1. Boston's Fleet Center opens, New York Islanders and Boston Bruins tie at 4-4 - 1995
2. Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees - 1995
3. China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC - 1994
4. Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan - 1994
5. Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government - 1994
6. Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57) - 1994
7. "Les Miserables," opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines - 1993
8. Massive Moslem demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed - 1993
9. Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison - 1993
10. "She Loves Me" opens at Atkinson Theater New York City for 294 performances - 1993
11. Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2) - 1992
12. Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics - 1991
13. Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her - 1991
14. Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal and Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in New York thoroughbred racing history - 1991
15. Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic - 1990
16. Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens - 1990
17. Howard Stern's U.S. Open Sores Tennis match - 1989
18. Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander - 1989
19. Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games) - 1989
20. Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as New York Yankee manager - 1988
21. Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox - 1988
22. Latvian flag raised in Riga for 1st time since annexation by U.S.S.R. - 1988
23. Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time - 1988
24. Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson - 1988
25. WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 and WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (New York City radio) - 1988
26. 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" begins publishing - 1986
27. 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB - 1985
28. KHQ-AM in Spokane Washington's final transmission - 1985
29. Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters - 1985
30. PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro - 1985
31. Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, San Diego Padres win pennant - 1984
32. Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader - 1984
33. "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 5000+ performances - 1982
34. Olof Palme forms Swedish government - 1982
35. Hosni Mubarak became acting-president of Egypt - 1981
36. In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3 - 1981
37. Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns - 1980
38. "1940's Radio Hour" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 105 performances - 1979
39. Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns - 1979
40. Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic - 1979
41. "Eubie!" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 439 performances - 1979
42. U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test - 1979
43. Los Angeles Dodgers win the pennant - 1978
44. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test - 1978
45. Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis - 1977
46. U.S.S.R. adopts constitution - 1977
47. Players' Assn, files a suit on behalf of Dodgers Andy Messersmith - 1975
48. U.S. decides John Lennon won't be deported due to U.K. pot conviction - 1975
49. German DR amends constitution - 1974
50. Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open - 1973
51. 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2 - 1972
52. T McNally's "Where has Tommy Flowers gone?," premieres in New York City - 1971
53. WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting - 1969
54. Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system - 1968
55. Beatles turn down $1 million New York concert offer by Sid Berstein - 1967
56. Rolf Hochhuths "Soldaten," premieres in West Berlin - 1967
57. 50 mph gust carries 165 lb Robert Mitera's tee shot 447 - 1965
58. Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups - 1965
59. Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one - 1965
60. New York Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 and 29th in 61 World Series - 1964
61. Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary - 1963
62. Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190 - 1963
63. John F. Kennedy signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty - 1963
64. 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball - 1962
65. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. - 1962
66. 15th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago - 1961
67. "Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 607 performances - 1961
68. 2nd John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon debate - 1960
69. "Route 66" premieres - 1960
70. Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of U.S.S.R.'s Luna 3 - 1959
71. "Happy Town" opens at 84th St. Theater New York City for 5 performances - 1959
72. Potter Stewart appointed to U.S. Supreme Court - 1958
73. U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury - 1958
74. "American Bandstand" premieres - 1957
75. KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1957
76. Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational - 1957
77. Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open - 1956
78. Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched - 1955
79. Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt - 1954
80. Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem - 1954
81. Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply - 1953
82. 1st "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host) - 1952
83. New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series - 1952
84. Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins - 1952
85. David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government - 1951
86. New York Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series - 1950
87. U.S. forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel - 1950
88. Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head - 1950
89. Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game, 5-2 - 1950
90. William H. Jackson, becomes deputy director of CIA - 1950
91. Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies - 1950
92. German Dem Rep formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day) - 1949
93. Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier of German DR - 1949
94. Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president of German DR - 1949
95. Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series - 1947
96. Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet, premieres - 1946
97. Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes - 1945
98. Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen - 1944
99. Fieldmarshal Rommel gets order to return to Berlin - 1944
100. Riots in Amersfoort/Utrecht/Strugle - 1944
101. Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums - 1944
102. Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp - 1944
103. Weill/Perelman/Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus," premieres in New York City - 1943
104. 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad - 1942
105. Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth) - 1942
106. Maxwell Andersons "Eve of St. Mark," premieres in New York City - 1942
107. U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations - 1942
108. Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ - 1942
109. German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R. - 1941
110. Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series - 1940
111. Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J - 1938
112. Johan Wagenaar's "Feestmars" premieres in Amsterdam - 1937
113. 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel - 1936
114. Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series - 1935
115. New York Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series - 1933
116. 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, New York - 1931
117. Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address U.S. Congress - 1929
118. Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0) - 1928
119. Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia - 1928
120. Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game - 1927
121. Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage - 1926
122. Italian Great Fascist Council forms - 1926
123. 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees at Marble Bar, Australia begins - 1924
124. Greek government of Dikalekopoulis, forms - 1924
125. Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138 - 1923
126. 1st radio link, WNJ (Newark) and WGY (Senectady) link for World Series - 1922
127. Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain - 1922
128. Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria - 1922
129. 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (Brit Aerial Transport and KLM) - 1919
130. Fritz Kreisler and F Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms," premieres in New York City - 1919
131. KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline) - 1919
132. 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech and Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee - 1916
133. Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record) - 1915
134. Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line - 1913
135. Crete revolts against Turkey and aligns with Greece - 1908
136. Serbia and Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact - 1908
137. France's Henry Farman flies 30m in a double decker plane - 1907
138. New York Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12) - 1904
139. The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event - 1900
140. Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba - 1886
141. 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0 - 1882
142. Germany and Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant - 1879
143. 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters - 1871
144. Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon - 1870
145. Cornell University (Ithaca New York) opens - 1868
146. Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor Brazil-CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett - 1864
147. Cyrus Chambers, Jr. patents folding machine that folds book and newspapers - 1856
148. Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands - 1840
149. Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in U.S.) begins operations - 1826
150. 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans - 1816
151. Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood - 1806
152. British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC - 1780
153. Americans beat Brits in 2nd Battle of Saratoga and Battle of Bemis Hts - 1777
154. Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York - 1765
155. George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement - 1763
156. 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India) - 1737
157. People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth - 1714
158. English/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond - 1702
159. English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade - 1690
160. Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda - 1637
161. English royal marriage of queen Elizabeth I to duke of Anjou - 1579
162. Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain and Italy) destroys Turkish fleet - 1571
163. Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast - 1542
164. 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain - 1520
165. Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna - 1506
166. Columbus misses Florida when he changed course - 1492
167. St. Mark ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0336
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