1. 68th French Womens Tennis: - 1998
2. 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - 1995
3. 28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Ray Stevens - 1994
4. 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia, about 1000 killed - 1994
5. Brian Lara scores 501 not out for Warwickshire vs Durham - 1994
6. CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade - 1994
7. Cricketer Brian Lara hits record 501 not out/390 runs in 1 day - 1994
8. Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed - 1994
9. Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham - 1994
10. 47th Tony Awards: Angels in America and Kiss of the Spider Woman win - 1993
11. 63rd French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats Jim Courier (64 26 62 36 63) - 1993
12. 6th Children's Miracle Network Telethon - 1993
13. Jane Geddes wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic - 1993
14. Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as president of Mongolia - 1993
15. Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected President of Guatemala - 1993
16. 124th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard AP Indy wins in 2:26 - 1992
17. 62nd French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (62 36 10-8) - 1992
18. Ben Vereen suffers injuries when hit by a car - 1992
19. David Bowie and model Iman marry in Switzerland - 1992
20. New York Met Eddie Murray sets RBI record by a switch hitter - 1992
21. WLAF World Bowl 2: Sacramento beats Orlando 21-17, Montreal - 1992
22. Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball - 1991
23. Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store - 1991
24. NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992 - 1991
25. Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, vs. West Indies at Headingley - 1991
26. 2nd International Rock Awards - 1990
27. For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game - 1990
28. Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as New York Yankee manager - 1990
29. Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4 - 1989
30. 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis and Statler Brothers - 1988
31. 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant - 1988
32. 119th Belmont: Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2 - 1987
33. 57th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (64 46 86) - 1987
34. New York Yankees play their 13,000th game - 1987
35. Jurgen Schull sets world discus record, 74.07 m - 1986
36. Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of North Carolina State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself - 1986
37. 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75) - 1985
38. 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu - 1985
39. Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located and exhumed - 1985
40. Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba - 1985
41. Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station - 1985
42. 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India - 1984
43. 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins and Roy Acuff - 1983
44. Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland - 1983
45. Emmy 10th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 4th time - 1983
46. Li Xiannian becomes pres/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR - 1983
47. Nicaragua expels 3 U.S. diplomats - 1983
48. Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1 - 1983
49. 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO - 1982
50. 36th Tony Awards: Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and Nine win - 1982
51. 52nd French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats G Vilas (16 76 60 64) - 1982
52. Bernard Glassman, installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY - 1982
53. Joanne Carner wins LPGA McDonald 's Golf Classic - 1982
54. 113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29 - 1981
55. 51st French Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64) - 1981
56. Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial - 1981
57. Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title - 1980
58. 200th running of horse's Derby in England - 1979
59. Josef Mengeles corpse excavated in Brazil - 1979
60. Royal Air force receives 1st F-16 - 1979
61. Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 home runs in the majors - 1979
62. Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57 percent - 1978
63. Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic and Concert for United Way - 1977
64. Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss) - 1977
65. Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws - 1977
66. Washington Post reports U.S. has developed neutron bomb - 1977
67. 30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2 - 1976
68. Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic - 1976
69. British voters decide to remain in Common Market - 1975
70. Nolan Ryan's bid for 2nd no-hitter broken in 6th inning - 1975
71. Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established - 1975
72. 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte - 1974
73. David Bowie releases "Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust" - 1972
74. Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia) - 1972
75. Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London - 1972
76. U.S. bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed - 1972
77. Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die - 1971
78. "Ed Sullivan Show" last broadcasts on CBS-TV - 1971
79. John Lennon and Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in New York City - 1971
80. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open - 1971
81. Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station - 1971
82. WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBN) begins broadcasting - 1971
83. Willie Mays hits record 22nd and last extra inning HR - 1971
84. 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34 - 1970
85. Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar - 1969
86. WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1968
87. Israeli troops occupy Gaza - 1967
88. Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi - 1966
89. Claus Von Bulow and Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed - 1966
90. Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator" - 1966
91. NFL and AFL announce their merger - 1966
92. Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement - 1966
93. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational - 1965
94. Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive home runs beating White Sox 12-0 - 1965
95. 96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6 - 1964
