1. 63rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Metrodome Minneapolis - 2001
2. 19th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Corel State Spectrum - 2000
3. World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota - 1998
4. "Doll's House," opens at Belasco Theater New York City - 1997
5. Sri Lanka 9-349 in 50 overs beat Pakistan 315 all out, Singapore Jayasuriya hits ton in 48 balls, world ODI record at Singapore - 1996
6. Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1,097th career game - 1996
7. 14th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: University of Ct Huskies beats Tennessee 70-64 - 1995
8. 7th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus - 1995
9. Baseball season opener delayed until April 26 - 1995
10. New York Police Department and New York Transit Police merge into one organization - 1995
11. North and Western Colorado begins using new area code 970 - 1995
12. Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26 - 1995
13. Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50 - 1995
14. Wrestlemania XI in Conn-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow - 1995
15. 1st exhibition game played at Jacobs Field, Pirates beat Indians, 6-4 - 1994
16. 1st test flight of Fokker 70 in Amsterdam - 1993
17. Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10 - 1993
18. Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns - 1992
19. "Hamlet" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances - 1992
20. John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos - 1992
21. Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands - 1992
22. Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing - 1991
23. 52nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Nevada-LV beats Duke 103-73 - 1990
24. 18th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster - 1989
25. 8th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60 - 1989
26. Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage - 1989
27. Yanks beat Mets 4-0, sweeping 1989 mayor's trophy series in 2 games - 1989
28. Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45 - 1988
29. Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, WI vs. Pakistan, Georgetown - 1988
30. Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation - 1987
31. IBM introduces PS/2 and OS/2 - 1987
32. "Mikado" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 46 performances - 1987
33. 4 U.S. passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece - 1986
34. George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans - 1986
35. NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance) - 1986
36. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1985
37. 46th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Georgetown beats Houston 84-75 - 1984
38. Argentina seizes Malvinas, also known as the Falkland Islands - 1982
39. In exhibition game A's pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15" toy bat (under Billy Martins orders), protesting disallowing of DH - 1982
40. Belgium's 4th government of Martens resigns - 1981
41. Heavy battle between Christian militia and Syrian army in East Lebanon - 1981
42. Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season - 1980
43. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo - 1979
44. 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post - 1978
45. Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, vs. Aust Georgetown - 1978
46. TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series) - 1978
47. Velcro was 1st put on the market - 1978
48. Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks - 1977
49. Mont Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a lose - 1977
50. A's trade prospective free agents Reggie Jackson and Ken Holtzman, to Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez and Paul Mitchell - 1976
51. Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier - 1976
52. Portuguese constitution assumed - 1976
53. 46th Academy Awards - "Stng," Glenda Jackson and Jack Lemmon win - 1974
54. Arganat Commission publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War - 1974
55. Tony Greig takes 8-86 vs. WI Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inn) - 1974
56. CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day - 1973
57. Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal - 1973
58. ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean President election - 1973
59. 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection," G Hackman and Jane Fonda win - 1972
60. Tennessee Williams' "Small Craft Warnings," premieres in New York City - 1972
61. Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run - 1971
62. 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world - 1970
63. Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state - 1970
64. Qatar gains independence from Britain - 1970
65. Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - 1969
66. Beatles form Python Music Ltd. - 1968
67. Chad creates Union of Central African States - 1968
68. Senator Mccarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin - 1968
69. Actress Lynn Redgrave marries John Clark - 1967
70. Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational - 1967
71. Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon - 1966
72. WJET TV channel 24 in Erie, Pennsylvania (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1966
73. Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy - 1965
74. Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria - 1964
75. Military coup in Brazil by Gen Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted - 1964
76. U.S.S.R. launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned - 1964
77. Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km) - 1963
78. U.S.S.R. launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km - 1963
79. Cuba buys oil from U.S.S.R. - 1960
80. KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma, WA (PBS) 1st broadcast - 1960
81. Antillean Brewery, maker of Amstel beer, opens - 1958
82. National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA - 1958
83. Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, Texas (record) - 1958
84. Peter Ustinovs' "Romanoff and Juliet," premieres in Manchester - 1956
85. Soap operas "As the World Turns" and "Edge of Night" premieres on TV - 1956
86. Pancho Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a tournament playing under table tennis rules - 1955
87. U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright - 1955
88. U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins - 1955
89. Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced - 1954
90. Raab forms his 1st government in Austria - 1953
91. WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk, Virginia (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1950
92. Carlo Terron's "Il diamente del profeta," premieres in Rome - 1947
93. 1st U.S. units reach east coast of Okinawa - 1945
94. CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy - 1944
95. Dmitri Shostakovitch' 8th Symphony, premieres in NY - 1944
96. Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania - 1944
97. USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from SF - 1941
98. 6th Golf Masters Championship: Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279 - 1939
99. Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer - 1935
100. Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR - 1935
101. Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son - 1932
102. Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee - 1931
103. 1st NewYork - Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda - 1930
104. Riots between Moslems and Hindus in Calcutta - 1926
105. Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new theory of relativity - 1921
106. Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of U.S. House of Representatives - 1917
107. President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany - 1917
108. German troops overtake Bois de Caillette - 1916
109. Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China - 1912
110. Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power - 1912
111. Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday - 1908
112. South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England - 1906
113. Cairo-Capetown railway opens - 1905
114. 1st motion picture theater opens in Los Angeles - 1902
115. Soccer team MVV '02 forms in Maastricht - 1902
116. 1st edition of The Volk published in Amsterdam - 1900
117. London prison for debtors closed - 1884
118. Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack - 1883
119. 1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper - 1878
120. 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn - 1877
121. Philadelphia A's and Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game, in Phila - 1876
122. George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine - 1872
123. Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for U.S. pres - 1870
124. President Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia - 1866
125. Battle of Ft. Blakely AL and Selma AL - 1865
126. Battle of Petersburg, Virginia (Ft. Gregg, Sutherland's Station) - 1865
127. CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA - 1865
128. Skirmish at Crump's Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana - 1864
129. Skirmish at Spoonville/Antoine, Arkansas - 1864
130. Bread revolt in Richmond Virginia - 1863
131. 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin - 1860
132. H L Fizeau and J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun - 1845
133. Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils - 1827
134. 1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins - 1819
135. 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C - 1800
136. Congress establishes Philadelphia mint - 1792
137. U.S. authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle and 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins and silver dollar, dollar, quarter, dime and half-dime - 1792
138. Austria and Bavaria sign peace - 1745
139. Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander - 1645
140. Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope - 1595
141. States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht - 1590
142. England/France signs 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambresis - 1559
143. Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy - 1550
144. Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon - 1513
145. Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragon - 1416
146. Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope - 0999
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