1. Mississippi becomes 1st state to settle tobacco suit - 1997
2. 108th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: P Sampras beats G Ivanisevic (76 76 60) - 1994
3. 15th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Simon Hobday - 1994
4. 30 die in 3 fatal auto accidents in Texas - 1994
5. Romania eliminates Argentina 3-2 in soccer world cup - 1994
6. Tammie Green wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic - 1994
7. 100th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats J Novotna (76 16 64) - 1993
8. Boon completes 16th Test Cricket century, 101 at Trent Bridge - 1993
9. Prince Alois of Liechtenstein weds Duchess Sophie of Bavaria - 1993
10. Gary Dell'Abate (Howard Stern Show) marries Mary - 1992
11. Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy marries Victoria Reggie (38) - 1992
12. Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45 karat diamond ring - 1991
13. Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year lease with Cleveland Indians - 1991
14. Members of 2 Live Crew formally charged with obscenity in Florida - 1990
15. Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8:05.39) in Stockholm - 1989
16. Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions - 1989
17. The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days) - 1989
18. 16th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sally Little - 1988
19. A's Gene Nelson is 1st AL pitcher to steal a base since 1973 - 1988
20. U.S. Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290 - 1988
21. 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic - 1987
22. New York Met Darryl Strawberry threatens teammates Wally Backman and Lee Mazzilli for criticizing his play - 1987
23. Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves - 1986
24. President Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty - 1986
25. CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover - 1985
26. Derek Underwood's maiden FC century after 22 years of trying - 1984
27. Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island - 1984
28. Greenidge scores brilliant 214 off 241 balls to win Lord's Test - 1984
29. Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members - 1984
30. 11th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Hollis Stacy - 1983
31. 97th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Chris Lewis (62 62 62) - 1983
32. Calvin Smith of U.S. becomes fastest man alive (9.93 for 100m) - 1983
33. Rangers explode for 12 runs in 15th inning of a 16-4 win over the A's - 1983
34. 89th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (61 36 62) - 1982
35. 88th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Mandlikova (62 62) - 1981
36. New York City transit fare rises from 60 cents to 75 cents, new brass Y-cut-out token - 1981
37. 1st U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Roberto deVicenzo - 1980
38. 73,096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0 - 1980
39. Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic - 1978
40. Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand New York radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words" - 1978
41. 5th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Judy Rankin - 1977
42. Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off - 1977
43. 90th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Ilse Nastase (64 62 97) - 1976
44. Adolfo Suarez becomes premier of Spain - 1976
45. After 12 years, Brian Wilson performs with the Beach Boys - 1976
46. Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers - 1976
47. Mike Marshall saves Tommy John's 4-1 win - 1974
48. Pitching in major league-record 13th consecutive game for Dodgers - 1974
49. Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3 - 1974
50. Brothers Jim and Gaylord Perry face each other for only time, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, as Gaylord loses - 1973
51. General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA - 1973
52. 85th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Newcombe beats S Smith (63 57 26 64 64) - 1971
53. 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival - 1970
54. 77th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats King (14-12 11-9) - 1970
55. British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed - 1970
56. California Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0 - 1970
57. 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island - 1969
58. 41 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July - 1968
59. Cleveland Indian Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minnesota Twins - 1968
60. "News at 10" premieres on English TV - 1967
61. 21st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Spuzich - 1966
62. Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a game - 1966
63. Race riots in Omaha, Nebraska - 1966
64. 72nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats M Fraiser (64 75) - 1965
65. Phillies Dick Allen and Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice - 1965
66. U.S.S.R. and Persia sign dam building and economic aid pact - 1965
67. 78th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Stolle (64 12-10 46 63) - 1964
68. Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5) - 1962
69. Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) weds Dee Alliot - 1960
70. 73rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Alex Olmedo beats Rod Laver (64 63 64) - 1959
71. 88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane - 1959
72. "Andy Williams Show" premieres on ABC (later on CBS and NBC) - 1958
73. 61st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (62 75) - 1954
74. 9th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias - 1954
75. Food rationing ends in Britain - 1954
76. "Wonderful Town" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 559 performances - 1954
77. 67th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Vic Seixas beats Kurt Nielsen (97 63 64) - 1953
78. Puerto Rico's constitution approved by U.S. Congress - 1952
79. 33rd PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa - 1951
