1. 19th U.S. Senior Golf Open ends at Riviera CC, Pacific Palisades, California - 1998
2. Giant Eagle LPGA Classic - 1998
3. Cambodia's Red Khmer surprise attack on train, kills 13 - 1994
4. Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed - 1994
5. Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed - 1993
6. Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km - 1993
7. 47th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan - 1992
8. England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war - 1992
9. Kiss Guitarist Paul Stanley weds Pamela Bowen - 1992
10. "Man of La Mancha" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 108 performances - 1992
11. Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for 23rd consecutive seasons - 1992
12. Rocker Paul Stanley (Kiss) weds model Pamela Bowen - 1992
13. CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders - 1991
14. Expo's Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th - 1991
15. General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode - 1990
16. President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act - 1990
17. Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Reds-Padres game - 1990
18. U.S. beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games - 1990
19. Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies and New York Mets end that game at 2:13 AM - 1988
20. Catfish Hunter Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball HOF - 1987
21. Stephen Roche wins Tour de France - 1987
22. Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco - 1986
23. Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single - 1984
24. Kuhn announces Vida Blue is suspended due to cocaine conviction - 1984
25. Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use - 1984
26. Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8 - 1983
27. Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czech sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28) - 1983
28. Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io - 1983
29. Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by U.S. Delta rocket - 1982
30. Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe - 1982
31. 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela - 1981
32. 36th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley - 1981
33. New York Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant - 1981
34. Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, Texas (national record) - 1979
35. France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island - 1978
36. Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run - 1978
37. U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test - 1977
38. Soyuz 18B returns to Earth - 1975
39. France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island - 1974
40. U.S.S.R.'s Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3 - 1974
41. Peter Shaffers "Equus," premieres in London - 1973
42. Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon - 1971
43. Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive home runs of Phillies Steve Carlton - 1970
44. Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific - 1969
45. Twins beat Yanks 3-2 in 18 - 1967
46. WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1966
47. Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Natl Day) - 1965
48. Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open - 1964
49. Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy - 1964
50. Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die - 1964
51. Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+ - 1963
52. U.S. Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched - 1963
53. Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba - 1962
54. Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher - 1962
55. Italian government of Fanfani forms - 1960
56. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open - 1959
57. Army launches 4th U.S. successful satellite, Explorer IV - 1958
58. Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200 - 1957
59. U.S.S.R. launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile - 1957
60. Egypt seizes Suez Canal - 1956
61. 37th PGA Championship: Doug Ford at Meadowbrook CC Detroit - 1955
62. Last day as Test Cricket umpire for Frank Chester - 1955
63. Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers - 1955
64. WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1954
65. Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime - 1953
66. King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday] - 1952
67. Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer - 1952
68. Netherlands ends state of war with Germany - 1951
69. Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits home runs twice in a game - 1950
70. KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites - 1950
71. WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1949
72. 1st black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show - 1948
73. "Babe Ruth Story," premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance - 1948
74. Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as a New York Giant - 1948
75. President Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in armed forces - 1948
76. Department of Defense forms - 1947
77. National Security Act establishes CIA - 1947
78. President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces - 1946
79. After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM - 1945
80. Declaration of Potsdam: US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender - 1945
81. Japanese government disregards U.S. ultimatum - 1945
82. U.S. cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb - 1945
83. Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's PM - 1945
84. Japanese suicide attack on U.S. lines in Guam - 1944
85. Russian troops arrive in Weichsel - 1944
86. U.S. offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St. Gilles - 1944
87. 120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record) - 1943
88. Otto Skorzeny's commando group arrives in Rome - 1943
89. RAF bombs Hamburg - 1942
90. RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism - 1942
91. 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague - 1941
92. "Camp Amersfoort" opened by Germany occupiers - 1941
93. U.S. embargo on oil-export to Japan - 1941
94. Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRs - 1939
95. 1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC - 1938
96. Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League - 1933
97. Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title - 1928
98. Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1 - 1928
99. National Bar Association incorporates - 1926
100. Philippines government asks U.S. to plebiscite for independence - 1926
101. Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites and 1 black killed) - 1918
102. J. Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice - 1917
103. International School for Wijsbegeerte forms - 1915
104. Austrian-Hungary condemns Serbian ultimatum - 1914
105. British Min of Navy Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain - 1914
106. German chief of staff/gen von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium - 1914
107. Predecessor of the FBI is created by the Department of Justice - 1908
108. Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford - 1902
109. 37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record) - 1897
110. Henry James' "American," premieres in London - 1891
111. 1st Esperanto book published - 1887
112. Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal," premieres in Beirut - 1882
113. French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax - 1881
114. Canoe Club opens in England - 1866
115. Patrick Francis Healy is 1st black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium) - 1865
116. Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood's Third Sortie] - 1864
117. Riot at McCook's to Lovejoy Station GA, US600 CS--- - 1864
118. Riot at Stoneman's to Macon GA, US1000 CS--- - 1864
119. Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender - 1863
120. Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament - 1858
121. 1st Woman's Rights Convention, Senecca Falls, New York - 1848
122. Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society - 1847
123. Moses Garrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride - 1847
124. 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii - 1835
125. HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo - 1832
126. Vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews - 1826
127. Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin - 1822
128. Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die - 1805
129. U.S. passes Assumption bill making U.S. responsible for state debts - 1790
130. New York becomes 11th state to ratify constitution - 1788
131. Sydney, Australia settled by British colonists - 1788
132. 1st Postmaster General: Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office - 1775
133. Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz Silezie - 1760
134. French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY - 1759
135. British battle fleet under gen James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg - 1758
136. Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats duke of Cumberland - 1757
137. England and Netherlands signs treaty: sending ultimatum to France - 1678
138. France annexes Venaissin - 1663
139. Rembrandt declares he is insolvent - 1656
140. John Hawkins becomes a knight - 1588
141. Francis Drake leaves San Francisco to cross Pacific Ocean - 1579
142. Muitende Spanish troops conquer Aalst - 1576
143. Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru - 1529
144. James I (12) becomes king of Scotland - 1524
145. Pizarro receives royal charter for South American west coast - 1519
146. Alonso dhe Ojeda discovers Curacao Island - 1499
147. "Edward IV's son" Perkin Warbecks army lands in Cork - 1497
148. Inquistion forms in Rome under pope Clement IV - 1267
149. Battle at Pliska: Bulgarian under monarch Krum beat Byzantine - 0811
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