1. Mark Messier signs with Vancouver Canucks - 1997
2. Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion - 1997
3. New York Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th HR - 1996
4. Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Micelob Light Heartland Golf Classic - 1996
5. Art Modell's rep begins secrets talks to move team to Baltimore - 1995
6. Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994 - 1994
7. Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1994
8. Texas Ranger Kenny Rogers pitches baseball's 12th perfect game - 1994
9. Mariner Ken Griffey, Jr. is 3rd to hit home runs in 8 straight games - 1993
10. Ground breaking of Florida Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium - 1992
11. 12th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus - 1991
12. 29th Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Nottingham England (2-1) - 1991
13. Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley - 1991
14. Dennis Martinez pitches the 15th perfect game in baseball history - 1991
15. "Gypsy" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 105 performances - 1991
16. Juli Inkster wins LPGA Bay State Golf Classic - 1991
17. Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race - 1991
18. Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru - 1990
19. Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run home runs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 home runs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning - 1989
20. Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50 - 1989
21. NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz - 1989
22. IBM announces price hike on older models - 1988
23. Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years - 1988
24. Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank - 1988
25. Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson - 1988
26. Yanks' Tommy John makes 3 errors on 1 play yet beats Brewers 16-3 - 1988
27. 42nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Laura Davies - 1987
28. Angel Cordero, Jr. becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races - 1987
29. Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed - 1986
30. NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated - 1986
31. 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley - 1985
32. Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru - 1985
33. L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, and H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame - 1985
34. 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles - 1984
35. AL President Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision and allows - 1983
36. George Brett's 2 run HR against Yanks on July 24 (pine tar game) - 1983
37. NASA launches Telstar-3A - 1983
38. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1983
39. Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaunde Terry becomes president - 1980
40. Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game - 1979
41. France performs nuclear Test - 1979
42. 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in New York - 1978
43. At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees - 1978
44. Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time - 1978
45. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1978
46. 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska - 1977
47. Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks - 1977
48. Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham vs. Aust Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings - 1977
49. 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake - 1976
50. 8.2 and 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die) - 1976
51. Eldon Joersz and Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph - 1976
52. White Sox John Odom (5 inn) and Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's - 1976
53. 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck, Belem, Brazil - 1974
54. Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic - 1974
55. France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island - 1973
56. Jane Blalock/Sandra Palmer wins Lady Angelo's 4-Ball Golf Tournament - 1973
57. Skylab 3's astronauts, Bean, Garriott and Lousma, launched - 1973
58. 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162) - 1972
59. 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning - 1971
60. Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie" - 1971
61. Lyndon Baines Johnson sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam - 1965
62. England all out 611 in reply to Australia's 8-656 Match a draw - 1964
63. Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures - 1964
64. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open - 1963
65. 19 die in a train crash in Steelton, Pennsylvania - 1962
66. Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean - 1962
67. Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate - 1960
68. Great-Britain starts using postal codes - 1959
69. Hawaii's 1st U.S. election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress - 1959
70. Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship - 1958
71. Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance, Steve Allen Show - 1957
72. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open - 1957
73. White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game - 1957
74. Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres - 1954
75. Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell, as Cincinnati Reds manager - 1952
76. "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 1077 performances - 1951
77. Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released - 1951
78. I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die - 1948
79. Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania - 1947
80. Japanese premier Suzuki disregards U.S. ultimatum to surrender - 1945
81. U.S. Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die - 1945
82. U.S. Senate ratifies United Nations charter 89-2 - 1945
83. Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy - 1944
84. U.S. 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France - 1944
85. Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns - 1943
86. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces end of coffee rationing in U.S. - 1943
87. Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto - 1942
88. Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland - 1942
89. Radio Orange, London begins - 1940
90. Yankee Charlie Keller hits 3 home runs to beat White Sox 10-9 - 1940
91. 5th Dutch government of Colijn falls - 1939
92. 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead - 1938
93. Bradman scores 202 Aust vs. Somerset, 225 mins, 32 fours - 1938
94. Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex - 1937
95. Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire - 1937
96. Belgium's Romain Maes, wins Tour de France - 1935
97. 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Orofino, Idaho (state record) - 1934
98. 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), New York City - 1933
99. NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions - 1933
100. Spain recognizes the U.S.S.R. - 1933
101. Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die - 1932
102. President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment - 1932
103. Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem - 1931
104. White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12 - 1931
105. 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record) - 1930
106. Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Mich) - 1929
107. 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam - 1928
108. U.S. and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal - 1926
109. Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam - 1919
110. Silent Parade in New York City to protest murders of blacks in race riots - 1917
111. 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (New York City) protesting lynchings - 1915
112. U.S. forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924 - 1915
113. Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox) - 1914
114. Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow - 1914
115. World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia - 1914
116. 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2) - 1913
117. 96 degrees F (35.6 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands - 1911
118. Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4 - 1906
119. Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut - 1900
120. Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender - 1898
121. Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Retired Colourman"(BG) - 1898
122. City of Miami incorporated - 1896
123. New York Ranger center Mark Messier signs with Vancouver for $20M for 3 yrs - 1887
124. English Salisbury government forms - 1886
125. Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000 - 1883
126. Opera "Parsifal" is produced (Beirut) - 1882
127. 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves - 1868
128. Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S. - 1866
129. 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia - 1864
130. Battle of Atlanta Georgia (Ezra Church)-second sortie US700 CS4642 - 1864
131. Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo - 1862
132. Nadar takes 1st airborne photo, in a balloon - 1858
133. William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India - 1858
134. Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph - 1851
135. Memmon is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of New York - 1849
136. Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe - 1830
137. Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day) - 1821
138. Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey - 1808
139. Prussia and Austria sign peace treaty - 1742
140. Capt Bering discovers Mount St. Elias, Alaska - 1741
141. Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs - 1717
142. Monarch Amengkurat II [Sunan Mas] of Mataram gives himself up to VOC - 1708
143. De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance - 1696
144. Anne Stuart marries prince Georges of Denmark - 1683
145. Spanish marshal Piccolomini conquerors Schenkenschans - 1635
146. Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda - 1609
147. Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I - 1588
148. Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe - 1586
149. Cardinal Granvelle returns to Madrid - 1579
150. English King Henry VIII marries Catharine Howard, his 5th wife - 1540
151. Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon - 1434
152. Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur Lenk beats sultan Bajezid I - 1402
153. Crusaders attack Damascus - 1148
154. Pope Stephen II, [III] makes Pippin de Korte, King of France - 0754
155. Battle at Aquileja: Emperor Theodosius beats emperor Magnus Maximis - 0388
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