1. Albert Belle's Chicago White Sox tying 27-game hitting streak ends - 1997
2. Liberals beat Conservatives in France - 1997
3. Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168 - 1997
4. 50th Tony Awards: Master Class and Rent win - 1996
5. 51st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam - 1996
6. 9th Children's Miracle Network Telethon - 1996
7. John Valentin hits 3 HRs - 1995
8. 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian - 1994
9. Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland, 29 killed - 1994
10. Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" - 1994
11. Sharon Stone files $12m suit against her jeweler - 1994
12. Former NFL New York Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery - 1992
13. Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album "Shadows and Light" - 1992
14. 45th Tony Awards: Lost in Yonkers and Will Rogers Follies win - 1991
15. 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon - 1991
16. Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rochester Golf International - 1991
17. Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1" - 1991
18. Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin - 1991
19. Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0 - 1990
20. "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13 - 1990
21. 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing - 1989
22. 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee - 1989
23. Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle - 1989
24. "Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams, premieres - 1989
25. Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith - 1989
26. 61st National Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal - 1988
27. Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile - 1988
28. Mariners draft Ken Griffey, Jr. #1 - 1987
29. New York City transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token - 1986
30. Regular TV coverage of U.S. Senate sessions begins - 1986
31. 31st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez - 1985
32. 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues and Big River win - 1985
33. Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece - 1985
34. RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco - 1985
35. Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy - 1984
36. Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines - 1984
37. "Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr. Demento airs on NBC-TV - 1984
38. 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," released in Germany - 1983
39. Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati - 1983
40. "Blues in the Night" opens at Rialto Theater New York City for 53 performances - 1982
41. Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be - 1981
42. "Your Arm's Too Short to Box..." opens at Ambassador New York City for 149 performances - 1980
43. John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland) - 1979
44. NASA launches space vehicle S-198 - 1979
45. Pope John Paul II visits Poland - 1979
46. New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City - 1977
47. East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia - 1976
48. James A. Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine) - 1975
49. VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA - 1975
50. Judy Rankin wins LPGA Baltimore Golf Classic - 1974
51. Malta's constitution goes into effect - 1974
52. "Nash at Nine" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 21 performances - 1973
53. Ajax wins 16th Europe Cup 1 - 1971
54. Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices U.S. destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam) - 1969
55. Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open - 1969
56. Canadians must get government permission to export silver - 1968
57. WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, Kentucky (ABC) 1st broadcast - 1968
58. Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston - 1967
59. U.S. Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing - 1966
60. 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000, Ganges R India - 1965
61. "Follies Bergere" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 191 performances - 1964
62. Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India - 1964
63. Rolling Stones 1st U.S. concert tour debuts in Lynn, Massachusetts - 1964
64. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open - 1963
65. 32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62) - 1962
66. Broadway theaters close, labor dispute between owners and Actors Equity - 1960
67. Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," San Francisco - 1959
68. Alan Freed joins WABC (New York City) radio - 1958
69. Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays - 1958
70. Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record - 1958
71. Fay Crocker wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament - 1957
72. U.S. TV interviews Khrushchev - 1957
73. Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow - 1956
74. John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland - 1954
75. Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey - 1953
76. 650,000 metal workers go on strike in U.S. - 1952
77. Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette - 1952
78. Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones - 1951
79. St. Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Washington Senators - 1950
80. Transjordan renamed Jordan - 1949
81. Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns - 1947
82. "Louisiana Lady" opens at Century Theater New York City for 4 performances - 1947
83. Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy, National Day - 1946
84. Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery dine in Portsmouth - 1944
85. Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands - 1944
86. 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission, over Italy - 1943
87. German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins - 1943
88. Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator - 1942
89. Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach - 1940
90. Gen. Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua - 1936
91. Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player - 1935
92. Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House - 1933
93. WNJ-AM in Newark New Jersey goes off the air - 1933
94. Franz von Papen "Cabinet of the Baron" premieres - 1932
95. Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in U.S., Cincinnati - 1930
96. Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft - 1928
97. New York Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak - 1925
98. Snyder Act: U.S. citizenship granted to all American Indians - 1924
99. Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances - 1922
100. Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon - 1920
101. Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers - 1919
102. German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux - 1916
103. Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome - 1914
104. 1st strike settlement mediated by U.S. Department of Labor-RR clerks - 1913
105. Demonstrations for general voting right in Neth - 1913
106. 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel, C S Rolls, England - 1910
107. Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea - 1910
108. 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan aboard Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6 - 1909
109. 33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4 - 1908
110. Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis - 1904
111. Netherlands Korfball League forms - 1903
112. Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers - 1903
113. 2nd statewide initiative and referendum law adopted, in Oregon - 1902
114. Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday, New York - 1901
115. Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings - 1899
116. 30th Belmont: Henry Griffin aboard Hastings wins in 2:24 - 1896
117. Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio - 1896
118. Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency, Frances Folsom - 1886
119. 1st night baseball under lights, Ft. Wayne Indiana - 1883
120. Chicago's "El" opens to traffic - 1883
121. Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris - 1882
122. Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens - 1881
123. James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US - 1875
124. Construction begins on Clay St. (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad - 1873
125. Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game, vs Cincinnati Red Stockings - 1869
126. Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to U.S. forces - 1866
127. At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept - 1865
128. Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2 - 1864
129. Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves - 1863
130. Gen Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC - 1862
131. Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington D.C. - 1862
132. Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer - 1858
133. James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine - 1857
134. 1st U.S. alcohol prohibition law enacted, Maine - 1851
135. P. T. Barnum and his circus begin 1st tour of US - 1835
136. 5th national black convention meet, New York City - 1834
137. 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack New York (C Broadhead) - 1797
138. Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London - 1780
139. England passed Quartering Act, mandating Colonists must board English troops in their homes - 1774
140. Russia and Austria sign agreements - 1746
141. Monarch August van Saksen becomes Catholic - 1697
142. Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet - 1676
143. Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne - 1633
144. English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company - 1627
145. Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand - 1625
146. England and Netherlands signs treaty about business in the Indies - 1619
147. Fulco V's son Godfried marries king Henry I's daughter Mathildis - 1129
148. St. Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0657
149. Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0575
150. A D Gaiseric and the Vandals sacked Rome - 0455
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