1. 62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at RCA Dome Indianapolis - 2000
2. World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota - 1998
3. "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," opens at Royale New York City for 109 performance - 1997
4. South Australia grab exciting draw vs W A to win Sheffield Shield - 1996
5. St. Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1 - 1996
6. 57th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78 - 1995
7. Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena - 1995
8. 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech 60-59 - 1994
9. 1st roster of Silver Bullets, all-female pro baseball team, announced - 1994
10. 6th Seniors Golf Tradition: Ray Floyd - 1994
11. 1st exhibition game at Camden Field-Orioles beat New York Mets - 1992
12. 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation - 1991
13. Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox - 1991
14. "Penn and Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City - 1991
15. Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16) - 1991
16. U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution - 1991
17. 51st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Mich beats Seton Hall 80-79 (OT) - 1989
18. Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St. Louis at Shea Stad - 1989
19. "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx - 1989
20. 17th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott - 1988
21. 7th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Louisiana Tec beat Auburn 56-54 - 1988
22. Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Gretzky's 7 year streak - 1988
23. New Jersey Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time - 1988
24. Somalia and Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert - 1988
25. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1988
26. Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega - 1987
27. Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers - 1987
28. Duchess of Windsors jewels auctioned for 31,380,197 pounds - 1987
29. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1987
30. U.S. national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000 - 1986
31. French government adopts equal electoral system - 1985
32. Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games - 1985
33. Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London - 1985
34. Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy - 1984
35. Guinea suspends constitution after coup - 1984
36. Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7 - 1984
37. 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott - 1983
38. 2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South California beats LA Tech 69-67 - 1983
39. Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point - 1982
40. U.N. Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands - 1982
41. Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25," with 1 leg - 1981
42. Race riots in London's Brixton area - 1981
43. France performs nuclear test - 1980
44. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1980
45. Belgium's Martens government forms - 1979
46. Jane Byrne, elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois - 1979
47. 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall," Rich Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton win - 1978
48. European market and China signs trade agreement - 1978
49. Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington D.C. - 1978
50. 6th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth - 1977
51. Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point - 1977
52. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter - 1977
53. Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time - 1977
54. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1976
55. Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game - 1976
56. Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it - 1975
57. James Rupers kills his family to inherit - 1975
58. 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states - 1974
59. Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris - 1974
60. Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try - 1970
61. North Vietnam agrees to meet U.S. reps to set up preliminary peace talks - 1968
62. 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum - 1967
63. WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1967
64. Luna 10 orbits Moon - 1966
65. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open - 1966
66. Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus - 1966
67. 1st atomic powered spacecraft launched - 1965
68. Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts - 1964
69. U.S. and Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations - 1964
70. Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races) - 1962
71. Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA - 1962
72. Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia is sold to J Schleifer Properties - 1961
73. "Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck New York City for 97 performances - 1961
74. Earthquake at Havre, Belgium - 1960
75. Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana - 1958
76. "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 332 performances - 1958
77. Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," premieres in London - 1957
78. U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test - 1957
79. Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated - 1956
80. German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed - 1956
81. "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 461 performances - 1956
82. Baltimore Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs Kansas City Athletics) - 1955
83. Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39 - 1955
84. Louise Suggs wins LPGA Oklahoma City Golf Open - 1955
85. Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300 - 1955
86. Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record) - 1954
87. "Me and Juliet" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 358 performances - 1954
88. Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to U.S. Congress - 1952
89. Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford - 1951
90. KQW-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KCBS - 1949
91. North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by U.S., Britain, France and Canada - 1949
92. WLWS (now WCMH) TV channel 4 in Columbus, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1949
93. 1st U.S. figure skating championships held - 1948
94. Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries) - 1948
95. U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill - 1948
96. U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button - 1948
97. "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" opens at Martin Beck New York City for 108 performances - 1947
98. Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army - 1945
99. Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald - 1945
100. U.S. 1st army conquers Hofgeismar - 1945
101. British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz - 1944
102. Supreme Court (Smith vs. Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional - 1944
103. Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested - 1943
104. Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion - 1941
105. Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq - 1941
106. Waltons overture "Scapino," premieres in Chicago - 1941
107. Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of 1st round - 1936
108. Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds - 1936
109. Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44) - 1935
110. 1st airplane flight over Mt. Everest - 1933
111. Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0 - 1933
112. Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) - 1930
113. Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games - 1930
114. Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact - 1929
115. Interstate Commerce Commission transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone - 1927
116. 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C - 1926
117. 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard - 1926
118. Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions - 1926
119. Great Britain goes back to gold standard - 1925
120. Netherlands and Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde - 1925
121. 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary - 1923
122. Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party - 1922
123. Austria expels all Habsburgers - 1919
124. House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler - 1918
125. Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd - 1917
126. British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail - 1913
127. Harry James Smith' "Mrs. Bumsted-Leigh," premieres in New York City - 1911
128. Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed - 1910
129. Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hrs - 1908
130. 1st NSW vs. Queensland F-C game, at Brisbane Exhibition Ground - 1893
131. Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Virginia - 1889
132. Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks - 1882
133. An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave - 1868
134. Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign) - 1865
135. Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Virginia and Petersberg - 1865
136. Skirmish at Okolona, Arkansas - 1864
137. Pony Express began between St. Joseph Missouri and Sacramento California - 1860
138. Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos - 1856
139. Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher - 1848
140. Revenue Marine Service, U.S. Coast Guard, created - 1790
141. Sweden and U.S. sign a treaty of Amity and Commerce - 1783
142. Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College - 1776
143. Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king - 1764
144. Robert Walpole becomes England's 1st Lord of the Treasury - 1721
145. Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig - 1679
146. English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown - 1657
147. English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance - 1645
148. French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen - 1582
149. Spain and France signs 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambresis - 1559
150. Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France - 1376
151. 2nd council of Vienna - 1312
152. Edward the Confessor crowned king of England - 1043
153. [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0419
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