1. Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL vs. Aust, MCG) - 1995
2. Paul Adams becomes South Africa's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 years 340 ds - 1995
3. Actor Jason Hervey (22) weds Kelley Patricia O'Neill (27) - 1994
4. French commando's terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille - 1994
5. President brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-mo pregnant Molly Nartin (25) - 1994
6. Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed - 1993
7. Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (72) weds Joan Child (41) - 1993
8. Floyd, Nicklaus and Rodriguez wins Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tourn - 1993
9. NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75 - 1992
10. Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years - 1991
11. Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction - 1991
12. Militant Sikhs kill 55 and wound 70 in India - 1991
13. New York Islander Derek King ties New Jersey Devils 5-5 with second left - 1991
14. Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship - 1990
15. Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF's NY-New Jersey Knights - 1990
16. Senior Professional Baseball Association folds - 1990
17. ODI debut for Mark Taylor and Sanath Jayasuriya at cricket MCG - 1989
18. Anti African student rebellion in China PR - 1988
19. "Legs Diamond" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 64 performances - 1988
20. "Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik - 1987
21. Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed - 1986
22. Doug Jarvis, 31, sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games - 1986
23. TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run - 1986
24. Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh, vs. India at the MCG - 1985
25. Belgian princess Astrid marries arch duke Otto L van Austrian-Este - 1984
26. Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, vs. Pakistan MCG - 1983
27. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1983
28. TIME's Man of the Year is a computer - 1982
29. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1982
30. One of the great day's Test Cricket at the MCG Aust vs. WI - 1981
31. India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail - 1978
32. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1977
33. "Music Is" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 8 performances - 1976
34. 1st supersonic transport service (U.S.S.R.-Tupolev-144) - 1975
35. A crowd of 85661 attends the 1st day of the Aust-WI MCG Test Cricket - 1975
36. Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout - 1974
37. 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours - 1973
38. "Exorcist," starring Linda Blair and rated X, premieres - 1973
39. Soyuz 13 returns to Earth - 1973
40. Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1 - 1968
41. Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors and 2 game misconducts in a game against New York Rangers in New York's MSG - 1968
42. Jay Allens "Forty Carats," premieres in New York City - 1968
43. Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Boston as opener for Vanilla Fudge - 1968
44. BBC broadcasts "Magical Mystery Tour" - 1967
45. Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbands - 1967
46. Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday - 1966
47. Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game - 1965
48. "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway - 1965
49. Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks - 1964
50. Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game - 1964
51. Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There" - 1963
52. "Double Dublin" opens at Little Theater New York City for 4 performances - 1963
53. US furnishes cereal to U.S.S.R. - 1963
54. "Do Re Mi" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 400 performances - 1960
55. Musical "Do re mi" with Phil Silvers premieres in New York City - 1960
56. Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game - 1960
57. Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London - 1957
58. Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating LA 38-14 - 1955
59. RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV - 1955
60. Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating Detroit 56-10 - 1954
61. "The Shadow," airs for last time on radio - 1954
62. Gillette and Mutual buy All Star and World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs) - 1950
63. Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested - 1948
64. British transfer Heard and McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia - 1947
65. "Cradle Will Ruck" opens at Mansfield Theater New York City for 34 performances - 1947
66. Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries New York City under 25.8" of snow in 16 hours That same day, LA set a record high of 84 degrees F - 1947
67. 35th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0) - 1946
68. "Beggar's Holiday" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 111 performances - 1946
69. Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era) - 1946
70. "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" opens at Century Theater New York City for 60 performances - 1946
71. Battle of Bastogne-US Gen Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans - 1944
72. Budapest surrounded by soviet army - 1944
73. Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Menagerie," premieres in Chicago - 1944
74. British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst - 1943
75. Chicago Bears win NFL championship - 1943
76. Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter - 1943
77. Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing" - 1941
78. 1st-class debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148 - 1940
79. JA Fields/J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premieres in New York City - 1940
80. Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey - 1939
81. Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels - 1939
82. Bradman scores 225 South Aust vs. Qld before Christ gets him out - 1938
83. Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England vs. South Africa - 1938
84. Israel Philarmonic Orch forms - 1936
85. Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth" - 1935
86. Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms - 1934
87. Bradman scores 187* NSW vs. Victoria, 294 mins, 13 fours - 1933
88. US forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere - 1933
89. Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China - 1932
90. George/Ira Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing," premieres in New York City - 1931
91. Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Bdwy - 1931
92. SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich marries Lina von Osten - 1931
93. Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming - 1928
94. World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) NSW vs. Vic - 1928
95. Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan - 1926
96. 1st East West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans - 1925
97. NHL record 141 shots as New York Americans (73) beat Pitt Pirates (68) 3-1 - 1925
98. NY's Jake Forbes makes 67 saves, Pitt's Ray Waters makes 70 - 1925
99. Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar - 1925
100. Judy Garland, 2, billed as Baby Frances, show business debut - 1924
101. Yanks and Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth - 1919
102. 1st day of 1st-class cricket in Aust after WW I (Vic vs. NSW) - 1918
103. 1st NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leaf Harry Cameron - 1917
104. Fed government took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I - 1917
105. Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France - 1916
106. Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title - 1908
107. Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) and Christy Williams (42) - 1902
108. Mafeking: Bathe-Powells failed assault up fort Game Tree: 24 killed - 1899
109. Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala) - 1892
110. King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company - 1890
111. John Brahms' "Tragic Ouverture," premieres - 1879
112. 1st U.S. store to install electric lights, Philadelphia - 1878
113. Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention - 1877
114. 4th largest snowfall in New York City history (18") - 1872
115. James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st U.S. coffee percolator - 1865
116. 1st U.S. Navy hospital ship enters service - 1862
117. 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minn, due to their uprising - 1862
118. Battle of Dumfries, VA - 1862
119. Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt) - 1860
120. Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft. Sumter - 1860
121. Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo - 1854
122. 1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF - 1848
123. William and Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia - 1848
124. Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma," premieres in Milan - 1831
125. Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena," premieres in Milan - 1830
126. Erie Canal opens - 1825
127. Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies - 1813
128. English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen - 1809
129. France and Austria signs Peace of Pressburg - 1805
130. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia - 1805
131. George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st in peace and 1st in hearts of his countrymen" - 1799
132. Battle of Trenton-major British defeat - 1776
133. George Washington defeats Hessians at Trenton - 1776
134. Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia - 1773
135. France and Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands - 1748
136. Long Parliament reforms in Westminster - 1659
137. Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA - 1620
138. Uprising of Morisco's against suppression in Granada - 1568
139. 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus - 1492
140. Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht - 1481
141. French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest - 1198
142. St. Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0795
143. St. Zosimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0418
144. St. Dionysius ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0268
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