1. Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14 - 1997
2. Tommy Lasoda retires as Los Angeles Dodger manager - 1996
3. Becky Iverson wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic - 1995
4. Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win vs. WI - 1995
5. Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford - 1995
6. Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball's Hall of Fame - 1995
7. Record 103.8 degrees F (39.9 degrees C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany - 1994
8. Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65) - 1992
9. MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993 - 1991
10. Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd) - 1991
11. 5 Bank of Credit and Commerce members found guilty of money - 1990
12. George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of New York Yankees - 1990
13. Graham Gooch scores 123 vs. India to follow up 1st innings 333 - 1990
14. Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die - 1990
15. Chile amends its constitution - 1989
16. Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic - 1989
17. Cincinnati Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month - 1988
18. Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m - 1988
19. James Ogilvy, under Engl princess Alexandra, marries Julia Rawlinson - 1988
20. John Franco saves record 13th game of July - 1988
21. Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO - 1988
22. King Hussein dissolves Jordan's House of Representatives - 1988
23. Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min) - 1988
24. Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission - 1985
25. Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss - 1985
26. Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil - 1984
27. Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant - 1984
28. Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV - 1984
29. Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California - 1983
30. Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of U.S.S.R. jerks a record 261 kg - 1983
31. Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats - 1982
32. U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test - 1982
33. Belgian Senate accept laws against racism - 1981
34. Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms," premieres in London - 1981
35. Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke - 1980
36. Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain and France - 1980
37. Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits and NL-record-tying 8 HRs - 1978
38. Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic - 1978
39. Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy - 1976
40. Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball - 1976
41. Simon Gray's "Otherwise Engaged," premieres in London - 1975
42. Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit - 1975
43. House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up - 1974
44. Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0 - 1973
45. "Ain't Supposed to Die Death" closes at Barrymore New York City after 325 performances - 1972
46. Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open - 1972
47. 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289) - 1971
48. George Harrison releases "Bangladesh" - 1971
49. Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162 - 1971
50. U.S. Apollo 15 (Scott and Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon - 1971
51. 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, Connecticut - 1970
52. Astros Denis Menke and Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets - 1969
53. Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas - 1969
54. KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1969
55. Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos) - 1969
56. Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away - 1968
57. Washington Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years - 1968
58. Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies' Team Golf Champ - 1967
59. Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed) - 1967
60. Beatles' "Yesterday... and Today," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks - 1966
61. England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London - 1966
62. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open - 1966
63. U.S. airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam - 1966
64. Charles Ives' "From the Steeples and the Mountains," premieres - 1965
65. Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown and the Green Apple," premieres - 1965
66. Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966 - 1965
67. Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants - 1965
68. U.S. naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam - 1964
69. British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow - 1963
70. 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago - 1962
71. All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels) - 1962
72. 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL - 1961
73. Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open - 1961
74. 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7) - 1960
75. In his major league debut, San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4 - 1959
76. U.S. motto, In God We Trust, authorized - 1956
77. Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France - 1955
78. Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles - 1954
79. Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71 - 1954
80. Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid - 1952
81. Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players - 1951
82. British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff - 1949
83. Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6) - 1948
84. Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont) - 1948
85. Cin Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to New York Giants 5-4 - 1947
86. 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico - 1946
87. Philippines Sea: U.S. cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die - 1945
88. Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire and Villebaudon Normandy - 1944
89. U.S. 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy - 1944
90. Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy) - 1943
91. U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano - 1943
92. Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES) - 1942
93. German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands - 1942
94. German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia - 1942
95. German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU and SGP in Netherlands - 1941
96. Belgium Sylvere Maes wins 33rd Tour de France - 1939
97. Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece - 1938
98. Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base and registers no put outs - 1937
99. 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution - 1935
100. 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2) - 1933
101. 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles - 1932
102. 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio - 1930
103. Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo - 1930
104. George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (U.S.) - 1928
105. Albanian boundaries deduced - 1926
106. New Zealand claims Ross Dependency - 1923
107. Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting - 1917
108. German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey - 1916
109. Austrian-Hungary and Russia proclaim general mobilization - 1914
110. French troops withdraw 10 km from German border - 1914
111. John French appointed British supreme commander - 1914
112. Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War - 1913
113. John A. Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League - 1909
114. Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army - 1909
115. Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris - 1908
116. Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms - 1905
117. Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (New York City) - 1902
118. Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes - 1898
119. Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty" - 1889
120. German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election - 1878
121. Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties - 1878
122. 1st baseball teams to play outside U.S., Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles - 1874
123. Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100 - 1870
124. Race riot in New Orleans - 1866
125. Pope Pius IX visits Suriname - 1865
126. Battle of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania - burned by Union forces under McCausland - 1864
127. Battle of the Crater: Gen Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg - 1864
128. Confederate troops attack Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in fire - 1864
129. President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot - 1863
130. 1st U.S. yacht club organized, New York Yacht Club - 1844
131. Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad - 1839
132. 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii - 1836
133. Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed - 1826
134. Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris - 1824
135. James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church - 1822
136. English invasion army lands in Walcheren - 1809
137. 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time - 1792
138. Capt Cook with Resolution returns to England - 1775
139. Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, New Jersey - 1739
140. Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston - 1733
141. City of Baltimore founded - 1729
142. Spanish gold and silver fleet disappears off St. Lucie, Florida - 1715
143. English troops lands in Flanders - 1678
144. Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram - 1655
145. Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland - 1653
146. Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam - 1650
147. English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions - 1646
148. Earthquake hits Naples; 10,000 die - 1626
149. House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective U.S. governing body - 1619
150. Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht - 1618
151. Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius - 1601
152. Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire - 1537
153. Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague and throw Catholic councillors out the windows - 1419
154. Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy - 1178
155. St. Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I - 0657
156. Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0579
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