1. Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton - 1998
2. Sammy Sosa (Cubs) and Tony Womack (Pirates) hit inside the park HRs - 1997
3. Indianapolis 500 race - 1996
4. Laura Davies wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game - 1996
5. "Midsummer Night's Dream" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 66 performances - 1996
6. Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic - 1996
7. Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26) - 1994
8. Emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time - 1993
9. Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head and goes over fence for a home run - 1993
10. Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich - 1993
11. Carlos Martinez hits a ball off Jose Canseco's head for a HR - 1992
12. Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour - 1992
13. Betsy King wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic - 1991
14. China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC - 1990
15. Philadelphia Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20 - 1990
16. At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio - 1989
17. Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals - 1989
18. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1989
19. Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games - 1988
20. Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe - 1987
21. Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka - 1987
22. Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail - 1987
23. William H. Webster replaces Robert M. Gates as 14th director of CIA - 1987
24. Danny Sullivan wins Indy 500 by 24 seconds following a spin - 1985
25. Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die - 1985
26. Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic - 1985
27. Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia - 1984
28. Tulsa, Oklahoma gets 13" of rain, 14 die - 1984
29. 29th Walker Cup: U.S., 13 -10 - 1983
30. Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7 - 1983
31. Los Angeles Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws - 1983
32. NASA launches Exosat - 1983
33. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1983
34. Aston Villa wins 27th Europe Cup 1 of Rotterdam - 1982
35. British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war - 1982
36. Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14 - 1981
37. Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8" - 1980
38. Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st NLer to record 6, 1-hitters - 1980
39. Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6 - 1980
40. Dancin' Fool by Frank Zappa hits #45 - 1979
41. 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City - 1978
42. George Willig climbs New York City World Trade Center - 1977
43. Movie "Star Wars" debuts - 1977
44. Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes - 1975
45. During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled - 1974
46. Joanne Carner wins Hoosier LPGA Golf Classic - 1974
47. Bahrain adopts it's constitution - 1973
48. Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970," album goes #1 - 1973
49. Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/28) - 1973
50. Funky Worm by Ohio Players hits #15 - 1973
51. Super Fly Meets Shaft by John and Ernest hits #31 - 1973
52. Tippett's 3rd Piano sonata, premieres - 1973
53. Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title - 1972
54. Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord - 1972
55. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1972
56. Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its 1st appearance - 1971
57. Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth - 1969
58. John and Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal) - 1969
59. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open - 1968
60. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1967
61. Buddhist sets self on fire at U.S. consulate in Hue South-Vietnam - 1966
62. Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK - 1966
63. Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes - 1965
64. Revised International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect - 1965
65. "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 199 performances - 1964
66. 15th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall and Shirley Booth - 1963
67. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open - 1963
68. Organization of African Unity forms - 1963
69. Wes Stock becomes only Baltimore Oriole to win a doubleheader - 1963
70. "All American" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 80 performances - 1962
71. Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta - 1961
72. USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours - 1961
73. Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th - 1959
74. Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed - 1958
75. U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) - 1958
76. Union Square, San Francisco becomes state historical landmark - 1958
77. Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open - 1957
78. Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103 - 1956
79. Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman and Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with 2 outs in 10th and lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1 - 1956
80. "7th Heaven" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 44 performances - 1955
81. Conservatives win British parliamentary election - 1955
82. Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade - 1955
83. Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die - 1953
84. Vaughan Williams "Pilgrim's Progress," premieres in London - 1951
85. Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers - 1948
86. South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy - 1948
87. 2-for-42 and hitting .048 for 1946, Mel Ott stops playing baseball - 1946
88. Darius Milhauds 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Prague - 1946
89. Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia - 1946
90. Patent filed in U.S. for H-Bomb - 1946
91. U.S. drops fire bombs on Tokyo - 1945
92. 82nd Airborne div D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste Mere Eglise - 1944
93. 1st president of a black country to visit U.S. (Edwin Barclay, Liberia) - 1943
94. Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam - 1943
95. Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from U.S. to North Africa - 1943
96. Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London - 1942
97. Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star - 1942
98. Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army - 1942
99. American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila - 1941
100. Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck - 1941
101. German occupiers begin youth labor - 1941
102. Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk - 1940
103. House on un-American Activities forms - 1938
104. Dutch Rail NV at law forms - 1937
105. San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens - 1937
106. 1st government of Zealand in Belgium ends - 1936
107. Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago - 1934
108. 2nd emergency Dutch government of Colijn forms - 1933
109. Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St. Louis Cardinals - 1933
110. Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo - 1932
111. Joe Sewell, strikes out twice of his 3 times in 1930, by Pat Caraway - 1930
112. Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution - 1930
113. A's commit 7 errors and lose to Yanks 7-4 - 1928
114. Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile - 1927
115. Lebanon adopts constitution - 1926
116. Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery - 1925
117. Tigers' Ty Cobb is 1st to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends 1,139) - 1925
118. German government of Marx resigns - 1924
119. President Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration - 1924
120. 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance is run - 1923
121. Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg - 1923
122. Lenin suffers a stroke - 1922
123. Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia - 1918
124. Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field - 1917
125. H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England - 1915
126. Actors' Equity Association forms (New York City) - 1913
127. 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run - 1911
128. Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits New York Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game - 1907
129. Archaeological Institute of America forms - 1906
130. A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia - 1905
131. Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables" - 1903
132. British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa - 1900
133. 32nd Belmont: F Littlefield aboard Bowling Brook wins in 2:32 - 1898
134. San Francisco approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utilities - 1898
135. 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY - 1896
136. Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94) - 1896
137. Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned - 1896
138. Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player - 1894
139. Racetrack betting becomes legal in New York state - 1887
140. Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 and 7-3 vs. England XI in 4 hours - 1884
141. 11th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Jacobus wins in 2:42 - 1883
142. HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration - 1876
143. 2nd Preakness: William Donohue aboard Culpepper wins in 2:56 - 1874
144. President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote - 1868
145. Battle of Galveston, Texas, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith - 1865
146. Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia - 1864
147. Territory of Montana formed - 1864
148. Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South - 1861
149. Union blockades New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile Alabama - 1861
150. Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy - 1860
151. Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates - 1834
152. Brazil is recognized by U.S. - 1824
153. Lewis and Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains - 1805
154. Napoleon is crowned king of Italy - 1805
155. British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara - 1798
156. Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress - 1790
157. Bank of North America incorporates in Philadelphia - 1781
158. Battle of Ackia (La), British and Chickasaw Indians defeat French - 1736
159. Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony - 1647
160. 1st battle of Pequot at New Haven, Connecticut kills 500 indians - 1637
161. England, France and Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain - 1596
162. Geneve throws out Calvijn - 1538
163. William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII - 1328
164. German King Otto II crowned - 0961
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