1. 11th Soul Train Music Awards - 1997
2. 5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life - 1997
3. Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome and Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site - 1997
4. 1st surface photos of Pluto by Hubble Space Telescope - 1996
5. British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order - 1996
6. Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists - 1996
7. Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record) - 1995
8. New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty - 1995
9. 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins - 1994
10. ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa - 1994
11. Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia - 1994
12. David Platt appointed captain of English football team - 1994
13. U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship - 1994
14. 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises - 1993
15. Different Strokes actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant - 1993
16. Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78) - 1992
17. Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait - 1991
18. 3 passengers killed and 162 injured as subway train derails in Philadelphia - 1990
19. H. Wayne Huizenga buys Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30M - 1990
20. Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Rushdie's book - 1989
21. Partial eclipse of the Sun in Hawaii, North West North America, Greenland - 1989
22. Howard Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants and Negligee Party" - 1988
23. Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E. Sullivan Award - 1988
24. Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs - 1987
25. Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title - 1987
26. South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant and Limburg ends - 1986
27. Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist - 1986
28. IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 update released - 1985
29. TNN, The Nashville Network, begins on Cable TV - 1983
30. Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic - 1982
31. Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec) - 1982
32. NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time - 1982
33. 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death - 1981
34. "Bring Back Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 4 performances - 1981
35. Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro and amateur umpires - 1979
36. Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame - 1979
37. Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped - 1978
38. Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders - 1978
39. Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb - 1978
40. Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections - 1977
41. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter - 1977
42. Morocco and Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria - 1976
43. Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate - 1975
44. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1975
45. 1st general striking in Ethiopia - 1974
46. "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina - 1974
47. Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory - 1973
48. Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh - 1973
49. Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire - 1971
50. Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS) - 1970
51. Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina and Ulanov (URS) - 1970
52. Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR) - 1970
53. Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA) - 1970
54. WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1970
55. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1969
56. Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, premieres in New York City - 1967
57. Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971) - 1967
58. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1966
59. "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 457 performances - 1966
60. Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma - 1965
61. Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton - 1965
62. Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile - 1965
63. Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio - 1962
64. Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data) - 1962
65. Dutch Builders strike for CLA - 1960
66. 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow) - 1959
67. "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 925 performances - 1959
68. West Indies all out 76 vs. Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34 - 1959
69. Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo - 1958
70. 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas and Loretta Young - 1955
71. Baseball Commish Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter - 1955
72. Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised - 1955
73. Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open - 1954
74. Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition - 1954
75. Jackie McGlew scores 255* vs. NZ at Wellington - 1953
76. Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title - 1951
77. Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden," premieres in New York City - 1951
78. Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy and P Kennedy (USA) - 1950
79. Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE - 1950
80. Men Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA) - 1950
81. Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz," premieres in Zurich - 1946
82. "Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 323 performances - 1946
83. Cologne taken by allied armies - 1945
84. U.S. 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine - 1945
85. Yugoslavia government of Tito forms - 1945
86. Japans begins offensive in Burma - 1944
87. Gen-major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia - 1943
88. 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta - 1942
89. 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee - 1942
90. 3rd largest snowfall in New York City history (18.1") - 1941
91. 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece - 1941
92. British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) - 1941
93. Mont Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home - 1940
94. Ray Steele beats B. Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ - 1940
95. Glamour magazine begins publishing - 1939
96. Guy Lombardo and Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne" - 1939
97. Bucharin, Jagoda and Rykov pushed out of CPSU in U.S.S.R. - 1937
98. Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland - 1936
99. Saar incorporated into Germany - 1935
100. Game of "Monopoly" invented - 1933
101. Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4 - 1932
102. Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball - 1930
103. Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan - 1927
104. 1st transatlantic telephone call, London - New York - 1926
105. American Negro Congress organizes - 1925
106. U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard - 1922
107. U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger - 1922
108. Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt - 1921
109. H. Carroll and J. McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!," premieres in New York City - 1918
110. President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal - 1918
111. 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ - 1917
112. Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania - 1914
113. Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole - 1912
114. U.S. sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border - 1911
115. Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, California, patents coin-operated locker - 1911
116. Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles" - 1908
117. Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor - 1906
118. Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal - 1902
119. Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees - 1900
120. Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games - 1900
121. Gilbert and Sullivan's last operette "Grand Duke," premieres in London - 1896
122. Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone - 1876
123. Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians - 1876
124. -8 degrees F in Boston, Massachusetts - 1872
125. Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest and East - 1870
126. Battles round Kinston North Carolina - 1865
127. Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch and McIntosh killed - 1862
128. Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs - 1857
129. Charles Miller patents 1st U.S. sewing machine to stitch buttonholes - 1854
130. Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law - 1852
131. Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends - 1851
132. Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850 - 1850
133. In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed - 1848
134. U.S. General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico - 1847
135. 1st Catholic governor in U.S., Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office - 1843
136. HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso - 1835
137. Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice - 1824
138. Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro - 1808
139. Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law - 1801
140. Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay - 1778
141. British close port of Boston to all commerce - 1774
142. English king Willem III departs Netherlands - 1696
143. Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies - 1644
144. Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg - 1633
145. John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies - 1621
146. Turkey and Venice signs peace treaty - 1573
147. Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, North Africa - 1560
148. King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church - 1530
149. Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king - 1138
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