loses - 1997
4. Stanley Cup: New Jersey Devils sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games - 1995
5. 1st French "all news" TV, LCI, begins broadcasting - 1994
6. Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 home runs in an inning - 1994
7. Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman - 1994
8. Arab terror group planning bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught - 1993
9. Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville High School at 43 - 1992
10. Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball - 1992
11. Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel - 1992
12. John Gotti begins life sentence in jail - 1992
13. NHL adopts instant-replay and tenth of second clock in final minute - 1991
14. Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International - 1990
15. Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th and 40th consecutive bases - 1989
16. Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves - 1988
17. Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak - 1988
18. CFL's Montreal Alouettes fold - 1987
19. Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consec win streak - 1987
20. Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years - 1986
21. U.S. Senate approves tax reform - 1986
22. 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth - 1985
23. Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F - 1985
24. Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265 - 1984
25. Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic - 1984
26. 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB - 1983
27. Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters - 1983
28. Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat - 1982
29. Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16) - 1982
30. Soyuz T-6 Launch (U.S.S.R.) - 1982
31. Supreme Court rules President can't be sued for actions in office - 1982
32. Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million - 1980
33. Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open - 1979
34. Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland and steals his 1st base - 1979
35. IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976 - 1977
36. 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany - 1976
37. Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport New York, kills 113 - 1975
38. Moon tremor perceived, hit by Taurid meteors - 1975
39. India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins - 1974
40. Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired - 1974
41. Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8" - 1973
42. Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open - 1973
43. "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6 - 1972
44. Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of U.S., U.S. Air Force - 1972
45. Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention - 1972
46. Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs - 1970
47. "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters - 1970
48. Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4 - 1970
49. Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - 1970
50. 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post - 1968
51. Australia all out for 78 vs. England at Lord's - 1968
52. Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion - 1968
53. Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleveland 14-3 - 1968
54. Joe Frazier TKOs Manuel Ramos in 2 for heavyweight boxing title - 1968
55. Resurrection City in Washington D.C. closed permanently - 1968
56. Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus - 1967
57. Zaire adopts constitution - 1967
58. Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die - 1966
59. Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I - 1966
60. FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages - 1964
61. 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London - 1963
62. Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government - 1963
63. Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain - 1963
64. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament - 1962
65. Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest New York Yankee game in history - 1962
66. Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby" - 1961
67. "Happiest Girl in the World" closes at Martin Beck New York City after 97 performances - 1961
68. Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait - 1961
69. Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa vs. England Lord's - 1960
70. "I Love Lucy," last airs on CBS-TV - 1957
71. 2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge - 1956
72. "Steve Allen Show," returns on NBC-TV - 1956
73. WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1956
74. Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff) - 1955
75. "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" closes at Imperial New York City after 229 perf - 1954
76. KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, New Mexico (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1953
77. Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations - 1951
78. Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open - 1950
79. French government-Bidault resigns - 1950
80. New York Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 home runs and a triple - 1950
81. A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog arrested in Scheveningen Neth - 1949
82. Cargo airlines 1st licensed by U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board - 1949
83. "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC) - 1949
84. Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates New York Governor Thomas Dewey - 1948
85. Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade - 1948
86. 29th PGA Championship: Jim Ferrier at Plum Hollow CC Detroit - 1947
87. Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career - 1947
88. Jim Ferrier wins PGA golf tournament - 1947
89. 11.72" (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen Wisconsin (state 24-hr record) - 1946
90. Georges Bidault elected premier of France - 1946
91. Schermerhorn government forms - 1945
92. Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg - 1943
93. Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered - 1942
94. Africa Corps occupy Egypt - 1942
95. Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated - 1941
96. Germans advanced into Russia and took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas - 1941
97. France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II - 1940
98. Pan Am's 1st U.S. to England flight - 1939
99. 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - 1938
100. Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 home runs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4 - 1936
101. Mary McLeod Bethune named director of Negro Affairs in National Youth Adm - 1936
102. Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand - 1932
103. U.S.S.R. and Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty - 1931
104. 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC - 1930
105. Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium - 1930
106. 32nd U.S. Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill - 1928
107. 59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake - 1924
108. Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied - 1923
109. AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears - 1922
110. Chuvash Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR - 1920
111. Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol - 1917
112. 800 dies as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago - 1915
113. King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent - 1914
114. 53rd British Golf Open: J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake - 1913
115. 17th U.S. Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago GC in Ill - 1911
116. 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St. Andrews Scot - 1910
117. 15th U.S. Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood GC NJ - 1909
118. Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276) - 1908
119. Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist - 1903
120. 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris - 1901
121. Jewish National Fund starts - 1901
122. Dutch Social-Democratic Worker's party and Socialistenbond merge - 1900
123. American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba - 1898
124. Hail injures 26 in Topeka, Kansas - 1897
125. Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years - 1894
126. British government of Salisbury forms - 1885
127. Samuel David Ferguson becomes 1st U.S. black bishop - 1885
128. John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention - 1884
129. NL expels umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty - 1882
130. 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico - 1881
131. 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army - 1866
132. Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac - 1863
133. Battle of Mathias Point, Virginia - U.S. attacks Confederate batteries - 1861
134. Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US - 1861
135. Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria - 1859
136. Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished - 1846
137. Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy - 1843
138. Fordham University, then St. John's College, opens in the Bronx - 1841
139. Battle of Carabobo; Bolivar defeats royalists outside of Caracas - 1821
140. 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast - 1817
141. Battle of Beaver Dam-British and Indian forces defeat U.S. forces - 1813
142. English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires - 1806
143. U.S. and Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st U.S. extradition treaty - 1795
144. 1st republican constitution in France adopted - 1793
145. David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia - 1778
146. 1st Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London - 1717
147. Kingston, Jamaica founded - 1692
148. King Willem III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland - 1690
149. Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed, Macau Day - 1662
150. French fleet recaptures Duinkerk - 1658
151. Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews and 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine - 1648
152. Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council - 1647
153. Tsar Michails father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow - 1619
154. Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russia and Sweden - 1610
155. Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java - 1597
156. 5 clergymen of Enkhuizen, hanged - 1572
157. Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves - 1540
158. Anabaptists Protestants conquered and disbanded - 1535
159. Hessische troops occupy Munster - 1535
160. Zurich and catholic kantons sign Peace of Kappel - 1529
161. Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking RC possessions - 1527
162. Battle at La Bicocca: Emperor Karel V beats France - 1522
163. Portuguese Antonio de Brita signs treaty island of Ternate Molukkas - 1522
164. Henry VIII crowned King of England - 1509
165. John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia) - 1497
166. Zoe Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow - 1472
167. Eton College founded by Henry VI - 1441
168. Sultan Bajezid I release caught crusaders free, for ransom - 1397
169. Crusaders under earl of Nevers reach Vienna - 1396
170. Battle at Lock: English fleet beats France/Genuezen, 10-30,000 killed - 1340
171. In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys French at Sluys - 1340
172. Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time - 1322
173. Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England - 1314
174. Rindfleish Persecutions-Jews of Ifhauben Austria massacred - 1298
175. Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa - 1128
176. Vikings destroy Nantes - 0843
177. 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet - 0451
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