1. STS 85, Discovery 23, launches into orbit - 1997
2. Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier - 1997
3. 1st telephone link between Israel and Jordan - 1994
4. Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain - 1994
5. Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia - 1994
6. "Hedda Gabler" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 33 performances - 1994
7. "Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 56 performances - 1993
8. Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed - 1993
9. Cleveland Indians turn a triple play - 1992
10. Tampa Bay group purchases San Francisco Giants - 1992
11. Charles Austin breaks U.S. high jump record at 7'10 " - 1991
12. Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret U.S. documents - 1991
13. Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR - 1991
14. Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes - 1991
15. U.S. sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds - 1991
16. Desert Shield begins - U.S. deploys troops to Saudi Arabia - 1990
17. New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats and becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome - 1990
18. Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament - 1988
19. Writers guild end their 6 months strike - 1988
20. 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala - 1987
21. Javed Miandad scores 260 vs. England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six - 1987
22. Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from U.S. to U.S.S.R. in 39 degrees F (4 degrees C) Bering Sea - 1987
23. Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina - 1986
24. "Honky Tonk Nights" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 4 performances - 1986
25. Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album" - 1985
26. Baseball players end a 2 day strike - 1985
27. David Rabe's "Hurlyburly," premieres in New York City - 1984
28. Japan beats U.S. for olympic gold medal in baseball - 1984
29. Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee - 1984
30. 1st World Track and Field Championships - 1983
31. 65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA - 1983
32. Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium - 1983
33. Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin) - 1983
34. "Merlin" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 199 performances - 1983
35. Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic - 1983
36. Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T - 1983
37. Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed - 1980
38. Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame - 1978
39. Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI - 1978
40. "Shenandoah" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 1,050 performances - 1977
41. Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open - 1976
42. Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars - 1976
43. U.S. Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth - 1976
44. Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band - 1974
45. Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers - 1974
46. Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez and Early Wynn - 1972
47. Apollo 15 returns to Earth - 1971
48. 1st computer chess tournament - 1970
49. 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons) - 1970
50. Christine McVie joins Fleetwood Mac - 1970
51. WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1970
52. Race riot in Lansing, Michigan - 1966
53. 31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000) - 1964
54. Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots - 1964
55. U.S. Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution - 1964
56. Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs. Cleveland - 1963
57. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1962
58. Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2 - 1961
59. Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts U.S.S.R. economy will surpass U.S. - 1961
60. Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoore, gains independence from France - 1960
61. Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches - 1960
62. Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open - 1960
63. Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space - 1959
64. U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - 1957
65. Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans - 1956
66. British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt - 1956
67. Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die - 1956
68. Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel - 1955
69. KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins - 1955
70. Charles Mahoney becomes 1st U.S. black to serve as a full United Nations delegate - 1954
71. "Golden Apple" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 125 performances - 1954
72. Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet - 1953
73. Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph - 1951
74. U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record - 1951
75. Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League - 1950
76. "All after Love" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 121 performances - 1949
77. 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns - 1948
78. Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6) - 1948
79. Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef - 1947
80. Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter - 1944
81. Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation - 1944
82. German counter attack at Avranches fails - 1944
83. July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins - 1944
84. U.S. 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany - 1944
85. Red Army recaptures Bogodukov - 1943
86. 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands - 1942
87. Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway - 1942
88. Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany - 1942
89. 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania - 1941
90. Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile - 1940
91. Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana) - 1940
92. 2 die in a New York City subway accident - 1938
93. Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run - 1938
94. Nazi's close theologic department of Innsbruck university - 1938
95. 60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk) - 1935
96. U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses" - 1934
97. Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government - 1930
98. Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government - 1929
99. Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games - 1929
100. Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada dedicated - 1927
101. U.S. rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3 - 1927
102. League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied - 1925
103. Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter - 1921
104. Assault up Russell's Top at Gallipolis, 232 Australians die - 1915
105. St. Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Brooklyn rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and Card runner scores - 1915
106. British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece - 1914
107. French government awards king Albert of Belgium the Great Cross - 1914
108. French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas - 1914
109. German army occupies city of Liege Belgium - 1914
110. Lord Kitchner says "Your country needs you," poster spreads over UK - 1914
111. Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres - 1912
112. U.S. issues 1st Lincoln penny - 1909
113. Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland - 1907
114. Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colorado during a flash flood, kills 96 - 1904
115. Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike - 1900
116. 53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes - 1893
117. Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia patents revolving door - 1888
118. 5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar - 1885
119. Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa) - 1884
120. Hatfields of south WV and McCoys of east Kentucky feud, 100 wounded or die - 1882
121. Battle of Moorefield, WV - 1867
122. 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii - 1820
123. Battle of Boyaca; Bolivar defeats Spanish in Colombia - 1819
124. Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits - 1814
125. Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St. Domingue (Haiti) - 1802
126. Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service - 1789
127. George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart - 1782
128. Ft. Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians - 1760
129. Slave uprising on Curacao - 1750
130. Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance - 1710
131. Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici - 1620
132. Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft - 1620
133. English assault on Spanish Armada - 1588
134. Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died - 1575
135. Francis Drakes fleet returns to Plymouth - 1573
136. Columbus arrives in Caribbean - 1498
137. Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales - 1485
138. Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI - 1479
139. Council of Pisa closes - 1409
140. Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany - 0936
141. Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0768
142. Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated - 0626
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