1. Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks - 1997
2. Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU) - 1997
3. President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research - 1997
4. Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia) - 1997
5. 1st New York City Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years - 1995
6. Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital - 1995
7. George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker - 1995
8. Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec) - 1995
9. Replacement New York Yankees beat New York Mets 2-1 - 1995
10. 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center - 1994
11. Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit - 1994
12. "Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 188 performances - 1993
13. Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion - 1993
14. Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of 1st American Bank - 1991
15. Iraq releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian POW - 1991
16. 20th Easter Seal Telethon - 1990
17. Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open - 1990
18. U.S. 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space - 1990
19. Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline - 1989
20. Eastern Airlines machinists strike - 1989
21. Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m) - 1989
22. Border completes twin Test tons (140 and 114*) vs. NZ - 1986
23. STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled - 1985
24. Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA - 1985
25. War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai" - 1985
26. Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational - 1984
27. Pee Wee Reese and Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame - 1984
28. 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy and D Potvin - 1982
29. NASA launches Intelsat V - 1982
30. 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy - 1980
31. Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe - 1980
32. 200th episode of "All in the Family" - 1979
33. "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 61 performances - 1979
34. Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic - 1979
35. U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings - 1979
36. Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue - 1978
37. 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico - 1977
38. Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain - 1977
39. Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541 - 1977
40. John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio - 1976
41. San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth - 1976
42. David Hares' "Knuckle," premieres in London - 1974
43. Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier - 1974
44. 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America - 1973
45. Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5) - 1972
46. Last train run between Penrith to Keswick United Kingdom - 1972
47. Libya and U.S.S.R. signs cooperation treaty - 1972
48. "City Command" kidnaps 4 U.S. military men at Ankara, Turkey - 1971
49. French submarine "Eurydice" explodes - 1970
50. Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game - 1970
51. New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out - 1970
52. Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title - 1968
53. Martin Luther King, Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign - 1968
54. Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched - 1968
55. Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler and Ford (GRB) - 1967
56. Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.) - 1967
57. Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) - 1967
58. Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (U.S.) - 1967
59. Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die - 1966
60. John Lennon, says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus" - 1966
61. North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by British Petroleum - 1966
62. David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2 - 1965
63. Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering - 1964
64. AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation - 1962
65. Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO - 1961
66. French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 - 1960
67. Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz - 1960
68. U.S. Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes 2nd (U.S. 1st) artificial planet - 1959
69. 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent - 1955
70. J. E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black U.S. sub-cabinet member - 1954
71. Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister - 1949
72. Piet Van de Pol (Neth) becomes world champion billiard player - 1949
73. Security Council of United Nations recommends membership for Israel - 1949
74. WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1947
75. Finland declares war on nazi-Germany - 1945
76. 1st U.S. bombing of Berlin - 1944
77. Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy - 1944
78. Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor - 1943
79. 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague - 1941
80. NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots - 1941
81. Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler - 1941
82. 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany - 1936
83. Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson (SF) dedicated - 1934
84. Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament - 1933
85. Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member - 1933
86. Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugrated as 32nd president, pledges to pull U.S. out of Depression and says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." - 1933
87. Henderson, DeSylva and Brown's "Strike Me Pink," premieres in New York City - 1933
88. Noordwijk soccer team forms - 1933
89. Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test - 1931
90. West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG - 1931
91. Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated - 1930
92. Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman - 1930
93. Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP - 1929
94. Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president - 1929
95. "Bunion Run" race from Los Angeles to New York City begins; It is won by Andy Payne - 1928
96. De Geer government in Netherlands takes office - 1926
97. President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations - 1925
98. Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by U.S. - 1925
99. "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny - 1924
100. Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy) - 1923
101. Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas - 1921
102. Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece - 1920
103. Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921) - 1918
104. Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress - 1917
105. 1st U.S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed - 1913
106. Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments - 1913
107. Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo - 1913
108. New York Yankees are 1st to train outside U.S. (Bermuda) - 1913
109. Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president - 1913
110. Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes 1st socialist congressman in U.S. - 1911
111. President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm - 1909
112. U.S. prohibits interstate transportation of game birds - 1909
113. Collingwood Ohio primary school catches fire; 180 die - 1908
114. Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga," premieres in Berlin - 1905
115. American Automobile Association, AAA, founded in Chicago - 1902
116. 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer) - 1901
117. President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president - 1901
118. Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends - 1901
119. William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US - 1897
120. Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin - 1895
121. Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed - 1894
122. Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe - 1893
123. Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th U.S. president (2nd term) - 1893
124. Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president - 1889
125. Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London - 1885
126. Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War - 1885
127. John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi - 1883
128. California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation - 1881
129. Holmes and Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet," 1st case together - 1881
130. James A. Garfield inaugurated as 20th president - 1881
131. South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire - 1881
132. New York Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S. H. Horgan - 1880
133. Tsjaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer," premieres in Moscow - 1877
134. U.S. Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap - 1876
135. Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president - 1869
136. Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag" - 1865
137. President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president - 1865
138. Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee - 1863
139. Territory of Idaho established - 1863
140. Confederate States adopt "Stars and Bars" flag - 1861
141. Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th president - 1861
142. President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office - 1861
143. Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands - 1853
144. William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th U.S. VP - 1853
145. U.S. had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (President pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd - 1849
146. Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution - 1848
147. James K. Polk inaugrated at 11th president - 1845
148. Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance," premieres in London - 1841
149. Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison - 1841
150. City of Chicago incorporates - 1837
151. Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president - 1837
152. Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American - 1837
153. HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion - 1835
154. V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice - 1830
155. Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president - 1829
156. Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball - 1829
157. 1st U.S. Railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachsetts - 1826
158. John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president - 1825
159. Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes - 1809
160. Thomas Jefferson is the 1st president inaugurated in Washington D.C. - 1801
161. Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews - 1798
162. John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of U.S. - 1797
163. French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Netherlands - 1793
164. Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words) - 1793
165. Oranges introduced to Hawaii - 1792
166. 1st Jewish member of U.S. Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office - 1791
167. President Washington calls the U.S. Senate into its 1st special session - 1791
168. Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies) - 1791
169. 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps) - 1789
170. 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel) - 1774
171. English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena - 1741
172. Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany - 1699
173. King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn - 1681
174. John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England - 1675
175. English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands - 1665
176. Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia - 1621
177. George Abbot appointed archbishop of Canterbury - 1611
178. Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda - 1590
179. King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students - 1570
180. Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife - 1540
181. Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England - 1461
182. Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king - 1152
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