1. Amy Fruhwirth and Clarence Rose win LPGA J C Penney Classic - 1997
2. Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands - 1996
3. NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12 - 1995
4. U.S. space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter - 1995
5. 5th Billboard Music Awards - 1994
6. Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide - 1994
7. Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast - 1993
8. Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery - 1993
9. Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater) - 1992
10. A J Kitt, U.S., wins World Skiing Cup - 1991
11. Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages - 1990
12. Ted Turner and Jane Fonda announce their engagement - 1990
13. C Coleman and D Zippel's musical "City of Angels," premieres in New York City - 1989
14. 6.9 earthquake in Armenia, Spitak destroyed, 60,000 killed - 1988
15. Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die) - 1988
16. Earthquake in Armenia (>25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless) - 1988
17. Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN - 1988
18. Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St. crowds upon arrival in New York City - 1988
19. New York Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach - 1988
20. Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract - 1988
21. 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots) - 1987
22. Gorbachev arrives in U.S. for a summit meeting - 1987
23. Pacific Southwest crashes near Los Angeles, kills 43 - 1987
24. Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank - 1987
25. Juli Inkster/Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic - 1986
26. President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti - 1986
27. 51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB) - 1985
28. Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB - 1985
29. Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide) - 1984
30. 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93 - 1983
31. France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island - 1983
32. Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building - 1982
33. Spain becomes a member of the NATO alliance - 1981
34. Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick - 1978
35. Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0 - 1977
36. U.N. Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term - 1976
37. 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres - 1975
38. Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus - 1975
39. Indonesian army occupies East Timor - 1975
40. Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament - 1975
41. Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies - 1973
42. Phillies sell infielder-outfielder Cesar Tovar to the Texas Rangers - 1973
43. Wings release "Band on the Run" - 1973
44. Apollo 17 (U.S.), final manned lunar landing mission, launched - 1972
45. Philippine's 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed and wounded by an assailant - 1972
46. "Wild and Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater New York City - 1971
47. Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life" - 1971
48. Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma - 1970
49. West Germany and Poland normalize relations - 1970
50. M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923 - 1968
51. Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit - 1968
52. Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823 - 1968
53. "How Now, Dow Jones" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 220 performances - 1967
54. Otis Rescue records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" - 1967
55. Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054 - 1965
56. George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs - 1964
57. Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans - 1963
58. Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1962
59. Ivory Coast claims independence from France - 1960
60. "Saratoga" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 80 performances - 1959
61. Romulo Betancourt elected President of Venezuela - 1958
62. Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year - 1957
63. Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel - 1956
64. Clement Attlee resigns as chairman of England's Labour Party - 1955
65. Japanese government of Joshida, resigns - 1954
66. KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1954
67. Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires - 1953
68. WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, North Carolina (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting - 1953
69. KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast - 1952
70. 15th Heisman Trophy Award: Leon Hart, Notre Dame (E) - 1949
71. Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan - 1949
72. Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119 - 1946
73. Microwave oven patented - 1945
74. Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago - 1944
75. General Radescu forms Romanian government - 1944
76. Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US - 1943
77. 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a U.S. ship (USS Ward) - 1941
78. Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon - 1941
79. Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu - 1941
80. German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends - 1941
81. Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy) - 1941
82. Nacht and Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps - 1941
83. 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 2): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 12-5 - 1940
84. North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor - 1940
85. Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame - 1939
86. William Walton's violinist concert premieres in Cleveland - 1939
87. Philip Barry's "Here Come the Clowns," premieres in New York City - 1938
88. W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St. Louis Post-Dispatch by radio - 1938
89. Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work - 1937
90. Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams - 1937
91. Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe - 1937
92. CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ham Tigers, 18-12 at Hamilton - 1935
93. Wiley Post discovers jet stream - 1934
94. 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY - 1932
95. Bradman scores 219 NSW vs. South Africa, 234 mins, 15 fours - 1931
96. 13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing - 1930
97. Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 mins - 1929
98. Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament - 1929
99. Gas refrigerator patented - 1926
100. Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St. New York City - 1925
101. Noel Coward's "Easy Virtue," premieres in New York City - 1925
102. German election (Social Democrats win/Nazis and Communists lose) - 1924
103. KWG-AM in Stockton California begins radio transmissions - 1921
104. NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81 - 1920
105. USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany - 1920
106. U.S. becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I - 1917
107. British government of David Lloyd George forms - 1916
108. David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM - 1916
109. Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt - 1912
110. Leslie J Stuarts musical "Betsy," premieres in New York City - 1911
111. Natl Hockey Association forms with New Westminister, Vancouver and Victoria - 1911
112. Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite) - 1909
113. Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring - 1907
114. Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies - 1895
115. 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session - 1891
116. Gilbert and Sullivans "Gondoliers," premieres in London - 1889
117. 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes - 1885
118. Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone - 1877
119. NY Mutuals and Philadelphia A's expelled from NL for not completing sked - 1876
120. Natives Sons of the West organized - 1875
121. HMS Challenger sets sail on 3 -year world oceanographic cruise - 1872
122. Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1 - 1868
123. Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek/Cypress Swamp, Georgia - 1864
124. Battle of Hartsville, TN - 1862
125. Battle of Prairie Grove, AR - 1862
126. NY Philharmonic's 1st concert - 1842
127. Martin Van Buren elected 8th president - 1836
128. German railway Neurenberg-Furth opens - 1835
129. James Madison elected U.S. pres/George Clinton vice-pres - 1808
130. Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution - 1787
131. Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London - 1783
132. William Pitt, Jr. (24) becomes British premier - 1783
133. Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia - 1741
134. Princess Louise Henriette (19) marries monarch Frederik Henry - 1646
135. Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty - 1354
136. St. Eutychian ends his reign as Catholic Pope - 0283
137. Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52) - 0185
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