1. Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucs vs. Glamorgan - 1995
2. Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval - 1995
3. "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 46 performances - 1992
4. Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0 - 1991
5. 2 slain college students found in Gainesville, Florida - 1990
6. Beth Daniel wins LPGA Northgate Golf Classic - 1990
7. Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive HRs - 1990
8. Trumbull Conn, is 1st U.S. team since 1983 to win Little League WS - 1989
9. Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games - 1987
10. Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38) - 1986
11. Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels - 1985
12. French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior - 1985
13. Betsy King wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic - 1984
14. Tatyana Kazankina of U.S.S.R. sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad - 1984
15. Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record) - 1984
16. NASA launches Telesat-F - 1982
17. Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission - 1981
18. Voyager 2 takes photo's of Saturn's moon Titan - 1981
19. Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of Cheap Trick - 1980
20. Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic - 1979
21. Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I - 1978
22. Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6 - 1978
23. Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77 - 1977
24. Guinee-Bissau becomes independent of Portugal - 1974
25. Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3 - 1974
26. 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, California, beating a field of 1,500 runners - 1973
27. David Eisenhower writes his last sports column - 1973
28. Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open - 1973
29. University of Texas (Arlington) is 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing - 1973
30. 20th Olympic games open at Munich German FR - 1972
31. Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros - 1972
32. N.Y. Cosmos beat St. Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship - 1972
33. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1972
34. Dutch Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia - 1971
35. New York Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for New Jersey in 1975 - 1971
36. Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game - 1971
37. Beatles, Mick Jagger and Marienne Faithful meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - 1967
38. Dean Chance pitches a 2-1 no-hitter, and Twins sweep Cleveland - 1967
39. Dutch 2nd Chamber demands U.S. stop bombing North Vietnam - 1967
40. Baltimore Orioles Roznovsky and B Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch HRs - 1966
41. KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1966
42. Italians CP selects Luigi Longo as chairman - 1964
43. Lyndon B. Johnson nominated at Democratic convention - 1964
44. W I beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy - 1963
45. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Salt Lake City Golf Open - 1962
46. Minn Twins Jack Kralick no-hits Kansas City A's, 1-0 - 1962
47. Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto - 1961
48. U.S.S.R. announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile - 1957
49. KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting - 1956
50. Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Denver Golf Open - 1956
51. Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC - 1956
52. 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup) - 1955
53. Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins - 1952
54. Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart - 1951
55. 39th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (4-1) - 1950
56. 1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat) - 1947
57. George Orwell published "Animal Farm" - 1946
58. Japanese diplomats board Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II - 1945
59. Bulgaria announces withdrawal and German troops are to be disarmed - 1944
60. De Gaulle marches to Champs-Elysees - 1944
61. U.S. 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris - 1944
62. 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France - 1942
63. Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay - 1942
64. Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow - 1942
65. Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany - 1942
66. RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk - 1940
67. 1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Brooklyn Dodgers (W2XBS New York) - 1939
68. Belgium mobilizes - 1939
69. Kroatia gets autonomous status - 1939
70. British leaders and Arabians fight in Palestine - 1938
71. Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL - 1938
72. Franco's troops conquer Santander - 1937
73. Pumping to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay is finished - 1937
74. CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks - 1935
75. Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km) - 1933
76. Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record - 1930
77. 1st U.S. roller coaster built - 1929
78. Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed - 1922
79. 19th amendment passes - women's suffrage granted - 1920
80. Percy Fender (Surrey vs. Northants) scores 100 in 35 mins - 1920
81. W Smith and F Bacons "Lightnin'," premieres in New York City - 1918
82. Philadelphia A's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleve, 5-0 - 1916
83. Yanks turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6 - 1916
84. German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia - 1915
85. Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army - 1914
86. Russian army atacks Austrian army in Galicia - 1914
87. 33rd U.S. Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats R N Williams (64 57 63 61) - 1913
88. 32nd U.S. Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats W F Johnson (36 26 62 64 62) - 1912
89. Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends - 1912
90. Frank Tarrant scores cricket 145 and 13-67 for Middlesex vs. Gloucs - 1909
91. Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn and 31 in a single day - 1909
92. Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec - 1907
93. Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game - 1903
94. Armenian revolutionairy assault on Ottoman Bank Constantinople - 1896
95. Electric central at Niagara Falls gives 1st steam - 1895
96. Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms - 1894
97. Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000 - 1883
98. 1st kindergarten public school opens in St. Louis - 1873
99. Battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs) - 1863
100. Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah," premieres - 1846
101. W A Bartlett appointed 1st U.S. mayor of Yerba Buena (SF) - 1846
102. Charles Thurber patents a typewriter - 1843
103. French troops occupy Lock - 1794
104. John Fitch grants U.S. patent for his working steamboat - 1791
105. England, Prussia and Hannover sign treaty - 1745
106. Sea battle at Plymouth: Ayscue vs De Ruyter - 1652
107. People's uprising against Anna of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin - 1648
108. West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola - 1641
109. Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II and Spain beat Sweden and German protestants - 1634
110. Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate - 1629
111. Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels - 1549
112. Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese, duke of Parma - 1545
113. Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda/annexes Hungary - 1541
114. Battle at Crecy-England's longbows defeat France, cannons used for 1st time in battle - 1346
115. Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf van Habsburg defeats Ottokar II - 1278
116. Chinese invents toilet paper - 0580
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