1. Gail Graham wins LPGA Alpine Australian Ladies Masters - 1997
2. Nick Faldo wins Nissan Golf Open - 1997
3. Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple Computer - 1997
4. Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia) - 1997
5. Copeland swimming pool re-opened by Gladiator - 1996
6. Tendulkar scores 137 for Ind vs. SL in Cricket World Cup, but still lose - 1996
7. British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC - 1995
8. Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed - 1995
9. "Smokey Joe's Cafe," opens at Virginia Theater New York City - 1995
10. Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches - 1995
11. Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't - 1994
12. Miami begins a latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan - 1994
13. William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), casts his 18,401 and last consecutive vote - 1994
14. Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89 - 1993
15. Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins - 1993
16. Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35) - 1992
17. "Aspects of Love" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 377 performances - 1991
18. Deb Richard wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open - 1991
19. Del Ballard, Jr. throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history - 1991
20. "La Bete" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 24 performances - 1991
21. North Carolina State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists - 1991
22. U.N. votes in favor of U.S. resolutions for cease fire with Iraq - 1991
23. Greyhound Bus goes on strike - 1990
24. Mark Tewsksbury swims world record 50m backstroke (25.06 sec) - 1990
25. 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000 - 1989
26. Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil - 1989
27. Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial - 1989
28. NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers win 22nd straight home game - 1989
29. New York Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez - 1989
30. 30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley - 1988
31. Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP - 1988
32. 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita - 1986
33. Mary Beth Zimmerman wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational - 1986
34. Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to U.S. - 1986
35. U.S. approves screening test for AIDS - 1985
36. Iran offensive against Iraq fails - 1984
37. John Long (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games - 1984
38. Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips and Sony introduced - 1983
39. Final episode of M*A*S*H; 125,000,000 viewers - 1983
40. U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test - 1983
41. 60th hat trick in Islander history - Bryan Trottier - 1982
42. Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru - 1982
43. Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists - 1981
44. Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington D.C. - 1981
45. 3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pitts - 1980
46. Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic - 1980
47. Mike Bratz (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games - 1980
48. 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV - 1978
49. Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6 - 1978
50. 1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show with host Johnny Carson - 1977
51. Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award - 1977
52. Libya amends constitution - 1977
53. Bob Lurie becomes CEO of San Francisco Giants - 1976
54. "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 766 performances - 1976
55. Holgate, Kemp and Lopez' musical premieres in New York City - 1976
56. Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest - 1976
57. 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins - 1974
58. 1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents - 1974
59. Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up - 1974
60. Greg Chappell makes 247* vs. NZ, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1 six - 1974
61. "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum - 1973
62. Jean-Bedel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Cent African Rep - 1972
63. Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby - 1972
64. American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747 - 1970
65. Rhodesia becomes independent republic - 1970
66. Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years - 1970
67. 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde - 1969
68. Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die) - 1969
69. Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 14th Symphony - 1969
70. Phil Esposito becomes 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season - 1969
71. Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler and Ford (GRB) - 1968
72. Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.) - 1968
73. Men's Figure Skating Champions in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) - 1968
74. U.S.S.R. launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit - 1968
75. USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world - 1968
76. Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (U.S.) - 1968
77. 9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night, Michele wins - 1967
78. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1967
79. 215,000 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam - 1966
80. Montcalm Community College in Sidney Mich, founded - 1965
81. "Sound Of Music" opens - 1965
82. Beatles begin filming "Hard Days Night," Harrison meets Patti Boyd - 1964
83. John F. Kennedy announces U.S. will resume above ground nuclear testing - 1962
84. Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game - 1962
85. "13 Daughters" opens at 54th St. Theater New York City for 28 performances - 1961
86. 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days - 1958
87. Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open - 1958
88. Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic - 1958
89. Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France - 1956
90. King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father - 1955
91. William Inge's "Bus Stop," premieres in New York City - 1955
92. Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open - 1952
93. 1st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-94 at Boston - 1951
94. 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct) - 1949
95. Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Tx, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hrs - 1949
96. Dutch troops land on East Bali - 1946
97. Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam - 1946
98. Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA - 1946
99. 8th Air Force bombs Dresden - 1945
100. King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government - 1945
101. 16th Academy Awards - "Casablanca," Jennifer Jones and Paul Lukas win - 1944
102. Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy - 1944
103. 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp - 1943
104. Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, U.S. and Australia win - 1943
105. 14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley," Cooper and Fontaine win - 1942
106. Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon - 1942
107. 1st intercollegiate track meet telecast, MSG, New York City - 1940
108. Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland - 1940
109. Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII - 1939
110. Massachusetts Legislature vote to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late - 1939
111. Landslides and floods cause over 200 deaths in Los Angeles, California - 1938
112. Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union - 1938
113. Mexico nationalizes oil - 1937
114. Bradman scores 369 in 253 mins, SA vs. Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes - 1936
115. Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha - 1934
116. "King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy New York City - 1933
117. Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan - 1933
118. 1st U.S. indoor glider flight, St. Louis Terminal Building - 1930
119. Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game - 1929
120. Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals - 1929
121. Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year) - 1927
122. Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament - 1925
123. Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage - 1925
124. Nationwide road numbering system and U.S. shield marker adopted - 1925
125. SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament - 1925
126. Time magazine debuts - 1923
127. WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting - 1922
128. WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions - 1922
129. Karel Capek's "Loupeznik," premieres in Prague - 1920
130. 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin - 1919
131. New York Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers and immediately trades him to Philadelphia A's - 1918
132. Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, U.S. citizenship granted - 1917
133. British vice adm Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts - 1915
134. Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine - 1915
135. 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die - 1910
136. Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy asks Serbia to set no territorial demands - 1909
137. General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal - 1907
138. Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce l'Oreille," premieres in Paris - 1907
139. Gabriele d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio," premieres in Milan - 1904
140. "Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" adopted - 1904
141. Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City - 1903
142. Jimmy Collins, leaves Boston Beaneaters (NL) club to manage AL's new Boston Somersets - 1902
143. Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens - 1901
144. President McKinley signs bill creating Mt. Rainier National Park (5th in U.S.) - 1899
145. Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England - 1898
146. Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians - 1896
147. George Lohmann takes 9-28 vs. South Africa at Johannesburg - 1896
148. 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features - 1893
149. Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19) - 1890
150. Kansas passes 1st U.S. antitrust - 1889
151. American Trotting Association organized in Detroit - 1887
152. Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory - 1877
153. Baseball batter's box is officially adopted - 1874
154. University of Illinois opens - 1868
155. Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico - 1867
156. Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act - 1867
157. Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead - 1867
158. U.S. Congress creates the Department of Education - 1867
159. 1st U.S. company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Connecticut - 1866
160. British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing - 1865
161. Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865 - 1865
162. General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough - 1865
163. Congress authorizes track width of 4'8" for Union Pacific Railroad - 1863
164. Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington - 1861
165. U.S. creates Dakota and Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska and Utah territories - 1861
166. Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie - 1858
167. Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia - 1855
168. Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory - 1853
169. Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico - 1836
170. John Frazee becomes 1st U.S. sculptor to receive a federal commission - 1831
171. New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in U.S., incorporated, Boston - 1829
172. 1st grand opera in U.S. sung in English, New York City - 1825
173. Interstate commerce comes under federal control - 1824
174. Territory of Arkansas organized - 1819
175. U.S. passed its 1st immigration law - 1819
176. 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn - 1817
177. Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808 - 1807
178. Congress standardizes U.S. weights and measures - 1799
179. Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances - 1789
180. Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston - 1776
181. Georg F Handels opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto," premieres in London - 1725
182. Prince William III installed as governor of Overijssel - 1675
183. English king Charles I leaces house of commons - 1629
184. Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island - 1498
185. Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia - 1458
186. Dirk VI becomes count of Holland - 1121
187. Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army - 0871
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