1. wins Titleholders Golf Championship - 1998
2. 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3 - 1997
3. ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen - 1997
4. Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue - 1997
5. Martin Moxon and Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt Yorks vs. Glam - 1996
6. Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy - 1995
7. David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus and Buddy) - 1995
8. "My Thing of Love" opens at Beck Theater New York City for 16 performances - 1995
9. 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins - 1994
10. D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election - 1994
11. U.S. space probe Clementine launched - 1994
12. "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 906 performances - 1993
13. Balt's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves - 1992
14. Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs - 1992
15. Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic - 1992
16. New York Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS - 1992
17. Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17 - 1992
18. Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge - 1992
19. 356th and final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke - 1991
20. Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass - 1991
21. 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida - 1988
22. Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000 - 1988
23. Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic - 1987
24. Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart - 1987
25. "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 46 performances - 1987
26. 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8 - 1986
27. Air Lanka crashes, killing 22 - 1986
28. Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th and 301st HR - 1986
29. NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit - 1986
30. New York Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game - 1986
31. Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead - 1983
32. Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe - 1983
33. U.S. bishops condemn nuclear weapons - 1983
34. ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations) - 1982
35. New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget - 1982
36. President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts - 1982
37. "Can-Can" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 5 performances - 1981
38. "Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens and closes at Morosco Theater New York City - 1981
39. Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International - 1981
40. 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02 - 1980
41. Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st and final HR - 1980
42. Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL and NL - 1980
43. Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases) - 1979
44. Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain - 1979
45. Martin Sherman's "Bent," premieres in London - 1979
46. Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II - 1978
47. Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston - 1978
48. "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US - 1978
49. WI all set to lose cricket test vs. Aust at Kingston till riots end game - 1978
50. Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26) - 1976
51. Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift) - 1976
52. 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02 - 1975
53. Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8) - 1975
54. Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building finished - 1973
55. Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit - 1973
56. All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations - 1971
57. Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader - 1971
58. Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days - 1971
59. Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) - 1971
60. 24th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 - 1970
61. Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational - 1970
62. 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8 - 1969
63. "Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 7 performances - 1969
64. Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University - 1967
65. WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1966
66. 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite - 1965
67. 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10 - 1965
68. Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the U.S. - 1965
69. Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (Los Angeles California) - 1965
70. KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast - 1965
71. Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era) - 1965
72. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational - 1964
73. Leslie Narum is only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat - 1963
74. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech - 1963
75. Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan) - 1962
76. Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter - 1961
77. Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks," premieres in New York City - 1960
78. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament - 1959
79. Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive home runs in a doubleheader - 1959
80. 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05 - 1958
81. WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits - 1958
82. A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000') - 1956
83. Frank Loesser's musical "Most Happy Fella," premieres in New York City - 1956
84. "Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 678 performances - 1956
85. KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1954
86. Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A. Lindbergh and John Patrick - 1954
87. WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, Wisconsin (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1954
88. WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1953
89. 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole - 1952
90. 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6 - 1952
91. "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 644 performances - 1952
92. Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning - 1951
93. New York Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th) - 1951
94. 1st firing of a U.S. Viking rocket; reached 80 km - 1949
95. Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams - 1948
96. 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8 - 1947
97. Japan forms a constitutional democracy - 1947
98. International military tribunal in Tokyo begins - 1946
99. 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen - 1945
100. Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg - 1945
101. British troop join in Rangoon - 1945
102. German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed - 1945
103. Meat rationing ends in U.S. - 1944
104. "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens on Broadway - 1944
105. Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth) - 1943
106. Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed - 1943
107. U.S. 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia - 1943
108. Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo, Solomon Islands - 1942
109. Luftwaffe bombs Exeter - 1942
110. Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands - 1942
111. Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star - 1942
112. 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4 - 1941
113. German air raid on Liverpool - 1941
114. Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use - 1938
115. Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park; he doesn't lose there until May 12 1941 - 1938
116. Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain - 1938
117. Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind" - 1937
118. French People's Front wins elections - 1936
119. New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits - 1936
120. Bradman scores 206 Aust vs. Worcestershire, 210 mins, 27 fours - 1934
121. 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of U.S. Mint takes office - 1933
122. Prussia bans anti-fascists - 1929
123. British general strike-3 million workers support miners - 1926
124. Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith) - 1926
125. U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933 - 1926
126. 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (New York - San Diego) completed - 1923
127. Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium - 1922
128. Salt layer find at Winterswijk - 1922
129. West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax - 1921
130. Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain - 1919
131. America's 1st passenger flight (New York - Atlantic City) - 1919
132. 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel" - 1917
133. 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2 - 1909
134. British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey - 1906
135. AVC Heracles (South Carolina Heracles '74) soccer team forms in Almelo - 1903
136. 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75 - 1902
137. Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida - 1901
138. 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06 - 1900
139. Camp Merriman forms at Presidio - 1898
140. M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC - 1886
141. 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault - 1864
142. Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws - 1863
143. Battle of Fredricksburg, Virginia (Marye's Heights) - 1863
144. Battle of Salem Church, Virginia - 1863
145. Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan - 1861
146. Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers and another 18,000 seamen - 1861
147. Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens - 1855
148. Most of San Francisco destroyed by fire; 30 die - 1851
149. Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas - 1846
150. 1st black lawyer (Macon B. Allen) admitted to bar - 1845
151. Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton, China - 1845
152. 1st regular steam train passenger service starts - 1830
153. Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France) - 1822
154. Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples - 1815
155. Lord Byron swims Hellespont - 1810
156. Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May" - 1808
157. Washington D.C. incorporates as a city - 1802
158. 1st U.S. medical college opens in Philadelphia - 1765
159. Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht - 1747
160. Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance," premieres in Paris - 1722
161. Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads" - 1715
162. French conquering fleet at Curaeao, 1200 die - 1678
163. Royal charter granted Connecticut - 1662
164. Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen - 1661
165. Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg and Austria sign Peace of Oliva - 1660
166. Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals - 1654
167. English Upper house accept Act of Attainder - 1640
168. French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain - 1629
169. Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama - 1624
170. Francis Bacon accused of bribery - 1621
171. Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war - 1616
172. Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz - 1515
173. 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome - 1512
174. Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen - 1512
175. Columbus discovers Jamaica - 1494
176. Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St. Iago" - 1494
177. Jews flee Spain - 1455
178. Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge - 1382
179. Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein) - 1342
180. John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg - 1294
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