1. 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns, he is named AL Manager of Year - 1997
2. French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages - 1997
3. Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is the unanimous choice as AL Rookie of - 1996
4. 1st NBA game at General Motors Place, Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minnesota Timberwolves 100-98 in OT - 1995
5. George Foreman beats Michael Moorer to win WBA/IBF boxing title - 1995
6. STS 73 (Columbia 18), lands - 1995
7. Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament - 1995
8. George Foreman KO's Michael Moorer in 10 for heavyweight boxing title - 1994
9. Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country - 1994
10. Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun - 1994
11. Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (55,291 km) - 1994
12. Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed - 1994
13. 1st NBA game in Alamodome, San Antonio Spurs beat Warriors 91-85 - 1993
14. Bobby Fisher beats Boris Spassky to with Chess title in Belgrade - 1992
15. "Show Off" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances - 1992
16. Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan - 1991
17. Richard J. Kerr, ends term as acting director of CIA - 1991
18. 19th New York City Women's Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen in 2:25:30 - 1989
19. 20th New York City Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01 - 1989
20. Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 cons pass completions - 1989
21. Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic - 1989
22. "Threepenny Opera" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 65 performances - 1989
23. U.S. plays El Salvador, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup - 1989
24. 1st NBA game at Bradley Center, Milwaukee Bucks lose to Los Angeles Clippers 111-9 - 1988
25. 1st NBA game at Miami Arena, Miami Heat loss to Los Angeles Clippers, 111-91 - 1988
26. 1st NBA game at Palace of Auburn Hills, Pistons beat Hornets 94-85 - 1988
27. Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage - 1988
28. France performs nuclear test - 1988
29. Gulch wins Breeder's Cup - 1988
30. Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Alysheba, Gt Communicator, Gulch, Is It True, Miesque, Open Mind, Personal Ensign at Churchill Downs - 1988
31. Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7) - 1988
32. France performs nuclear test - 1987
33. Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic - 1987
34. "Into the Woods" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 764 performances - 1987
35. South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed - 1987
36. Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine's musical "Into the Stars," premieres - 1987
37. Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admitted using marijuana - 1987
38. "News" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 4 performances - 1985
39. New York Rangers and Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period - 1983
40. Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden - 1983
41. Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record) - 1982
42. George Harrison releases "Gone Troppo" album - 1982
43. Charles Fuller's "Soldier's Play," premieres in New York City - 1981
44. Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, and possession of cocaine - 1981
45. Iran government of Bazargan resigns - 1979
46. Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares U.S. The Great Satan - 1979
47. Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi - 1978
48. Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran - 1978
49. Oakland Raider's John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games - 1978
50. NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson, Brigham Young) - 1977
51. Balt Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award - 1976
52. New AL franchises in Seattle and Toronto fill up their rosters - 1976
53. Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen and $100,000 to A's for mgr Chuck Tanner - 1976
54. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test - 1976
55. British government sends troops to Belize - 1975
56. Sao Tome and Principe adopts constitution - 1975
57. Dmitri Sjotakovitch completes Michelangelo-liederen - 1974
58. Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman U.S. Governor not related to previous gov - 1974
59. Walter E. Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Washington D.C. - 1974
60. BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service - 1973
61. Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic - 1972
62. Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping - 1971
63. NBA's Los Angeles Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak - 1971
64. 1st AL pitcher to win MVP, Denny McLain (wins unanimously) - 1968
65. Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) and George C. Wallace for presidency - 1968
66. ATS-3 launched by U.S. to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk - 1967
67. Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open - 1967
68. New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24 - 1967
69. U.S. troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam - 1967
70. Yemen president Sallal flees - 1967
71. Brigham Young QB Virgil Carter sets NCAA record of 599 yards gained - 1966
72. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1966
73. U.S. launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned - 1964
74. U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visits Netherlands - 1963
75. India's premier Nehru arrives in New York - 1961
76. St. Louis Cardinals Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas - 1961
77. AFL announced with 8 teams - 1959
78. KGLD (now KSNG) TV channel 11 in Garden City, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast - 1958
