1. Washington Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway's #5 - 1997
2. Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4 - 1996
3. Colbert, Floyd and Irwin win Wendy's Senior 3 Tour Golf Challenge - 1996
4. Couples, Davies, Sheehan and Sorenstam win Wendy's Lady's 3 Tour Golf - 1996
5. Couples, Love and Stewart win Wendy's Men's 3 Tour Golf Challenge - 1996
6. 33rd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2) - 1995
7. Dolphins QB Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass - 1995
8. New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs vs. India in Nagpur ODI - 1995
9. Political campaigners James Carville (49) and Mary Matalin wed - 1993
10. Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York High School students - 1991
11. 1st Billboard Music Awards: Janet Jackson wins - 1990
12. Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend - 1990
13. Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion - 1990
14. Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait - 1990
15. Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns - 1990
16. Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigned, ends his reign longest-serving PM - 1990
17. 77th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40 - 1989
18. Comores coup under Bob Benard - 1989
19. Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes President of Uruguay - 1989
20. Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras - 1989
21. Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev and Jean-Loup Chretien launch - 1988
22. Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km) - 1988
23. 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched - 1985
24. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1985
25. Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000 - 1985
26. After 518 goals and 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires - 1984
27. John W Mercom, Jr. announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million - 1984
28. Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain - 1984
29. U.S. and Iraq regain diplomatic relations - 1984
30. Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million - 1983
31. Clyde King named Yankee manager - 1982
32. Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch - 1982
33. Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki - 1982
34. Columbia mated to SRBs and external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building - 1980
35. Mike Schmidt is unanimous choice as NL MVP - 1980
36. International Olympic Committee votes to readmit China - 1979
37. Twins John Castino and Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year - 1979
38. 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, New York - 1978
39. 1st lesbian theme TV movie - "Question of Love" - 1978
40. 66th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 20-13 - 1978
41. German DR deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship - 1976
42. Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single - 1976
43. Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK" - 1976
44. Willy Burns elected chairman of Social International - 1976
45. Fed jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination - 1975
46. France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island - 1975
47. Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP - 1975
48. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1975
49. Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal) - 1974
50. Catfish Hunter and Charlie Finley meet in arbitration - 1974
51. Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut vs. India - 1974
52. Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18 -minute gap in a key Watergate tape - 1973
53. Pete Gogolak scores New York Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown - 1972
54. 35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB) - 1969
55. Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall) - 1969
56. Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon - 1969
57. 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern California (RB) - 1968
58. Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return - 1967
59. Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450 - 1967
60. 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France - 1966
61. 54th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa, 29-14 - 1966
62. "Walking Happy" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 161 performances - 1966
63. Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year - 1965
64. France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix) - 1965
65. 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB) - 1963
66. Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete Rose wins NL Rookie of Year - 1963
67. Explorer 18 launched - 1963
68. Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms - 1962
69. Fab Four have their 1st recording session under name Beatles - 1962
70. For 2nd time in his career, St. Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions - 1961
71. Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball - 1961
72. 48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6 - 1960
73. Minneapolis-St. Paul baseball club takes the name Twins - 1960
74. WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1957
75. "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC - 1956
76. U.S.S.R. single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, and loses his medal, it sinks - 1956
77. 43rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 34-19 - 1955
78. "Boy Friend" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 483 performances - 1955
79. Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus - 1955
80. Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!" - 1955
81. Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey vs. Australia at Gabba - 1954
82. KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1953
83. WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, Tennessee (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1953
84. Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening - 1953
85. 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil," premieres in Hollywood - 1952
86. China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River - 1950
87. 37th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 28-15 - 1949
88. India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic - 1949
89. Belgian government of Spaak, resigns - 1948
90. During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington) - 1945
91. 1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor - 1944
92. Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoriums - 1944
93. Anti fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms - 1942
94. "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, New York City - 1942
95. Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro - 1941
96. British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs - 1941
97. British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh and El Duda - 1941
98. Japanese carrier force left its base and moves east toward Pearl Harbor - 1941
99. Lebanon gains independence from France - 1941
100. Leidse students strike - 1940
101. Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw - 1940
102. 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border - 1939
103. German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to nazi - 1934
104. Turkish regiment decrees importing family names - 1934
105. Camille Chautemps becomes French premier - 1933
106. Bradman completes 10000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings - 1932
107. Paul Claudel's "Lepdrehumily," premieres in Dresden - 1928
108. Philip Barry's "Holiday," premieres in New York City - 1928
109. 15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6 - 1927
110. Netherlands and Germany sign trade agreement - 1925
111. Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed - 1924
112. Greece declares war on Germany - 1916
113. Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die - 1914
114. Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers - 1913
115. 2nd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers, 16-7 - 1910
116. SS Portland leaves for Cape Cod, 157 killed - 1898
117. 1st large indoor football game, University of Chicago beats University of Michgan 7-6 - 1896
118. A. A. Stagg of U Chicago creates football huddle - 1896
119. Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms - 1895
120. King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France - 1894
121. 1st meteor photograph - 1885
122. 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th and Folsom - 1868
123. Refrigerated railroad car patented by J. B. Sutherland - 1867
124. "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in US - 1865
125. Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia - 1864
126. Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal/Waynesboro, Georgia - 1864
127. West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virg - 1861
128. Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice," premieres in Paris - 1847
129. 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan - 1841
130. HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ - 1835
131. 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (New York City) (12 cent fare) - 1832
132. 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, New York)) - 1825
133. Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France - 1793
134. 1st national Thanksgiving - 1789
135. Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands [now Hawaii]) - 1778
136. France bans Jesuit enorde - 1764
137. French and Beiers army occupies Prague - 1741
138. 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston) - 1716
139. Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships - 1703
140. Heavy storm hits England 1000s killed - 1703
141. Premiere of Colley Cibber's "King Imposter" - 1702
142. Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg - 1688
143. French king Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands - 1688
144. King James II escapes back to London - 1688
145. Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westfalen - 1648
146. Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java - 1598
147. French Huguenots and Roman Catholics sign peace treaty - 1580
148. Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I - 1527
149. Otto I the Great gives away bisdom Utrecht "foreestrecht" - 0944
150. Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0579
151. St. Siricius ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0399
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