1. U.S. Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields GC Ill - 1997
2. Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14 - 1995
3. Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis - 1995
4. 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin - 1994
5. Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8 year jail sentenced - 1994
6. H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election - 1994
7. India army kills 27 Moslem militants - 1994
8. Jesse Timmedequas, rapes and murders Megan Kanka, 7 (Megan's Law) - 1994
9. Parliamentary election in Aruba - 1994
10. Cincinnati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession - 1993
11. Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible - 1993
12. Walter Koenig, Checkov-Star Trek, suffers a mild heart attack - 1993
13. "Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 18 performances - 1992
14. Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record/OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00) - 1992
15. Ray Sharkey, actor, Wiseguys, arrested for narcotic possession - 1992
16. 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium, Mets beat Cubs 6-0 - 1991
17. Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7 caret engagement ring - 1991
18. Yankee Stadium fans throw cups and blowup dolls at Jose Canseco - 1991
19. 26th Curtis Cup: U.S. wins 14-4 - 1990
20. 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats U.S.S.R. in Atlanta Georgia (2-1) - 1990
21. 36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel - 1990
22. Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game - 1990
23. South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference - 1990
24. Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan - 1989
25. Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32 - 1989
26. Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases - 1989
27. White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher and Sam Sosa - 1989
28. Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling - 1988
29. FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion - 1988
30. Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989 - 1988
31. Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit - 1988
32. Last U.S. Playboy Club, Lansing, Michigan, closes - 1988
33. Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home - 1988
34. South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom" - 1988
35. Ben and Jerry's and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia - 1987
36. Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed - 1986
37. Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire vs. Lancashire - 1986
38. New York jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages - 1986
39. 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched - 1985
40. 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster - 1984
41. 23rd Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles - 1984
42. "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV - 1983
43. Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak - 1983
44. Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson - 1982
45. Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated - 1981
46. Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris - 1981
47. Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer - 1981
48. 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott - 1979
49. 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, New York - 1978
50. On Old Timer's Day, New York Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as New York Yankee manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become GM - 1978
51. Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h 40m - 1978
52. Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings - 1978
53. U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test - 1976
54. Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz - 1975
55. Military coup by Gen Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired - 1975
56. 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee - 1974
57. Episcopal Church ordained female priests - 1974
58. France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island - 1974
59. St. Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base - 1974
60. $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from New York, Hilton - 1973
61. Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy - 1973
62. France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island - 1972
63. 6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecticut - 1970
64. Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars - 1969
65. Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1 - 1968
66. Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa - 1968
67. Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption - 1968
68. Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited - 1968
69. Washington D.C. Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs Cleve - 1968
70. Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134 - 1967
71. Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage - 1967
72. Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York - 1966
73. Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup - 1966
74. Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends - 1965
75. Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s - 1965
76. Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10) - 1965
77. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1965
78. Bob Dylan injured in car accident - 1961
79. Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games - 1961
80. Wallis and Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory - 1961
81. President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958 - 1958
82. Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running - 1958
83. Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title - 1957
84. International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N. - 1957
85. Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres - 1957
86. 11th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius - 1956
87. Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record) - 1956
88. WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting - 1956
89. Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRS to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5 - 1955
90. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test - 1955
91. U.S. bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok - 1953
92. 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet - 1952
93. Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run - 1950
94. Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends - 1949
95. BBC radio begins broadcasting - 1949
96. King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London - 1948
97. Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg, Virginia - 1947
98. After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine - 1945
99. Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours - 1944
100. Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH - 1944
101. U.S. 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches - 1944
102. 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg - 1943
103. Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam - 1943
104. Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd - 1942
105. Urk soccer team forms - 1940
106. Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears - 1938
107. Olympic National Park forms - 1938
108. Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin - 1937
109. RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road and comedy) - 1936
110. 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY - 1934
111. 115 degrees F (46 degrees C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record) - 1930
112. Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada - 1930
113. Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France - 1929
114. Cleveland Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yanks 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game - 1928
115. Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released - 1928
116. 1st iron lung installed, Bellevue hospital, New York - 1927
117. Bellevue Hospital in New York installs 1st iron lung - 1927
118. Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire vs. Northants - 1927
119. Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship - 1924
120. Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin - 1923
121. KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany - 1923
122. Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 inn - 1921
123. New rules of language assumed, equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium - 1921
124. 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to SF - 1920
125. Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders - 1920
126. Postal check and Girodienst establishes - 1916
127. Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR - 1915
128. 1st transcontinental phone link made between New York City and SF - 1914
129. Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade - 1914
130. British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover - 1914
131. Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary - 1914
132. Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied - 1913
133. Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St. Louis Browns, 5-0 - 1911
134. JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory - 1910
135. St. Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia Athletics - 1908
136. Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England - 1907
137. Union of Orthodox Rabbis of U.S. and Canada forms - 1902
138. 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, New York - 1899
139. Southern California Golf Association forms - 1899
140. Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court - 1874
141. 3rd and last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia - 1864
142. Battle of Macon, Georgia (Stoneman's Raid) - 1864
143. 1st commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed - 1858
144. U.S. citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan - 1858
145. New York Yacht Club forms - 1844
146. 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette - 1786
147. Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000 - 1783
148. 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH - 1773
149. 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 mins in England - 1751
150. 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane - 1715
151. French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace - 1696
152. Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army - 1693
153. Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians - 1676
154. Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam - 1655
155. Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao - 1634
156. Attacking Spanish Armada defeated and scattered by English defenders - 1588
157. Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England - 1588
158. Friese academy opens - 1585
159. Antwerp request union with of Utrecht - 1579
160. King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez and princess van Eboli - 1579
161. Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley - 1565
162. League of High Nobles routes King Philip II - 1563
163. Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden - 1560
164. Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)pope Innocent III - 1179
165. Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim) - 1030
166. Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies - 1014
167. Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople - 0626
168. Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws - 0362
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