79. "Maria Golovin" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 5 performances - 1958
80. Felix Gaillard forms government in France - 1957
81. Mrs Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2 cents soccer pool ticket - 1957
82. Britain and France land forces in Egypt - 1956
83. Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized - 1956
84. Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh, reopening Gulf of Aqaba - 1956
85. Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Datis nuperrime - 1956
86. Mont Canadien Jean Beliveau scores 2nd fastest hat trick (44 seconds) - 1955
87. New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria) - 1955
88. Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke - 1953
89. Paul Searls saws a 32" log in 86.4 seconds - 1953
90. Terence Rattigans' "Sleeping Prince," premieres in London - 1953
91. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1951
92. Cleveland Browns' Tommy James intercepts 3 passes, club record - 1950
93. Philippines president Quirino ends emergency crisis - 1950
94. John F. Kennedy elected to House of Representatives - 1946
95. Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren - 1944
96. Canadian and British troops liberate Dinteloord - 1944
97. German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die - 1944
98. Vatican bombed - 1943
99. Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris - 1942
100. Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission - 1942
101. Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor - 1941
102. Dutch submarine departs Dundee - 1940
103. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R) - 1940
104. Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Washington Senators, loses Maryland congressional race (R) - 1940
105. Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return - 1938
106. Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 years as Rutgers Stad dedicated - 1938
107. Hitler informs his military leader of his intentions of going to war - 1937
108. French writer Andre Gide criticizes Soviet regime - 1936
109. Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of M to admit (black) Donald Murray - 1935
110. Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly - 1935
111. Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0) - 1933
112. Spanish Basques vote for autonomy - 1933
113. Mussolini frees 16,000 criminals - 1932
114. Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt" - 1930
115. 10th PGA Championship: Water Hagen at Cedar Crest CC Dallas - 1927
116. Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa for 4th consecutive PGA title - 1927
117. Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties - 1925
118. Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent - 1922
119. Ir Steringa Idzerda begins hosting "soiree-musical" on Dutch radio - 1919
120. Emperor Wilhelm II and French Jozef I establishes kingdom of Poland - 1916
121. Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage - 1916
122. Great Britain and France and Russia declares war on Turkey - 1914
123. Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria - 1913
124. Arizona, Kansas and Wisconsin vote for female suffrage - 1912
125. Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water - 1912
126. Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) and President Taft (R) - 1912
127. Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, New York, Sept 17) - 1911
128. Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tipoli and Cyrenaica - 1911
129. Gerhart Hauptmanns "Fuhrmann Henschel," premieres in Berlin - 1898
130. 1st U.S. patent granted for auto, George B. Selden - 1895
131. George Selden patents 1st gasoline-driven car - 1895
132. King Edward VII says "We are all Socialists nowadays" - 1895
133. U.S. state Utah accepts female suffrage - 1895
134. Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki - 1894
135. Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegels," premieres - 1894
136. Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion championship - 1887
137. Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army - 1883
138. Musical "Cordelia's Aspirations" premieres in New York City - 1883
139. Bedrich Smetana's "Ma Vlast," premieres - 1882
140. French government-Ferry resigns - 1881
141. Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe - 1876
142. Susan B. Anthony fined for trying to vote - 1872
143. Ulysses S. Grant re-elected U.S. president - 1872
144. Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac - 1862
145. Battle at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties - 1862
146. Crimean War: British and French defeat Russian force of 50,000 - 1854
147. Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C, premieres - 1846
148. Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation - 1838
149. El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence - 1811
150. Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname - 1789
151. French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law - 1789
152. John Hanson elected 1st "President of U.S. in Congress assembled" - 1781
153. Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French and Indian War) - 1757
154. Spain and Austria sign secret treaty - 1725
155. Brandenburgse troops occupy Greifswald in Sweden - 1678
156. 1st post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts - 1639
157. Spain and England sign peace treaty - 1630
158. Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered and leader Guy Fawkes hanged - 1605
159. Akbar (14) succeeds his father Humajun on as Sultan of Delhi - 1556
160. Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu - 1556
161. St. Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast - 1530
162. Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba - 1492
163. Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens - 1414
164. Wu MeKuan, a collection of 48 Zen koans, compiled in China - 1228
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