1. Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft. Myers Florida on WRXK 96.1 FM - 1997
2. 8th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus - 1996
3. Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic - 1996
4. Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore - 1996
5. Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike - 1995
6. 1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2 - 1994
7. "Medea" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 82 performances - 1994
8. New York Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6 - 1994
9. Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton - 1994
10. Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion - 1994
11. Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colorado Rockie HR (Shea Stadium New York) - 1993
12. 3rd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus - 1991
13. "Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 41 performances - 1991
14. Chris Johnson wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship - 1991
15. Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth - 1991
16. George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00 - 1991
17. "Shadowlands" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 169 performances - 1991
18. Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24 - 1991
19. BPAA U.S. Open by Ron Palombi Jr - 1990
20. Farm Aid IV concert - 1990
21. Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma - 1990
22. John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal - 1990
23. Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations - 1990
24. New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary - 1990
25. New York Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from San Diego Yacht Club for using a catamaran against New Zealand. Appeals court eventually overrules - 1989
26. Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths - 1989
27. Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1 - 1988
28. Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested - 1988
29. Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan - 1988
30. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1988
31. Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline" - 1987
32. National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington D.C. - 1987
33. Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy - 1986
34. 14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller - 1985
35. 1st live telecast of Easter Parade - 1985
36. New Jersey General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards - 1985
37. Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0 - 1984
38. Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1 - 1983
39. Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt - 1983
40. STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk - 1983
41. WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day event - 1983
42. Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested - 1982
43. Penguins 1-Isles 8-Preliminary-Isles hold 1-0 lead - 1982
44. Belgium Eyskens government forms - 1981
45. Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec - 1981
46. Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis - 1980
47. Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water - 1979
48. Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0 - 1979
49. Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers - 1979
50. Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in New York City - 1978
51. President Carter defers production of neutron bomb - 1978
52. U.S. Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976 - 1978
53. Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant - 1977
54. Toronto Blues Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5 - 1977
55. Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping - 1976
56. Herb Gardner's "Thieves," premieres in New York City - 1974
57. Cleveland sets day-game and opening-game attendance records of 74,420 - 1973
58. Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 vs. WI Georgetown - 1973
59. Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by - 1971
60. President Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free - 1971
61. WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, Florida (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - 1971
62. 42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy," John Wayne and Maggie Smith win - 1970
63. "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premieres in New York City - 1970
64. Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0 - 1970
65. Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds - 1969
66. Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material - 1969
67. Ted Williams begins managing Washington Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4 - 1969
68. Israeli/Syrian border fights - 1967
69. Tom Donahue, San Francisco dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM) - 1967
70. U.S. recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor - 1966
71. Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man NZ vs. Pakistan - 1965
72. 27th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286 - 1963
73. Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors - 1963
74. Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic - 1963
75. Umrigar slams 172* vs. WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes - 1962
76. Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail - 1962
77. Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years - 1959
78. Radar 1st bounced off Sun from Stanford, California - 1959
79. Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line - 1958
80. 21st Golf Masters Championship: Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283 - 1957
81. 10th NBA Championship: Ph Warriors beat Ft. Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1 - 1956
82. Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco - 1956
83. German government refuses to recognize DDR - 1954
84. President Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China - 1954
85. WALB TV channel 10 in Albany, Georgia (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting - 1954
86. 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight - 1953
87. Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden elected 2nd United Nations general-secretary - 1953
88. 15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280 - 1951
89. American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament - 1951
90. U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak - 1951
91. "South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1928 performances - 1949
92. World Health Organization forms by U.N. - 1948
93. 10th Golf Masters Championship: Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282 - 1946
94. Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR - 1946
95. 1st and last assault of German Rammkommando on U.S. bombers - 1945
96. U.S. B-17's bombs range at Luneburg - 1945
97. U.S. planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers were sunk - 1945
98. General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan - 1944
99. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg - 1943
100. British and U.S. troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia - 1943
101. Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid - 1943
102. NFL adopts free substitution rule - 1943
103. Heavy German assault on Malta - 1942
104. British generals O'Connor and Neame captured in North Africa - 1941
105. 7th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 280 - 1940
106. Booker T. Washington, 1st black to appear on U.S. stamp - 1940
107. Italy invades Albania - 1939
108. In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience - 1934
109. 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal and public service - 1933
110. Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment - 1933
111. University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic - 1933
112. Seals Stadium opens in San Francisco - 1931
113. 44-yr old New York Ranger GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, and beats Montreal Maroons 2-1 - 1928
114. Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington D.C. to New York City - 1927
115. Forest fire burns 900 acres and kills 2 in San Luis Obispo, California - 1926
116. Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose - 1926
117. 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in New York City) by Dr. K Winfield Ney - 1923
118. Workers Party of America (New York City) becomes official Communist Party - 1923
119. Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair - 1922
120. 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks - 1919
121. De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos," premieres in Madrid - 1917
122. James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her," premieres in London - 1917
123. Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police and banking business - 1906
124. Texas Oil Company, Texaco, forms - 1902
125. SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber - 1901
126. Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day - 1891
127. Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" - 1888
128. Battle of Farmville, Virginia - 1865
129. Battle of Charleston, South Carolina, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter - 1863
130. Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, Island #10 falls - 1862
131. Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe - 1860
132. Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil - 1831
133. English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches - 1827
134. Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St. Marks Florida from Seminole indians - 1818
135. Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself) - 1805
136. Mississippi Territory organized - 1798
137. 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta - 1788
138. Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig - 1724
139. Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII - 1655
140. Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa - 1652
141. Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil - 1645
142. Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander - 1625
143. Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books - 1521
144. Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu - 1521
145. France declares war on Venice - 1509
146. Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy - 1498
147. Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik - 1456
148. Prague University, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV - 1348
149. Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor - 1118
150. Attila's Hun's plunder Metz - 0451
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