1. Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox and Willie Wells for Hall of Fame - 1997
2. Earl Weaver and Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame - 1996
3. 21st People's Choice Awards: Tim Allen wins - 1995
4. Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election - 1995
5. Graves of czar Nicholas and family found in St. Petersburg - 1995
6. Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26) - 1995
7. Dottie Mochrie wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Championship - 1994
8. Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa) - 1994
9. PBA National Championship won by David Traber - 1994
10. Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop - 1994
11. Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery - 1993
12. Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die - 1993
13. Former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi - 1993
14. Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game - 1993
15. Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks - 1992
16. Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait - 1991
17. Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games - 1991
18. 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000 - 1989
19. Blains McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266 - 1989
20. Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 m indoor (8:33.82) - 1989
21. "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper) - 1986
22. New York Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons - 1985
23. Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene - 1984
24. U.S. accuse Iraq of using poison gas - 1984
25. Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian PM Malcolm Fraser (Cons) - 1983
26. NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield - 1983
27. Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners - 1982
28. Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands and sends back data from Venus - 1982
29. "Bring Back Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 4 performances - 1981
30. Ice Dance Championship at Hartford won by Jayne Torvill and C Dean (GRB) - 1981
31. Ice Pairs Champ at Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva and I Lisovski (URS) - 1981
32. Men's Figure Skating Champions in Hartford won by Scott Hamilton (USA) - 1981
33. U.S. government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer - 1981
34. Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49 - 1980
35. Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles) - 1979
36. "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 152 performances - 1978
37. Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California - 1978
38. British pounds falls below $2 for 1st time - 1976
39. "Candide" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 740 performances - 1974
40. Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot - 1974
41. Yankee pitchers Peterson and Kekich announce they swapped wives - 1973
42. Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves Communist Party - 1972
43. Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St. New York City - 1970
44. Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect - 1970
45. SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St. in New York City - 1970
46. Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris - 1969
47. Gustav Heinemann elected president of West-Germany - 1969
48. Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw," premieres in London - 1969
49. U.S. launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun - 1968
50. WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1967
51. 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die - 1966
52. Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record - 1966
53. Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as exec director of Players' Association - 1966
54. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1966
55. 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony - 1965
56. Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title - 1965
57. Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, announces a baseball team is moving there - 1964
58. Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest - 1964
59. Beatles record "From Me to You" and "Thank You Girl" - 1963
60. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1962
61. Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in U.S. Army - 1960
62. Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny and Jones (GRB) - 1960
63. Ice Pairs Championship at Vancouver won by Wagner and Paul (CAN) - 1960
64. Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (FRA) - 1960
65. Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Vanc won by Carol E Heiss (USA) - 1960
66. Iran and U.S. sign economic / military treaty - 1959
67. Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit - 1958
68. KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast - 1958
69. Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland - 1957
70. Sgt Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin) - 1957
71. "King Kong," 1st televised - 1956
72. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open - 1956
73. Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on "Louisiana Hayride" show - 1955
74. WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1955
75. "Girl in Pink Tights" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 115 performances - 1954
76. Terence Rattigan's "Deep Blue Sea," premieres in London - 1952
77. Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30 - 1949
78. Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson - 1948
79. U.S. rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height - 1948
80. Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton Missouri) - 1946
81. Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands - 1945
82. Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Patch meet in Luneville - 1945
83. U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne - 1945
84. U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill - 1945
85. 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony - 1944
86. Anti fascist strikes in Italy - 1943
87. RAF bombs Essen Germany - 1943
88. Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia - 1942
89. Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia - 1942
90. Japanese troop march into Batavia - 1942
91. Spitfire makes it's 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton) - 1936
92. 1st premature baby health law in U.S. (Chicago) - 1935
93. Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Texas) - 1934
94. Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims 10-day bank holiday - 1933
95. Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes) - 1933
96. Gandhi and British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact - 1931
97. Karl Zuckmayer's "Der Hauptmann von Kopenick," premieres in Berlin - 1928
98. 1,000 U.S. Marines land in China to protect American property - 1927
99. Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM - 1924
100. Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games - 1924
101. King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief - 1924
102. 1st old age pension plans in U.S. established by Montana and Nevada - 1923
103. "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin - 1922
104. Louis Hirsch and Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in New York City - 1919
105. 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released - 1917
106. Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die - 1912
107. Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon," premieres - 1910
108. Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1 - 1910
109. 1st ascent of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica - 1908
110. 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired - 1907
111. Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn - 1903
112. American Hall of Fame found - 1900
113. 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D - 1899
114. American Negro Academy forms - 1897
115. Italian premier Crispi resigns - 1896
116. Italians governor of Eritrea, Gen Baldissera, reaches Massawa - 1896
117. Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in U.S. - 1894
118. Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th U.S. president - 1877
119. George Westinghouse, Jr. patents triple air brake for trains - 1872
120. Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele," premieres in Milan - 1868
121. Stapler patented in England by C. H. Gould - 1868
122. U.S. Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson - 1868
123. 1st track meet between Oxford and Cambridge - 1864
124. Union troops under brig-general Wright occupy Fernandina Florida - 1862
125. Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire - 1856
126. Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads - 1856
127. Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th president - 1849
128. Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western U.S. - 1845
129. Mexico attacks Alamo - 1836
130. Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model - 1836
131. Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun - 1821
132. Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays - 1820
133. 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B - 1807
134. Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution - 1795
135. Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France - 1795
136. King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno - 1783
137. Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a U.S. Senator (Mississippi) - 1770
138. Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom - 1770
139. Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French - 1766
140. Princess Carolina marries Gen Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg - 1760
141. 1st American Shakespearean production-"altered" Richard III, New York City - 1750
142. Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen - 1746
143. 1st U.S. religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston - 1743
144. Emperor Leopold I, Poland and Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz - 1684
145. South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm - 1651
146. 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia - 1623
147. Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index - 1616
148. Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht - 1579
149. Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes - 1558
150. Utrecht governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague - 1528
151. English king Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore - 1496
152. Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses - 1461
153. 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome - 1179
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