1. State Farm Rail Golf Classic - 1998
2. 1st WNBA Championshion: Houston Comets beat New York Liberty - 1997
3. Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (U.S. Open) - 1997
4. Cable News Network joins internet - 1995
5. Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell play in 1,914 game together tying AL record - 1995
6. Gund Arena in Cleveland opens - 1994
7. Largest U.S. Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618 - 1994
8. 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower - 1993
9. Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest mosque in the world - 1993
10. "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 160 performances - 1992
11. 92nd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard - 1992
12. David Lewett and Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun - 1992
13. Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge - 1992
14. "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 229 performances - 1992
15. Dan O'Brien sets U.S. decathalon record with 8,812 points - 1991
16. France beats U.S. by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14 to 13 - 1991
17. Mike Powell of U.S., sets then long jump record at 29' 4 " (8.95m) - 1991
18. Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi - 1991
19. Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, Jr. become 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning - 1990
20. Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner - 1989
21. France performs nuclear test - 1988
22. Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen - 1988
23. Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games - 1988
24. Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills - 1988
25. 87th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair - 1987
26. Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship - 1987
27. Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec - 1987
28. Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 home runs in Minnesota 10-6 win over Milwaukee - 1987
29. Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls - 1987
30. Stefka Kostadonova of Bulgaroa sets high jump woman's record (6'10") - 1987
31. Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57) - 1987
32. Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54) - 1986
33. Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report) - 1986
34. 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days) - 1984
35. Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation - 1984
36. Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36 - 1984
37. Sotherby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla - 1984
38. 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days) - 1983
39. Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, New York, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA - 1983
40. Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space - 1983
41. WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Phila - 1983
42. PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut - 1982
43. Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic - 1981
44. Polish government recognizes Solidarity - 1980
45. 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs) - 1979
46. Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match - 1979
47. Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in U.S. Tennis Open, she loses - 1979
48. President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga - 1979
49. Wildest U.S. Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated - 1979
50. Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show - 1976
51. Turks and Caicos Islands adopts constitution - 1976
52. KTW-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX) - 1975
53. Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153 - 1974
54. Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg - 1974
55. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1974
56. Danny Seiwell quits Wings - 1973
57. John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden - 1972
58. WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1971
59. 120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival - 1969
60. 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash - 1969
61. 69th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk - 1969
62. Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida - 1969
63. 1st record under Apple label, Beatle's Hey Jude - 1968
64. John and Yoko's "One on One" benefit for children at MSG - 1968
65. U.S. Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice - 1967
66. Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball - 1965
67. Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland - 1965
68. Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open - 1964
69. Hot Line communications link between Washington D.C. and Moscow begins - 1963
70. J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a U.S. District Court - 1961
71. Last Spanish troops leave Morocco - 1961
72. Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game - 1961
73. U.S.S.R. says it will resume nuclear testing - 1961
74. Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7 - 1960
75. East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin - 1960
76. U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean - 1958
77. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1957
78. U.S. senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights - 1957
79. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests) - 1956
80. White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas - 1956
81. Hurricane Carol, kills 68 - 1954
82. Future New York City mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in New York City - 1953
83. U.S. and Philippines sign mutual defense pact - 1951
84. Roly Jenkins (Worcs vs. Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game - 1949
85. WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1949
86. 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753) - 1945
87. Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony - 1945
88. General MacArthur lands in Japan - 1945
89. Hong Kong liberated from Japan - 1945
90. 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769) - 1944
91. Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta," premieres in New York City - 1944
92. Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania - 1944
93. Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg - 1942
94. Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II - 1941
95. St. Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0 - 1941
96. 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456) - 1939
97. General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army - 1939
98. Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet - 1939
99. New York Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph) - 1939
100. Poland mobilizes - 1939
101. Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title - 1937
102. Air France forms - 1933
103. Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE) - 1933
104. Hermann Goering elected chairman (Reichstag) - 1932
105. Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India - 1928
106. 41st U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64) - 1927
107. Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey vs. Middlesex) - 1926
108. 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium - 1925
109. Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922 - 1922
110. Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin - 1919
111. Czechoslovakia forms independence republic - 1918
112. Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin - 1918
113. Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded after speech - 1918
114. Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St. Louis Browns, 4-0 - 1916
115. Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany - 1916
116. 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed - 1914
117. Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army - 1914
118. Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled - 1913
119. St. Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1 - 1912
120. Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleveland 5-0 in 11 - 1910
121. Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game - 1906
122. New York Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs - 1906
123. Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa - 1905
124. Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro - 1905
125. Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km) - 1904
126. Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner - 1901
127. Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed - 1900
128. Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education - 1895
129. Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger - 1894
130. 13rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (64 36 64 64) - 1893
131. Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day - 1888
132. 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda - 1885
133. Jack Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves - 1884
134. 2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union - 1862
135. Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY - 1862
136. Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee - 1862
137. 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead) - 1860
138. John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels - 1854
139. Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city - 1850
140. 1st blacks participation in national political convention (Liberty Party) - 1843
141. Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle - 1831
142. Bataafse fleet surrender to English - 1799
143. French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War - 1781
144. U.S. Army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, New York City - 1776
145. Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia - 1757
146. Georg Friedrich Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha" - 1751
147. Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War - 1721
148. William Penn left England to sail to New World - 1682
149. Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands and Lutherans form anti-French covenant - 1673
150. Dutch and Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY)) - 1645
151. Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled - 1563
152. 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Kazimierz IV - 1481
153. Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II) - 1464
154. European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending war for all time - 1146
155. Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany - 1125
156. St. Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0257
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