1. Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates and cocaine - 1998
2. Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM - 1997
3. Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed - 1995
4. Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21 - 1995
5. Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away) - 1995
6. "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" closes at Beaumont New York City after 40 performances - 1994
7. Battles between army and rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57 - 1994
8. "Shakespeare after My Father" closes at Helen Hayes New York City after 266 perf - 1994
9. "Gypsy Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 55 performances - 1993
10. Test debut of Shane Warne, vs. India at Sydney - 1992
11. Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll - 1991
12. Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15) - 1990
13. Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson) - 1990
14. Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship - 1989
15. UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game - 1989
16. Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn - 1988
17. Mulroney and Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement - 1988
18. Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ - 1987
19. Troops of Chad President Habre conquer Fada oasis - 1987
20. 191.66 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange - 1986
21. New York Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal - 1986
22. 90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter - 1985
23. Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts - 1985
24. Egyptian President Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III - 1985
25. Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score - 1985
26. Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions - 1985
27. Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his 1st first-class cricket century - 1984
28. Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship - 1984
29. Riot in Tunis kills over 100 - 1984
30. Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Phila's 1st black mayor - 1984
31. "Annie" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 2,377 performances - 1983
32. Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ - 1983
33. Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing "Doonesbury" - 1983
34. Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes - 1983
35. "Sophisticated Ladies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 767 performances - 1983
36. 70th Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats S Denton (62 76 67 64) - 1982
37. "Camelot" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 48 performances - 1982
38. Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins - 1982
39. San Diego Chargers beat Miami Dolphins, 41-38 in 13:52 of OT - 1982
40. Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 m butterfly (2:05.65) - 1981
41. Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, WI vs. Pakistan - 1981
42. 68th Australian Men Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beat John Sadri (76 63 62) - 1980
43. 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver - 1979
44. Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI) - 1979
45. Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins - 1979
46. Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey - 1978
47. Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania" - 1978
48. Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing - 1977
49. U.S. Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species - 1975
50. 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon - 1974
51. Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres - 1974
52. Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco '49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game - 1972
53. Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars - 1972
54. Miami Dolphins beat Baltimore Colts 21-0 in AFC championship game - 1972
55. "Rothschilds" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 505 performances - 1972
56. A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66 - 1971
57. Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam - 1970
58. U.S. population is 293,200,000; Black population: 22,600,000 (11.1%) - 1970
59. "Fig Leaves Are Falling" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 4 performances - 1969
60. Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted and Black," premieres in New York City - 1969
61. "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy - 1969
62. Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant - 1968
63. KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, California (IND) begins broadcasting - 1968
64. "Zizi" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 49 performances - 1968
65. 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion - 1966
66. Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game - 1966
67. Martin Luther King, Jr. begins a drive to register black voters - 1965
68. New York Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath - 1965
69. Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day - 1965
70. Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan - 1964
71. Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana - 1964
72. Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS - 1962
73. 1st AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16 - 1961
74. Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14 degrees F recorded atop Haleakale - 1961
75. 1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax) - 1960
76. John F. Kennedy announces run for U.S. Presidency - 1960
77. John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years - 1960
78. Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres - 1960
79. Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president - 1960
80. Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees - 1959
81. U.S.S.R. launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit - 1959
82. Dmitri Shostakovitch' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY - 1958
83. Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections - 1956
84. 1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS) - 1955
85. Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny," premieres in New York City - 1954
86. NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak - 1953
87. "Pal Joey" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 542 performances - 1952
88. Philip Barry's "Second Threshold," premieres in New York City - 1951
89. KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1949
90. WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, New York (PBS) begins - 1948
91. Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali - 1947
92. Allied air raid on Neurenberg - 1945
93. Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955 - 1945
94. Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion - 1945
95. 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol) - 1944
96. 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace - 1942
97. German troops in Bardia surrender - 1942
98. Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines - 1942
99. Bradman scores 107 SA vs. Victoria, his 4th consecutive century - 1939
100. Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded - 1938
101. 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St. Louis, Mo - 1936
102. Bradman scores 357 for SA vs. Vic, 424 minutes, 40 fours - 1936
103. Bruno R Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby - 1935
104. 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania - 1934
105. Bradman scores 253 NSW vs. Queensland, 204 mins, 29 fours 4 sixes - 1934
106. Bradman scores 103* against the Bodyline attack in the 2nd Test - 1933
107. Bruins beat Rangers in New York 13-3 - 1933
108. Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th) - 1933
109. US troops leave Nicaragua - 1933
110. Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri - 1932
111. US and Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls - 1929
112. Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR) - 1925
113. 1st religious service radio broadcast in U.S., KDKA-Pittsburgh - 1921
114. DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens - 1921
115. 10,000 U.S. union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids) - 1920
116. Anti-British uprising in Ireland - 1919
117. Lithuania gains independence - 1919
118. Dodgers trade Casey Stengel and Cutshaw to Pitts for Grimes and Mamaux - 1918
119. NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down - 1918
120. Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank - 1917
121. Philips installs research department in Eindhoven - 1914
122. National Woman's Party forms - 1913
123. Brooklyn Dodgers President Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000 - 1911
124. 1st junior high schools in U.S. opens (Berkeley California) - 1910
125. 1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50) - 1909
126. Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa - 1908
127. Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine - 1905
128. Japanese troops capture Port Arthur - 1905
129. President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black - 1903
130. E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montreal) - 1900
131. Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris - 1900
132. Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr. Jamesons troops) - 1896
133. 1st U.S. commemoratives and 1st U.S. stamp to picture a woman issued - 1893
134. World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago - 1893
135. Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer - 1890
136. Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny - 1890
137. Gen Wolseley receives last distress signal of Gen Gordon in Khartoum - 1885
138. Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust - 1882
139. Camille Saint-Saens' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres - 1881
140. 1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG - 1879
141. British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die - 1879
142. Dr. Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education - 1879
143. Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill - 1879
144. King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25 - 1871
145. Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins - 1870
146. Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends - 1863
147. Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia - 1861
148. South Carolina seizes inactive Ft. Johnson in Charleston Harbor - 1861
149. Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Hollander" premieres, Dresden - 1843
150. 1st U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn - 1842
151. 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) - 1839
152. 1st Curling club in U.S. (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens - 1832
153. Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston - 1831
154. Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto) - 1818
155. Lord Byron completes "The Corsair" - 1814
156. U.S. Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the U.S.) - 1811
157. Free black community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slave - 1800
158. Mozart's opera "Cosi fan tutti" premieres, Vienna - 1790
159. Georgia is 4th state to ratify U.S. constitution - 1788
160. 1st revolutionary flag displayed - 1776
161. Austria ends interregation torture - 1776
162. British troops occupy Calcutta India - 1757
163. Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva" - 1678
164. Battle at Kinsale, Ireland: English army beats Spanish - 1602
165. Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale - 1602
166. Spain and Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville - 1585
167. Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins - 1570
168. Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day) - 1492
169. Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names - 1235
170. John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0533
171. Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor - 0069
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