1. 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole - 1997
2. Arie Luyendyk wins his 2nd Indianapolis 500 - 1997
3. Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract - 1997
4. Major league revenue sharing begins, New York Yanks pay out most $28M - 1997
5. Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault - 1997
6. Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO - 1997
7. Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile - 1994
8. Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show - 1994
9. Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters - 1994
10. Larry King ended his radio show - 1994
11. Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35) - 1994
12. Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 HRs - 1993
13. Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6 - 1993
14. Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die - 1991
15. 74th Indianapolis 500 runs - 1990
16. Cesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia - 1990
17. Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game - 1990
18. Pat Bradley wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic - 1990
19. Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow - 1990
20. Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles - 1988
21. Jim and Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal - 1987
22. Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna - 1987
23. Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young and Sutton) - 1987
24. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1986
25. Norway Showcase groundbreaking - 1986
26. Prest Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled - 1986
27. Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 - 1985
28. Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan - 1985
29. Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest," premieres in New York City - 1984
30. Joanne Carner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic - 1984
31. Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day - 1984
32. Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress - 1983
33. "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." opens at Alvin New York City for 5 performances - 1982
34. John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies and gets approval to move to NJ - 1982
35. John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol - 1981
36. Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but ump says no - 1981
37. Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris - 1981
38. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1981
39. South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed - 1980
40. Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic - 1979
41. Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop - 1979
42. 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582 - 1977
43. New York City fines George Willig 1 cents for each of 110 stories he climbed - 1977
44. "Something's Afoot" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 61 performances - 1976
45. Paul McCartney releases "Venus and Mars" - 1975
46. Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2 - 1975
47. Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38 - 1975
48. Pirates Ken Brett no-hits Padres until 9th inning - 1974
49. Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6 - 1973
50. "Applause" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 900 performances - 1972
51. "Jimmy Castor Bunch's Troglodyte" (Cave Man) hits #6 - 1972
52. 23rd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 13-11 - 1971
53. UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship - 1971
54. British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I - 1970
55. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1970
56. Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV - 1969
57. Walt Disney World construction begins - 1969
58. 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3 - 1968
59. NL awards Montreal and SD major league franchises - 1968
60. Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost - 1968
61. "Sherry!" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 65 performances - 1967
62. 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes - 1966
63. 6 French fighters crash above Spain - 1966
64. Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan - 1965
65. "From Russia With Love" premieres in U.S. - 1964
66. Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna - 1964
67. 3 New Jersey businessman purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, and get approval to move them to New Jersey Meadowlands (Devils) - 1963
68. Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya - 1963
69. Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open - 1962
70. 1st black light is sold - 1961
71. Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup II in Florence - 1961
72. Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 27' " - 1961
73. Balt manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt - 1960
74. Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey - 1960
75. Ernest Green and 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS - 1958
76. Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed) - 1958
77. French raid in Algiers - 1956
78. U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) - 1956
79. Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0 - 1955
80. Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV - 1955
81. Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections - 1953
82. European Defense Community forms - 1952
83. Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing - 1951
84. Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Francisco opens - 1951
85. "Arms and the Girl" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 134 performances - 1950
86. Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens - 1950
87. Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day" - 1949
88. Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane - 1949
89. Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin - 1949
90. Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid - 1948
91. Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians - 1948
92. Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks) - 1944
93. Japanese advance in Hangkhou, China - 1944
94. Jean-Paul Sartres "Huis Clos," premieres in Paris - 1944
95. French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris - 1943
96. U.S. forbid racial discrimination in war industry - 1943
97. Dorie Miller, awarded Navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor - 1942
98. Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered - 1942
99. Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim - 1942
100. Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded in Prague - 1942
101. Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta - 1941
102. Franklin D. Roosevelt declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor - 1941
103. German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force - 1941
104. British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) - 1940
105. Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of Eng season, earliest to do so - 1938
106. Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936) - 1937
107. Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, dedicated - 1937
108. RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for New York on maiden voyage - 1936
109. Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional - 1935
110. Austrian Communist Party banned - 1933
111. Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago - 1933
112. Federal Securities Act signed - 1933
113. Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th and beat White Sox 15-11 - 1933
114. Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released - 1933
115. 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field, Virginia - 1931
116. Piccard and Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon - 1931
117. Richard Drew invents masking tape - 1930
118. 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England - 1929
119. Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war - 1927
120. Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president - 1927
121. After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty - 1921
122. Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR - 1920
123. 1st transatlantic flight ends; U.S. Navy flying boat takes 11 days - 1919
124. Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster - 1919
125. Race riot in East St. Louis Illinois, 1 black killed - 1917
126. Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx - 1916
127. Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco - 1907
128. 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen - 1906
129. 30th Preakness: W Davis aboard Cairngore wins in 1:45.8 - 1905
130. Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima - 1905
131. NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, New York Giants) - 1904
132. 37th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75 - 1903
133. Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam - 1903
134. 27th Preakness: L Jackson aboard Old England wins in 1:45.8 - 1902
135. Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa - 1900
136. Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the 'Wells'," premieres in London - 1898
137. Bay District Race Track closes - 1896
138. Tornado hit St. Louis, killing 255 and leaving thousands homeless - 1896
139. British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector - 1895
140. Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland - 1893
141. Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow - 1883
142. 10th Preakness: T Costello aboard Vanguard wins in 2:44 - 1882
143. 9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:40 - 1881
144. 6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75 - 1878
145. Australians Cricket 41 and 12-1 defeat MCC 33 and 19 - 1878
146. Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia - 1864
147. CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die - 1863
148. Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana - 1863
149. Battle of Hanover Court House, Virginia (Slash Church, Peake's Station) - 1862
150. Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning - 1856
151. Marine Telegraph from Ft. Point to San Francisco completed - 1854
152. Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois destroyed by tornado - 1850
153. Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line - 1844
154. Americans capture Ft. George, Canada - 1813
155. James S. McLean patents his piano - 1796
156. Turkish troops occupy Orsova and Ochakov - 1738
157. St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great - 1703
158. Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland - 1689
159. Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in UK - 1679
160. Denmark and Sweden sign ceasefire - 1660
161. 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake - 1529
162. French king Philip VI Valois crowned - 1328
163. Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge - 1281
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