1. 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio - 1998
2. 16th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Tenn beats Old Dominion 68-59 - 1997
3. 26th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King - 1997
4. Southwestern Bell Dominion Senior Golf - 1997
5. Steve Elkington wins Golf's Players Championship - 1997
6. Lara hits 146 cricket not out in ODI vs NZ at Port-Of-Spain - 1996
7. New York Mets beats New York Yankees 5-3 in an exhibition game - 1996
8. Prince Edward and girl-friend Sophie visited Graystoke Castle - 1996
9. "Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City for 204 performances - 1995
10. ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe - 1994
11. Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy - 1994
12. England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain - 1994
13. French government of Balladur forms - 1993
14. Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election - 1993
15. Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain," premieres in New York City - 1993
16. New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield - 1993
17. Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy - 1993
18. "Redwood Curtain" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 40 performances - 1993
19. 64th Academy Awards - "Silence of Lamb," A Hopkins and Jodie Foster win - 1992
20. CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute" - 1992
21. Man accidentally backs in A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini - 1992
22. P J Patterson, resigns as 6th PM of Jamaica - 1992
23. WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (New York City) - 1992
24. 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yanks-Orioles) - 1991
25. Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vr˜e Folk" (Free People) - 1991
26. Northern Michigan wins its 1st NCAA hockey title - 1991
27. PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller - 1991
28. "Speed of Darkness" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 36 performances - 1991
29. William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman, found not guilty - 1991
30. Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament - 1990
31. 2nd Soul Train Music Awards - 1988
32. Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns and 144 to win Ranji Trophy - 1988
33. 59th Academy Awards - "Platoon," Paul Newman and Marlee Matlin win - 1987
34. Vincent van Goghs "Sunflowers" sells for record 22.5M pounds ($39.7 million) - 1987
35. 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern California 97-81 - 1986
36. "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 198 performances - 1986
37. U.S. ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force - 1984
38. Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives," premieres in London - 1983
39. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1983
40. 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands, NM - 1982
41. John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God," premieres in New York City - 1982
42. 43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Champ: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50 - 1981
43. President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley III - 1981
44. Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God," premieres in New York City - 1980
45. Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open - 1980
46. "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 21 performances - 1978
47. Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation - 1976
48. Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital - 1975
49. Ellsworth Bunker resigns as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam - 1973
50. "Funny Thing Happened..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 156 performances - 1972
51. North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam - 1972
52. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1972
53. "Applause" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 900 performances - 1970
54. Miles Davis Bitches Brew released - 1970
55. Soap opera "Somerset" premieres - 1970
56. Strouse, Adams, Comden and Green's musical "Applause," premieres in New York City - 1970
57. U.S.S.R. wins its 8th straight world hockey championship - 1970
58. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Malabar Golf Invitational - 1969
59. General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia - 1968
60. Cover picture of Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's" is photographed - 1967
61. Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS - 1966
62. Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race - 1964
63. France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria - 1963
64. NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 m) - 1961
65. WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1959
66. 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony - 1957
67. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test - 1956
68. 27th Academy Awards - "On the Waterfront," Brando and Grace Kelly win - 1955
69. Test Cricket debut of Garry Sobers vs. England at Kingston - 1954
70. Einstein announces revised unified field theory - 1953
71. 6th Tony Awards: Fourposter and King and I win - 1952
72. Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open - 1952
73. Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, New Jersey - 1950
74. Australia beats NZ in cricket at 3 30pm on 2nd day - 1946
75. Last Test Cricket appearance of Bill O'Reilly (5-14 and 3-19) - 1946
76. "St. Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 113 performances - 1946
77. 289 anti-fascists murdered by nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund - 1945
78. U.S.S.R. invades Austria during WW II - 1945
79. 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg - 1944
80. 5th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: University of Wyoming beat Georgetown 46-34 - 1943
81. British 1st army recaptures Sejenane - 1943
82. Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!," premieres in New York City - 1943
83. 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau - 1942
84. SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp - 1942
85. German counter offensive in North-Africa - 1941
86. 2nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana U beats Kansas 60-42 - 1940
87. Newfoundland changes time to 3 hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec - 1935
88. Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic - 1932
89. Babberich-H soccer team forms - 1930
90. Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians - 1925
91. Stanley Cup: Vict Cougars (WCHL) beat Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1 - 1925
92. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard U in 1920, incorporates - 1923
93. KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions - 1922
94. WWL-AM in New Orleans LA begins radio transmissions - 1922
95. Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf - 1919
96. Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act - 1919
97. Paul Claudel's "Tˆte d'Or," premieres in Paris - 1919
98. Stanley Cup: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2 - 1918
99. Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens (NHA) beat Portland Rosebuds (PCHA), 3 games to 2 - 1916
100. French protectorate in Morocco established - 1912
101. Lotschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed - 1911
102. Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens - 1909
103. Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law - 1900
104. British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge - 1895
105. Thomas F. Bayard becomes 1st U.S. ambassador in Great Britain - 1893
106. John T. Reid opens 1st U.S. golf course in Yonkers, New York - 1889
107. 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race - 1870
108. Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union - 1870
109. U.S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 - 1867
110. Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride), premieres - 1866
111. Battle at 5 Forks Virginia - 1865
112. Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas - 1864
113. Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleesw˜k-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg chosen as king George of Greece - 1863
114. Pencil with attached eraser patented by Hyman L. Lipman - 1858
115. Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War - 1856
116. Ether was used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr. Crawford Long - 1842
117. Congress combined East and West Florida into Florida Territory - 1822
118. Britain and allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon - 1814
119. Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath - 1778
120. Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish - 1603
121. Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon - 1533
122. Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury - 1533
123. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spain - 1492
124. Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland - 1474
125. Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege - 1456
126. Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple - 1422
127. Furious inhabitants of Palermo attack French occupation force - 1282
128. Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders - 0988
129. Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Munster - 0804
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