1. "Candide," closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 103 performances - 1997
2. Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16 - 1997
3. Franklin Quest Senior Golf Championship - 1997
4. Stewart Cink wins golfs Greater Hartford Open (267) - 1997
5. Tammie Green wins Giant Eagle LPGA Classic - 1997
6. "Victor/Victoria" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 738 performances - 1997
7. Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured - 1996
8. David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants vs. Worcs - 1996
9. Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees - 1993
10. Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high - 1993
11. Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed - 1993
12. NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million - 1993
13. New York Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games - 1993
14. Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep National Convention - 1992
15. Dimitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychenko, Veniamin Taianovitch and Evgueni - 1992
16. Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95) - 1992
17. Rocker Jani Lane, Warrant-Cherry Pie, marries model Bobbie Brown - 1991
18. TV Guide publishes it's 2000th edition - 1991
19. Graham Gooch scores 333 vs. India at Lord's - 1990
20. Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 mins in county cricket, world record - 1990
21. Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop - 1990
22. Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th) - 1989
23. Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years - 1988
24. General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma - 1988
25. Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer - 1988
26. Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yanks rout Brewers 16-3 - 1988
27. John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel - 1987
28. Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive - 1987
29. 14th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley - 1986
30. 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague Czech (3-0) - 1986
31. Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France - 1986
32. Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single (vs Phila) - 1984
33. 104 degrees F (40.3 degrees C) in Garmersdorf (German record) - 1983
34. Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal - 1983
35. California catches A's Rickey Henderson stealing 3 times - 1982
36. Indian PM Indira Gandhi 1st visit to U.S. in almost 11 years - 1982
37. Menken and Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors," premieres in New York City - 1982
38. Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead - 1980
39. Sally Little wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic - 1980
40. "Broadway Opry '79" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 6 performances - 1979
41. France performs nuclear Test - 1979
42. Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd to hit 2 bases-loaded triples (vs Yanks) - 1978
43. Portuguese President Eanes fires premier Soares - 1978
44. John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in U.S. - 1977
45. 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese - 1976
46. Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested, Lockheed Affair - 1976
47. Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic - 1975
48. House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment - 1974
49. Kanhai and Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire vs. Gloucs - 1974
50. 40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103) - 1973
51. Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners - 1973
52. NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques - 1972
53. Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game - 1970
54. France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island - 1970
55. L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, and Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame - 1970
56. 15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls - 1969
57. Pioneer 10 launched - 1969
58. Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open - 1968
59. Race Riot in Gary, Indiana - 1968
60. Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns - 1967
61. Helmond Sport soccer team forms - 1967
62. Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up commission to study cause of urban violence - 1967
63. U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site - 1967
64. Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government - 1965
65. President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking - 1965
66. Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ - 1963
67. General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria - 1963
68. Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission - 1962
69. Martin Luther King, Jr. jailed in Albany, Georgia - 1962
70. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. - 1962
71. VP Nixon nominated for President at Republican convention in Chicago - 1960
72. Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India vs. England on debut - 1959
73. William Shea announces he plans to have a baseball team in New York City in 1961 - 1959
74. Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open - 1958
75. St. James' Theater in London closes - 1957
76. Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings at Manchester - 1956
77. Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation - 1955
78. Bulgaria shoots down a plane heading for Israel (58 die) - 1955
79. Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die - 1955
80. 36th PGA Championship: Chick Herbert at Keller GC St. Paul Minn - 1954
81. Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries - 1954
82. 1st insulin isolated by F Banting and C Best in Toronto - 1953
83. Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, and Bill Klem and Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame - 1953
84. North Korea and United Nations sign armistice - 1953
85. Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory - 1953
86. Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2) - 1952
87. President Truman promises aid to Taiwan - 1950
88. 1st jet-propelled airline, De Havilland Comet, flies - 1949
89. Australia set 404 to win vs. England at Headingley - 1948
90. Bradman's 29th and last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404 - 1948
91. Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt - 1948
92. Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak - 1947
93. Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs - 1946
94. Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from New York Yankees - 1945
95. U.S. Communist Party forms - 1945
96. 1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor - 1944
97. Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp - 1944
98. U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese - 1944
99. U.S. troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy - 1944
100. 772 British bombers attack Hamburg - 1943
101. 103 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July - 1941
102. German army enters Ukraine - 1941
103. Japanese forces land in Indo-China - 1941
104. Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts - 1940
105. Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare" - 1940
106. 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1) - 1937
107. Floods at Yangtzee Jiang and Hoangh, kills 200,000 - 1935
108. French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms - 1934
109. Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death - 1932
110. Chilean president Carlos Ibanez forced out - 1931
111. Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr and SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops - 1931
112. Andre Leducq wins Tour de France - 1930
113. Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished - 1929
114. AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms - 1928
115. Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver - 1927
116. Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park) - 1927
117. 8th Olympic games closes in Paris - 1924
118. International Geographical Union forms in Brussels - 1922
119. 2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms - 1921
120. Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolates insulin at University of Toronto - 1921
121. Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation - 1920
122. Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup - 1920
123. Chicago race riot, 15 whites and 23 blacks killed, 500 injured - 1919
124. Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in U.S., launched to carry oil, New York - 1918
125. Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade - 1914
126. Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France - 1913
127. Orville Wright tests 1st U.S. Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s - 1909
128. Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dancing Men" - 1898
129. 14.75" (37.5 cm) of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hr record) - 1897
130. Dutch government of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns - 1897
131. Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as Governor of Suriname - 1891
132. Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile - 1888
133. A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil - 1880
134. Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr. Watson is wounded, breaks out - 1880
135. Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long) - 1866
136. Battle of Darbytown, Virginia (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains) - 1864
137. Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die - 1862
138. Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico - 1862
139. Battle of Mathias Point, Virginia - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing - 1861
140. Battle of St. Augustine Springs, New Mexico Terr - 1861
141. Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico - 1861
142. Union Gen George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army - 1861
143. Fire destroys U.S. mint at Charlotte, North Carolina - 1844
144. Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England - 1839
145. U.S. Mint opens in Charlotte, North Carolina - 1837
146. Adelaide, South Australia founded - 1836
147. Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X - 1830
148. U.S. troops destroy Ft. Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves - 1816
149. Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army - 1809
150. Spain and France sign peace treaty - 1795
151. Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris - 1794
152. Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs, State Department - 1789
153. Battle at Hango (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet - 1714
154. English Queen Anne fires premier Robert Haley - 1714
155. Russia and Turkey sign peace treaty - 1713
156. Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament - 1694
157. Battle of Killicrankie, Viscount Dundee defeats Whig General MacKay - 1689
158. Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie - 1689
159. English parliament accepts Staple Act - 1663
160. Parliament confirms Navigation Act - 1661
161. Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery - 1655
162. Netherlands and Brandenburg sign military treaty - 1655
163. Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough - 1643
164. Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep - 1641
165. Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia - 1586
166. French army recaptures Le Havre - 1563
167. Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral - 1501
168. Isabella of England marries Enguerrand of Coucy at Windsor - 1365
169. Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland - 1360
170. Albert I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor - 1298
171. Roman Catholics German King Albrecht I von Habsburg installed - 1298
172. Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China - 1280
173. Treaty of San-Germano between Emperor Frederik II and Pope Gregory IX - 1230
174. 1st battle of Bouvines - King Philips II vs Emperor Otto IV - 1214
175. St. Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0432
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