1. Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach - 1998
2. Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame - 1998
3. "It's a Slippery Slope," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City - 1997
4. Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44) - 1996
5. Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939) - 1995
6. Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88 - 1994
7. "Government Inspector" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 37 performances - 1994
8. Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard - 1994
9. Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44) - 1994
10. Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44) - 1994
11. Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones - 1993
12. Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a - 1993
13. Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews - 1993
14. New York Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul - 1992
15. Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle," premieres in LA - 1992
16. Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs. Australia at the SCG - 1992
17. Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings - 1992
18. "Gypsy" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 477 performances - 1991
19. Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala - 1991
20. Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec) - 1991
21. "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV - 1991
22. New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (18-25-26-32-42-44) - 1990
23. 100th U.S. Congress convenes - 1987
24. Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy - 1987
25. British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns - 1986
26. Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg - 1986
27. Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland - 1986
28. STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem - 1986
29. Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41 B mission - 1984
30. Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh and Lillee - 1984
31. 50th hat trick in Islander history - John Tonelli scored 5 goals - 1981
32. "1940's Radio Hour" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 105 performances - 1980
33. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India - 1980
34. Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat - 1980
35. 1st postage stamp copyrighted by U.S. (Carl Sandburg stamp) - 1978
36. US hand over St. Stephan crown to Hungary - 1978
37. EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols - 1977
38. China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC - 1976
39. Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million - 1976
40. "AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host - 1975
41. "Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-TV - 1975
42. "CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio - 1974
43. England begins 3 day work week during mine strike - 1974
44. "Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock - 1973
45. U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn - 1972
46. U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley - 1972
47. Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from U.S.S.R. - 1972
48. Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones - 1971
49. Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate - 1971
50. Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame" - 1969
51. WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1969
52. Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 8 weeks - 1968
53. Dr. N E Shumway performs 1st U.S. adult cardiac transplant operation - 1968
54. Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by U.S. for soft-landing on Moon - 1968
55. 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 - 1967
56. KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting - 1967
57. "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV - 1967
58. Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling - 1965
59. Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move Kansas City A's to Louisville - 1964
60. Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes) - 1964
61. "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC - 1963
62. "Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 774 performances - 1963
63. Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings - 1958
64. Gibson patents Flying V Guitar - 1958
65. WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1958
66. Elvis Presley makes his 7th and final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show - 1957
67. Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia - 1957
68. Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group - 1956
69. KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, Texas (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting - 1956
70. WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1953
71. Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes - 1951
72. "Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 100 performances - 1951
73. Britain recognizes Communist government of China - 1950
74. "Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater New York City for 3 performances - 1950
75. Ray Lindwall smashes 100 vs. England in MCG Test - 1947
76. Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum - 1946
77. Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY - 1945
78. 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper") - 1942
79. Bob Feller, enlists in Navy and reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia - 1942
80. FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want and from fear) - 1941
81. Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx - 1938
82. Bradman scores 270 Aust vs. England at the MCG, incl 110 singles - 1937
83. Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario) - 1936
84. 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed - 1930
85. Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 mins, 49 fours - 1930
86. Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia - 1929
87. Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene) - 1928
88. U.S. Marines sent to Nicaragua - 1927
89. Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland - 1926
90. Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile and 14:44.6 5,000m - 1925
91. Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches," premieres in Monte Carlo - 1924
92. Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments - 1922
93. Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded - 1914
94. New Mexico becomes 47th state - 1912
95. Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome) - 1907
96. Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs," premieres in Paris - 1906
97. Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam - 1903
98. Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured - 1900
99. Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso," premieres in Paris - 1900
100. 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake - 1898
101. 1st U.S. women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden - 1896
102. Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony - 1896
103. Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast - 1893
104. Ontario Rugby Football Union forms - 1883
105. Record snow cover in Seattle-120 cm - 1880
106. Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia" - 1873
107. U.S. Congress begins investigating Credit Mobilier scandal - 1873
108. Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola - 1861
109. New York City mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with N and S - 1861
110. Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn - 1857
111. 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India - 1842
112. 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind" - 1839
113. Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph - 1838
114. New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston) - 1832
115. Turkey and Russia sign treaty in Constantinople - 1784
116. Battle of Jersey (Island in UK) - 1781
117. Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom - 1773
118. George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis - 1759
119. Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow - 1745
120. Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king - 1690
121. 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher) - 1681
122. Great earthquake in New England - 1663
123. Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed - 1639
124. Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide - 1622
125. Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras - 1579
126. King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves - 1540
127. City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro - 1535
128. Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria) - 1497
129. Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi - 1496
130. Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria - 1453
131. French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star - 1352
132. Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre - 1227
133. Henry V crowned German king - 1099
134. King Harald of England crowned - 1066
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