80. 1st time U.S. and North Korean forces clash in Korean War - 1950
81. Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1st base (handles 13 chances) - 1950
82. 55th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats Doris Hart (63 86) - 1948
83. Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death - 1948
84. 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, New York City - 1947
85. Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the 1st black in AL - 1947
86. Soviet Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan - 1947
87. 1st Dutch government of Beel forms - 1946
88. Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore - 1944
89. U.S. V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin - 1944
90. Liberator bombers sinks U-628 - 1943
91. Germany troop march into Sebastopol - 1942
92. Hitler visits fieldmarshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine - 1942
93. ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany - 1940
94. British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa - 1940
95. German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names - 1940
96. Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler - 1939
97. Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech - 1939
98. Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge U vs. MCC - 1936
99. FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria, Illinois - 1934
100. 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2 - 1932
101. John McGraw retires from baseball - 1932
102. 51st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Sid Wood, Jr. beats F X Shields (walkover) - 1931
103. Max Schmeling TKOs Young Stribling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title - 1931
104. Veterans Administration created - 1930
105. Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber - 1929
106. 1st color TV broadcast in London (John Logic Baird) - 1928
107. 47th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: H Cochet beats Borotra (46 46 63 64 75) - 1927
108. 38th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Joan Fry (62 60) - 1925
109. Harbor strike in Hull/Grimsby/Cardiff/Bristol over to London - 1923
110. 40th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Patterson (26 63 62 64) - 1920
111. Java Technical School Bandung opens - 1920
112. Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England - 1920
113. SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament - 1918
114. Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride-palace Petrograd - 1917
115. 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near New Jersey shore (4 die) - 1916
116. U.S. military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934 - 1915
117. Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic) - 1913
118. New York Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak - 1912
119. Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day - 1911
120. Pope decree forbids modernization of theology - 1907
121. Kuyper government forms in Holland - 1905
122. Marvin Hart KOs Jack Hart in 12 for heavyweight boxing title - 1905
123. Excelsior soccer team forms in Rotterdam - 1902
124. American troops captured deserted Wake Island - 1898
125. Dutch Automobile Club forms (KNAC) - 1898
126. Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe - 1898
127. U.S. Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba - 1898
128. Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter" - 1895
129. Idaho admitted as 43rd U.S. state - 1890
130. King Leopold II gives Congo to Belgium - 1890
131. New York Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak - 1888
132. 1st New York Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine - 1886
133. In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile - 1886
134. Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg - 1884
135. SS Daphne sinks on Clyde River Scotland; 195 die - 1883
136. Montenegro declares war on Turkey - 1876
137. Jesse James robs bank in Corydon, Iowa ($45,000) - 1871
138. Harpers Ferry, West Virginia - Federals evacuate in face of Early's advance - 1864
139. Battle of Gettysburg Pennsylvania ends, major victory for North - 1863
140. Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general - 1861
141. Martinsburg, Virginia - Confederate forces pull out before U.S. advance - 1861
142. Pony Express arrives in San Francisco with overland letters from New York - 1861
143. Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan - 1853
144. Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, California) - 1852
145. Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) - 1848
146. John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus - 1841
147. 1st state normal school in U.S. opens, Lexington, Massachusetts, with 3 students - 1839
148. 1st savings bank in U.S. (Bank of Savings in New York City) opens its doors - 1819
149. French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas - 1816
150. Americans capture Fort Erie Canada - 1814
151. Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry - 1806
152. British forces massacre 360 men, women and children in Wyoming, Pa - 1778
153. Prussia declares war on Austria - 1778
154. Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass - 1775
155. George Washington surrenders to French, Ft. Necessity (7 Years' War) - 1754
156. Sweden and Denmark sign peace treaty - 1720
157. Portugal gives Tanger and Bombay to English King Charles II - 1661
158. Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament - 1630
159. Samuel de Champlain founded city of Quebec - 1608
160. Duke Charles the Stout marries Princess Margaretha of York - 1468
161. Treaty of Delft-between Jacoba of Bayern and Philip the Good - 1428
162. Crusaders enter Tiberias - 1187
163. Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II - 1090
164. Hugo Capet crowned king of France - 0987
165. St. Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0683
166. Battle at Adrianopolis: Flavius Julius Crispus' beats emperor Licinius - 0323
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