1. 54th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship - 1999
2. Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby - 1997
3. Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian - 1997
4. Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas - 1997
5. QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs - 1997
6. Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling - 1997
7. Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in New York City - 1997
8. Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs. United States - 1996
9. Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war (Washington D.C.) - 1994
10. 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) - 1993
11. 48th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten - 1993
12. Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44) - 1993
13. Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon - 1993
14. Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France - 1993
15. 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain - 1992
16. Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr. Mudd - 1992
17. Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles) - 1991
18. Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use - 1991
19. Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium - 1991
20. Kansas City Royal George Brett hits for the cycle - 1990
21. "Les Miserables," opens at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver - 1990
22. Nadezhda Ryashkina of U.S.S.R. sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23) - 1990
23. Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game - 1990
24. U.S. Ambassador tells Iraq, U.S. won't take sides in Iraq - Kuwait dispute - 1990
25. U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site - 1990
26. Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA - 1989
27. Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA - 1988
28. Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France - 1988
29. Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt - 1987
30. U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite - 1987
31. Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India - 1986
32. Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS - 1985
33. U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site - 1985
34. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1985
35. Uganda suspends constitution following coup - 1985
36. Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space - 1984
37. 1st non-human primate, baboon, conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio - 1983
38. Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion - 1983
39. 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0) - 1982
40. 37th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson - 1982
41. France performs nuclear Test - 1982
42. Voyager 2 encounters Saturn - 1981
43. Train crash at Winsum, 9 die - 1980
44. U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site - 1980
45. 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record) - 1979
46. Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar - 1978
47. Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager - 1978
48. Cincinnati Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games - 1978
49. John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image - 1978
50. Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01) - 1976
51. Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open - 1976
52. "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres - 1975
53. George Harrison pays 1,000,000 pounds tax on his Bangladesh concert and album - 1973
54. U.S.S.R. launches Mars 5 - 1973
55. 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad - 1972
56. All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cin Reds) - 1972
57. Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open - 1971
58. "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1 - 1970
59. 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Fillmore East, New York) - 1969
60. 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival - 1969
61. Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne - 1969
62. Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth - 1968
63. Construction begins on San Francisco MUNI METRO (Market Street subway) - 1967
64. Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone - 1966
65. Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..." - 1966
66. Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River - 1966
67. Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love" - 1966
68. Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame - 1966
69. Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival - 1965
70. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament - 1965
71. Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 14 weeks - 1964
72. Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford - 1964
73. "Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 338 performances - 1964
74. Race riot in Rochester, New York - 1964
75. Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations - 1963
76. U.S., Russia and England sign nuclear Test ban treaty - 1963
77. House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex - 1962
78. Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 and 40 in a doubleheader - 1961
79. Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels - 1960
80. U.S. Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate - 1960
81. Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic - 1957
82. Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England vs. WI Headingley - 1957
83. U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site - 1957
84. 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston - 1956
85. Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm - 1956
86. Jordan attacks United Nations Palestine force - 1956
87. Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open - 1954
88. New York City transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens - 1953
89. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day) - 1952
90. Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing U.S. commonwealth - 1952
91. St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Brooklyn 14-1 - 1949
92. U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense - 1947
93. U.S. Department of Army created - 1947
94. 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show - 1946
95. U.S. detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini, 5th atomic explosion - 1946
96. 1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262 - 1944
97. Allied jailbreak at St-Lo, behind German lines - 1944
98. Japanse banzai-attack on Guam - 1944
99. U.S. troop march into Guam - 1944
100. USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-Lo - 1944
101. 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched - 1943
102. Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II - 1943
103. Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl - 1943
104. RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam - 1943
105. German troops occupy Rostov - 1942
106. German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja - 1942
107. Franklin D. Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan - 1941
108. Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory) - 1941
109. John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 mins in the Mississippi River - 1940
110. 5th and last Dutch government of Colijn, forms - 1939
111. New York Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win - 1939
112. Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany - 1938
113. Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet) - 1938
114. 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx - 1936
115. Failed nazi coup in Austria - 1934
116. 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington - 1933
117. Philadelphia Athletics triple steal in 1st and 4th innings vs Cleveland - 1930
118. German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1 - 1923
119. AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA and WFAN) - 1922
120. Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win - 1920
121. Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of U.S., California - 1918
122. Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks and 2 whites killed) - 1918
123. Explosion at Lake Erie and Cleveland Waterworks - 1916
124. Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant" - 1914
125. Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69 - 1914
126. Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game - 1913
127. Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies - 1913
128. Comoros proclaimed a French colonies - 1912
129. France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across Engl Channel - 1909
130. Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes - 1903
131. James J. Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title - 1902
132. Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match - 1900
133. 1st U.S. troops land and occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay - 1898
134. Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa - 1871
135. U.S. Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah and Idaho) - 1868
136. 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office - 1866
137. David Faragut appointed as 1st Admiral of U.S. Navy - 1866
138. U.S. Grant named 1st general of Army - 1866
139. Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia - 1863
140. Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Terr - Rebels attack Union troops - 1861
141. Washington D.C. - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union and uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery - 1861
142. 1st U.S. intercollegiate billiard match, Harvard vs. Yales - 1860
143. Gold discovered in Oregon, Rogue River - 1850
144. 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian - 1848
145. Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine - 1835
146. 1st railroad accident in U.S., Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies - 1832
147. Gen Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico - 1822
148. Battle of Niagara Falls, Lundy's Lane, ; Americans defeat British - 1814
149. George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive - 1814
150. French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir - 1799
151. Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion" - 1792
152. Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta - 1775
153. British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War) - 1759
154. North Carolina becomes a royal colony - 1729
155. France declares war on England - 1689
156. Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna - 1670
157. Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes Governor-General of Southern Neth - 1670
158. Vienna Austria expels Jews - 1670
159. Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church - 1652
160. France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic - 1593
161. Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics - 1585
162. Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army - 1570
163. Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC emperor - 1564
164. About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent - 1521
165. San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba - 1519
166. Portugese assault on city Malakka attack - 1511
167. Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia - 1360
168. Byzantium Emperor Michael VIII recaptures Constantinople - 1261
169. Frederik II (20) crowned king of German - 1215
170. Count Alfonso I of Portugal becomes king - 1139
171. Battle at Fontenay: Louis and Charles beat their brother Lotharius I - 0841
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