96. Beatles arrive in netherlands - 1964
97. Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums - 1962
98. Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely" - 1960
99. South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill - 1960
100. Steve Allen Show," last airs on NBC-TV - 1960
101. Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger - 1958
102. Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French - 1958
103. Bill Haley and Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1 - 1955
104. Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament - 1954
105. German DR and Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border - 1950
106. "It Pays To Be Ignorant," game Show, debut on CBS-TV - 1949
107. WKY (now KTVY) TV channel 4 in Oklahoma City, OK (NBC) 1st broadcast - 1949
108. Treaty drawn for establishment of International Patent Institute - 1947
109. 11 Basketball of America Association teams meet to schedule 1st season - 1946
110. Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV - 1946
111. Martin Kresses begins publishing "Eric the Viking" comic strip - 1946
112. "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam - 1945
113. Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion - 1944
114. D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France - 1944
115. Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad - 1944
116. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. receives congressional medal of honor - 1944
117. U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje - 1944
118. 1st nylon parachute jump, Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray - 1942
119. 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2 - 1942
120. Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway - 1942
121. Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians - 1942
122. 1st Navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched - 1941
123. Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time - 1941
124. New York Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 home runs in 4th inning - 1939
125. New York supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead - 1939
126. Phillies trailing 8-2 to St. Louis, forfeit game - 1937
127. 40th U.S. Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ - 1936
128. 68th Belmont: James Stout aboard Granville wins in 2:30 - 1936
129. Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New Jersey - 1936
130. Securities and Exchange Commission established - 1934
131. Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game - 1934
132. 1st drive-in theater opens, Camden, New Jersey - 1933
133. U.S. Employment Service created - 1933
134. Carlos Davila coup against President Juan Montero of Chile - 1932
135. Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg - 1932
136. U.S. Federal gas tax enacted - 1932
137. "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy Lombardo hits #1 - 1931
138. Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians - 1931
139. Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms - 1926
140. Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp, Iacocca is 8 months old - 1925
141. 28th U.S. Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills CC Mich - 1924
142. Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars 4-0 - 1921
143. Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army - 1920
144. Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910 - 1919
145. Finland declares war on bolsheviks - 1919
146. Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st U.S. victory of WW I - 1918
147. Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage - 1916
148. 1st air flight out of sight of land, Scotland to Norway - 1914
149. Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times - 1913
150. Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to U.S., not ratified - 1911
151. French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request - 1905
152. National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey - 1904
153. 21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins in 1:51 - 1896
154. George Samuelson leaves New York harbor to row across Atlantic - 1896
155. United States Polo Association forms, New York City - 1890
156. Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks - 1889
157. 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43 - 1885
158. Opera "Lakme" is produced, Paris - 1885
159. Cyclone in Arabian Sea, Bombay, India, drowns 100,000 - 1882
160. Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, New York City - 1882
161. Netherlands goes on the gold standard - 1875
162. Susan B Anthony is fined for trying to vote - 1872
163. Battle of Lake Chicot, AR, Dutch Bayou - 1864
164. Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA and Williamsport, MD - 1863
165. Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered - 1862
166. Battle of Port Royal, South Carolina, Port Royal Ferry - 1862
167. Skirmish at Harrisonburg, Pennsylvania - 1862
168. Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers - 1861
169. Levi Strauss made his 1st blue jeans - 1850
170. Young Men's Christian Association, YMCA, forms in London - 1844
171. 2nd national black convention, Philadelphia - 1831
172. 10" snowfall in New England, "year without a summer", Krakatoa - 1816
173. U.S. invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek - 1813
174. Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established - 1809
175. Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal - 1801
176. Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic - 1797
177. Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured - 1795
178. Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago - 1772
179. 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed - 1752
180. France and Prussia sign peace treaty - 1744
181. 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana - 1716
182. France and Brandenburg sign peace treaty - 1673
183. Battle at Monte Carlo: English and Portuguese army beat Spain - 1665
184. New Amsterdam renamed New York City - 1664
185. Denmark and Sweden signs peace treaty - 1660
186. Queen Christina of Sweden resigns and converts to Catholicism - 1654
187. Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill - 1639
188. Mexico begins it's inquisition - 1536
189. Gustavus I becomes king of Sweden (Swedish National Day) - 1523
190. France and England sign treaty of Scotland - 1520
191. Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs Valois - 1513
192. Inhabitants of Seville Spain massacres 5,000 Jews - 1391
193. 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris - 1242
194. German king Henry II the Saint crowned - 1002
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