1. "Keenan Ivory Wayan Show," premieres on Fox TV - 1997
2. 24th du Maurier Golf Classic: Laura Davies - 1996
3. 26th Olympic games close at Atlanta, Georgia (sched) - 1996
4. J Bunning, E Weaver, B Foster, and N Hanlon inducted in Hall of Fame - 1996
5. Darryl Strawberry joins the New York Yankees - 1995
6. Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered - 1994
7. Howard Stern drops out of New York gubernatorial race - 1994
8. Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on New York parkway - 1994
9. Angolese air force bombs Huambo - 1993
10. Rwandian Hutu's and Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha - 1993
11. Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits - 1993
12. 1st time Seattle Mariners are 9 games over .500 - 1991
13. Deb Richard wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament - 1991
14. 95.5 degrees F (35.3 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands (highest Aug temp in Neth) - 1990
15. European community proposes a boycott of Iraq - 1990
16. Blue Jays Dave Steib's perfect game broken up in 9th with 2 outs by New York Yankee Roberto Kelly - 1989
17. Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II - 1988
18. Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case - 1988
19. At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker - 1987
20. FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters - 1987
21. OPEC lowers oil production 20% - 1986
22. California Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit - 1985
23. "Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 1522 performances - 1985
24. Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic - 1985
25. Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10 - 1985
26. Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits - 1985
27. White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees - 1985
28. Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics - 1984
29. Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR - 1984
30. Prince's "Purple Rain," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 24 weeks - 1984
31. Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day) - 1984
32. Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy - 1983
33. France performs nuclear test - 1983
34. Revolution in Burkina - 1983
35. While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull - 1983
36. New York Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, he is traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game - 1982
37. Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank for STS-2 mission - 1981
38. Oliver North is assigned to White House duty - 1981
39. Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas and Caribbean - 1980
40. John and Yoko begin recording "Double Fantasy" - 1980
41. Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills - 1980
42. Italian government of Cossiga begins - 1979
43. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1979
44. President Carter establishes Department of Energy - 1977
45. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1977
46. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1976
47. Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes - 1975
48. Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor - 1974
49. Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic - 1974
50. Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace - 1972
51. U.S. launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft - 1971
52. Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness - 1970
53. Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium - 1969
54. 100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, California - 1968
55. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open - 1968
56. WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, New York (UNI) begins broadcasting - 1968
57. 34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934) - 1967
58. Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago) - 1967
59. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1967
60. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1967
61. Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand - 1965
62. Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam - 1964
63. North Vietnamese torpedos U.S. ships Gulf of Tonkin - 1964
64. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open - 1963
65. Nelson Mandela captured by South African police - 1962
66. 108 degrees F, Spokane, WA - 1961
67. 28th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000) - 1961
68. Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH - 1960
69. "Billy Barnes Revue" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 87 performances - 1959
70. Dumont TV Network crumbles - 1958
71. 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph) - 1956
72. Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog" - 1956
73. Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands - 1956
74. Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters - 1955
75. Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning - 1954
76. Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago - 1953
77. Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs and wins 15-0 - 1953
78. NBL and NBAA merge into National Basketball Association - 1949
79. 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax - 1948
80. Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season - 1945
81. Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th) - 1945
82. Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis - 1944
83. British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy - 1944
84. British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada - 1943
85. Russian units reach suburbs of Orel - 1943
86. USAF bombs Germans in Troina - 1943
87. 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz - 1942
88. British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo - 1942
89. Col-gen Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev - 1942
90. German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed - 1942
91. Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd) - 1941
92. Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US - 1941
93. Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece - 1936
94. New York Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game and beats Phillies 21-4 - 1934
95. Child labor laws established in Belgium - 1930
96. 60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich - 1929
97. Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yanks 14-6 - 1929
98. Jones Beach in New York opens - 1929
99. Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada opens - 1927
100. 1st Dutch Colijn government forms - 1925
101. U.S. Marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation - 1925
102. Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team - 1922
103. Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests and officers - 1917
104. Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the U.S. for $25 million - 1916
105. German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice - 1914
106. German fleet under Admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast - 1914
107. Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany - 1914
108. King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army - 1914
109. Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War - 1914
110. U.S. declares neutrality in WW I - 1914
111. A's Jack Coombs and White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie - 1910
112. Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment - 1909
113. Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X - 1903
114. Henry A. Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia - 1897
115. Queen Wilhelmina and Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine - 1892
116. Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass - 1892
117. Colombia adopts constitution - 1886
118. 122 degrees F (50 degrees C), Seville, Spain (European record) - 1881
119. Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris - 1879
120. British Red Cross Society forms - 1870
121. Land and naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas - 1864
122. U.S. government collects its 1st income tax - 1862
123. John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations" - 1855
124. Plans for city of Chicago laid out - 1830
125. 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969) - 1821
126. Austria and Turkey sign Peace of Sistova - 1791
127. U.S. Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service - 1790
128. French National Meeting ending feudal system - 1789
129. Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus - 1777
130. Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria and Russia - 1760
131. George Washington becomes a master mason - 1753
132. Jury acquits John Zenger (New York Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of New York (victory for Freedom of press) - 1735
133. Crown prince Frederik of Prussia escapes to England - 1730
134. War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar - 1704
135. French garrison of surrenders to Willem III - 1695
136. Dom Perignon invents champagne - 1693
137. Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Christopher; thousands die - 1666
138. Sea battle between Netherlands and England - 1666
139. Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil - 1636
140. London's head office of Hanze closed - 1598
141. Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed - 1578
142. 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah) - 1558
143. Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen and English - 1351
144. English troops conquer Ft. Calais - 1347
145. Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort - 1265
146. Supernova seen in Cassiopia - 1181
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