1. Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc - 1997
2. NHL Nashville, Tenne names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach - 1997
3. NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars - 1996
4. "Damn Yankees" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 510 performances - 1995
5. Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain - 1995
6. Indians and Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition) - 1995
7. Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb - 1995
8. Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities - 1994
9. Japan Hosokawa government begins - 1993
10. Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical - 1993
11. Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500 - 1992
12. Debbie Doom (U.S.) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0 - 1991
13. New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats - 1990
14. President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan - 1990
15. U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 to place economic sanctions against Iraq - 1990
16. Beth Daniel wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open - 1989
17. Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8 - 1989
18. Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia - 1989
19. "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 5959 performances - 1989
20. Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines - 1989
21. Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases - 1988
22. Rich Gossage 300th career save, beats Phillies - 1988
23. Orioles, Dwyer and Sheets, and Rangers, Harrah, hit record 3 grand slams - 1986
24. Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM - 1986
25. 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB - 1985
26. Major League Baseball Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day) - 1985
27. STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad - 1985
28. 203.05 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange - 1984
29. Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics - 1984
30. Minnesota Vikings beat St. Louis Cardinals 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo) - 1983
31. Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa - 1983
32. 22nd Curtis Cup: U.S., 14 -3 - 1982
33. California Doug DeCinces hits 3 home runs again in game - 1982
34. WQXI, Atlanta, is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system - 1982
35. Argentina ex-president Isabel Peron freed - 1981
36. Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles and Dodgers declared 1st champs - 1981
37. NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed - 1981
38. University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles and post-season play due to transcript and curriculum abuses - 1980
39. 61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills Mich - 1979
40. Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel - 1979
41. 60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC PA - 1978
42. Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open - 1978
43. Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate European Women's Golf Open - 1977
44. 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice - 1974
45. Explosion and fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Washington - 1974
46. Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame - 1973
47. Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma - 1973
48. Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament - 1972
49. Hank Aaron hits 660th and 661st home runs for Braves, record for 1 team - 1972
50. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic - 1972
51. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1970
52. Baltimore Orioles pull their 3rd triple play, 5-4-3 vs Kansas City Royals - 1969
53. Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open - 1967
54. Minnesota Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings - 1967
55. Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play - 1967
56. Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane - 1967
57. Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London - 1966
58. Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title - 1966
59. Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe) - 1966
60. U.S. citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam - 1966
61. 32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000) - 1965
62. Beatles release "Help" album in U.K. - 1965
63. Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights - 1965
64. Indian troops invade Pakistan - 1965
65. Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks - 1965
66. Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam - 1964
67. Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule - 1962
68. 1st case of motion sickness in space reported - 1961
69. Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits) - 1961
70. Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open - 1961
71. Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto - 1960
72. Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles - 1958
73. U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island - 1958
74. WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1954
75. Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military - 1953
76. Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout - 1952
77. Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria - 1951
78. Luke Appling record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop - 1949
79. Bob Mathias, U.S., wins decathlon at London Olympics - 1948
80. Dreesgovt (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms - 1948
81. Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics - 1948
82. 1st performance of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8" - 1947
83. U.S. officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court - 1946
84. Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay" - 1945
85. Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's - 1945
86. All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died - 1944
87. Anti-German attack at Avranches fails - 1944
88. Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins - 1944
89. U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes - 1944
90. U.S. 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily - 1943
91. Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210 - 1942
92. Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant - 1942
93. Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder" - 1942
94. Riots by Dutch Jews - 1942
95. Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning - 1941
96. Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire - 1940
97. 1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio - 1939
98. Franco-artillery fire on Madrid - 1937
99. Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest - 1937
100. U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign trade treaty - 1937
101. 1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson and Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with HRs - 1936
102. U.S. troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915 - 1934
103. Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen - 1930
104. Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in New York City - 1930
105. Don Juan with John Barrymore shown - 1926
106. New York's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel - 1926
107. Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system - 1926
108. Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins - 1921
109. 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler) - 1919
110. Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest - 1919
111. Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France - 1918
112. In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends - 1918
113. Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia - 1914
114. French cavalry enter Belgium - 1914
115. German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed - 1914
116. Serbia declares war against Germany - 1914
117. New York City Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt - 1910
118. St. Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn - 1908
119. 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record) - 1905
120. France annexes Madagascar - 1896
121. Cy Young pitches and wins 1st game - 1890
122. Denton True "Cy" Young pitched his 1st major league baseball game - 1890
123. Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France - 1870
124. White conservatives suppresed black vote and captured Tenn legislature - 1870
125. Rebels evacuate Ft. Powell, Mobile Bayd - 1864
126. Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack - 1862
127. Lexington KY-Union milt camp forms in neutral state - 1861
128. Congress passes Confiscation Act - 1854
129. Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day) - 1825
130. Battle at Junan - Simon Bolivars army beats Spanish - 1824
131. 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels - 1821
132. U.S. flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli - 1815
133. Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia begans debate - 1787
134. Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY - 1774
135. Emperor Karel VI and tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty - 1726
136. Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut - 1675
137. Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders - 1661
138. Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen - 1625
139. Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII - 1623
140. Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius - 1601
141. Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588 - 1600
142. Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors - 1588
143. John Cabot returns to Bristol from North-America - 1497
144. Supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers - 1181
145. Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors - 0939
146. [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0768
147. St. Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0523
148. St. Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0258
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