1. Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement - 1998
2. "Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 1,503 performance - 1998
3. Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament - 1998
4. "Patti LaBelle On Broadway," closes at St. James Theater New York City - 1998
5. Spice Girl Victoria Adams, aka Posh Spice, and soccer David Beckham gets engaged - 1998
6. Superbowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24 - 1998
7. 71st Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beat Mary Pierce (62 62) - 1997
8. Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee - 1995
9. Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court - 1994
10. Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup - 1994
11. Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55 - 1994
12. U.S. space probe Clementine launched - 1994
13. 20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win - 1993
14. Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language - 1993
15. Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years - 1993
16. 66th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats M Fernandez (62 63) - 1992
17. Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41" - 1992
18. Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264 - 1992
19. Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49) - 1991
20. Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by U.S. government - 1991
21. Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, vs. England Adelaide - 1991
22. Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2 year run - 1991
23. Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die - 1990
24. Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail - 1990
25. West-Europe's strongest hurricane - 1990
26. Augusto Alcalde, 1st S Amer Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission - 1989
27. Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season - 1989
28. New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II - 1989
29. 15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon and Whitney Houston - 1988
30. George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab" - 1988
31. Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games) - 1988
32. Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname - 1988
33. VP Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair - 1988
34. 75th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63) - 1987
35. Superbowl XXI: New York Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Phil Simms, New York Giants, QB - 1987
36. General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda - 1986
37. "Black and Blue," premieres in Paris - 1985
38. Test debut of Wasim Akram, vs. New Zealand at Auckland (2-105) - 1985
39. "We are the World" is recorded - 1985
40. China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life - 1983
41. Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit - 1983
42. Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia - 1983
43. 9th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers win - 1982
44. 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US - 1981
45. Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death - 1981
46. Superbowl XV: Oakland Raiders beat Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Jim Plunkett, Oakland, QB - 1981
47. Bani Sadr elected president of Iran - 1980
48. Dutch Government demands boycott of Olympics - 1980
49. Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft - 1980
50. Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail and deported - 1980
51. 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan - 1979
52. Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff - 1979
53. Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat - 1978
54. Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin and $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award) - 1978
55. Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind vs. NZ Auckland - 1976
56. 10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st - 1975
57. Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman - 1975
58. Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey - 1974
59. Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old - 1974
60. Ray Kroc, CEO of McDonald's, buys San Diego Padres for $12 million - 1974
61. 25th NHL All-Star Game: East beats West 3-2 at Minnesota - 1972
62. 7' Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl in a game with Minnesota - 1972
63. Charles Manson and 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders - 1971
64. Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state - 1971
65. Military coup in Uganda under Gen Idi Amin Dada - 1971
66. Philadelphia mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar - 1971
67. WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting - 1971
68. Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H," premieres - 1970
69. US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris - 1969
70. Risse St. in Bronx named - 1968
71. Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in New York City - 1968
72. WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, New Jersey (NBC) 1st broadcast - 1966
73. Beatles 1st U.S. #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox) - 1964
74. Echo 2, U.S. communications satellite launched - 1964
75. 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (John F. Kennedy) - 1961
76. Louise Suggs wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament - 1961
77. Military coup in El Salvador - 1961
78. Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released - 1961
79. 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to New York for $301) - 1959
80. Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council - 1959
81. FBI arrests Jack and Myra Sobel, charged with spying for U.S.S.R. - 1957
82. 96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, HI (state record) - 1956
83. Columbia U scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years - 1955
84. Jill Kinmont hits a tree and breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race - 1955
85. Russia ends state of war with Germany - 1955
86. United States and Panama sign canal treaty - 1955
87. WABI TV channel 5 in Bangor, ME (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1953
88. Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec - 1953
89. Test debut of Richie Benaud, vs. West Indies at the SCG - 1952
90. U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea - 1951
91. 73 degrees F (23 degrees C) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January - 1950
92. 1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale and Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win - 1949
93. 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins - 1949
94. Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosis," premieres in Zurich - 1946
95. United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor - 1946
96. Dan Topping, Del Webb and Larry MacPhail purchase New York Yanks for $2.8 mil - 1945
97. Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st U.S. city to fluoridate its water - 1945
98. Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths - 1945
99. New York Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, & - 1945
100. West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma - 1945
101. Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus - 1942
102. Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland - 1940
103. Earthquake hits Chillan Chile, 10,000 killed - 1939
104. Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title - 1939
105. Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born," premieres in New York City - 1938
106. 1st broadcast of Soap Opera "Guiding Light" on NBC radio - 1937
107. Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13 - 1937
108. 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem - 1932
109. Bradman scores 167 NSW vs. Victoria, 224 mins, 22 fours - 1932
110. Bradman scores 340* for NSW vs. Victoria, 488 mins, 38 fours - 1929
111. 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France - 1924
112. Karel Capek's "RUR," premieres in Prague - 1921
113. Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later - 1919
114. Russia declared a republic of Soviets - 1918
115. Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary - 1916
116. Alexander Graham Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in SF - 1915
117. Giordano, Sardou and Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gˆne" premieres in New York City - 1915
118. Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (New York to SF) - 1915
119. 1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf vs. Eng) - 1910
120. Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem - 1910
121. Richard Strauss' premier of "Electricity" in Dresden - 1909
122. John Blockx' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp - 1908
123. Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Inst of Arts and Letters - 1907
124. Del Valle Inclans "El Marques de Bradomin," premieres in Madrid - 1906
125. World's largest diamond, Cullinan - 3106 carets, found in South Africa - 1905
126. 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania - 1904
127. J. M. Synge's "Ruders to the Sea," premieres in Dublin - 1904
128. Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St. Petersburg - 1902
129. James J. Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title - 1894
130. National Afro-American League forms in Chicago - 1890
131. Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days) - 1890
132. United Mine Workers of America forms - 1890
133. Vincent d'Indy's "Saugefleurie," premieres - 1885
134. Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms - 1882
135. Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden - 1877
136. Anti-slavery society forms (NY) - 1875
137. Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows - 1870
138. CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia - 1865
139. Battle of Kinston, NC - 1863
140. General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac - 1863
141. Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia - 1858
142. Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers and Indians - 1856
143. Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bednost ne Porok," premieres in Moscow - 1854
144. Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron) - 1851
145. Recontre between Reps Weller and Shriver, U.S. House of Representative - 1844
146. Opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris - 1835
147. Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris - 1835
148. 1st U.S. engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, New York - 1825
149. Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome - 1817
150. Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic - 1802
151. 1st U.S. patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont - 1799
152. Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass - 1787
153. Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx) - 1775
154. Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy - 1721
155. Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic - 1579
156. Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army - 1565
157. Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary - 1554
158. England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date) - 1533
159. Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples - 1494
160. Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000 - 1348
161. King Edward III accedes to British throne - 1327
162. Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant - 1139
163. Gregory IV begins and ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0844
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