1. 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) - 1994
2. 49th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan - 1994
3. Asociacon de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms - 1994
4. Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India - 1994
5. Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France - 1994
6. Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown - 1993
7. Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans - 1993
8. New York Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight - 1993
9. Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32) - 1993
10. Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, eff 3/1/93 - 1992
11. Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die - 1992
12. Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign - 1991
13. University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system - 1991
14. Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus - 1990
15. U.S. warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait - 1990
16. Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America - 1989
17. 43rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann - 1988
18. U.S. and Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup - 1988
19. IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released - 1987
20. U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test - 1987
21. San Francisco Federal jury convicts Navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage - 1986
22. Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai - 1985
23. Steve Ballesteros wins British Open - 1984
24. 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1) - 1983
25. Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic - 1983
26. Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France - 1983
27. "Mame" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 41 performances - 1983
28. Pine Tar Game: Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned) - 1983
29. Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America - 1983
30. "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" closes at E O'Neill New York City after 63 performances - 1982
31. KHJ (LA) and KFRC (SF) become 2nd and 3rd stereo AM stations - 1982
32. Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran - 1981
33. President Carter names Paul Volcker, President of Federal Reserves - 1979
34. Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR - 1979
35. Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson - 1978
36. Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe - 1978
37. Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games - 1978
38. "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in New York City - 1978
39. 32nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy - 1977
40. Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881 - 1977
41. Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen - 1977
42. John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes - 1976
43. Apollo 18 returns to Earth - 1975
44. Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes - 1974
45. 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC - 1973
46. All star MVP: Bobby Bonds for the San Francisco Giants - 1973
47. Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16 - 1972
48. WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1971
49. International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule - 1970
50. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1970
51. Apollo 11 returns to Earth - 1969
52. Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game - 1969
53. Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army on appeal - 1969
54. Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances - 1968
55. 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colo - 1967
56. Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana - 1967
57. Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!' - 1967
58. Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City - 1967
59. Norway requests European Common Market membership - 1967
60. Race riots in Cambridge Maryland - 1967
61. Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game - 1967
62. 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron - 1966
63. Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open - 1966
64. Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone" - 1965
65. Casey Stengel resigns as manager of New York Mets - 1965
66. "Flora, the Red Menace" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 87 performances - 1965
67. Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts - 1965
68. 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea - 1963
69. Dutch government of Marijnen forms - 1963
70. Beginning of a trend, a U.S. commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba - 1961
71. Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show - 1961
72. Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader - 1961
73. 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron - 1960
74. 500,000th Dutch TV set registered - 1959
75. VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate" - 1959
76. 14 people named 1st life peers in U.K. - 1958
77. Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again - 1958
78. Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth and Subba Row - 1958
79. KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1957
80. U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site - 1957
81. Brendan Behan's "Quare Fellow," premieres in London - 1956
82. Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City - 1956
83. Ali Sastroamidjojo of Government resigns in Indonesia - 1955
84. Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament - 1955
85. KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, California (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1953
86. 112 degrees F (44 degrees C), Louisville, Georgia (state record) - 1952
87. Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6) - 1952
88. President Truman settles 53-day steel strike - 1952
89. V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral - 1950
90. Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 home runs to beat Senators, 7-5 - 1949
91. 4 Duluth Minnesota Dukes (St. Louis Cardinals Class C farm team) die in crash - 1948
92. Soviets blockades Berlin from west - 1948
93. 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash - 1946
94. U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island - 1946
95. U.S. destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam - 1945
96. 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions - 1944
97. Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek - 1944
98. U.S. troops land on Tinian - 1944
99. RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead) - 1943
100. Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army," premieres in New York City - 1942
101. Franklin D. Roosevelt demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China - 1941
102. Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania - 1941
103. Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game - 1941
104. 1st illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in Netherlands - 1940
105. Linthorst Homan, de Quay and Einthoven forms Dutch Union - 1940
106. Instant coffee invented - 1938
107. Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro - 1937
108. 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Minden, Nebraska (state record) - 1936
109. 121 degrees F (49 degrees C), near Alton, Kansas (state record) - 1936
110. Gen Mola and Cabanellas form Spanish anti-govt - 1936
111. 1st greeting telegram sent in Britain - 1935
112. 1st ptarmigan hatched and reared in captivity, Ithaca, New York - 1934
113. #1726 Hoffmeister, #2136 Jugta, #2158, #3957 Sugie and #4589 McDowell - 1933
114. German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe - 1933
115. George Gunn gets 183 and son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings - 1931
116. Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6) - 1931
117. New York to San Francisco foot race ends (2 months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde - 1929
118. President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war - 1929
119. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tennessee High School, fined $100 and costs - 1925
120. Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne - 1923
121. Belgium's Leon Scieur wins Tour de France - 1921
122. Race Riot in Washington D.C. (6 killed, 100 wounded) - 1919
123. Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die - 1915
124. Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3 - 1911
125. Hiram Bingham discovers Lost City of the Incas - 1911
126. Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull - 1910
127. Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates - 1909
128. John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record) - 1908
129. Treaty of Bjorko: Emperor Wilhelm II/czar Nicholas II - 1905
130. Trumper a century before lunch 4th Test Cricket vs. England - 1902
131. Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed - 1900
132. For only time in history of U.S. Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago - 1893
133. China takes British protectorate of Burma - 1886
134. Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt - 1883
135. 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers - 1877
136. 1st trans-U.S. rail service begins - 1870
137. Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union - 1866
138. Battle of Winchester, Virginia US1200 CS600 - 1864
139. Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia - 1863
140. Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)Virginia - CS Gen Wise retreats - 1861
141. Window tax abolished in Britain - 1851
142. Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah - 1847
143. Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, New York City - 1847
144. HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay - 1833
145. Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson - 1824
146. William Clark (of Lewis and Clark) is willed the slave York - 1799
147. France passes 1st copyright law - 1793
148. Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia - 1783
149. George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess - 1758
150. Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII - 1745
151. Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army - 1712
152. English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar - 1704
153. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft. Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit - 1701
154. French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein) - 1692
155. 1st settlers from Germany to U.S., leave aboard Concord - 1683
156. Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate - 1673
157. Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va - 1651
158. States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange - 1581
159. Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur - 1577
160. Treason of Don Juan in Brussels - 1577
161. Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate and 1-year-old James VI becomes King of Scotland - 1567
162. Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem - 1554
163. Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France - 1534
164. Citizens of Leeuwarden Netherlands rebel against ban on foreign beer - 1487
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