1. 23rd du Maurier Golf Classic: Jenny Lidback - 1995
2. 95th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods - 1995
3. "Arcadia" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City after 204 performances - 1995
4. Worst fire in New York in 80 years ends after 4 days - 1995
5. "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at R Rodgers New York City after 320 performances - 1994
6. Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives - 1993
7. CFL revokes BC Lions franchise - 1992
8. Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent and Ryan Thompson - 1992
9. Moldavia declares independence from U.S.S.R. - 1991
10. 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq - 1990
11. Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats - 1990
12. Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27) - 1990
13. WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude - 1990
14. 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings - 1989
15. 89th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton - 1989
16. Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship - 1989
17. Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open - 1989
18. Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Philadelphia, 4-2 - 1988
19. Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation - 1986
20. 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched - 1985
21. Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years and 8 days old is youngest to win a U.S. Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round) - 1985
22. President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project - 1984
23. U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test - 1984
24. Haiti adopts constitution - 1983
25. U.S. performs nuclear test - 1983
26. Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark - 1982
27. Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth - 1982
28. Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria - 1981
29. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1981
30. Chon Doo Hwan elected President of South Korea - 1980
31. 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland - 1979
32. Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion - 1978
33. Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 home runs and have 500 stolen bases - 1978
34. Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic - 1978
35. Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978 - 1978
36. Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee - 1977
37. "Chicago" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 947 performances - 1977
38. Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2 - 1977
39. Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in U.S. Tennis Open - 1976
40. 1st night match at U.S. Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith) - 1975
41. Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world - 1975
42. New York Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat - 1974
43. Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open - 1972
44. U.S. bombs Haiphong North Vietnam - 1972
45. Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes - 1969
46. Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs) - 1969
47. Naomi Sims is 1st black model on U.S. cover (Fashion of the Times) - 1967
48. Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open - 1967
49. Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world - 1966
50. Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak - 1966
51. Race riot in Waukegan, Illinois - 1966
52. Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world - 1966
53. Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley - 1965
54. Bob Dylan booed off stage in New York's Forest Hills - 1965
55. WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1965
56. Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus - 1962
57. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. - 1962
58. Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line" - 1961
59. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open - 1961
60. Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5) - 1960
61. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open - 1960
62. Clark Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn - 1958
63. U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean - 1958
64. U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard - 1958
65. Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes - 1957
66. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1957
67. Curt Robert of Columbus (International League) hits 4 home runs in 7 inning game - 1956
68. Guinness Book of World Records 1st published - 1955
69. Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts - 1955
70. Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2) - 1952
71. 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC - 1950
72. General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist - 1950
73. 102 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August - 1948
74. U.S. troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender - 1945
75. 200 Halifax bombers attack oil-installations in Homburg - 1944
76. Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy - 1942
77. Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi - 1941
78. Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan) - 1940
79. Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178) - 1939
80. Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion - 1939
81. Nazi Germany demands Danzig and Polish corridor - 1939
82. Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech - 1939
83. Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples - 1938
84. Bkln Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game - 1937
85. George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH - 1937
86. Arlen, Ira Gershwin and Harburgs musical premieres in New York City - 1934
87. Earl Averill becomes 2nd Cleveland ballplayer to hit for cycle Moody defaults in 3rd set, trailing 3-0 - 1933
88. 200,000 English textile workers strike - 1932
89. International anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam - 1932
90. 16 die in a New York City subway's 2nd worst accident - 1928
91. 42nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen W Moody beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 61) - 1928
92. Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war - 1928
93. Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens - 1927
94. Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6) - 1922
95. J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise - 1921
96. Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army - 1918
97. Dr. Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia - 1918
98. Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game - 1917
99. Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary - 1916
100. 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau - 1914
101. U.S. war reporter Richard H. Davis visits Leuven - 1914
102. Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane) - 1913
103. Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes" - 1912
104. Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0 - 1911
105. Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park - 1910
106. Washington Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit - 1910
107. Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game - 1909
108. Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as the Tigers - 1908
109. 23rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Hugh L Doherty beats William A Larned (60 63 108) - 1903
110. Battle at Bergendal: Gen Buller beats Boer general Botha - 1900
111. Roger Bresnahan debuts as Washington Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher) - 1897
112. England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM) - 1896
113. 15th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (63 62 64) - 1895
114. Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court - 1894
115. New York City Metropolitan Opera House catches fire - 1892
116. Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons - 1883
117. Hurricane hits Florida and Carolinas; about 700 die - 1881
118. Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft. Clark - 1861
119. 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake - 1859
120. Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up - 1832
121. Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talk - 1828
122. Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates - 1816
123. Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians - 1813
124. English invasion army lands in North-Holland - 1799
125. Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English - 1798
126. French National Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen" - 1789
127. Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance - 1788
128. 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude - 1783
129. British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island - 1776
130. Earliest recorded hurricane in U.S., Jamestown, Virginia - 1667
131. "Ye Bare and Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in North America (Acomac, Va) - 1665
132. Battle of Nordingen-Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, loses Duchy of Francomia - 1634
133. Java sultan Agung van Mataram attacks Batavia - 1628
134. Battle at Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV - 1626
135. Monarch Frederik van Palts chosen king of Bohemia - 1619
136. Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia - 1610
137. Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world - 1601
138. Duke van Parma's troops occupy Antwerp - 1585
139. Pope Pius names Cosimo I de' Medici, grand duke of Toscane - 1569
140. Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army - 1549
141. Kioto Staatsraad accept Joei Legislation - 1232
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