1. 26th du Maurier Golf Classic - 1998
2. Congressional hearings begin on White Water - 1994
3. Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed - 1994
4. New York Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure - 1994
5. Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11) - 1994
6. New York City radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes - 1993
7. Peter Angelos and William DeWitt purchase Orioles - 1993
8. Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 and WHK-AM/1420 - 1993
9. Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed - 1993
10. "Death and the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 159 performances - 1992
11. Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Welch's Golf Classic - 1992
12. Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick - 1992
13. Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, and B McGowan enter Hall of Fame - 1992
14. Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges - 1991
15. Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in Los Angeles - 1991
16. Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since 1972 - 1991
17. Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched - 1991
18. Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia - 1990
19. Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in just 77 at bats - 1990
20. NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24 - 1989
21. Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo - 1988
22. System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC) - 1988
23. 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1) - 1987
24. Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am - 1987
25. Cincinnati Red Eric Davis becomes 7th and earliest 30 HR 30 steal man - 1987
26. Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3") - 1987
27. Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in one season - 1987
28. Kevin Seitzer (Kansas City Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game - 1987
29. Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) - 1987
30. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1987
31. Jackie Joyner-Kersee (U.S.) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts) - 1986
32. 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo - 1985
33. Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport, 137 die - 1985
34. NASA launches space vehicle S-209 - 1985
35. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1984
36. STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad - 1983
37. U.S. District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination - 1983
38. Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season - 1982
39. Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network - 1982
40. Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in 14 overs - 1981
41. Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic - 1981
42. Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed - 1980
43. U.S. swimmers set 3 world records at National championships - 1980
44. "Broadway Opry '79" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 6 performances - 1979
45. Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway - 1979
46. 104 degrees F (40 degrees C) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record) - 1975
47. 107 degrees F (42 degrees C) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record) - 1975
48. George Brett gets his 1st hit - 1973
49. Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London - 1972
50. Baltimore defeats Kansas City 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals - 1970
51. France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island - 1970
52. Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in California - 1970
53. Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minnesota 10th reunion - 1969
54. President Nixon visits Romania - 1969
55. 35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17 (69,917) - 1968
56. New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to Los Angeles Rams 16-77 - 1967
57. U.S.'s Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5 - 1967
58. Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting - 1966
59. Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing - 1965
60. Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees - 1964
61. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open - 1964
62. North Vietnam fires on a U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin - 1964
63. Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey - 1964
64. 30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17 (65,000) - 1963
65. NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m - 1962
66. Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club - 1961
67. Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo - 1961
68. St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto - 1961
69. 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC - 1959
70. Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples - 1959
71. San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs - 1959
72. Jordan and Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months - 1958
73. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test - 1955
74. Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia - 1954
75. Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash - 1953
76. KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting - 1953
77. Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman and Churchill - 1945
78. Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts - 1944
79. Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker - 1944
80. Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany - 1944
81. Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka - 1943
82. Lt. John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands - 1943
83. RAF bombs Hamburg - 1943
84. Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 and U-106 - 1943
85. Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed) - 1943
86. 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp - 1942
87. Col-Gen Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo - 1942
88. German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman - 1941
89. Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia - 1941
90. Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death - 1940
91. KL-House of saxon and commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia - 1940
92. Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers - 1939
93. 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals) - 1938
94. 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it - 1934
95. Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany - 1934
96. William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour - 1934
97. Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs - 1932
98. Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status - 1931
99. Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR - 1929
100. Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia, Ethiopia - 1928
101. Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game - 1924
102. China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die - 1922
103. Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox - 1921
104. Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in New York City - 1920
105. Belgian government receives German ultimatum - 1914
106. German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg - 1914
107. German troops overthrows Luxembourg - 1914
108. Germany and Turkey signs secret treaty - 1914
109. Great Britain mobilizes - 1914
110. Postdam Conference ended - 1914
111. Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia - 1914
112. Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place - 1914
113. 18th U.S. Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY - 1912
114. Haiti's dictator Simon flees on U.S. warship near Jamaica - 1911
115. 1st Lincoln head pennies minted - 1909
116. Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers - 1909
117. Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington and loses 3-2 to Detroit - 1907
118. Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak - 1906
119. Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey - 1903
120. Death duties 1st introduced in Britain - 1894
121. Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter - 1894
122. Charles A. Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator - 1892
123. Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire - 1887
124. Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent - 1884
125. San Francisco Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes - 1877
126. World 1st roller skating rink opens in London - 1875
127. 1st trial run of San Francisco cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones - 1873
128. Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" - 1865
129. Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps and is lost - 1865
130. 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and New York City streets - 1858
131. Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown - 1858
132. 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac and Fox indians, end Black Hawk War - 1832
133. Black Hawk defeated in Iowa - 1832
134. Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisconsin - 1832
135. Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium - 1831
136. 1st parachute jump in U.S. - 1819
137. Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life" - 1802
138. British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile - 1798
139. Samuel Briggs and his son, patent nail-making machine - 1791
140. Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc - 1787
141. Utrechtse Vroedschap flees - 1786
142. George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction - 1782
143. Formal signing of Declaration of Independence - 1776
144. France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey - 1738
145. Austrian joins Triple Alliance - 1718
146. Duke of Marlborough beats French and Bavarians at Blenheim - 1704
147. French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers - 1665
148. Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay - 1610
149. Leiden University names Snellius math professor - 1581
150. Battle of Rijmenam - 1578
151. Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion - 1552
152. French troops leave Flanders - 1542
153. Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella - 1492
154. 1st roller skating rink opens (London) - 1375
155. Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium, Pope Stephen IX [X] - 1057
156. St. Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0257
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