1. Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon - 2000
2. Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful - 1997
3. "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV - 1997
4. "Jack-Night on Town with J Barrymore" closes at Belasco after 12 performances - 1996
5. Karrie Webb wins LPGA Sprint Titleholders Golf Championship - 1996
6. Renette Cruz, Vancouver, wins Miss Canadian Universe - 1996
7. Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics) - 1995
8. Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections - 1994
9. North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen - 1994
10. "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 50 performances - 1994
11. Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection - 1992
12. Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic - 1991
13. 116th Kentucky Derby: Craig Perret aboard Unbridled wins in 2:02 - 1990
14. ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Chris Warren - 1990
15. Paul Hogan and Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia - 1990
16. Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York - 1989
17. Eugene Marino installed as 1st black U.S. archbishop - 1988
18. Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings - 1987
19. Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East - 1987
20. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1987
21. Hall of Fame and Museum announced to be built in Cleveland - 1986
22. Amy Alcott wins LPGA Moss Creek Women's Golf Invitational - 1985
23. 110th Kentucky Derby: Laffit Pincay, Jr. aboard Swale wins in 2:02.4 - 1984
24. Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead - 1983
25. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1983
26. 16th and final Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-1, hold 8-7-1 edge - 1981
27. Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building - 1980
28. 105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4 - 1979
29. Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting - 1979
30. Voyager 1 passes Jupiter - 1979
31. Cincinnati Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits - 1978
32. Anderlecht wins 16th soccer Europe Cup II - 1976
33. Train collision at Schiedam Netherlands, kills 24 - 1976
34. A's release pinch runner Herb Washington (played 104 games without batting, pitching, or fielding He stole 30 bases, and scored 33 runs) - 1975
35. Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels) - 1975
36. Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic - 1974
37. 99th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:59.4 - 1973
38. Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115 - 1972
39. "Earl of Ruston" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 5 performances - 1971
40. Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (New York City) - 1971
41. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site - 1970
42. 23rd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 - 1969
43. Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night) - 1969
44. Carol Mann wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational - 1968
45. Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II - 1966
46. Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2 - 1966
47. Willie Mays hit his 512th HR - 1966
48. 1st large-scale U.S. Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam - 1965
49. Separatists riot in Quebec - 1964
50. Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open - 1963
51. 88th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Decidedly wins in 2:00.4 - 1962
52. Los Angeles Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Baltimore Orioles, 2-0 - 1962
53. West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album - 1962
54. Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7) - 1961
55. KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1958
56. Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family) - 1958
57. U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak - 1958
58. Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria - 1957
59. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open - 1957
60. 82nd Kentucky Derby: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:03.4 - 1956
61. Broekster Boys soccer team forms in Damwoude - 1956
62. Jim Bailey (U.S.) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in Los Angeles California - 1956
63. World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo - 1956
64. "Damn Yankees" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 1022 performances - 1955
65. Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce - 1955
66. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site - 1955
67. West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers - 1955
68. Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay - 1954
69. Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny) - 1952
70. Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base - 1952
71. 77th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Count Turf wins in 2:02.6 - 1951
72. "Out of This World" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 157 performances - 1951
73. Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand - 1950
74. Council of Europe forms - 1949
75. KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, California (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1949
76. Statue of Council of Europe drawn - 1949
77. Tiger 2nd baseman Charlie Gehringer selected to Hall of Fame - 1949
78. 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier - 1948
79. Belgian government of Spaak resigns - 1948
80. Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 and causes $850M in damage - 1947
81. Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) - 1947
82. Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated - 1945
83. Netherlands and Denmark liberated from Nazi control - 1945
84. Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated - 1945
85. Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague - 1945
86. Gandhi freed from prison - 1944
87. Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim - 1944
88. Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System - 1943
89. British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar - 1942
90. U.S. begins rationing sugar during WW II - 1942
91. 2 Fokker's employees flee nazi occupied Netherlands to England - 1941
92. Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa - 1941
93. Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night) - 1941
94. Norwegian government in exile forms in London - 1940
95. Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky - 1939
96. Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning - 1938
97. Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip - 1936
98. Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa - 1936
99. Jessie Owens of U.S., sets then long jump record at 26' 8" - 1935
100. 60th Kentucky Derby: Mack Garner aboard Cavalcade wins in 2:04 - 1934
101. Japan and China sign a peace treaty - 1932
102. 1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson) - 1930
103. Bradman scores 185* Aust vs. Leicestershire, 317 mins, 16 fours - 1930
104. Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 1st Symphony, premieres in Berlin - 1927
105. Geldrop soccer team forms - 1926
106. Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith" - 1926
107. John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee - 1925
108. Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases) - 1925
109. Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak - 1925
110. Unions terminate Twentse textile strike - 1924
111. Construction begins on Yankee Stadium - 1922
112. 1st ranger for Cleveland Metroparks hired - 1921
113. Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm) - 1921
114. German-Latvian peace treaty signed - 1920
115. Polish troops occupy Kiev - 1920
116. U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal - 1920
117. St. Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0 - 1917
118. U.S. Marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924 - 1916
119. German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom - 1915
120. 5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden - 1912
121. Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS) - 1912
122. 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2 - 1908
123. Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco - 1908
124. Robert S. Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender" - 1905
125. Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia A's (3-0) - 1904
126. "The Billboard" began weekly publication - 1900
127. Panic of 1893: Great crash on New York Stock Exchange - 1893
128. Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in New York, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor - 1891
129. Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine - 1881
130. Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law - 1874
131. 1st U.S. train robbery (North Bend Ohio) - 1865
132. Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge - 1864
133. Battle between Confederate and Union ships at mouth of Roanoke - 1864
134. Battle of Wilderness, Virginia (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern) - 1864
135. Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga Georgia to Atlanta GA - 1864
136. Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi - 1863
137. Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for U.S. boxing title in 63rd round - 1863
138. French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo - 1862
139. Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia - 1862
140. New York City regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration - 1855
141. English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast - 1854
142. American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia) - 1847
143. City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany) - 1842
144. King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway - 1835
145. Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz - 1834
146. American Bible Society organized in New York - 1816
147. British attack Ft. Ontario, Oswego, New York - 1814
148. Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland - 1809
149. Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a U.S. patent (weaving straw) - 1809
150. Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi - 1797
151. French States-General for It first since 1614 together - 1789
152. 2nd oldest learned society in U.S. (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) forms (Boston) - 1780
153. Smolny-institution forms in St. Petersburg for noble girls - 1764
154. Russia and Prussia sign peace treaty - 1762
155. Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opera of Paris - 1726
156. Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow - 1665
157. King Charles I surrenders at Scotland - 1646
158. English Short Parliament unites - 1640
159. On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica - 1494
160. Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany - 1430
161. Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army - 1382
162. 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens - 0553
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